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Is James Franco For Real?

Take some time to read through this NY Magazine profile on James Franco. It's a lengthy bit of insight but when you're covering someone that is currently enrolled in four graduate programs, making Hollywood films, performing in a soap opera and dabbling in art world undertakings; you're going to need every word. Oddly, this sort of summed it up for me:

He’s systematically challenging mass-cultural norms. Franco, you might say, is queering celebrity: erasing the border not just between gay and straight but between actor and artist, heartthrob and intellectual, junk TV and art museum. His obvious relish for gay roles challenges the default heterosexuality of Hollywood leading men like Clooney or Pitt. He seems more interested in fluidity, in every sense, than in a fixed identity.

The oddest part of the whole read is that you're constantly reminded that whenever something unbelievable is mentioned they're talking about this guy.