Omnipresent New Yorker James Franco is receiving terrible reviews — for his thesis. You can cancel anytime. Later, when James meekly offered to meet with me another time to make up the session, I declined and told him, “I respect your effort to test the boundaries of what is humanly possible within normal space and time, but this is one of those boundaries. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Honors Thesis : Amherst College: 1984: Gouger, Lina: Le peuplement colonisateur de Détroit, 1701-1765: PhD. However, I didn’t feel comfortable carrying on a Ph.D-earning conversation over the phone each week, and so I told him he’d have to agree to take the time away from whatever he was doing (which just happened to be shooting a multimillion dollar film) and at least have a video conference call for several hours each week. (I had, of course, seen a few James Franco films, but who hasn’t?) What is James Franco like as a reader of scholarly work?

We get more visitors each year than a small European Country! One week, however, the Oz shoot went over schedule and he was stuck on set. When I was assigned to be James Franco’s adviser in the English department at Yale, I was not exactly sure what to think. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. I’m no longer surprised, then, when James comes online for our chat and has not only done the assigned reading, but gone ahead and read a few extra texts as well, watched a few extra films, seen the DVD “special features,” and is prepared with several written pages on what we’re studying. Having studied film for so many years, it was breathtaking to see it happening on such a grand scale.

In any case, he looked exhausted, but was respectful, interested, and eager to find out more about how he could pursue his interests in both film and literature during his time at Yale.

He continues to write papers and dissertations on new developments in his field.

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