James Franco made an appearance on the set of Lovelace on Thursday where he dressed up as Hugh Hefner for a cameo in the movie. Lindsay must be kicking herself right now. If she wasn’t such a screw-up, she could be trying to have sex with him right now.

In related news, due to Demi Moore now just “wanting to get high, man,” she will be replaced by Mary-Louise Parker sarah  Jessica Parker in the role of Gloria Steinem.

I only highlight the race because this is one of the main points of his lawsuit. Jose Angel Santana is suing NYU for firing him because he dared give James Franco a “D” after Franco missed 12 of his 14 “Directing the Actor II” classes.

He alleges he was publicly humiliated by James Franco and the University which fired him. Something that would have never happened to a white man.

Franco complained last year that Santana had a problem with a celebrity in his class saying, “I did the work. I did well in everything else.”

Santana, however, claims that Franco only got good grades in his other classes because he did stuff like hire professors such as Prof. Anania to write and direct his films. “The school has bent over backwards to create a Franco-friendly environment, that’s for sure. The university has done everything in its power to curry favor with James Franco.”

Well, Franco is right. He won a Golden Globe. That gives him legitimacy and an automatic “A” for any acting related classes he may take. It’s like when a Nobel Prize winning physicist tells you that gravity is a state of mind. You don’t question it. You just jump off that building and think happy thoughts.

Here’s James Franco’s ass on the cover of the latest Flaunt magazine as you can tell by the tramp stamp that reads “Flaunt.” There’s a long piece at the link which I couldn’t make it through because of the lack of formatting. My eyes started to bleed after reading for 5 minutes.

Not like you care anyway. You’re just here for James Franco’s ass, huh? *Sobs in corner* I feel so used.

James Franco recently spoke to Playboy about the Gawker poll which voted him the most likely suspect in the gay rapist blind item Page Six posted a few years ago. He denied it calling the poll offensive and wanted the story removed. He eventually ignored it and it went away.

But now Franco is preparing for more controversy because he’s playing another gay character in a biopic (bi-pic?) he directed about poet Hart Crane. He gives oral sex in that one which will no doubt add more confetti to the gay paper-mache fire.

In a shocking turn of events, James Franco tells Playboy that he is not a gay rapist. Or so he claims. Does this mean I’ve been putting severed monkey heads in his bed for no reason?

In 2008, Page Six ran a blind item that claimed a closeted actor snuck into his ex-boyfriend’s apartment and raped him so brutally and violently that he had to be hospitalized. The victim was given $500,000 to keep quiet. Gawker reran the item and put up a poll for people to vote for who might have done it. The big winner was James Franco. Maybe that should be big loser? Whatever the case, James Franco didn’t find it funny. It didn’t tickle his gay rapist funny bone at all. In fact, he was disgusted.

“Then Gawker picked that up and did this ‘Gay Rapist’ story that was so f–king offensive, because I have friends who have been raped. They did a very classy online reader’s poll asking which actor who had a big movie out that summer had beaten up and raped his boyfriend and then paid him off so it wouldn’t go to court.

“My lawyer called them and said that it was completely untrue and to take it down. They said, ‘Well, we’re just reporting what the New York Post told us. If James wants to make a comment on our blog, we’re happy to report it.’ It was a choice. Either let this thing build and become bigger and bigger, or just let it go and let them be the petty scumbags that they are.”

You make one gay rapist joke about a celebrity and they get all huffy about it. It’s like they think they’re people!

James Franco has his hand in everything these days. If he’s not teaching classes, making artsy movies, writing or hosting the Oscars, he’s making music with Kalup Linzy. The single, called Turn It Up, drops July 12. EW describes it as “an EP of experimental electronic tracks with drag performer Kalup Linzy (who acted alongside Franco on General Hospital).” The part James Franco “sings” is just him doing spoken word. It’s not good.

Jesus. I just sprouted a soul patch, a black beret dropped onto my head and I have this uncontrollable urge to snap my fingers. Kill me now.

James Franco generally sucked while co-hosting the Oscars with Anne Hathaway. The show itself sucked but at least Anne put in effort. In fact, judging by the way James acted, people thought he was high. He wasn’t, apparently.

Franco went on Letterman and theorized people thought that because Anne Hathaway was so energetic. “I’ve thought about it. I think I know why, because — I love her — but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway.”

James added that he hadn’t watched the show and admitted he might have had low energy but “I actually played those lines as well as I could.”

