According to court documents, James Franco went ferociously feral at a recent Lana Del Ray concert and charged and head-butt a photographer, just to be that way.
TMZ reports David Tonnessen was photographing the concert at Hollywood Forever Cematary when an unprovoked Franco head-butted him in the stomach.
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According to unusually poetic court documents, Franco was “smiling, rather demonically,” and wore a “blank expression of joy on his face” as he knocked the astonished photog to the floor.
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Tonnessen claims he was subsequently hospitalized and suffered “permanent injuries,” whatever that means.
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He’s suing for medical expenses and additional damages. No word on whether he manage to snap a photo of the King Cobra star’s demonic smile and blank expression of joy just before he was sent screaming to the ground with the distant sounds of “High on the Beach” ringing in his ears as the crowd went on dancing, screaming, clapping, cheering…
ChrisK
My guess he was doing more the filming Lana Del Ray. Paparottzi comes to mind.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Good he was sued. He exploits gay men so much. Karma is coming around.
Captain Obvious
He sure does seem obsessed with all things gay for a supposed straight guy.
inbama
@Captain Obvious:
In case you missed it, “Gay For Pay” is called “Cultural Appropriation” now.
Billy Budd
While other gay hollywood actors run away from any gay related stuff, like Tom Cruise, Franco embraces gay themes with passion. Gay movies do not bring him a lot of cash. He does them because he LIKES it. He is nice.
icntblvit
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: What world do you live in? How do you come up with such nonsense?
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@icntblvit: Hell – even Salon thinks he’s an a–hole. He is.
http://www.salon.com/2011/07/20/james_franco_2/
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Billy Budd: With other “straight” actors. I don’t he’s employed an openly gay actor yet. He uses homosexuality for attention. He exploits us.
He BGB
So the writer is being sarcastic and saying it never happened or wasn’t that bad? I watch alot of Franco’s work and much of it is mediocre. That awful thing on Netflix 11.22.63, I stopped watching when it just turned into a love story when it was supposed to be about going back in time to save Kennedy (I think). That he has a cuter talented gay brother helps me like himmore.
salumbre
I’m no big fan of James Franco, and I definitely wasn’t there, but a person cannot wear at the same time a “rather demonic smile” and a “blank expression of joy” unless he has two faces. Either whoever wrote the court documents is a lousier writer than usual or the whole thing is concocted.
TimberWolf
It is no secret that James Franco has been the bully on sets, and no surprise he would physically harm a person ” just to do so” Paparazzi are slime with photographs and such still not reason for Franco to take to violent behavior butt head in the stomach. A few years ago Rosie Perez commented on Franco being a bully on the set of Pineapple Express always picking on Seth Rogen. Guess there is some truth in Franco being a bit unstable. His comments on being gay, neither here nor there most actors swing both ways to make it in Hollywood. Franco may be talented but clearly has issues.