James Lipton
James Lipton, April 2007
Born	September 19, 1926 (1926-09-19) (age 81) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Poet, talk show host, writer
Spouse	Kedakai Turner Lipton

James Lipton (born September 19, 1926) is an American writer, poet, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series, Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994. He is also a pilot and a member of AOPA. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Detroit redirects here. ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S. cable network. ... Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. ... The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is a not-for-profit organization whose membership consists mainly of general aviation pilots in the United States. ...

Early and personal life

Lipton was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Betty (née Weinberg), a teacher, and journalist Lawrence Lipton. Noted as the author of the popular Beat Generation chronicle, The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton was a graphic designer, a columnist for the Jewish Daily Forward and a publicity director for a movie theater.^[1][2][3] Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Née redirects here. ... Beats redirects here. ... The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ...

While James was living in Paris during the post-WWII years, penniless and unable to acquire a work permit, he became a mec, an associate of female prostitutes who arranged their encounters and translated between the client and the prostitute. This is contrary to the misconception that Lipton became a pimp; a mec in fact is employed by the prostitute herself. In his autobiography, Inside Inside, Lipton explained that he had a "thriving business" with tourists, taking nervous young middle-class American couples to see sex exhibitions staged by French prostitutes.^[4]

Between 1954 and 1959, Lipton was married to actress Nina Foch. He has been married to Kedakai Turner, a model and real estate broker, since 1970.^[1] Nina Foch (b. ...

Mr. Lipton is the author of An Exaltation of Larks, a book of collective nouns, published by Penguin.^[5]

Early career

In Detroit, on radio's The Lone Ranger, Lipton portrayed the Lone Ranger's nephew, Dan Reid, during the early 1940s. Moving to New York, he was a writer for several soap operas, Another World, The Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Return to Peyton Place and Capitol, as well as acting for over ten years on Guiding Light. He portrayed a shipping clerk turned gang member in Joseph Strick's film, The Big Break, a 1953 crime drama. The Lone Ranger. ... The first TIME magazine cover devoted to soap operas, dated January 12, 1976. ... Another World was an NBC soap opera that ran from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. ... The Edge of Night was a long-running American television soap opera. ... Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975, GL) is an American television program credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television history. ... Capitol was the name of a television soap opera which aired on the daytime schedule of CBS from March 26, 1982 to March 20, 1987 for 1270 episodes. ...

Lipton was the book writer and lyricist for the 1967 Broadway musical Sherry! based on the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play The Man Who Came to Dinner. The score and orchestrations were lost for over 30 years, and the original cast was never recorded. In 2003 a studio cast recording (with Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett, Tommy Tune, Michael Myers, and others) renewed interest in the show. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... 2004 studio recording Sherry! is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Lipton and music by Laurence Rosenthal. ... Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. ... George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. ... The Man Who Came to Dinner, comedy in three acts written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart that debuted on October 16, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. ... Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning actor of the stage and screen. ... Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer. ... Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian, singer, dancer, and writer. ... Thomas James Tune (born February 28, 1939) is a famous actor, dancer, singer, and choreographer. ... For other persons of the same name, see Michael Myers. ...

His book of terms of venery, An Exaltation of Larks, was published in 1968. Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts. ...

In 1983 Lipton published his novel "Mirrors" which is about the lives of dancers. He later wrote and produced it as a TV movie. In television, Lipton has produced some two dozen specials including: twelve Bob Hope Birthday Specials; "The Road to China", an NBC entertainment special produced in China; and the first time ever televised presidential inaugural gala, for Jimmy Carter.¹

The Actors Studio and Inside the Actors Studio

In the mid-1990s Lipton sought to create a three year educational program for actors that would be a distillation of what he had learned in the twelve years of his own intensive studies. In 1994 he arranged for the Actors Studio -- the home base of "method acting" in the USA for some sixty years now -- to join with New York City's New School University, to form the Actors Studio Drama School, a formal degree-granting program at the graduate level. Method acting is an acting technique in which actors try to replicate real life emotional conditions under which the character operates, in an effort to create a life-like, realistic performance. ... The New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City. ... The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in New York City. ...

Lipton created a project within the Actors Studio drama school: a non-credit class called "Inside the Actors Studio" (1994) where successful and accomplished actors, directors and writers would be interviewed and would answer questions from acting students. These sessions were also taped and broadcast on television for the general public to see. Lipton himself hosts the show and conducts the main interview. Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. ...

