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James Franco has caused uproar among his classmates at Columbia University - after a group of squealing female fans interrupted a study session to “harass” the star.

The 30-year-old is currently enrolled at the prestigious New York school, where he is taking a master’s writing program.

Franco was reportedly studying at a university cafe when a crowd of “ridiculous, squealing freshman girl(s) gathered,” prompting editors at the institution’s Columbia Spectator to issue a warning to their classmates.

One student writes in the newspaper: “(They) were shameless enough to literally go right up to him… warning: Do a bit of subtle ogling, but don’t stand around the entrance like a pack of starving vultures.”

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James Franco is frequently offered drugs by fans who confuse him with his pot-smoking character in stoner comedy Pineapple Express.

Franco and funnyman Seth Rogen play two drug-users on the run from gun-toting villains in the new film.

And though Rogen has admitted he is a regular drug user, Franco insists he stuns fans by refusing to smoke marijuana with them.
He says, “Already, I have had people come up to me in cafes and say, ‘Hey, you’re James Franco, right? Hey, I can’t get a hold of my guy - do you know where I can buy some good weed?’ Even in class (at UCLA) I’ve had someone come up to me and be, ‘Hey! What’s up, man?’ and give me a handshake and palm me a little bag of weed. I haven’t done drugs, I haven’t even smoked pot, since high school.”

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James Franco watched male prostitutes in action to research his role as a gigolo in his movie Sonny.

The actor, currently staring in stoner comedy Pineapple Express, hung around strip clubs and brothels in New Orleans, Louisiana - where the Nicolas Cage-directed movie was set.

Franco - who plays an escort who returns from a spell in the army and is forced to return to his former profession - tells GQ magazine, “There was a strip club on Bourbon Street. There was one they advertise as ‘Live Sex Shows’ and I went in there and met a male stripper who said he was straight and that he serviced men and women. He was the guy I hung out with most.”

He even watched as his pal serviced clients, adding, “(On one occasion) a guy came in and said to my friend, ‘Hey man, I need you for a job right now.’”

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In the upcoming drama Milk (out in December), James Franco kisses Sean Penn.

Penn plays Harvey Milk, the country’s first openly gay elected official, a San Francisco city supervisor who was assassinated in 1978. Franco plays Scott Smith, one of his boyfriends.

“It wasn’t twelve hours, but it certainly felt like it,” Franco tells September’s GQ of the lip-lock. “The first kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside.

“It was a crane shot — I’m sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute,” he says. “That’s a long time on film with everybody watching and, like, a fake mustache getting in your mouth.”

Referring to Penn’s character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Franco jokes the kiss “was long enough that you couldn’t help thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I’m kissing Spicoli.’”

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James Franco insists living on the streets isn’t as bad as it sounds - he made $20 begging for money in just 30 minutes while researching a film role.

The actor played a homeless drug addict in Robert De Niro movie City By The Sea and decided to live rough to prepare for the vagrant role.

And Franco admits it wasn’t that tough: “I stayed a whole weekend on the street, we panhandled, we made a sign. We made at least $20 in half an hour, so, if you’re ever out of work… make a sign - `Homeless, Please Help’.”

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