I don’t know if many people know this but actor James Franco, from Spider Man and Pineapple Express fame, is leading a very very busy life. Between acting gigs he is attending classes at multiple Ivy League Colleges at the same time.

Here’s the list: he is currently attending Columbia University’s MFA writing program, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking, Brooklyn College for fiction writing and then traveling to North Carolina’s Warren Wilson College for poetry. This fall he will also be attending Yale’s Ph.D. program in English and not to be considered a slacker also the Rhode Island School of Design.
WTF! That’s 6 different colleges. How can a human being accomplish all this? Sam Anderson from New York Magazine wrote a great expose on Franco and he believes:
According to everyone I spoke with, Franco has an unusually high metabolism for productivity. He seems to suffer, or to benefit, from the opposite of ADHD: a superhuman ability to focus that allows him to shuttle quickly between projects and to read happily in the midst of chaos. He hates wasting time—a category that includes, for him, sleeping.
WOWOWOWOW.
I can’t say enough GREAT things about that article. It’s a fascinating chronicle of the hectic life Franco is leading. But the real question becomes why is he doing all this? Is he really interested in accumulating knowledge or is it all an elaborate real life performance piece. Continue reading this post →
Tags: james franco, Performance Artist
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