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James Franco Takes Twitter by Storm
By MELENA RYZIK
February 21, 2011, 12:23 pmHere’s your Presidents’ Day gift:
James Franco’s been on Twitter just a couple days, and he’s already name-dropped about a famous artist (
Richard Prince),
starred in a video,
created a highbrow comic and posted some meme-worthy
kitten art.
Mr. Franco finally joined the Twitter service after both his
mother and grandmother signed up, posting a video of himself (
embedded above) for authenticity’s sake. Of course, that’s not all he’s been doing. Backstage reports from the rehearsals for the Oscars, where he is a host and a nominee, say that he reads whenever he gets the chance. And as we head into Oscars week, Mr. Franco is an in-demand party guest, appearing on the R.S.V.P. lists for several soirées. (His co-host,
Anne Hathaway, has not turned up nearly as frequently). He’s also, by the way,
opening a show at the Gagosian Gallery, with the director Gus Van Sant. The gallery has few details about the exhibit, except that it’s called, perhaps appropriately, “Unfinished.”
In other multitasking news,
“The Simpsons” took on awards season on Sunday, when
Bart made an animated short that started earning industry laurels.
As Splitsider reports , the real treat was seeing his competition: parodies of “Wallace & Gromit,” “The Triplets of Belleville,” “Persepolis” and of course, “Condiments,” from those geniuses at “Mixar.”
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