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James Franco Would Love To Work With Zac Efron

Richard — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:21:00 EDT

So at some point for some magazine, director Gus Van Sant sat down and had a chat with one of his Milk stars, James Franco. Franco is a dreamy actor (and maybe rapist, I am a terrible person) who plays gay in the movie. The point is, they get talking about Zac Efron, the elfin star of the High School Musical movies. I don't know what to say about it, so I'm just going to post it after the jump:

JF: Then I think you said that you had tried to get Zac for a small role in Milk.

GVS: Yeah. The pizza guy. He never had time.

JF: Right. So then when I saw him at the MTV Movie Awards, I was like, "Hey man Good to meet you, Zac. I really like the movie, and I just workd with Gus, and he tried to get you in the movie." And Zac was like, "Yeah, yeah. It just didn't work out." And I was like, "Well you should really do a movie with Gus. I think it would be a good contrast to your other stuff." He's like, "Yeah, maybe." And then I was walking away to go back to my seat, and he tapped me on the shoulder and said, "We should do it together, man." And he, like, gave me a high five. He was really the nicest guy.

GVS: Yeah. He is really nice. We should all do a Judd Apatow movie. You and Zac and me.

JF: Yeah. You should do a movie that Judd produces, and we'll do it with Zac. What do you think?

GVS: Keep your eyes open for it.

JF: What kind of movie do you think it could be?

GVS: I'll have to think about that one.

JF: IF you have an idea and it's like me and Zac playing basketball or delivering pizzas or whatever, I'm in.

[via Radar. Thank you, Choire]

Would You Deflower The Real World's Mormon Guy?

Richard — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:31:00 EDT

As we're all too aware, the new season of MTV's once pioneering, now blotto and lonely reality series The Real World is currently filming in Brooklyn. The cast members live in Red Hook, but party in Williamsburg and shop downtown and all that hip, hip Brooklyn stuff. And, conceivably, the dudes meet chicks. Except one of them! His name is Chet and he is Mormon and, though he's engaged to a young lady back home in Salt Lake City (a city name that celebrates a barren nothingness of a lake whose only inhabitants are brine shrimp and brine flies), the producers want him to get laid. Because he's a virgin! Could you be the lucky girl (or guy)??? Read a bit about him after the jump.

Again, his name is Chet. He's a Mormon with "spiky blonde hair." On the evening that the NY Press caught up with him, he was wearing an H&M scarf and "Elvis Costello glasses," and was drinking a Shirley Temple. He apparently loves glam rock and was "gushing" when some slinky male rocker put something around his neck and whispered in his ear. And, yes, he is engaged (as all Mormons are, from birth. That's just science). But, um, doesn't that above description sound a little well, um, un-fishy, if you catch my brine shrimp drift? So who's going to fuck this kid? Will youuuuu? The above photo, from NewYorkology, seems to offer the best known glimpse of the mysterious Mormon.

Lindsay Lohan May Be A Lesbian, And She Doesn't Care Who Knows It

Richard — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Celebrity lesbian scandal! Are those hickeys on Sapphic DJ Samantha Ronson's neck? And were they given to her by her musty old best friend, actress Lindsay Lohan? The pair, joined at the hip of late, was in Paris over the weekend, and close up photos like the one above have, of course, surfaced and people are, of course, in some sort of tizzy. The real thing to note about this, though, is how "meh" the whole Lohan camp has played it through all this speculation.

During the whole "Lindsay Ronson" Facebook reveal and the earlier "Get...away from my girlfriend" brouhaha, the freckled scarecrow never really made a peep, to deny or otherwise. Unlike her male counterparts, like former boybander JC Chasez and his possible roommate/lover Chace Crawford (from Gossip Girl, natch), who doth protest too much, it's (can't believe I'm going to say this) almost admirable that Lohan has chosen to take the high road on this one. Of course, she could just be a crazy person who doesn't have any sense of how to handle her PR and her career (this is very, very likely). Or! She's an almost-cool "eh, fuck it" lesbian-type. That would be a fun development in the mostly tired Lohan saga, no?

Image from Splash.

Is Craig Stevens the Most Clueless Boy in New York, Or Just Made Up?

Richard — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:53:12 EDT

Everyone, meet Craig Stevens. Craig is a recent college graduate from Murfreesboro, Tennessee who's just moved to New York City to pursue his dream of becoming an actor in Broadway musicals. He's brought along his girlfriend Janine. (But they're far away! He lives in "a part of Manhattan called Inwood" and she lives out near Coney Island.) In the four YouTube videos he's made so far, Craig seems like a nice boy , innocent and wide-eyed as he applies for jobs, goes on an audition, and navigates the bewildering wilds of, well, mostly just Times Square. He's charming in a rube-ish kind of way. Though, there are few details that are a little... suspicious.

First off: girlfriend Janine. She does, in fact, exist. She's shown, shrieking things, in the third video. Despite being proven "real," she still remains a bit Bonnie St. Clair-esque. Something about Craig's constant raving about Broadway starlets ("Sieerrra!!") seems a bit out of keeping with his, you know, having a Janine. Other suspicious tidbits: their favorite restaurant is TGIFriday's, he works at a store called Broadway Babies, while she toils at the merchandise counter for The Little Mermaid. Oh, and then he talks about going on an audition for The Lion King (as non equity? How often can/does that happen?) But, oops! The call was for Young Simbas. They let him sing anyway, but it was still super embarrassing. That can't possibly be true, can it? I mean, um, aren't all the Simbas black? And why would they let a 22-year-old sing at all? Doesn't this all seem a bit too convenient, too hilariously and gently tragic? I honestly can't tell! Thing is, I've known actual living, breathing people like this. And even they seemed made up. As commenter MCCreighton says on one of the posts, "If this is fake, you are a genius." Indeed. Watch the videos (two of which I've posted here) and decide for yourselves.

The First Video, March 11

The Janine Video, March 17