Academia: James Franco’s Best Work of Performance Art
by Kia Makarechi – Editor, AOL
No one can call James Franco unambitious. From attending six schools to continuing to film movies and TV, to working sporadically as a performance-artist, to teaching one course on film and collaborating on another class on himself (yes, himself), Franco is a man of many, many parts.
Breadth of talent is certainly impressive, but doing a million things is not the same as doing a million things well. This is like calling someone who knows just a few words in many languages “multilingual.” And for this, there are no better examples than James Franco’s careers.
It all started with the Green Goblin’s return to UCLA.