James Franco is like me when I was five. In kindergarten. Eating paste in a corner.

James Franco is a Big Hollywood Actor. He was in the recent Spiderman movies playing the famous villain WhatHisName SomethingOrAnother. A timeless character, really, in that it took no time to forget him.

Anyway, Franco is a grad student at NYU's Tisch School of Arts, where he's receiving the occasional D grade in acting classes. Specifically, "Directing the Actor II," taught by Prof. Jose Angel Santana. Santana sounds like a stick in the mud with the grading until you realize Franco missed 12 of 14 classes. Possibly, "Directing the Actor II" deals with the diva who doesn't want to leave the trailer all day on set. If so, Franco = best student ever.

The NYU folks didn't appreciate Santana being a realist, so they fired him in order to make sure Franco understood real education and effort wasn't required at NYU. This sort of irked Santana because, you know, he was only doing his job and Franco isn't Brando after all. He's not even John Denver yet.

So two great American traits are coming together for our entertainment: laziness and litigation. Franco's laziness is leading to Santana's litigation. Now, if they could just make a reality show out of this, the circle would be complete.