Pulitzer, Schmulitzer. What Frank McCourt, author of the award-winning Angela's Ashes, really wants to do is act. Well, not really, but he'll make his acting debut by playing himself Sept. 10 on ABC's One Life to Live. ''[The show] has a family atmosphere,'' says the writer, ''which for me is very enviable because when you write you go off to a room by yourself.'' Actually, there's a specific reason for that familial feel: His brother Malachy plays Irish terrorist Thomas Kenneally on the show. ''[In my scene] I'm signing books and Malachy asks me to sign one for his brother Frank,'' says McCourt. ''It's all convoluted.'' Although McCourt says he enjoyed his small-screen stint, he's not planning an encore anytime soon. Is he concerned the literati will scoff? ''The people I know,'' notes McCourt, ''aren't watching One Life to Live.''
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