Later career

Lipton occasionally appears in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. One of his appearances featured a sketch in which he performed a dramatic recitation of the lyrics from the song "PopoZão"' from the then-unreleased Kevin Federline album, and on St. Patrick's Day he shotgunned a can of beer in celebration of Spring Break. Recently he appeared on a sketch called "Where the hell is James Lipton?", where he hides somewhere in the studio and has to be found. On a recent episode, Conan needed to forget a hot belly dancing guest so he had James Lipton on as a belly dancer. He has also played an acting-obsessed prison warden on several episodes of the sitcom Arrested Development. Late Night with Conan OBrien is an Emmy Award-winning American late-night talk show on NBC. The second incarnation of NBCs Late Night franchise, OBriens debuted in 1993 after previous host David Letterman moved to CBS to host the Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. ... PopoZão is a rap song by Kevin Federline. ... Kevin Earl Federline (born March 21, 1978), is an American back-up dancer, model, actor, and rapper. ... St. ... Shotgunning is a means of consuming a canned beverage, especially beer, very quickly by a particular technique involving punching a hole in the side of the can. ... Spring break at Panama City Beach, Florida, Florida Spring break, also more commonly known as March break in some parts of Canada, is a week-long recess from studying in early spring at universities and schools in the United States, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China, and other countries. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

He has starred in a number of humorous television commercials for DC Shoes and Geico auto insurance. These ads parody his own show. His book, Inside Inside (2007), combines autobiography with reflections on Inside the Actor's Studio. DC Shoes is an American based footwear company in Vista, CA founded in 1993 By Ken Block and Damon Way which specializes in shoes for skateboarding as well as snowboarding boots, shirts, jeans, hats, and jackets. ... The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. ... A parody (pronounced ), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, by means of humorous or satiric imitation. ...

Popular culture references

• Lipton, as the host of Inside the Actor's Studio, has been parodied on various sketch comedy shows, the first being Mr. Show in a portrayal by David Cross. The scenes showed Lipton washing guests' feet and overreacting to the performances of spoiled, dimwitted celebrities. In one show, Lipton grilled Garrison Keillor so mercilessly that Keillor had to be sedated, which initiated a long-standing blood feud. Cross was even more direct and scathing about Lipton during a bit in his standup act during the mid-1990s. According to DVD commentaries, this caused awkward moments when Lipton guest-starred on Arrested Development, a series in which Cross starred, and the two were pitted opposite each other in several scenes.

• Will Ferrell portrayed Lipton in a series of Saturday Night Live sketches, exaggerating his quiet intensity and obsequious style of interviewing famous actors. Most of the "actors" interviewed by Ferrell's Lipton are "Z" list celebrities (portrayed by an SNL regular or a guest host) who are humorously, excessively praised for the most banal film or television performances. Some of these interviewees include Drew Barrymore, Dustin Diamond of Saved by the Bell and Charles Nelson Reilly, played by Kate Hudson, Tobey Maguire and Alec Baldwin respectively. Lipton himself likes Ferrell's parody and told on several occasions how it is his favorite impression.

• On Chappelle's Show, Lipton's show was parodied as Inside the Chappelle Studio. In a later edition of Inside the Actor's Studio, where Dave Chappelle himself would be the guest star, Lipton asked Chappelle for his "fucking royalties," at which point Chappelle peeled off two hundred dollar bills and handed them to Lipton. They would later engage in a rather peculiar dance-off ^[6] . Lipton was also parodied on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, where show host Michael J. Nelson lost his mind and believed he was Lipton hosting Inside the Actors Studio. He asked a series of inane interview questions to Crow T. Robot, mistaking him for Ray Liotta, until he was snapped back to reality by the use of a "clown hammer".

• Richard Christy of the Howard Stern Show has a parody show called Inside the Porn Actors Studio which began on May 15, 2006 featuring porn actress Hillary Scott. The show airs periodically on Sirius Satellite Radio.

• Lipton played himself on a 2002 episode of The Simpsons, "The Sweetest Apu." Rainier Wolfcastle was the featured guest opposite Lipton, but the interview ended badly when an in-character (as McBain) Wolfcastle pulled out a gun and shot Lipton ("It was a pleasure to eat your lead, good sir!" he proclaims before expiring.)

• Lipton was interviewed in an episode of the Da Ali G Show titled "Art" on March 14, 2003. At the end of the show, Lipton performed a couple of lines of a self-written rap.

• Lipton was portrayed by both Will Sasso and Paul Vogt on the Fox comedy sketch-show MADtv.

• Lipton was portrayed in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story interviewing Stewie and after laughing asks "And what is your favorite curse word" after Stewie said a curse.

• In 2007, Lipton appeared in a television ad for Geico Insurance.

• Lipton is also featured as a LEGO character on X-Entertainment's yearly Advent Calendar feature.

• Mr. Lipton was also parodied in the animated televison show American Dad! in the episode When a Stan Loves a Woman during the dinner scene with Stan and his soon to be wife at the time Joanna, the waiter at the restaurant was made in both his likeness and speech.

• In the episode Swan Song on the Gilmore Girls, Rory is showing Jess her copy of The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton, and says that he is "the father of the guy that does those Actor’s Studio interviews on TV," to which Jess responds, "it’s weird that a beatniky guy would have a conservative son like that"

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External links

• Bravo biography
• James Lipton at the Internet Movie Database