Looking dashing as ever, James attended the MOCA NEW 30th Anniversary Gala with girlfriend, Ahna O’Reilly. Quite a few images have been added to the gallery, so check them out!

GALLERY LINK:
- MOCA NEW 30th Anniversary Gala

Here are the recent gallery additions, few from recent James appearances and a semi-new photoshoot.

GALLERY LINKS:
- GUCCI Afterparty for the “Gucci Icon-Temporary” New York Store Opening
- Rob Pruitt Presents: The First Annual Art Awards
- Session #35

Here’s several new stills of James’ appearance on General Hospital and a promo video featuring him!

GALLERY LINK:
- 2009 | General Hospital > Production Stills

Great interview with James where he talks about his role on General Hospital. Only a few more days until his appearance!

On Friday night, James Franco traveled even farther north than Columbia’s campus for Dia’s Fall Gala at the Hispanic Society on 155th Street. He showed up halfway through cocktail hour with his grandmother. He yawned a lot. Vulture managed to get a few minutes with him, during which he told us a little about his upcoming guest roles on 30 Rock and General Hospital.

Where are you coming from?
I was filming 30 Rock today. It was very fun. I worked with Tina Fey a little bit over the summer on the movie Date Night and I’m assuming she liked the experience and that was why I was asked to do 30 Rock. I play myself but a very strange version. I don’t think it has anything to do with who I actually am.

And you’re also doing General Hospital. Why?
I really don’t know the difference between [soap operas]. The one difference is that General Hospital has developed this whole organized-crime thread.

But why a soap opera at all?
Well … I’ve got other ideas for my participation in this soap opera beyond just being in this soap opera. But it’s been a blast so far. It was kind of mind-blowing. I’ve worked one day on it. It’s one day of a few. But I think we packed seven episodes of my material in. They gave me a script for the day that was as thick as a film script and that’s what we planned to shoot in a single day. No ad-libbing. If I needed it, they said they had a TelePrompTer, but the regulars didn’t use it so I didn’t want to use it, either. Anyway, I’m pretty good at remembering lines.

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Ahhhh! Can’t wait to see James on 30 Rock!

James Franco is set to make a a guest appearance as himself on NBC’s critically-acclaimed show 30 Rock.

The 31-year-old actor will be involved in a faux romance with Jenna (Jane Krakowski.)

Creator/producer/star Tina Fey told EW, ”[Jenna gets] into a high-profile relationship with a movie star that is arranged by their agents.”

James is currently in L.A. shooting his first few episodes for ABC soap opera General Hospital. He’ll return back to the Big Apple later this week to shoot 30 Rock.

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Yay, our first look at James on General Hospital!

You guys, we’ve been waiting on pins and needles for this moment, and now we have it: the first images of James Franco in his much talked-about performance on General Hospital.Still no word on who James will be playing (beyond that it has something to do with Jason), but feel free to speculate away based on the image.

And don’t forget: James’s first air date is Friday, November 20th!

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Screencaps to come soon!

James recently made an appearance a few days ago and I’ve added some photos of him from the event (with more to come hopefully) and some outtakes from his Out magazine spread. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Appearances > 2009 > Fashion Group International’s 26th Annual Night Of Stars
- Photoshoots > Outtakes > Session #34

“What’s it like being a stoner icon?,” Lauren Collins asked James Franco, last night at the Cedar Lake Theatre.

“You know, people think I’m stoned anyway,” Franco replied. “I don’t mind. People think you’re a stoner, they think you’re a fun, nice guy.”

The conversation moved to biopics. Franco has starred in several, including “James Dean” (a TV movie) and “Milk,” and he will play the poet Allen Ginsberg in the soon-to-be-released “Howl.” After a clip from “Milk” was shown, Franco admitted that he still had the prosthetic penis he wore in the film, and that he’d actually made a mask out of it for another film. Asked if there was someone else he was dying to play, the actor mentioned that he had bought the rights to Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower.”

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A Jack of all trades, James Franco somehow finds the time to fit in (nearly) everything he wants to do. So we weren’t surprised to see Franco appearing as a surprise guest on “Saturday Night Live” an hour after he left the festival.

Interviewer Lauren Collins introduced and addressed Franco as an actor, director, poet, writer, art collector, and “exhausted grad student.” What makes Franco even more impressive, though, is the great length he goes to read about and research a role, project or hobby before he dives in. For his part on “Freaks and Geeks,” for instance, he visited the Detroit high school that served as the inspiration for the show. Franco said that when the show got canceled, he was excited to be able to pursue other shows and movies, without being tied down to one role.

It was on that show that Franco began to emerge as a stoner icon. During his own teenage years, he played the part of mischievous “Ted” Franco. Now, well after he has outgrown his adolescence, Franco stated that people assume — based on his demeanor and speech, no doubt — that he’s still one of them. He said he doesn’t mind this presumption because it means they assume he’s a fun, likable person.

That persona can work to his detriment with some directors. On the set, he likes to improvise and go into spontaneous performances even after the cameras stop rolling. For “Pineapple Express,” Judd Apatow welcomed Franco’s contributions. However, earlier in his career, Franco says that people found his impulsiveness to be annoying and unbefitting. But over time, he’s accepted that actors don’t collaborate on the creative process from the start.
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