PANHANDLING FOR CHARITY

Reports of a bum who looks like James Dean panhandling on Venice Beach are absolutely true! James Franco, who played Dean in the hit TNT biopic, raked in hundred$$ begging on the mean streets of Santa Monica and Venice over several weekends! Franco was doing down-and-dirty research for his stint as Robert De Niro’s drug addict son in the upcoming “City by the Sea”! His panhandling take? Franco gave it to charity.