Well, when you’re an actor, artist, fiction writer, soap star, student, and prolific masturbator something has got to fall through the cracks: James Franco received a D in his NYU acting class. He says he “did the work,†but admits to missing a lot of sessions. We commend Franco’s teacher, whoever he is, for so brazenly indicating to his other students how little bearing a grade in his class has on real-world success. [Showbiz 411 via Movieline]