James Franco on Playing Sailor-Chasing Poet Hart Crane -- Vulture:
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| Better start working on a Walt Whitman beard. |
James Franco wrapped his twenties-set Hart Crane biopic, Broken Tower, on Tuesday morning, he told us at Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards at Webster Hall on Wednesday night. Though he said he’d originally planned only to direct the film, based on the Paul Marianna biography of the same name, Franco tells us he also played the gay poet, who killed himself at age 32...
It hasn't been that long since he did Ginsberg:
