THR has the story:
James Franco has sent out his first post-Oscars tweet, and it has nothing to do with his widely panned co-hosting gig.
Instead of responding all to the critics who gave his performance a big thumbs-down, the Yale University grad student sent out a picture that slammed -- of all things -- his campus newspaper, for criticizing hisTwitterpage.
"James Franco, your Twitter sort of sucks," Yale Daily News writer Cokey Cohen wrote in a piece posted Saturday.
Franco joined Twitter just two weeks ago as part of an effort to help modernize the Oscars and draw younger viewers to the telecast.
Cohen argued that, as a celebrity, Franco should be sending out more than "random links to pictures and replies to celebrities."
Wrote Cohen: "The pictures are okay in that a few are of him: candids are a Celebrity Tweeter staple. On the other hand, a lot of them -- like this one -- look like a fourteen-year-old girl with emo bangs and a Tumblr account attacked them with a few of her favorite Photoshop filters."
Cohen also wants to see more "pithy statements" and suggest Franco take a page from Kanye West's book when it comes to Twitter. (West'sTweets have included "I just threw some kazoo on this bi**h.
On Tuesday,Franco tweeted out a picture of himself overlaid with the words "F--- THE YALE DAILY NEWS" in red capital letters.
Cohen's response? In a new post Wednesday, the writer expressed surprise and some doubt that Franco even read the original post, much less took the time out to respond directly to it. But in the event that Franco was targeting Cohen, it's "also possibly the pinnacle of my career as a writer."
Cohen concludes by writing that Franco "ranted in the form of a random picture. #wellplayedsir. ... I'm becoming convinced that James Franco's whole life is a form of postmodern performance art. In that context, his Twitter fits right in."
The nice thing about twitter is that you can make it your own in how you express or share your thoughts. Just because of Franco's celeberty he need not be "on" the whole time nor should we expect him to be--Even in the age of social media...We all can't be as poetic as Mr West or as clever as say Ashton Kutcher is @aplusk...I do find it odd though that Franco is this upset over one person's opinion about his Twitter feed...seems unwarrented
I'd be interested in hearing what you my readers think about this...@TheLastReel
Turning to the other Post-Oscar story...
In overnight Ratings the show drew a 24.6 household rating/37 share, down 7% from last year's 26.5 rating and reversing a ratings upswing over the past two years for the awards show after its all time low in 2008. The expected bump from the younger hosts didn't pan out with the ad-targeted 18-49 demographic on par with last year’s 14.5 rating.
Still Academy President Tom Sherak Defends Oscar Hosts Broadcast in THR
"You can say we failed," he tells the current issue of the trade magazine. "I'd say we still got 38 million people." ....
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