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• 2010-09-23

  james franco gives me hope that i can do it too.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco

  Personal life

  Franco reportedly has “an unusually high metabolism for productivity…a superhuman ability to focus”.^[2] Dissatisfied with his career’s direction,^[2] Franco reenrolled at UCLA in fall 2006 as an English major with a creative writing concentration. Having received permission to take as many as 62 course credits per quarter compared to the normal limit of 19^[54]while continuing to act, he received his undergraduate degree in June 2008 with a GPA over 3.5.^[54][2][55] For his degree, Franco prepared his departmental honors thesis as a novel under the supervision of Mona Simpson.^[2][56] He moved to New York to attend simultaneously graduate school at Columbia University’s MFA writing program, New York University’sTisch School of the Arts for filmmaking,^{[57][58][59][60]} and Brooklyn College for fiction writing,^[54] while occasionally commuting to North Carolina’s Warren Wilson College for poetry.^[2]Franco has been accepted to Yale University’s Ph.D. program in English, and will most likely begin the program in fall 2010,^[61] and will also attend the Rhode Island School of Design.^[2]

  Franco in February 2009

  Art—painting in particular—is a talent Franco developed during his high school years while attending the rigorous California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA).^[1] Franco has said that painting was the “outlet” he needed in high school, and that he “has actually been painting longer than he has been acting.”^[62] His paintings were displayed publicly for the first time at the Glü Gallery in Los Angeles, California from January 7, 2006 through February 11, 2006.^[1][63] Franco can also be seen painting in a scene in Spider-Man 3.^[64]

  Since April 2006, Franco has been in a relationship with actress Ahna O’Reilly.^[65][66] In 2008, Franco was named as the new face ofGucci’s men’s fragrance line.^[57][67] Viewed as a sex symbol, Franco was named the Sexiest Man Living in 2009 by Salon.com.^[68]