CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
Movie star and UCLA alumnus James Franco has withdrawn from a real-life role at his alma mater in Westwood.
Franco says he can’t deliver the commencement speech he was supposed to give June 12 to UCLA’s College of Letters and Science graduates. “Unfortunately the date conflicts with me needing to be on location to begin pre-production on my next film,” Franco said in a statement given to UCLA.
Franco, known for his roles in “Milk” and “Spider-Man,” attended UCLA for a year beginning in 1996 and returned later to earn a bachelor’s degree in creative writing in 2008.
-- Larry Gordon
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