I can't speak to Franco being difficult to work with but a friend is in the admissions department at MICA and interacted with him when he was applying to grad school there (he ended up going to ... a bunch of other universities) and said he was very pleasant. And would have been accepted; his portfolio or whatever he submitted was very good.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Feb 25, 2011 6:41:22 am PST #24937 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Jesse - Feb 25, 2011 6:42:25 am PST #24938 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks, Amy, now I am laughing in a hotel lobby, when I'm supposed to look like I'm working!
This weekend, I hope to get home (I'm scared of forecast high wind in DC where I'm connecting and snow etc in Boston), plan to see Cedar Rapids tomorrow night, am going to a gospel concert with my family on Sunday, and then the Oscars!
Gudanov - Feb 25, 2011 6:43:18 am PST #24939 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I woke up with "hookers and blow" set to Burl Ives' "Silver and Gold".
Is it sung by Charlie Sheen?
Jesse - Feb 25, 2011 6:43:23 am PST #24940 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And would have been accepted; his portfolio or whatever he submitted was very good.
This is the thing about James Franco: I would totally think he was a ridiculous dilettante, but I'm pretty sure Yale doesn't let people into their English Ph.D. program because they are famous.
Vortex - Feb 25, 2011 6:53:41 am PST #24941 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I really am having a hard time not hollering "hookers and blow!" Which would be bad, seeing as how there's someone in the copy room next door who would totally hear me.
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2011 6:58:13 am PST #24942 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I woke up with "hookers and blow" set to Burl Ives' "Silver and Gold".
Me too!
Amy - Feb 25, 2011 6:59:08 am PST #24943 of 30001
Because books.
::fistbumps tommy::
Frankenbuddha - Feb 25, 2011 7:04:35 am PST #24944 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I woke up with "hookers and blow" set to Burl Ives' "Silver and Gold".
Me too!
Me three!
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2011 7:06:30 am PST #24945 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The three of us need to get drunk one night and walk arm in arm down the sidewalk singing this....
-t - Feb 25, 2011 7:06:44 am PST #24946 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'll be starting off the weekend with my Onerous Task of paper wrangling. Sadly, there's enough of that to do, and I am slow enough at it, that I might carry on with it all weekend. I should be able to clean off the DVR at the same time, though, and with the weather all cold and rainy anyway it'll be cozy and indoors, at least.
Also cooking and eating comfort food - chicken and dumplings tonight (which keeps earworming me with She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain) and potroast in the slowcooker later.
Monday I'm going to get another pound of earthworms (fire-breathing fists not included) and maybe some local honey as I am getting low.