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James Franco
North Korea recently condemned the actor James Franco’s upcoming film, The Interview, as ‘an act of terrorism and war’. Let’s hope they don’t find out about his poems. Franco’s debut collection, Directing Herbert White, is being published by Faber, reports The Telegraph.
James Franco is widely known for being the king of all that is weird. Even though the star has written several poems on Heath Ledger, and others, the quality of his poems has nevertheless created debate in the world media. The 127 Hours star has recently created considerable buzz with his somewhat amateurish poetry.
Introducing a poetry reading during the Chicago Humanities Festival, Franco said that his work was ‘trying to say something in addition to what’s on the surface.’ A morbid obsession with doomed celebrity is a running theme. Inevitably, more than one poem alludes to Heath Ledger.
James Franco is widely known for being the king of all that is weird. Even though the star has written several poems on Heath Ledger, and others, the quality of his poems has nevertheless created debate in the world media. The 127 Hours star has recently created considerable buzz with his somewhat amateurish poetry.
Introducing a poetry reading during the Chicago Humanities Festival, Franco said that his work was ‘trying to say something in addition to what’s on the surface.’ A morbid obsession with doomed celebrity is a running theme. Inevitably, more than one poem alludes to Heath Ledger.
