During a panel at South by Southwest, Alec Berg—a producer on HBO’s Silicon Valley—defended his show’s oft-criticized lack of diversity by pointing out how the tech world that they’re satirizing is indeed very white and male. (Note: It’s not the first time they’ve used this line of defense.)
Here's a clip — courtesy of Vulture — of James Franco playing a high school soccer coach who flirts inappropriately with one of his players in the upcoming film Palo Alto. Looks like art really does imitate life.
"Reads like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho fell into a Catcher in the Rye remix" or "A collection of beautifully written stories"? When it comes to James Franco's fiction debut, Palo Alto, the critics just can't agree!
A California community is mourning a cluster of teen suicide victims — all of whom ended their lives by jumping in front of a train. The manner of their death has turned private tragedy into public conversation.
