Celebrities on Soaps

James Franco on General Hospital

What’s more confusing, James Franco’s career path, or his story arc on General Hospital? In one, a famous movie actor decides to get a creative writing degree at Columbia and volunteers to do a ten-episode run on a soap opera. In the other, a vagrant artist—named “Franco”—threatens a mob enforcer with photos of the dead body of a mob boss’s crazy ex-wife, who had tried to kill the mob boss’s other ex-wife, in a cabin.

Sample line: “The secret to life? Anyone can die… at any time.”