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SPIDER MAN - FRANCO MADE A SUCCESS OF HOMELESS WEEKEND
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FRANCO MADE A SUCCESS OF HOMELESS WEEKEND
SPIDER-MAN star JAMES FRANCO insists living on the streets isn't as bad as it sounds - he made $20 (GBP10) begging for money in just 30 minutes while researching a film role.
The actor played a homeless drug addict in Robert De Niro movie City By The Sea and decided to live rough to prepare for the vagrant role.
And Franco admits it wasn't that tough: "I stayed a whole weekend on the street, we panhandled, we made a sign.
"We made at least $20 in half an hour, so, if you're ever out of work... make a sign - `Homeless, Please Help'."
10 August 2008 23:34
Tags: Spider Man - James Franco
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Well, this is ridiculous!!! Did he actually sleep on the streets or just stay up
the whole weekend or stay in fancy hotels by night??? ONE WEEKEND AND HE's the expert
on homelessness and has the audacity to say it's "EASY"??? Um, try the midwest or
east coast during WINTER TIME OR the desert areas in the summer sleeping in your
van or on the sidwalk and tell me it's "easy" aWIPE!. But hey, with his good looks
of course he could get 30 bucks... ! Amazing that with all of his education, he
could be THIS ignorant and immature in his assumptions.
He was homeless for a WEEKEND?? OH PLEASE, why don't you try REALLY being homeless
and try a week or two living on the street? How about a month or six and see how
far you will get with your little cardboard sign. I work with homeless kids EVERYDAY
(ages 22 and under). These kids are FORCED to leave their homes because of abuse and neglect.
They have no money, no car and no home to go to after a little "Weekend homeless
experience" like this guy. If homelessness was really that easy, everyone would
be homeless. His whole comment was just ridiculous and unrealistic. He obviously needs
more education on homelessness and I personally invite him to visit our agency in
Phoenix and see REALLY FIRST HAND what homelessness is all about and see if his perspectiv
e changes. I can tell you first hand that a cardboard sign is not the answer to homelessness!


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