James Franco: Starving, Hysterical, Naked

The Los Angeles Times reports that "Howl," a Gus Van Sant produced film about Allen Ginsberg's obscenity trial, is set to start production with a cast that includes David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Rudd--and James Franco as Ginsberg.
Never camera shy himself, Ginsberg popped up in quite a few films during his lifetime, from Chappaqua to Chicken Hawk to Don't Look Back. And Franco joins David Cross, John Turturro, and Ron Livingston on the list of actors who have portrayed the New Jersey poet on the big screen.
All of which begs the question, has there ever been a worse portrayal of a poet than Andy Garcia's goodfella Lorca in The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca?