The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face— In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go like the rest, But I’ll have played All the games and all the roles. —from “Nocturnal” “There’s never been a book quite like this. Hollywood — fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist — is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.” — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry “A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco’s poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk’s lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser.” — Anne Waldman, poet, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco I'm a nocturnal creature, And I'm here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face-- In fifty years My sleep will be death, I'll go like the rest, But I'll have played All the games and all the roles. --from "Nocturnal" "There's never been a book quite like this. Hollywood -- fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist -- is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget." -- Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry "A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco's poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk's lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser." -- Anne Waldman, poet, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist
There is a vision of power at the center of James Franco's first chapbook of poems, Strongest of the Litter. Power here is both generative and frightening, self-consuming and bracing. It is the artist's power of self-making. These poems, thoroughly beautiful and spare, have the texture of contending angles. Authenticity can be achieved only through different voices: in an investigation of the range and strength of American art, in homage to Williams Carlos Williams, in awe at the cost to American actors of their art (notably Taylor, Clift, De Niro and Brando), in the celebration and limitation of Kowalski love -- "I'm a raging Kowalski whose / Temper can be measured by // How little I can give. / How abusive my reticence." Pervasive in these eloquent poems is the power of memory, the collective memory of Hollywood and specific memories of the poet's own past.
Franco ist seine eigene Spezies", schrieb der Spiegel über Hollywoods größtes Talent. Der Schauspieler, Regisseur und Künstler debütiert nun auch als Autor: mit eindringlichen, erschütternden Geschichten aus dem Herzen einer verlorenen Generation. "Vor zehn Jahren, in meinem zweiten Jahr an der Highschool, habe ich an Halloween eine Frau getötet." Die kalifornischen Teenager in James Francos Geschichten wachsen behütet auf, trotzdem haben sie ihre Unschuld längst verloren. Sie experimentieren mit Drogen und Sex, sie sind berauscht und gelangweilt, sie spielen mit ihrem Leben, das doch gerade erst begonnen hat. Zugleich kindlich und weise, mitleidlos und empfindsam, sind sie immer auf der Suche nach dem Erlebnis, das die Leere füllt, die Sehnsucht tötet. Sie treffen einen, diese Storys, unerwartet und tief. Unsentimental, in ihrer Reduziertheit fast klassisch, entfalten sie eine klaustrophobische, bedrohliche Atmosphäre, die sich in Momenten drastischen Humors und überraschend zarter Schönheit entlädt. "Palo Alto" ist die beeindruckende erste Probe einer neuen literarischen Stimme.
Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.
Nella prima metà del secolo scorso New York era una città attiva, giovane, dinamica, tutta tesa a espandersi oltre il limite erboso di Canal Street per arrivare fino all'altra estremità dell'isola di Manhattan. In un tranquillo angolo residenziale dell'industriosa comunità urbana, in Washington Square, dietro la rispettabile facciata di un edificio di arenaria, si consuma, nella quiete di stanze severe, una storia di amore, di cinismo, di disprezzo, di egoismo. A differenza della passione che divampa e si spegne, questi sentimenti, implacabili e silenziosi, accompagnano i personaggi della vicenda per tutta la loro vita e anche oltre. I due protagonisti principali, Austin e Catherine Sloper, nutrono in cuore la loro ossessione consapevoli che l'irriducibile tenacia di una spietata risoluzione non li porterà alla vittoria ma li condannerà a una gelida solitudine. Tra i romanzi più noti di Henry James, Washington Square rappresenta, nel mirabile equilibrio tra aspetto comico e tessuto tragico, uno dei capolavori del realismo americano del diciannovesimo secolo.
Filled with essential advice and highlighting pitfalls to avoid, Acting Professionally gives a clear understanding of how acting careers are built and sustained. Now in its 9th edition, this book has become the leading book in the field since the first edition published in 1972. Critically, this new edition reflects the vital changes in the industry as a result of the Black Lives Matter, Time's Up and MeToo movements, and the Covid-19 pandemic. This new edition acknowledges and seeks to address the challenges of the industry often faced by actors when it comes to race, ethnicity, gender, diversity, and sexuality. It includes an extensive new section on the industry to reflect the 21st century, including signposting new resources and insights for the young actor, and considers the shifting landscape and opportunities offered by TV streaming, films, voiceover, internet, audiobooks, and podcasts. This 9th edition speaks to the changed landscape of unions, representation, self-tape auditioning and other best and up to date practices in the industry, ensuring that it's a book that's useful, relevant and accessible to every actor starting out today.
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