James Franco and Terry Richardson: a match made in omnipresent-art-hipster heaven. We hear that on Saturday night, Richardson did a photo shoot with Franco and Lindsay Lohan. "It's like Warhol co-branding with Haring and Basquiat," said an art-world insider of the connections that Franco is cultivating. We're intrigued — but where's LiLo in that analogy?
In any case, after the Friday opening of his "Unfinished" exhibit (a collaboration with Gus Van Sant) at Gagosian in LA, Franco headed to a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont. There he hung out with a crowd that included both family members, like grandmother Mitzi Verne, and R.E.M. members like Michael Stipe and Mike Mills. As Franco sat on a couch in the living room of the bungalow, Stipe (who was wearing a waitress-style nametag reading "Michael Stipe") took pictures of the back of Franco's head.
Also at the party were Harmony Korine, MoMA PS 1 director Klaus Biesenbach and "We Live in Public" filmmaker Ondi Timoner, whom Franco was overheard praising at the party. Timoner reportedly wants Franco to play photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg as Patti Smith) in an upcoming movie.
And once Franco's crazy Oscar frenzy dies down, there's still no rest for the weary: We hear that he's heading back East immediately afterwards to finish a paper on Byron that's due for a class at Yale.
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Sean Parker, the Spotify investor and "Social Network" character, wins the "Roberto Benigni" award for most exuberant performance at an Oscar party: Every few minutes, his laughter could be heard over the din of the crowd at the Weinstein Company's pre-Oscar fete, where J.Lo and Cameron Diaz partied alongside Ron Burkle and Jeff Bezos. Parker was one of the boldfaced names wedged into the party's very VIP corner — and while nearby a cigar-savoring Leo DiCaprio pressed up against Bar Rafaeli, we grilled Parker on his Oscar allegiances.
After all, the Weinsteins put out "The King's Speech": did Parker's presence mean he supported their movie over "The Social Network"? Parker (portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the latter film) guffawed but wouldn't take the bait. "I'm going to evaluate ['The Social Network'] as a work of art and it was a great work of art," he said.
We last saw Parker riding one of his bros horsey-style in the parking garage, saying he was off to party at his "good, good friend" Darren Aronofsky's place.
Ladies and gentlemen, Gov. Jerry Brown
The Governator is gone. Long live Governor Moonbeam — again. Governor Jerry Brown, just elected to his third (nonconsecutive) term as California governor, was the star of the annual picnic luncheon that IAC honcho Barry Diller and his designer wife Diane von Furstenberg threw at their Beverly Hills home right before the Oscars.
The couple pitched a clear tent to deal with the chilly, inclement weather and had rugs covering the grass. Brown walked through the tent "like a star," one luncheongoer said: "Everyone wanted to greet him." Also in attendance was a solo Oprah Winfrey, who was "very warm and friendly" and huddled with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and current Sony chief Howard Stringer.
Portman gets protective of baby
"Black Swan" was pretty freaky, but apparently ballet psychodrama isn't as bad as facing the press. The pregnant Natalie Portman looked like she was experiencing some serious stage fright as she prepared to walk the carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon: Her face was a mask of tension as she and her handlers approached the scrum of photographers screaming her name. Guess those protective maternal instincts have kicked in big-time. Walking a few steps behind was fianc Benjamin Millepied, who seemed to be carrying her coat.
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