On Friday’s Late Show, James Franco and David Letterman bond over their much-maligned performances as Oscar hosts. Watch a preview below. Franco admits he’s thought about why viewers would think he was “under the influence,” and his best guess: “I love her, but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway,” he jokes. Truthfully, he says, he hasn’t played the ceremony back, and maybe he had low energy, but he felt, “I honestly played those lines as well as I could.” Letterman asked Franco why he even cares what people thought. Franco says just because being the best Oscar host ever wasn’t on his list of things to do doesn’t mean he didn’t care or try hard. “But here’s the hypocritical thing,” he says. “Leading up to the Oscars, I couldn’t hear enough about how, ‘Oh, people don’t care about the Oscars anymore. It’s dead. It’s boring. It’s at the end of a long awards season. Who cares about it?’ Well, as soon as you don’t host the way they want you to, they suddenly care, and they won’t shut up about it. Then they can’t hear enough about a show they don’t care about.” READ FULL STORY »
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James Franco and Bruce Vilanch: All is forgiven!
Twitter: The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems. Yesterday, James Franco responded to Academy Awards comedy writer Bruce Vilanch’s negative comments about his hosting job with a defensive TwitPic that dared to vaguely insult Bette Midler. But the two semi-enemies have made peace. In a new TwitPic, Franco posts a note he received directly from Vilanch, who explains that he was only joking with the interviewer, and ended up actually trying to defend Franco’s Oscar hosting. “You should never take the gutter press too seriously,” explains Vilanch, “They don’t do their homework and they like to pretend everyone is in a perpetual state of anger and distress.” Over the note, Franco has scrawled his own mea culpa: “Thanks Bruce, sorry for reading stupid blogs.” And with that, the Great Franco-Vilanch war of March 21 and 22 ended. Check back on this blog — which isn’t stupid, we got a B-, which is an A- at Harvard! — later this week for more exciting usages of the word “TwitPic.”
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Bruce Vilanch criticizes James Franco's Oscar-hosting, Franco feels betrayed: Whose side are you on?
Reactions to James Franco’s Oscar hosting gig were generally mixed, ranging from “Is he stoned?” to “Am I stoned?” to “Oh, I get it, he’s meta-hosting” to “Who’s that weird dude creeping on the nice girl from The Princess Diaries?” Eminent Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch vehemently denies that Franco was on any drug (besides extreme sleep deprivation), but he still has some stern critiques for Franco’s hosting. Vilanch tells Vulture, “He didn’t get there. I don’t think he realized how big a deal it is to do it until he was actually confronted with it… It’s outside of those guys’ comfort zones. The only people who know how to host those shows are people who get up onstage every night and say, ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.’”
Franco tweeted a response, since removed from his Twitter account, saying “Bruce, he let me down” and featuring a graffiti’d photo of the host and the writer, with Vilanch saying: “James f—ed up the Oscars. Trust me, I know comedy. I mean, come on, I write for Bette Midler!” Oh no, an Oscar host is feuding with Bruce Vilanch! It’s like watching Mom and Dad fight, except Mom and Dad are actually funny! READ FULL STORY »
James Franco in 'Your Highness': Best medieval-length hair ever?
Looking at the new character posters for Your Highness, I was struck most by how surprisingly hot James Franco’s hair looks at that length. It’s the perfect volume: More than he had in Pineapple Express, less than he had in Tristan + Isolde. Well done.
I’d need to see the film before making such a bold statement as this, but I’m thinking this could be the best medieval-length hair in cinema history. Or perhaps it’s just a tie between Franco and Viggo Mortensen on a good day in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I’m open to a debate.
See the new posters feature Your Highness‘ costars Natalie Portman and Danny McBride below. READ FULL STORY »
Oscar Hosts: Did James Franco and Anne Hathaway do a good job?
