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JT Brooklyn Mentor

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What's the best word to describe this successful actor after reading this article?

 

http://www.afterelton.com/2013/03/james-franco-gay-rumors-interview

 

IF your a Young and Goodlooking Actor accusations go with the territory! James Franco is definitely Successful at picking and choosing what projects he takes on. Not every guy can be a Tatum Channing and not every guy wants to be! ;)

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Successful actor? Not sure about that. He sort of already seems like a has been.

 

 

source: IMBd

 

The Grace That Keeps This World (pre-production) 2014

 

True Story (pre-production) 2014

 

Good People (pre-production) ????

 

The Third Person (filming) 2013

 

As I Lay Dying (filming) ????

 

This Is the End (post-production) 2013

 

Homefront (post-production) 2013

 

Black Dog, Red Dog (post-production) 2013

 

Child of God (post-production) 2013

 

Lovelace 2013

 

Interior. Leather Bar. 2013

 

Oz the Great and Powerful 2013

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Please define "has-been" ... :-)

 

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIyOTc0MjE5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjgyODQwMg@@._V1._SY314_CR6,0,214,314_.jpg

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source: IMBd

 

The Grace That Keeps This World (pre-production) 2014

 

True Story (pre-production) 2014

 

Good People (pre-production) ????

 

The Third Person (filming) 2013

 

As I Lay Dying (filming) ????

 

This Is the End (post-production) 2013

 

Homefront (post-production) 2013

 

Black Dog, Red Dog (post-production) 2013

 

Child of God (post-production) 2013

 

Lovelace 2013

 

Interior. Leather Bar. 2013

 

Oz the Great and Powerful 2013

___________________

 

Please define "has-been" ... :-)

 

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIyOTc0MjE5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjgyODQwMg@@._V1._SY314_CR6,0,214,314_.jpg

Yeah but what has he done lately.
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source: IMBd

 

The Grace That Keeps This World (pre-production) 2014

 

True Story (pre-production) 2014

 

Good People (pre-production) ????

 

The Third Person (filming) 2013

 

As I Lay Dying (filming) ????

 

This Is the End (post-production) 2013

 

Homefront (post-production) 2013

 

Black Dog, Red Dog (post-production) 2013

 

Child of God (post-production) 2013

 

Lovelace 2013

 

Interior. Leather Bar. 2013

 

Oz the Great and Powerful 2013

___________________

 

Please define "has-been" ... :-)

 

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIyOTc0MjE5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjgyODQwMg@@._V1._SY314_CR6,0,214,314_.jpg

 

How about "yesterday's news?"

 

Take a look at the titles you listed ... sounds like B list shit to me.

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You have neglected to list his 2002 flick, "Sonny", which was directed by Nicholas Cage. By rumour, the film was based on the life of Walter Pappas, perhaps the most celebrated, and, indeed, ambivalent, male escort in the City that Care Forgot. And, although critics panned the film in general, I thought Franco captured the essence of Pappas; indeed, in his physical appearance, Franco resembled Pappas. I last saw Pappas at the time of the wedding of "Charles and Diana", and, in catching reruns of the flick on late-night television, I contemplate as to what became of him in his life; his "sidekick" was a young woman known as "Sunshine".

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You have neglected to list his 2002 flick, "Sonny", which was directed by Nicholas Cage. By rumour, the film was based on the life of Walter Pappas, perhaps the most celebrated, and, indeed, ambivalent, male escort in the City that Care Forgot. And, although critics panned the film in general, I thought Franco captured the essence of Pappas; indeed, in his physical appearance, Franco resembled Pappas. I last saw Pappas at the time of the wedding of "Charles and Diana", and, in catching reruns of the flick on late-night television, I contemplate as to what became of him in his life; his "sidekick" was a young woman known as "Sunshine".

 

"Sonny" very interesting Film. The Cover of Franco Leaning against a wall in White Levi's said alot! ;)

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Interestingly enough, I met the female CGI artist who was hired to "nudify" Franco for the gay-themed film MILK, in the scene where he dove into the pool without his trunks.

 

Seems Franco did not want to show his real bare butt in the scene, so they filmed it with trunks on, then she spent six months making him nude. She said the biggest hurdle was the underwater effects that rippled the "flesh."

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The comments about Walter Pappas made me curious, but google turned up nothing?? is the movie Sonny (which I watched and found rather depressing, and yet another wildly over the top performance by brenda Blethyn sporting the most bizarre accent) based on this guy? Any info?

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oh opera, the perennial grump....

 

I think Franco is above chasing hits....seems way too "renaissance man" for that silliness.....

 

Every interview I've seen of James or his brother Dave, they seem happy, carefree, not worried about what others think and entertaining. I'll admit I'm jealous of that temperament. I'm too selling/career/payroll/billing/collections/stock prices/money for retirement/find hot companion for weekend/get to the gym dammit/etc. YIKES, I'm stressing myself out - AGAIN. :)

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Pappas was a "hot item" at New Orleans with men and women, an attraction not to missed in the course of a sojourn in the city that care forgot. By report, many of his clients were "high profile" folk with "private lives" that did not bear close scrunity. I last saw him in 1981; he had a particular request as a "gratuity", an item that was not available at New Orleans, and, he furnished me a c/o name, a man by the name of Monahan, and an address to which the item was to be delivered. The package was returned to me, and, in the course of my next visit to the city, I attempted to locate him. No one had a clue to his whereabouts; I did find his female "sidekick", "Sunshine", who commented, omniously, that "They might have done something to him". "Wayne", as he was known in the "business", was the proverbial "walkin' streak of sex". He possessed a wicked smile, a smile that "glittered like the sun in tropic isles", complimented by one of the most beautiful bodies. shot with sensuousness, that I have come across in my lifetime,and, my experience with him was memorable.

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I will make inquiries at New Orleans as to whether or not any photographs of Pappas are extant; I did have a conversation some years ago with a man who represented to me that he had taken a number of pictures of Pappas at a private party which were "good enough to be in one of those magazines". There is a watercolor portrait of him, an abstract of sorts, by a artist of some note in a private collection. By report, Pappas' father was a Greek sailor, his mother a "working girl" out of Norma Wallace's "bawdy house".

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I have been told that the character "Sonny" was based on Pappas. Certainly, there are notable parallels. By report, Eugene Walter, the "most famous man you never of" who deceased in 1998, represented that he had written a novel which, upon publication, would make Capote's "Answered Prayers" fodder for "toilet paper", and, that he was shopping a synopsis of the work for a film. As a matter of fact, Walter had a successful career as a screen writer in Italy. Rampant rumour had the "lead character" was a composite of Pappas and another "famous" New Orleans escort, Gary Ware, with both of whom Walter had an acquaintance. Ware recounted, without humour, the story that he had admired a particular sculpture in Walter's possesion, and, assured by Walter that it was a signed Picasso, he had traded a "weekender" for it. Upon getting the piece home, he peeled off the felt on the bottom, and, on close examination, he discovered that, indeed, the sculpture was a Picasso: a "Joe Picasso". The manuscript, if it existed, went missing after Walter's death. Sadly, Ware, too, is long dead.

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