Former New York University professor José Angel Santana is suing the university in Manhattan Supreme Court, asking to get his job back after he claims he was unfairly fired for giving A-list student James Franco a 'D' in his course.

Santana said he gave the former Oscars host the poor mark after he was absent for 12 of the 14 Directing the Actor II classes he was taking in his master's program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

“The school has bent over backwards to create a Franco-friendly environment, that’s for sure,” the 58-year-old educator told the NY Post. “The university has done everything in its power to curry favor with James Franco."

Born Stefani Germanotta, she has evolved into the most iconic pop star of the 21st century known as Lady Gaga, but some people are stepping forward to claim her image is a hoax.

In Maureen Callahan’s much-anticipated tell-all book, Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga, former classmates knock Gaga, saying she was not the “freak” she says she was but that she was “normal.”

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“When she says in interviews, ‘I live and breathe fashion’ – she may be fooling other people, but she’s not fooling me,” said Jon Sheldrick who knew Gaga when she attended New York University.

“I don’t mean to sound demeaning, but she was really normal. She wasn’t super-outspoken or into really edgy clothes. She was wearing T-shirts and sweatpants and sh*t. She was not a misfit.”

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The book goes on to describe Gaga as a “fresh-faced girl, perpetually smiling, surrounded by other, perpetually smiling young girls” during her years at Covent of the Sacred Heart, an exclusive all-girls Catholic school also attended by Paris and Nicky Hilton.

“I’m a friend of hers on Facebook still; she still has her original profile up. She only has, like, four hundred friends,” said Seth Kallen, fellow musician at NYU.