A morning mix of entertainment headlines… Jose Angel Santana , a former New York University professor, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the school in an attempt to get his job back. The reason he was fired, based on what Santana tells the New York Post? He gave student James Franco a D. Santana says the Oscar-nominated actor missed 12 out of 14 of his “Directing the Actor II” classes, earning him the low grade. Santana also asserts that other professors gave Franco high marks that were undeserved. “The school has bent over backwards to create a Franco-friendly environment, that’s for sure,” he tells The Post. Reps for Franco and the university have not commented. ( New York Post ) Read full article > >

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NYU professor allegedly fired for giving James Franco a D?; ‘Survivor: South Pacific’ declares its winner

Goals from Marcelo, Karim Benzema and Angel Di Maria take Real Madrid past Lyon and through to the last eight of the Champions League for the first time since 2004.

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Real Madrid 3-0 Lyon (agg 4-1)

Mayor Angel Taveras said the termination notices that went out this week were a pre-emptive move to give the school district some flexibility in addressing its budget deficit.

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Mayor Tries to Reassure Providence Teachers as Furor Grows Over Firing Notices

We’ve patiently waited for our first look at one of this summer’s most anticipated films, and now we finally have it. Behold the first full cast photo from X-Men: First Class. In the picture we have (from left to right): Michael Fassbender

Painting, jazz and poetry in a trialogue between David Breskin, Nels Cline and Ed Ruscha ” Dirty Baby ,” a music project joining guitarist and composer Nels Cline (of Wilco fame) and poet David Breskin, “recontextualizes” American artist Ed Ruscha’s “censor strips” (artworks that depict the black marks used to censor documents). The resulting album and art book represents an aural and visual conversation between the three men and a load of talented musicians. Dirty Baby the album drops 12 October 2010, but people in L.A. will be treated to a spectacular release party on 7 October 2010 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as part of the Angel City Jazz Festival. Cline will perform, Breskin will recite poems Ruscha will project images, and after the concert all three will sign the beautifully-packaged “Dirty Baby” CD and art book of the same name (published by Prestel and distributed by Steidl). The book, the size and shape of an LP, pairs gorgeous reproductions of Ruscha’s images with Breskin’s ghazals (a tightly-structured, ancient Arabic form) and includes the four-CD set, two of which are the slow, twangy Jazz improvisations by Cline. (Due out in November, you can order the book now from Amazon .) When you buy the CDs, they come between two booklets, each containing 33 images of Ruscha’s work, Silhouettes and Cityscapes. Another booklet includes images of the sessions, liner notes and the 66 poems by David Breskin. The L.A. show will be held at LACMA’s Bing Theater , and while admission to the event is free it’s highly recommended to RSVP to info [at] angelcityjazz [dot] com.

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Dirty Baby

This is rather impressive: Angel Alvarez was shot 21 times by police after killing a man in Harlem. He lived. Experts say the 23-year-old likely broke the record for surviving the most gunshot wounds in a single encounter. (Doctors say they pulled out…

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Gunman Survives 21 Shots