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James Franco publishes short story collection, Danny Boyle does spit-take

The Oscar-winning director of the new true-life drama "127 Hours" waxes amused and awed about his multi-tasking star, James Franco.

Danny Boyle's 127 Hours – the amazingly cinematic account of real-life climber Aron Ralston's ordeal, trapped in a crevice in a Utah canyon – has its gala premiere at the Philadelphia Film Festival on Sunday night, and then opens locally on Nov. 12. Its star, in case you haven't heard, is one James Franco -- the famously busy thespian who seems to be enrolled in about five or six colleges, is pursuing various masters and doctorates, paints, played Allen Ginsberg in Howl and just finished the Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Apes.