Discuss: James Franco... genuine maverick, pretentious fool or plain nutjob? Last night he tweeted the above picture and then promply deleted his account (pic 2: NSFW)

We'll be fucked if we know what's going, but he's working with Harmony Korine right now so you can probably make up your mind from that. The above picture is apparently from their short which is unlikely to be showing at an Odeon near you any time soon. Talking of Korine, anyone remember the early-noughties' 'Pussy Posse'? There was a picture of the gang doing the rounds way back, but sadly it seems to have vanished from the interweb... probably because it was fake, like Blaine's magic.

Back to Franco, though, last night he appeared on David Letterman, defending his hosting of this year's Oscars, where he was accused of looking stoned, saying:

"I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway - she has a lot of energy.

"I never dreamed of being, like, the best Oscar host ever. It was never on my list of things to do, but it doesn't mean I didn't care and it doesn't mean I didn't try."

Perhaps he'll be back next year picking up a prize for the above film. Joke we may, but it looks a damn sight better than his upcoming 'comedy' Your Highness.