James Franco Gets Married to a Man: VIDEO

As do Andy Samberg, Ed Norton, and Zach Galifianakis.

It all goes down in a music video from Samberg's troup The Lonely Island, which is set up as a sit-down talk show interview between Franco and Galifianakis cut together with a Spring Breakers-style booze and beach fest.

It's much harder to explain than to actually watch it, but here are the wedding photos.

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News: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, GOP, James Franco, FAA

Listen: Beyonce and Andre 3000's version of Amy Winehouse's track "Back to Black."

Iceland's Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first openly gay prime minister in the entire world, steps down from her post today.

Coldplay's Chris Martin's shirtless day in the park.

The Church of England's seemingly pro-gay request: "The Diocese of Manchester has instructed the official panel appointing its new bishop to select someone who can establish “positive relationships” with gay Anglicans and non-worshippers."

GOP organization funding marriage equality lobbying efforts: "The group has spent $500,000 on lobbying since last month, including efforts in Rhode Island, Delaware, Indiana, West Virginia and Utah."

Two and a Half Men is coming back next year but without the half part.

Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova denied parole.

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival awards James Franco with Ally Award today: "His multi-faceted talents coupled with his contributions to LGBT film both in front of the camera and behind the scenes have helped shine the spotlight on LGBT cinema and a filmmaker's right to free expression."

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had to undergo shoulder surgery yesterday following a bicycle accident.

McDonald's might make breakfast an all day option.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner takes place in DC tonight - hosted by Conan O'Brien.

Relief is in sight - those recent lengthy flight delays caused by sequester-related furloughs will come to an end by tomorrow: "The FAA issued a statement Saturday, saying that it had suspended all employee furloughs and that 'the system will resume normal operations by Sunday evening.'"

 

James Franco: I Was Dumped by Several Campaigns for Producing Gay-Themed Films - VIDEO

James Franco spoke with Daniel Villareal at the SXSW premiere for Spring Breakers, a new Harmony Korine film he's appearing in, and talked a little big about Kink and Interior. Leather Bar, the gay-themed films he produced that were screened at Sundance this year.

Franco says that the content of the films has caused some companies to dump him from their campaigns:

"I've lost three kind of advertising campaigns now because the companies say they don't like my image, but I know that it's directly related to the films that I put out at Sundance."

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'Why, it's a man!' It's Oz: The Great and Powerful - REVIEW

The ladies love their wizard (James Franco) in Oz: The Great and Powerful

BY NATHANIEL ROGERS 

You're basically asking for a trouble with that title, you know? OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict how this will turn out. If the movie is neither great nor powerful, tomatoes will be thrown. It feels weird to abbreviate the new picture as simply Oz, since it's a derivation rather than an original, so we'll call it Great and Powerful moving forward despite the misdirection. The filmmakers would approve since the movie begins with a clear and charming admission that James Franco's "Oscar Diggs" is no wizard at all but a travelling con-artist. So I come not to throw tomatoes (too easy), at least not at first, but to marvel at how red they are as they fly through the air.

The trailer brags that the movie comes from the producers of Tim Burton's Eyesore in Wonderland, a gargantuan box office success but one of the worst films of the new century, so there was cause to worry. Could any film be as simultaneously garish and muddy to look at? The happy answer is no.3D technology has come a long way and director Sam Raimi (most famous for the Spider-Man and Evil Dead trilogies) has far more taste and control of his color palette than Burton has had recently. A

fter the movie's old fashioned title sequence and Kansas-set prologue, introducing us to Franco's womanizing wizard before he's whisked off to Oz (you know how), every color of the rainbow does make an appearance. They often share the frame but rather than a muddy color assault, the rainbow here behaves like a joyous community, intermingling peacefully and taking turns in the spotlight. In some small ways it's a worthy tribute to the joys of Golden Age Technicolor. That's especially true when the eye-popping color meets a great visual idea like the Wicked Witch's fiery silhouette (shadow play being a favorite tactic of Raimi's) or a terrific climactic image like the Wizard's pompous arrival in the Emerald City via clouds of colored smoke and cinematic projection. 

So, points for visual prowess but visual prowess ages rapidly in cinema. People don't still watch The Wizard of Oz seventy-four years later because the effects look cutting edge. They watch it for Judy Garland and those adorable Friends of Dorothy.

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James Franco Talks to Stephen Colbert About the Mysteries of His Persona: VIDEO

And how they relate to the Wizard of Oz:

"He's a renaissance man. You're a renaissance man. Are you also a fraud?"

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James Franco Condemns Australian Censors for Banning Film Because of Gay Sex: VIDEO

Last month I reported that Australian censors had banned filmmaker Travis Mathews' film I Want Your Love because of its explicit scenes of gay male sex. Mathews film was scheduled for a tour of LGBT film festivals around Australia in cluding the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Sydney's Queer Screen, and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival.

The Age reported:

"Melbourne Queer Film Festival director Lisa Daniel says that in her 15 years at the festival, I Want Your Love is the first film that has been refused an exemption. It has been seen in many festivals around the world, and its distributors have told her this is the first time it has been banned. Mathews is a well-known filmmaker, and the decision is an embarrassment for Australia, she says."

Mathews is also James Franco's collaborator on the upcoming film Interior. Leather Bar inspired by William Friedkin's iconic film Cruising. Now, Franco is speaking out in a new video against the Australian censorship.

Says Franco:

"Frankly, adults should be able to choose. They're not going in blind. I don't know why in this day and age something like this, a film that is using sex not for titillation but to talk about being human, is being banned. It's just embarrassing."

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