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Rock the Vote: Given that it is National Underwear Day, you might want to go vote in Undergear's Model Star contest. (Instinct)

Franco-American: James Franco is a nice boy. (USA Today)

Poncho Villa: Roman Catholic parishioners up in Harlem are finding it hard to believe that Monsignor Wallace A. Harris could have sexually molested two boys. It seems the pastor was assigned to coordinate Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Yankee Stadium in April -- and it is part of local legend that the task involved making sure that 100,000 ponchos were ready in case of rain. “How many people could do that?” one supporter said. Well, then. Innocent of all charges! (NYT)

Auspicious Beginning: Sexy quarterback Colt Brennan is off and running! (AP)

Before the Gentry: A new book of photography documents a lost time and place: Tompkins Square Park in the 1980s. Twenty years ago this week, the neighborhood was also much like a war zone as protesters clashed with police officers seeking to enforce a curfew in the park. Q. Sakamaki’s book is timed to that anniversary and documents the street skirmishes, yet it is also a kind of manifesto. (NYT)

Die Young, Stay Pretty: Darby Crash, singer of the Germs and the most polarizing figure on the 1970s Hollywood punk scene, would tell anyone within earshot that his days were numbered. In 1975, at the age of 17, he devised a five-year plan for achieving immortality: form a band, collect a following, release one album, then commit suicide. If only he knew his final act would be completely upstaged the day after by the murder of John Lennon. (NYT)

Movie of the Week: All right, I swear this is the last one. But the movie/pilot of "James at 15" has a different opening than the other two I've posted, with an alternative version of Lee Montgomery's "James." (Seeing young James sneaking on aftershave is worth watching!) Plot: A 15-year-old whose family moves from Oregon to Boston misses the girlfriend he left behind, so he runs away to see her. On the way he hooks up with a female art student in her 20s who is also hitchhiking across the country, from whom he learns some valuable lessons about life.