SOLD OUT!! PREMIER EVENT: JAMES FRANCO

 

 

James Franco

Sunday, October 27, 2:00 p.m.

Actors Anonymous 

Sorry - event is sold out!

 

Menlo-Atherton Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton High School

555 Middlefield Road, Atherton 

Academy Award Nominated actor James Franco will be discussing his debut novel Actors Anonymous. The actors in the novel include a McDonald’s drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor gone AWOL; and the ghost of River Phoenix. Then there’s Franco himself, who prowls backstage, peering out between the lines—before taking the stage with fascinating meditations on his art, along with nightmarish tales of excess.

James Franco was born at Stanford Hospital and spent the first 18 years of his life in Palo Alto. He is an actor, director, author, and visual artist. His film appearances include Milk, Pineapple Express, Howl, and 127 Hours, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He is the author of the collection Palo Alto, and his writing has been published in Esquire, Vanity Fair, N+1, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney’s. Franco’s art has been exhibited throughout the world including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s PS1 in New York, the Clocktower Gallery in New York, and the Peres Projects in Berlin.

   
Event date: 
Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 2:00pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
94025-4349 Menlo Park
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A California Childhood By James Franco Cover Image
$29.99
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ISBN: 9781608872022
Published: Insight Editions - June 18th, 2013

Palo Alto: Stories By James Franco Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781439163153
Published: Scribner - June 7th, 2011