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James Franco's Broken New Flick: "This Is Not Pineapple Express"

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Jemal Countess/Getty Images You probably won't be seeing James Franco 's new movie The Broken Tower coming to a megamultiplex by you anytime soon. Even the 127 Hours star knows that. What went wrong? Nothing really. We'll let Mr. Franco explain... PHOTOS: Rewind: Actors Playing for Real Not only does Franco star in this dense black-and-white biopic about Hart Crane , a gay American poet who committed suicide at age 32 in 1932 by jumping off a steamship, but he also wrote and directed it. He's one of the producers, too. "This is not Pineapple Express ," the Oscar-nominated actor said the other night at the Los Angeles Film Festival screening of the movie . "[It's] a slow film on purpose. It's going to take a little patience but it's made that way on purpose. We really just wanted to explore this man, Hart Crane, in a way that I felt couldn't be done if it had been made it on a larger scale." Broken costars Franco's brother, D...

Josie Gibson's column: Good luck to John James' new girlfriend - she's gonna need it

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Tuesday 21 Jun 2011 Above: Our girl Josie Gibson says she cringes to think she was ever with John JamesJOSIE has exclusively spoken to OK! about THOSE pictures of John James with his new girlfriend. OK! columnist Josie Gibson, who fell in love with John James during Big Brother 11, has revealed that recent pics of her ex with a new flame made her smile. Speaking in this week's magazine, the buxom beauty said: "The pictures of John James with his new girlfriend in the papers made me smile. "He's done really well for himself, and I wish her all the luck in the world - she's gonna need it. "I'm pleased for her that she managed to get him to leave the house, because he never did when we were together." And it seems Josie, who had hoped the pair would work things out, isn't heartbroken to hear John has moved on. "I accidentally called John a 'prize p***k' on Twitter, which I shouldn't really have done... "...But his behaviour ha...

Top Five Times James Franco Went Gay!

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Jemal Countess/Getty Images We've said it before but we'll say it a million times: we totally heart James Franco . Not only does the cuckoo crazy actor pick any friggin' project he wants (like bouncing between soap opera stints, indie flicks, and big budget monkey movies), but he's definitely not afraid to go gay—again and again and... Again! James recently chatted with Jewish Journal about his latest flick (The Broken Tower ) which has him starring as—wait for it—tortured, gay artist Hart Crane . The flick doesn't hit film circuits until Monday, but apparently there are some tres explicit man-on-man sex scenes. Love it! So to celebrate James's latest homo-licious performance (and the end of our pride week), we decided to look back on our top five fave times that Franco went fabulously gay: 1. Howl in' for Gay Marriage! Does the whole tortured, dude-loving poet thing sound familiar? It's 'cause James has done it before when he played beat poet Al...

Top Five Times James Franco Went Gay!

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Jemal Countess/Getty Images We've said it before but we'll say it a million times: we totally heart James Franco . Not only does the cuckoo crazy actor pick any friggin' project he wants (like bouncing between soap opera stints, indie flicks, and big budget monkey movies), but he's definitely not afraid to go gay—again and again and... Again! James recently chatted with Jewish Journal about his latest flick (The Broken Tower ) which has him starring as—wait for it—tortured, gay artist Hart Crane . The flick doesn't hit film circuits until Monday, but apparently there are some tres explicit man-on-man sex scenes. Love it! So to celebrate James's latest homo-licious performance (and the end of our pride week), we decided to look back on our top five fave times that Franco went fabulously gay: 1. Howl in' for Gay Marriage! Does the whole tortured, dude-loving poet thing sound familiar? It's 'cause James has done it before when he played beat poet Al...