James Franco Didn't Want to Wear a Dress at the Oscars, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: G.I. Joe 2 gets a villain... Jonah Hill spars with EW over quotes... Kate Hudson has a baby... and more ahead.

· If you thought Academy Awards host James Franco looked angry when he came out on-stage dressed as Marilyn Monroe, that's because he was. "I was so pissed about that I was deliberately going to fall onstage and hopefully my dress would fall off or something -- they couldn't blame that on me; I was in high heels," Franco reportedly told Playboy in a new interview (a section of which is online). "The plan had been that I was going to sing as Cher and then Cher was going to come out onstage; that got axed when Cher and the song from Burlesque weren't nominated. I told them, 'Look, this is the thing people are going to talk about, the images they will take away from the show."

Unfortunately, the producers didn't agree. "I just didn't want to fight anymore, even when they said, 'You'll come out as Marilyn Monroe. It'll be funny.' Me in drag is not funny. Me in drag as Cher trying to sing like her is a thing. That didn't happen, so then I just didn't want to argue anymore. I was going with their program; I wanted to do the material they gave me, not be one of the many cooks doing the writing. There were a lot of cooks who shouldn't have been cooking but were allowed to. There were some cooks my manager tried to bring in, like Judd Apatow, who wrote some very funny stuff that wasn't used." [Playboy via Huffington Post]

· Thor co-star Ray Stevenson has been hired as the villain in G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes. He'll join Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki and RZA in the Jon M. Chu-directed film. [THR/Heat Vision]

· The power of Twitter? On Sunday morning, Jonah Hill tweeted that quotes attributed to him in an EW.com posting about the Brits to Watch event in Los Angeles were false. "Entertainment Weekly made up quotes from me. Never said a word of this," he wrote with a link to the piece that had Hill saying he hoped to not be put at the kids' table. EW quickly pulled the remarks down and apologized. "As the result of an error by a freelance reporter at an event in California yesterday, EW.com erroneously attributed a series of remarks to actor Jonah Hill. Upon a review of the tape recorded conversation between the reporter and Mr. Hill, it is now clear Mr. Hill did not state the exact remarks attributed to him by the reporter and subsequently published by EW.com. EW.com deeply regrets this error and apologizes to Mr. Hill." [@jonahhill, EW]

· Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater and Holt McCallany have joined Sylvester Stallone and Sung Kang in the thriller formerly known as Headshot. Walter Hill directs. [Variety]

· Harry Lennix will play a general in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. [Variety]

· Congratulations, Kate Hudson! The actress gave birth over the weekend to a baby boy. It's Hudson's second child, but first with fiancé Matt Bellamy, of Muse fame. [People]