The insatiable James Franco

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There could be more than one apt title for this write-up—The many endeavors of James Franco, James Franco: The lover of life and art, and so on—but all these could be summed up to an adjective: insatiable.


With all the handsomeness the Great Providence has given to him, seeing him dabbling in different art forms is enough to make hundreds of vain men jealous and fan girls more adoring. He is a painter and a cartoonist, he’s been in different soap operas and theater productions, he has produced his own films, and he has busied himself rubbing elbows with some of the most eccentric artists America has ever known—all these are just a modicum of his being an award-winning, A-list, ultra-popular Hollywood actor. To boot, his exhausting-to-recite CV—M.F.A. in creative writing at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, M.F.A. candidate in filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts—is put to test with his short story collection Palo Alto, which received mixed reactions from various award-winning American fictionists.

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Although many critics think that Franco excels as an actor and lacks greatness when it comes to his other endeavors, he is convinced of the quality of his prolific output: “Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good,” he said in an interview in New York Magazine.

And as the cliché goes: “all art is subjective,” then it is all up to his fans and critics whether he does well or not.

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