Inside Inside

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An intimate portrait of the award-winning TV show "Inside the Actors Studio" as well as the shows founder and host, this book offers a unique glimpse into a star-bedecked world.

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Publisher’s Weekly (07/30/2007)
When the Actors Studio faced possible extinction in 1994, Lipton (An Exaltation of Larks ) engineered a partnership between the Studio and the New School for Social Research to create a degree-granting program. Thus was born the Actors Studio Drama School, with Lipton as both founder and dean. The school's craft seminars, in which Lipton interviewed leading actors and directors, became the basis for Bravo'sInside the Actors Studio , and since 1994, he has been that series' executive producer, writer and host. Looking back over the show's parade of personalities, he intercuts autobiographical flashbacks with quotes from the TV interview transcripts. These brief selections, excerpted from his sessions with Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Lemmon, Mike Nichols, Sean Penn, Julia Roberts, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and many more, may leave some readers wishing Lipton had published the transcripts in full. Raising the curtain on his own memories, he traces the path of his multifaceted career as radio actor (The Lone Ranger ), TV actor (The Guiding Light ), Broadway lyricist (Sherry! ) and novelist (Mirrors ). Along the way, theatrical truths emerge and amusing anecdotes abound since Lipton is a witty and engaging writer. The free-associative transitions from interviews to autobiography occasionally read like two different books shuffled together, but that only makes this exaltation of Lipton doubly enjoyable. The 48 illustrations include Al Hirschfeld's caricature of Lipton.(Oct. 18)

Library Journal (09/01/2007)
Any thespian worth his gestalt knows that Lipton has been living an enviably charmed professional life. As an actor, he studied with guru Stella Adler, played the Lone Ranger's young nephew on radio's iconic 1940sThe Lone Ranger , was directed by Harold Clurman (and then Lillian Hellman) on Broadway, and had a decadelong gig on soap operaGuiding Light . His writing credits include Broadway shows, a novel, and the now classic etymologicalAn Exaltation of Larks . But it is his commanding and ongoing (since 1994) role as producer, writer, and host of Bravo'sInside the Actors Studio for which he is most widely known and venerated. The protean Lipton, exhibiting the dexterity with which he has combined his lifelong creative endeavors, seamlessly weaves all these artistic pursuits and more into his autobiography. The anecdotes from the fine actors who have appeared onInside the Actors Studio and the manifold insights into the craftsmanship of acting together justify the purchase of this exemplary book. An unqualified hit among this season's theatrical offerings and a necessary purchase for all performing arts collections. [See Prepub Alert,LJ 6/1/07.]-Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX

ISBN: 0525950354 | EAN: 9780525950356
Publisher: Dutton Books  | Publication Date: November, 2007

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