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James Franco

Mikael Jansson
Mikael Jansson

Seven years ago, he played James Dean in a television biopic, tinting his hair and squinting his eyes to Rebel Without a Cause-like perfection. Ever since, the temptation has been to peg him as a good-looking young man felled by the moody blues. while it's a fact of life that no one can ever really know what lies beneath the surface of another, the Internet can help narrow the field of possibilities. Lo and behold, Generalissimo James Edward Franco: a merry prankster, a slayer of hearts, a wooer of minds, and the latest onscreen love interest of Sean Penn.

July 1999