Image Credit: A.M.P.A.S.For 20 years, the Oscars were hosted by comedians, and most of those comedians were Billy Crystal. The awards shook up that format in the last couple of years, first getting song-and-dance-and-everything man Hugh Jackman to host in 2009, then pairing funnyman Steve Martin with actor Alec Baldwin in 2010. Last night’s Oscars featured the biggest departure from formula, with emphasis-on-young actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway MC-ing the ceremony. The hosts clearly decided to go for an Odd Couple-ish chemistry, with Franco looking very reserved while Hathaway redefined bubbly. EW’s Ken Tucker thought they were marvelous — check out his full review of the telecast — but how do you think they did? Vote in our poll after the jump, and then tell us your thoughts on the pair in the comment boards! READ FULL STORY »
Oscar Twitter stats: James Franco feels the online love/wrath
James Franco may not have won the Best Actor Oscar, or the hearts of Oscar watchers (save our Ken Tucker), but according to Tweetbeat, which tracks the most talked about things on Twitter, he was by far the most tweeted about personality during last night’s Academy Awards. Of the estimated 400,000 Oscar-related tweets logged — half as many as the Super Bowl — 21,117 of them involved the actor/cohost. Anne Hathaway was the second most mentioned person with 14,530 tweets — though users were kinder to her than Franco. See the full Top 10 list below, along with other fun stats such as: the Top 3 most tweeted designers during the red carpet, the moments that caused “unexpected spikes of tweets” (hello, Melissa Leo!), which films were referenced the most (and whether those sentiments were positive or negative), and who Kirk Douglas bested… READ FULL STORY »
My first Oscar memory: 'Terms of Endearment' has the right stuff
Image Credit: AP ImagesAs soon as James Franco and Anne Hathaway take the stage for tonight’s 83rd annual Academy Awards, I’ll be hanging on every quip, feasting on every shot of a gorgeous celebrity, and waiting in anticipation for another class of films to be crowned. I’ve watched every telecast for the last 27 years, which is more than some people, less than others. But tonight will be the first Oscar show for someone else, maybe some kid who saw How to Train Your Dragon six times in the theater or some young girl who discovered Johnny Depp on the screen with this year’s Alice in Wonderland. I make this assumption because my first Oscar baptism was dominated by films I hadn’t seen, and that I wouldn’t see for years. In 1984, the clear front-runner was Terms of Endearment, with The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies, and The Big Chill hoping for an upset. I tuned in, hoping that War Games and Return of the Jedi would sweep the slate somehow — maybe with some write-in putsch or something. READ FULL STORY »
Just for kicks, Ricky Gervais pens an Oscars monologue for Anne Hathaway and James Franco
Image Credit: Paul Drinkwater/NBCHey, remember how Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes a couple times? Well, that makes him something of an awards show expert — even if his latest outing wasn’t exactly well-received by everyone. The Office creator flexed his dormant hosting muscle on his blog this week, where he posted a monologue that Academy Awards hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway can feel free to use “in case they have a few minutes to fill.” The fake opener is predictably colorful. Here’s an excerpt: READ FULL STORY »
James Franco and Anne Hathaway reenact the carnival scene from 'Grease'
This really is a new way to do the Oscars. James Franco continues his Twitter teases as Sunday’s ceremony approaches, most recently with a 19-second clip of he, co-host Anne Hathaway, and some dancing extras reenacting the carnival scene from Grease. This could be something from their opening, which producer Bruce Cohen has told EW will involve a combination of filmed and live elements, some singing, and “a very exciting and special guest star or two.” Or perhaps it’s a part of some kind of tribute to the movie musical. (Rumors had been circulating that the duo would be performing “Suddenly, Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors, which Cohen told us sadly didn’t make the cut.) Watch the clip below, as well as some bonus promo outtakes. So far, I’m loving everything about the build-up to this year’s Oscars except ABC’s insistence that Franco and Hathaway are hosting “Oscar.” That annoy anyone else? READ FULL STORY »
James Franco covers a Cher song from 'Burlesque'
Image Credit: Roger Kisby/Getty ImageEverything James Franco does is either densely symbolic or fabulously meaningless, and his latest shenanigan is no different: The mega-hyphenate star tweeted an extended audio tidbit of himself singing Cher’s big song from Burlesque, “You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me.” According to Franco’s tweet, “they pulled this from the oscar show,” which could be true… or it could also just be a teasing reference to the ongoing “Will/Should Franco Sing at the Oscars?” debate. Is Franco’s song serious, funny, or seriously funny? Decide for yourself by listening to the song after the jump… [Update: Oh, if only you could turn back time... Looks like it’s been taken down, folks. But just let yourself imagine it, readers. It's exactly what you'd expect, except more, except less.] READ FULL STORY »
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