He then pointed out the hypocrisy of Hollywood: “But here’s the hypocritical thing: Leading up the Oscars, I couldn’t hear enough about how, ‘Oh, people don’t care about the Oscars anymore; it’s dead, it’s boring, it’s at the end of a long awards season, who cares about it?’ Well, as soon as you don’t host the way they want you to, they suddenly care and won’t shut up about it!”

Yea, tell me about it, James Franco. First the big wigs are all like “sir, you’re not allowed in there. That’s Megan Fox’s private dressing room,” and then they’re all like “securrriittyyy!” What’s up with that?

James Franco and Anne Hathaway have grown to hate each other ever since bombing the Oscars last Sunday. An insider claims Anne had to provide all the energy while James just phoned it in. They added that producers “were pissed.”

In fact, as UsMagazine.com reported Monday, after the awards, Franco, 32, skipped his own party at L.A.’s The Writer’s Room.

“He went immediately back to NYC because he was pissed about how the show went,” adds a third source.

Franco’s rep responds, “This is absolutely not true,” while Hathaway’s rep says, “Anne had a wonderful experience with him.”

I’d be pissed too if my co-host was just standing around like a lazy lump of Britney Spears. Not even a 5 Hour Energy drink and a Redbull would have woken James up. Anne should have given him this drug called Charlie Sheen. I hear it’ll melt your face off.

Newsweek brought a bunch of actors together for an Oscar round table to talk about, what else, hookers and blow. No, just kidding. Acting. They talked about acting.

The most interesting person there was James Franco who revealed he made a sex tape when he was 19. It was embarrassing.

I think if anybody who has made a home sex tape knows, what feels best doesn’t always look best [laughter]. I remember when I was 19 doing that, and then watching it back and thinking, oh, that looks horrible. So what Nicole [Kidman] is talking about, yeah, you have a lot of respect for those actors in pornography, because they are really not just doing it, they’re really selling it. It’s the same thing with a kiss. It’s not just the kiss that feels best, it’s an image. Something different is happening if it’s a good kiss.

James should speak for himself because everything I do looks like it belongs in a movie. For example, when I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich this morning, my roommate complimented me on my technique and said he could hear angels sing as I buttered my bread. Although, now that I think about it, he may have been hitting on me because he was licking his lips and pinching his nipples at the same time.

For a split second, I thought he meant Juggalo and I got real excited because I’ve always wondered if Juggalos copulate like humans or divide like amoebas. Then I read it again and got a little disappointed after I realized it said gigolo. I got even more disappointed when it said he watched a gigolo have sex with a man.

James Franco was a guest on Inside the Actors Studio where he recounted the time he did research for his role on Sonny, where he played a male prostitute. Obviously, “research” meant he had to watch two dudes go at it in the back of a strip club.

“I found this guy that was kind of a perfect model,” Franco said. “He claimed to service both males and females. He took me on one of his jobs.”

At the time, Franco was studying for his role in ‘Sonny,’ where he played a male prostitute. To get a grasp for the part, Franco shadowed a gigolo in the back of a strip club, but things went a little further than he anticipated.

“The guy said, ‘Oh, you wanna play a prostitute? You want some real research? Then come with us,’” Franco recalls. “It went down. Everything went down, as you see in the movies and hear about. The eerie thing is, it was like a movie, but it wasn’t a movie — it was the real thing, happening in front of me.”

For whatever reason, I imagine James Franco just sitting there watching, high as hell and acting like that kid in David After Dentist. “Is this real life?,” he probably giggled, totally killing the mood.

I can’t embed because Hulu hates me so watch it here.

James Franco and his porn ‘stache were filmed making out with each other as part of The New York Times’ 14 Actors Acting series or as I like to call it, another lonely Friday night.

James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been tapped to host next year’s Oscars. Making this more interesting is Franco will probably be nominated for 127 Hours and Hathaway possibly for Love and Other Drugs.

“James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27. We are completely thrilled that James and Anne will be joining forces with our brilliant creative team to do just that.”

The good thing about Anne Hathaway being billed as the next generation of Hollywood icons is her willingness to get naked. Kids these days can learn a lot from this fine, young woman.

My favorite part from the red band trailer of Your Highness that came out yesterday was when Natalie Portman strips down to her thong. What was yours? Was it the dude sucking venom out of James Franco’s upper thigh? I bet it was, you queer.