James Franco Archives

• James Franco is taking Queer Cinema at NYU
• Zooey Deschanel marries Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard
• Drake Bell is out celebrating
• Kristin Cavallari wears short shorts
• Nicole Richie, Joel Madden and Harlow go out on the town
• Jimmy Fallon goes ka-splat and jokes about Kanye
• Kate Bosworth is a beach babe
• LeAnn Rimes rides Eddie Cibrian’s Harley
• Kim Cattrall hints at an SATC plot point
• Padma Lakshmi’s in purple
• Reality star Khloe Kardashian and basketball player Lamar Odom have only been dating for about a month but are reportedly making a mad dash for the altar.
• Jenna Elfman and Grant Show will star in Accidentally on Purpose, a CBS sitcom pregnant with possibilities.
• Holly Madison, Kim Kardashian, Mel B and soon-to-be reality star, PR guru Jonathan Cheban, made their own hotdogs at the Pinks Hot Dog Grand Opening in Planet Hollywood Las Vegas (the first outpost of the Los Angeles-based Pinks). On Saturday, Madison also stopped into Sugar Factory candy store in the Mirage Hotel to sign over 300 lollipops for fans who waited in line.

James Franco dons Gucci on the Fall 2009 cover of VMAN, which is celebrating its 15th issue.

“James Franco does not simply appear on the cover of this issue,” said VMAN editor-in-chief Stephen Gan, “He also, through a self-portrait of sorts, brings to our readers an impressive 10-page work of art within the magazine’s pages. It’s artistic, expressive, and worth seeing—both in print and as a moving image. I always like to think of VMAN as a fashion magazine for stylish and creative men who have an artistic side—James Franco is just that.” More Here! »

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the YearJames Franco wears an eye patch and sparkly pineapple bra at the roast by Harvard’s student drama group on Friday (February 13) in Cambridge, Mass.

“I couldn’t ask for anything more. I’ve made it,” said the 30-year-old actor, who was forced to milk a cow.

James, who played Harvey Milk’s first love in Milk, also received a fake bag of marijuana for his role as a clueless pot dealer in Pineapple Express.

Pictured below: James holding the Hasty Pudding Pot. Each year the awards are given, by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard, to entertainment performers who have made a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment.

23+ pics inside of pineapple-bra-sporting James Franco… More Here! »

• James Franco sprays his friends with urine.
• Kate Beckinsale needs to lose the parka.
• Nicole and Joel wouldn’t mind another Harlow
• Stephanie Seymour hits the beach.
• Madonna’s got an underarm vortex.
• Britney’s dad just got paid.
• Scarlett Johansson’s used Kleenex goes for $5K.
• Katy Perry kicks it with Travis McCoy
• Lily Allen encourages Winehouse comparison
• Kirsten Dunst cuts that stalker.
• For his late-night talk show, Jimmy Fallon may be hiring some Chocolate News writers.
• MTV is working on a whopping 16 new reality shows for the coming year. In the fourth quarter, the network dropped 23% in its core demo of 12- to 34-year-olds.
• Tina Fey was voted The Associated Press’ Entertainer of the Year, an annual honor chosen by newspaper editors and broadcast producers across the country.

THE FRANCO FILE

James Franco looks hot hot hot in the new December/January issue of BlackBook Magazine.

The 30-year-old actor, who plays the lover of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) in Gus van Sant’s highly biopic Milk, speaks candidly about his career and his studies at Columbia and NYU. Franco, who wrote directed and starred in 2005’ Ape, a film about a closeted gay writer, discussed playing another gay character in Milk:

On working with Sean Penn: “After we wrapped up Milk, Sean Penn said to me, ‘I’m going to have to break up with you now.”

On his fave NYC hang-outs: “Bungalow 8, Smith and Mills and Chanterelle.”

On his outlook on gay relationships: “As soon as I got out of high school, I was like, I don’t care if anybody’s gay. It doesn’t matter. Doing Milk, I don’t know if it broadened my mind at all. I like to think that I was as open as I could be at that point.”

Read the full article and more pics, visit BlackBookMag.com

Milk opens in theaters everywhere TOMORROW. JJ recommended!

Milk is tells the story of slain gay rights icon Harvey Milk from Academy Award-nominated director Gus Van Sant. Early reviews for the film and especially Sean Penn’s portrayal of Milk are very strong.

The Hollywood Reporter: “Yes, it’s a biopic, a love story, a civil rights movie and sharp political and social commentary. But it transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on the need to give people hope.”

Variety: “The quality of the writing, acting and directing generally invests them with the feel of real life and credible personal interchange, rather than of scripted stops along the way from aspiration to triumph to tragedy. And on a project whose greatest danger lay in its potential to come across as agenda-driven agitprop, the filmmakers have crucially infused the story with qualities in very short supply today — gentleness and a humane embrace of all its characters, even of the entirely vilifiable gunman, Dan White.”

Milk opens on November 26 in limited release and December 5 wide. For more info, visit MilkTheMovie.com.

Pictured below: Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber and Alison Pill.

20+ Milk movie stills inside… More Here! »

• James Franco is Out Magazine’s Milk Man
• Dennis Quaid slams ex-wife Meg Ryan.
• Bill Murray talks Ghostbusters 3.
• Cameron Diaz and Paul Sculfor still have the love bug
• Blake Lively is swimsuit spectacular.
• Julia Roberts will honor Paul Newman at benefit.
• Jessica Simpson strikes again.
• There’s some trouble for Project Runway fans.
• MTV’s The Hills tonight includes the TV premiere of Britney Spears new single “Womanizer.”
• Enchanted star Amy Adams appears on the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair and inside recalls working at Hooters to make ends meet.
• The highly anticipated revival of West Side Story is coming to Broadway, opening March 19 at the Palace Theatre. Preview performances begin there Feb. 23.
• Weekend Box Office Totals: 1. “Eagle Eye,” $29.2 million, 2. “Nights in Rodanthe,” $13.6 million, 3. “Lakeview Terrace,” $7 million, 4. “Fireproof,” $6.5 million, 5. “Burn After Reading,” $6.2 million.

James Franco takes the September 2008 cover of GQ Magazine as his latest comedy, Pineapple Express, is out in theaters now. Here’s what the 30-year-old actor had to say:

On making a few bad films: “I wanted to be the best actor that I could be. It’s just sad for me, because I know I worked so hard, and I just feel like in some way I kind of blew it. It’s just hard to get away from what I see as the stain of these bad movies.”

On not getting along with the cast of Freaks & Geeks: “I’ll admit I was not a team player. A lot of it, I think, just had to do with being obnoxious when the camera was on someone else. Maybe I’d eat a banana in the background that would take focus away from other actors. I didn’t think about it that way, but now I could say, ‘Look, the scene’s not about me, it’s about them, just chill out, James. Don’t eat a f—-ing banana.’ ”

On kissing costar Sean Penn in the movie Milk: “The first kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside. I’m sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute. That’s a long time on film with everybody watching, and, like, a fake moustache getting in your mouth. It was long enough that you couldn’t help but thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I’m kissing Spicoli.’”

To read the full article, visit GQ.com.