According to the Yale Daily News, Franco hasn’t yet decided if he’ll actually enroll at Yale. He’s currently a student in NYU’s grad film program, and in two MFA programs, one at Brooklyn College and the other at Columbia. His “gappy” effort in Esquire is apparently part of a short story collection called Palo Alto (I hope it’s about “thirtysomething semi-attractive well-dressed unhappy people,” as a friend described Palo Alto’s population when we both lived there). As Broadsheet’s Sady Doyle pointed out, he’s appeared on both 30 Rock and General Hospital. And he recently directed a documentary about Saturday Night Live. But as his application to Yale attests, Franco’s clearly not done expanding his horizons. Here are some more things we’d like to see him do:
— join The View
— do REAL performance art, Joseph Beuys-style: lock himself in a room with a coyote
— become a Congressional page
— craft illuminated Bibles
— work for the IRS
— become a makeup artist at the MAC counter of a suburban department store
— lead tours at a natural history museum
— go door-to-door as a Jehovah’s Witness
— become a spokesman for Depends
— teach a spin class
— go to space
— rule an island nation with an iron fist
— four words: James Franco, Mall Cop
— get pregnant
— dance backup for Lady Gaga
— go away
Now He Can Fall Asleep In LC, Too [Yale Daily News]
Live From Tribeca, It’s ‘Saturday Night’ [NYT ArtsBeat Blog]
