Best Soap Opera Cameos

James Franco’s much-hyped General Hospital guest stint began Friday, but can he live up to the true classics of the celebrity cameo genre? Many other luminaries have guested on daytime TV, and “they almost always shake things up like a schizophrenic with a fake pregnancy interrupting a wedding in a tornado.” Mary Elizabeth Williams runs down the best of the best on Salon—watch the clips.
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