“An artist whose canvas is murder!” With suave slicked-back hair! Oh hey, I have the flu, I can't come to work next week in the afternoons (for the next two months.)

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1. James Franco, Soap Star
2. Via The Daily What
3. 12 Famous General Hospital Alums - Featured on BuzzFeed

James Franco is going to do a two-month stint on General Hospital , which is puzzling, sure, but he's not the first celeb to hit Port Charles. Some of these people even starred after they were “famous,” just like Jimmy. Educate yourselves.

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MOVIE BUZZ: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary Louise Parker, and Paul Rudd are all featured in the indie film about the obscenity trial surrounding Allen Ginsberg's poem. “Howl” the poem is actually kind of important and also stellar, so no need to get scared, and also—this is a movie, not a poetry reading. Anything that keeps Jon Hamm in 50s garb should be ok by everyone.

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1. James Franco to star as Ginsberg.
2. Photos from the set (read: James Franco in glasses)
3. And yet more bespectacled set photos.
4. More set photos
5. A tale of two Ginsbergs
6. Now starring Jon Hamm!!
7. Allen Ginsberg reading “Howl”
8. “Howl,” Parts I-III
9. “Although the poem was originally considered to be obscene and ferlinghetti was arrested and charged with its publication, on october 3, 1957 judge clayton w. horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, and “howl” went on to become one of the most popular poems of the beat generation.”

Your Facebook Protest of the Week comes in the form of undergraduate activism against the world's hottest author/actor. In some ways, I respect that UCLA kids look down on Jimmy as their “peer” while Columbia girls riot outside his classroom . Mostly though, I'd just like to note that he's welcome at any graduation of mine (from anything) at any time.

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1. Via The Daily What

My cute/hot/funny sensors are all kinds of mixed up right now. Also, is that an empty seat next to him?

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1. James Franco Dreams of Ivy League Education

CELEBRITY BUZZ: The actor, last seen in Milk , will pen a book of short stories for an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Currently enrolled at both NYU and Columbia, this comes as good news for Franco, who will now be considered The Hottest Writer Ever (besides Erma Bombeck , of course - JK! MISS YOU ERMS!)

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1. It Runs in the Family - Franco’s Mom is Also a Besteselling Children’s Book Author
2. An Exclusive Look at the Table of Contents
3. But, Really, Wouldn’t You Rather Read the Works of Miley Cyrus?
4. Remember When Jewel Published Poetry?

MUSIC BUZZ: The Mozart of ’80s adult contemporary radio has provided the title song for Pineapple Express . Not to rain on the parade here, but couldn’t they have just gone with “I Need A New Drug”?

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1. Listen to “Pineapple Express”
2. “I Still Think a Spoof of ‘I Want a New Drug’ Would Be Perfect for This Flick. But I’ll Settle for ‘Pineapple Express’ and a Lot of Alto Sax.”
3. ‘Pineapple Express’ Track Listing
4. Wait, There’s a Huey Lewis Tribute Album Coming Out?!
5. Pineapple Express Sounds Like Every Huey Lewis Song (i.e. AMAZING)

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Seth Rogen and James Franco pulled out “fake weed” and then smoked a “huge fatty joint” at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. The camera sketchily pans out as Rogen holds up the “the bag of fake weed.” Rogen and Franco, co-stars of the upcoming stoner flick Pineapple Express , maintain that MTV put them up to the skit. Fake or not, Rogen and Franco deserve pats for the Pineapple Express plug.

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1. Zoomed In View of Seth Rogen and James Franco Smoking Joint
2. Seth Rogen Smoking Weed On Television? Watch Video
3. Franco: MTV Gave Us the Bag of ‘fake Weed’
4. Rogen & MTV Refuse To Comment