Some guy at the NY Post seems to be spearheading a campaign for Franco backlash... can you believe it? This Reed Tucker character says Franco may act and write and make art and be a professor and attend every Ivy League in America and still have the time to Twitter but why didn't he practice for the Oscars hard enough? Dance monkey!
Tucker says Franco "looked bored on the stage" (well duh, he was stuck up there with boring 'ol Anne Hathaway) and therefore is responsible for the “Worst. Oscars. Ever.” (You're off the hook, PS 22!) And then, a bold claim: "America is no longer infatuated with Franco—and a wave of backlash has begun." This, according to both Tucker (who's got his finger on the Franco pulse just jealous), and also Zeta Interactive's analysis of online activity (that's probably not even a real company).
Allegedly after the big show, Franco's "positive tonal buzz dropped 15 points to 74 percent," and the most common words associated with him were “failed,” “not good” and “boring.” Then there was that final blow from a Yale Daily News writer, who declared in the paper: "Your Twitter sort of sucks." One Hollywood publicist has even admitted: “I do get the feeling that if I go into my bathroom and turn on the hot water faucet, he’s likely to come out.” (We have this dream, too!) So, is America losing interest in Franco... or has America just become too busy watching the trainwreck that is Charlie Sheen? Take the below poll and if you really do hate James Franco so much we'll take a one week day hiatus from covering his every move.
