Commencement Chaos: Speaking Gig Open at UCLA!
Let’s see….UC Merced got Michelle Obama, and UCLA gets actor James Franco. Well, not any more. Looks like the handsome, successful actor got bounced out of the primo commencement speaking gig June 12 by some students who resented the fact that he just graduated, and hasn’t really done anything with his degree in creative writing. Franco started at the Westwood campus in ’96, dropped out and just recently went back to finish his degree. In the interim, of course, came fame with roles in Freaks and Geeks, Pineapple Express, Milk and Spider-Man. Academic respect? Maybe not so much. The Franco camp disengaged, saying he had to be in preproduction in Ireland that day for a film called Your Highness.
Wonder who the Bruins will tap as the speaker, knowing he/she was second choice. Um, conundrum!
