Rant!! James Franco Cancels UCLA Commencement Speech
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[/caption]Ok, you might have heard that James Franco cancelled on his commencement speech for UCLA's College of Letters & Science. The official story is that Franco cancelled because he had to do pre-production on his new set, but I have a sneaky feeling that this conflict of timing is really just an easy way to pull out with an excuse, to which we come to the reason for this rant: a large portion of UCLA students are whiny, self-righteous pricks who feel that they are too good for James Franco, and started this Facebook group to let the world know just how many arrogant bastards go to UCLA. Now you may ask, "Jyl, why so much hostility and anger?" Because I am graduating at the College of Letters & Science and I wanted to see James Franco!
Now sure, it would have been better to be like some of the other universities that finagled really impressive speakers (I mean, come on--ASU got Obama??? UC Davis got Michelle? WTF??)--but James would have been a fun speaker, who really understands a lot of the UCLA experience, while also having a lot of real world experience. But no, people rejected him for being "unqualified" (because tell me, what do you have to do to be qualified enough to be a commencement speaker??), and now we are left with no one (which, coincidentally, happened last year; but at least the canceling party wasn't snubbed for being unqualified).
And the funny thing is, there is now a support group to get Conan O'Brien to come to the commencement. Hey guys, guess what? If you were rude enough to make a UCLA alumnus so uncomfortable that he cancels, then my guess is that no one else is going to want to replace him. And usually, the selection only goes down in caliber. So suck it up, kids: you ruined our chances to have a decent, memorable speaker by being petty weiners. Congrats, Class of 2009.
