James Franco: Hot and Smart

Eat, Pray, Love, the film based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir, arrived in theaters on Friday, and boy, was the publicity for that movie unbelievable. You can’t watch television for two minutes without seeing Julia Roberts eating gelato over and over again and hearing that Florence + the Machine song in the trailer. Well done, ad campaign, well done.

One benefit from oversaturating the market is being able to see James Franco in the previews – dang, is that man attractive or what? Besides being ridiculously good-looking and having made one of the funniest guest appearances on 30 Rock ever (playing himself, only with the slight problem of being in love with a Japanese body pillow), Franco is also pretty erudite, getting an MFA in writing at NYU and now accepted to a Ph.D. program at Yale. He also reportedly has plans to write some sort of vampire novel à la Twilight, though something tells me it might just end up better than Stephanie Meyer's creation. Hopefully we’ll get to see the fruits of his labor soon and be able to sigh over his looks and his brain. Sigh.

Text Molly O'Brien