James Franco's Next Stop: General Hospital?

James Franco is at it again. He has an Allen Ginsburg biopic and a medieval stoner epic on the way, but now the curious actor has agreed a stint on the ridiculously long-running ABC soap General Hospital.

Cue the inevitable, "Whahuh?" Franco told a reporter that his part will be “performance art" (presumably, he was joking), and the rumor is that he approched the show's producers, not the other way around. In any case, Franco's multi-episode arc will begin Nov. 20 and stretch for about two months, during which he will play a "mystery man" new to town. Someone tell us how it goes?