James Franco's hair

[+ friendofsheila]

I saw only a moment of the Oscars, but just long enough to see how magnificent James Franco's blow-dry looked.

 

Even though he's done just about everything else, I'm betting he's not got an ad in Rentboy. Still, do you think he'd accept cash-money to let me run barefoot through his hair?

[Rick Munroe]

I saw only a moment of the Oscars, but just long enough to see how magnificent James Franco's blow-dry looked.

 

I'd like to give him a magnificent blow job.

[adriano46]

Have lked his various looks since I first saw him in Spider Man films, and then followed his career -- 80% of the time a really great actor, 20%, well... Last night, I had high hopes for his pairing with Anne Hathaway, and was very disappointed, and now this AM not surprised to see some heavy criticism of his performance, yet, I can't through the baby out with the baby water.

 

He always looks good on a tux, but somehow, some way he looked a bit puffy-eyed on my TV, maybe too exhausted -- and it translated badly to the show. Even when he came out in drag as Marilyn Monroe, aside from an interest in seeing his bared shoulders, the skit fell; he just never seemed to be 100% in the theatre and on the stage. Still... like so many here, I too would love to fork out top dollar to service him.

[Samai139]

The vefy best milnute(s) of James Franco last night? When he appeared as a ballet dancer in tight white spandex + cod piece. When he turned around and displayed those magnificent buns, I forgave all the rest of a boring night.

[Diverdan]

You are right, Samai, Franco in ballet tight white spandex was a sight to behold. He has a magnificient bod, and it looked like the cod piece could barely hold all the contents. I thought that neither he nor his partner for the evening did a very good job, but, I lay that more on the producers and the writers than I do the actors. They can only do so much with poor material and staging. Billy Crystal and "Bob Hope" were great, but they had good material.... but my how Billy has aged.

[+ glutes]

OMG, those glutes. I just got the vapors!

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zv55kB7Yvoc/TWuzTapJ2eI/AAAAAAAA8nA/QMMoFTy8HQs/s400/james%2Bfranco%2Bballet%2Btights%2Boscars.jpg

[JT Brooklyn]

J.F. did seem to be a little Buzzed last night. I'm thinking going for the "Younger Demographics" did not work as planned! A.H. has far from "Movie Star" looks!

[adriano46]

After a lot of negative criticisms of James Franco's and Anne Hathaway's roles as hosts, some wisdom did break through:

 

Almost everyone agreed that the show's writers are the ones who should be hung out to ridicule -- the jokes were absolutely awful, and the way the show was presented had no real theme -- they were grasping for straws from the opening monolgue. As someone wrote, actors ACT and you have to give tem a decent script to work with - and these two young ACTORS did not get that.

 

Anne Hathaway, by the way, demonstrated a fantastic singing voice and ability to ad lib; but I was a bit concerned for (sigh) James, who did look - as some suggested - a bit "stoned" or very much out of it. But it seems he had enough of a sense of what happened, an ran for the first jet eastwards as soon as the show ended. Having recently bought (and wasted the money for) his first published novel, I have learned that, while he is blessed with amazing looks, and does have a great acting career ahead, he can be a bit over-extended and not our 21st Century's answer to the Renaissance Man who can do everything. The Oscars were, sadly, NOT his thing. I was also very very unconfortable when he walked out on the stage in bad drag - really bad drag. It was not funny at all.

[Diverdan]

Thanks for those shots, Glutes~! There should be some that are even better hanging around somewhere... the second one seems to suggest he was trying to adjust something~! And, I agree, Adriano, it is the writers and producers that should be hung out to dry... the material that was given to Franco and Hathaway was the worst I have seen/heard in an Oscar Award night.

[Steven_Draker]

I was a bit concerned for James, who did look ... a bit "stoned" ...

 

One wonders if a "text message" is the only thing he received from Charlie Sheen ... ?

[adriano46]

One wonders if a "text message" is the only thing he received from Charlie Sheen ... ?[/color]

 

That is funny Steven! My better side wants to think James was just so exhausted from flying back and from from coast to coast, attending classes, doing his soap opera work, flying to LA for rehearsals, back again, then back again, probably taking something to keep energy up -- and by the time the OSCAR show began, it all seemed to hit -- most scenes he looked absolutely ready to lay down and sleep.

[+ Hoover42]

I missed the Oscars last night and I have no experience with pot. Why do people think JF was stoned? Glassy eyes?

[+ friendofsheila]

I saw only a moment of it (didn't hear it since it was in a loud restaurant), and wondered if he was affecting a "deadpan" personality, maybe like Buster Keaton, as a contrast to Anne Hathaway.

[+ deej]

I missed the Oscars last night and I have no experience with pot. Why do people think JF was stoned? Glassy eyes?

 

His rep says he doesn't use. (Whatever!) But more telling, people who know him say he's just naturally reserved and SEEMS stoned even when he isn't, which makes one wonder why he was selected as a host in the first place. You want a host who is naturally the life of the party kind of person.

[adriano46]

Yeah DEEJ that is an excellent point. My take on him is that he is more cerebral than many would think. I thought Anne H. was vcery good but suffered having a badly produced program and bad writing material. She and he did look great together in photos in the run-up to the night, but from the time he walked out, you felt he wanted to be anywhere, even in a dentist's chair, than there. I am sure from some of hte other younger Hollywood generation in the VF cover spread they could have found somone who would have been better at hosting.

[+ deej]

Yes, his "golf clap" gesture as applause made it clear he really didn't want to be there.

 

You know, I'd forgotten about that VF cover. They probably COULD have found a better host in there, but would they have had the same name recognition? This was a producer's error -- choosing name recognition over actual ability. (There's also some nattering on the gossip blogs that the hosts were at each other's throats by the time the show aired.)

 

I thought Anne H. did a great job with mediocre (at best) material. If all the jokes they gave her had risen up to "you get to wear a dress that does this" the show MIGHT have actually been attractive to the younger/hipper audiences they were after.

[Luv2play]

I am old enough to remember watching Bob Hope MC the Oscars and thinking he was pretty funny and a good host as well. Of course he had had lots of experience appearing on live sets before and he had also entertained the troops for years starting in the Second World War. He knew how to entertain people.

 

Taking young actors such as Franco and Hathaway who do most if not all of their work before cameras in a studio or on a movie set does not make them eligible to host a show like the Academy Awards IMO. I think people who have done stand-up comedy or even Vegas nightclub acts would be better suited.

 

I don't go the movies anymore but I actually watched the Oscars this year in its entirety for the first time in many years. I had never seen either Franco or Hathaway before but of the two thought she was somewhat better. Franco seemed to have this silly grin on his face most of the time when the camera was on him and he tended to stare offstage rather than look directly into the camera. I chalk it up to his inexperience in this milieu.

[+ deej]

Nothing to do with James Franco's hair, but this is as close as we've got to an active thread about the Oscars.

 

FWIW, that handsome trophy boy who was on stage with Kirk Douglas has a storied background himself. His grandfather is Hollywood legend Omar Sharif:

 

http://www.advocate.com/uploadedImages/ADVOCATE/ARTS_AND_ENTERTAINMENT/FILM/2011/omar1.jpg

http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Film/Introducing_Omar_Sharif_Jr/

[Diverdan]

Thanks, deej, for the photo and link to the advocate story. He is one HOT stud, and seems to be a level headed guy too!