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Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claustrophobic and ominous--James Franco's collection traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.

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Photos of James before his interview with David Letterman have been added to the gallery along with photos of James during (and after) his appearance on The Today Show.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Appearances > 2011 > Celebrities Visit “Late Show With David Letterman” – August 1, 2011
- Appearances > 2011 > The Today Show Studios

While we wait for the full interview to pop up online, here’s a clip from it.

The first batch of photos (over 100+) of James at the Los Angeles premiere of “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes” have been added to the gallery!

GALLERY LINK:
- Appearances > 2011 > “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals

Hopefully more to come later! So keep checking back!

Thanks to James Franco Italia, I’ve added scans from James’ interview with the magazine to the gallery. Along with this, three “outtakes” have also been added.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazine Scans > Scans from 2011 > Playboy (August)
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #91

Playboy has their interview with James up on their site. You can read a part of it below and the rest over at their site!

PLAYBOY: In the past five years alone you’ve starred in numerous movies, including 127 Hours, Pineapple Express, Howl, Eat Pray Love and Milk, published a book as well as short fiction in major magazines, appeared in a recurring role on General Hospital, guest starred on 30 Rock, hosted the Oscars, directed short films and mounted big art projects at international museums and galleries. You also earned a B.A. in English from UCLA, got an MFA from Columbia, studied filmmaking at NYU, are now completing a doctorate in English at Yale and have been accepted into the literature and creative writing Ph.D. program at the University of Houston. Isn’t this a bit much?

FRANCO: I don’t know, but the first short film I ever directed, years before I even went to film school at NYU, is about a boy who is introduced to the concept of his own mortality when his goldfish dies. He says to his parents, “I don’t want to die,” and though they say he shouldn’t worry because there’s plenty of time, they don’t really comfort him. So he thinks, I have to do everything now. He gets a neighbor girl to marry him, gets a job, starts a family. Although I’ve changed and relaxed a bit, my behavior shows I’ve thought along those lines for quite a while.

PLAYBOY: When it comes to your academic work, how do you react when journalists and bloggers accuse you of skating by on your fame?

FRANCO: It’s a great thing. When people heard I was in all these academic programs, the reaction for some person I don’t even know was to take a picture of me sleeping at Columbia. It wasn’t even in class; it was a 10 p.m. optional guest lecture. But people love to post that picture on the internet and criticize me for taking a spot away from somebody else who would really care about the lecture. ­People sleep in class at all my schools all the time and nobody posts their pictures.

Click here to read the rest.

A new photoshoot and interview has surfaced with James from Wired! Photos from the shoot can be found in the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #90

Wired: Your interests seem to be moving toward smaller films and performance art. How’d you end up in another computer-graphics-laden summer sci-fi flick?

James Franco: It sounds weird, but in my head that was one of the things that justified this project. Once I heard that Weta Digital was involved and that the man who shot the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Andrew Lesnie, was the cinematographer, I got very interested. That basically pushed me to say yes.

Wired: Were you a fan of the movies or a fan of Tolkien?

Franco: I was a huge fan of the movies and of Tolkien, and I thought those movies were a perfect meeting of technology and a story that needed it. I especially loved the work Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis did to create Gollum, and then again in King Kong. Suddenly these computer-generated creatures had souls—because Andy was behind them. You know, all this technology is scary for actors—what will happen to us? But right now, in this moment, acting opposite Andy Serkis while he’s playing a chimpanzee is a new and interesting kind of experience.

Wired: What was it like?

Franco: On set, Andy would be dressed in an outfit that looked like gray pajamas, with a ton of wires around him and a small camera at the end of a wire armature pointed at his face to capture his expressions. He looked nothing like a chimpanzee, but he was so good at capturing the behavior of a chimpanzee that I guess my actor’s imagination took over. It was like acting with a chimpanzee who has amazing acting instincts.

Click here to read the rest.

A new still from Rise of the Planet of the Apes has surfaced via the film’s imdb page! I’ve added the single still to the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
- 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes > Production Stills

Photos of James at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival have been added to the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
- Appearances > 2011 > 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival – “The Broken Tower”: An Evening with James Franco

More photos to come!

Apologies on the lateness of these. Photos of James at the 2nd Annual amfAR Inspiration Gala have been added to the gallery.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Appearances > 2011 > 2nd Annual amfAR Inspiration Gala New York – Arrivals
- Appearances > 2011 > 2nd Annual amfAR Inspiration Gala New York – Show
- Appearances > 2011 > 2nd Annual amfAR Inspiration Gala New York – Inside

James received the Piaget Award of Inspiration for his humanitarian work and contributions to men’s style. Congrats James!

Thanks to both Sheeda and Amber, some new outtakes of James have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #84
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #80

The Rochambeau twitter page tweeted the following photo of James.

SNEAK PEEK: James Franco in Rochambeau Fall 11!

The first issue is due out in July. Pas Un Autre has already posted two behind the scenes shots from James’ shoot.

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #81