Making his Broadway debut, Franco excels as the distressed and resourceful George who travels through Northern California during the Great Depression of the early 1930s seeking itinerant work together with his sweet but simple friend Lennie (Chris O'Dowd of Bridesmaids fame).
"The big key to having these women integrate into society is to have people to walk out the journey with them", says Lewis. "As well as clinical and therapeutic support, they also just need a simple friend … as we all do".
Lennie is his gentle, simple-minded friend who can work as hard as any man but wanders through life with the sensibility and defenses of a child.
In the case of Asbury Park, the recipe was simple; several friends would purchase a home in town, then they would tell two friends about the wonderful things happening in Asbury Park, who would then tell three friends, and so on and so on.
Be warned, though: Twitter makes it cut-and-paste simple for friends to accidentally retweet your protected updates into the public stream.
And the reason is just as simple: These friends present a sterling outward appearance, but underneath they are actually made of a lesser metal.
The plan was simple: The friends who met at the New York Sports Club in Sunnyside would make a three-month roll from St. Augustine, Fla., to San Diego to raise $1 million for charity.
