Franco's doctorate in self-indulgence should never be questioned.

Huh, did I miss something from earlier?

Like most Gawker, it is a press release scribbed on a Post-It note. Back track to the articles ...

Rebel Without a Cause was a movie written between the lines. Off-set was a debauch where the souls of the young stars were broken and re-cast. The movie was written to the Production Code; the actors and crew were protected by the studio. Franco flails the hypocrisy on and behind the screen, farther than even the participants were willing to go and this is the result, a sex-doll exaggeration of Hollywood history:

[Natalie] Wood leads the conga line to the living room, where Franco hands James Dean the cymbal-crashing, wind-up monkey toy that a drunken Jim Stark is playing with in the opening salvo of Rebel Without a Cause. Franco tells Dean to pull out her strap-on and start stroking it while the monkey bangs its cymbals hysterically. Dean has a skinny d*ck with a big mushroom head. When she "c*ms," Franco squirts hand lotion on everyone. Vampira takes over my body, and I start to go down on Dean, licking the c*m-lotion off his d*ck and snowballing it into Dennis Hopper's mouth. This by no means is one of Franco's directions.

Do these things still happen in Hollywood? Sure. And that's Franco's point, and while I respect the inherent risk to his career, I wonder if Flaunt realizes that they, too, stand accused, a four-color Weegee. It's a hypocritical vain slight magazine, pandering to those for whom all art must match the couch, beginning each issue with the manta that they are not selling out. It is the Fox News, the Tea Party, the giggling, frothing, wide-eyed silliness that passes for real artistic discourse. It is pot smoke curling out the basement door while adults sit in front of their computer, trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage. It is the 1% that despises the 1% but cannot risk its iPhone.

See: http://flaunt.com/features/117/james-franco.

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