Actor Chooses Ph.D. Over Career

American actor James Franco has been accepted to Yale University to pursue a Ph.D. in English. Apparently, he claims that education is his true passion, and he has chosen this path despite a successful acting career. Franco's latest film is Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts and based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert. He received a MFA from Columbia,completed an undergraduate degree from UCLA, and also studied film at NYU.