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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. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. 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. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" In Academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit or over a specific area of concern or both Emeritus (ɨˈmɛrɨtəs 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 at 432 West 44th Street in The City of New York He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series, Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994. Bravo is a Cable television network owned by NBC Universal. It is currently seen in more than 80 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film drama Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated longest-running original series on the Bravo Cable television channel hosted by James Lipton He is also a pilot and a member of AOPA. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA is a non-profit Political organization whose membership consists mainly of General aviation

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Early and personal life

Lipton was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Betty (née Weinberg), a teacher, and journalist Lawrence Lipton. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Lawrence Lipton ( October 10, 1898 - July 9, 1975) was an American journalist writer and beat Poet, as well as the father of 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. The Forward (פֿאָרווערטס Forverts) is a Jewish-American weekly Newspaper published in New York City. [1][2][3]

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. Nina Foch (born Nina Consuela Maud Fock on April 20, 1924, in Leiden, Netherlands) is a Dutch -born American actress He has been married to Kedakai Turner, a model and real estate broker, since 1970. [1]

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. The Lone Ranger is an American, long-running Old-time radio and early Television show created by George W 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. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Another World is a television Soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4 1964 to June 25 1999. The Edge of Night (or known informally as Edge or EON by fans was a long-running American television mystery series/ Soap opera produced by Procter Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975 or simply GL) is an Emmy award winning American Television Return to Peyton Place was an American daytime Soap opera which aired on NBC from April 3 1972 to January 4 Capitol is an American Soap opera which aired on the daytime schedule of CBS from March 29, 1982 to March 20 He portrayed a shipping clerk turned gang member in Joseph Strick's film, The Big Break, a 1953 crime drama.

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. A lyricist is a Writer who specializes in Song Lyrics, usually paid for by a band to write a custom song(s Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Sherry! is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Lipton and music by Laurence Rosenthal. Moss Hart ( October 24 1904 &ndash December 20 1961) was an American Playwright and director of plays and Musical George Simon Kaufman ( November 16 1889 - June 2 1961) was an American Playwright, Theatre director and The Man Who Came to Dinner is a Comedy in three acts by George S 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. Joseph “Nathan” Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of the stage and screen Bernadette Peters (born February 28 1948 is an American Actress and Singer from New York City. Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American Actress, Comedian, Singer, Dancer and Thomas James “Tommy” Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an American Actor, Dancer, Singer, director, Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter and Film producer

His book of terms of venery, An Exaltation of Larks, was published in 1968. In Linguistics, a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects where "objects" can be People, Animals Inanimate things

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 This is about the university in New York; for other uses see New School (disambiguation. The Actors Studio is a membership Organization for Professional Actors theatre directors and Playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in

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. Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated longest-running original series on the Bravo Cable television channel hosted by James Lipton 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.

Later career

Lipton occasionally appears in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an Emmy Award -winning American late-night Talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien on NBC 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. " PopoZão " is a rap song by Kevin Federline. Released on January 1, 2006, it is a mix between American hip hop and Kevin Earl Federline (born March 21 1978) is an American dancer, Rapper, Fashion model, and Actor Saint Patrick's Day (Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig) colloquially 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 For an article concerning the Easter break see Spring Holiday. 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. He has also played an acting-obsessed prison warden on several episodes of the sitcom Arrested Development. Arrested Development is a character-driven American television Sitcom about a formerly wealthy habitually Dysfunctional family.

He has starred in a number of humorous television commercials for DC Shoes and Geico auto insurance. DC Shoes is an American footwear company specializing 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 These ads parody his own show. A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject His book, Inside Inside (2007), combines autobiography with reflections on Inside the Actor's Studio.

Popular culture references

Preceded by
Irna Phillips, William J. Bell		 Head Writer of Another World
1965		 Succeeded by
Agnes Nixon
Preceded by
Agnes Nixon		 Head Writer of Guiding Light
1966-1968		 Succeeded by
Irna Phillips
Preceded by
Robert Soderberg & Edith Sommer		 Head Writer of Guiding Light
1973-1975		 Succeeded by
Bridget and Jerome Dobson
Preceded by
Henry Slesar		 Head Writer of Capitol
1986-1987		 Succeeded by
none

See also

References

  1. ^ a b James Lipton Biography (1926-). Irna Phillips ( July 1, 1901 – December 22, 1973) was an American actress and most notably writer who created and scripted many of William Joseph Bell ( March 6, 1927 &ndash April 29, 2005) was the creator and executive producer of the extremely successful Soap Another World is a television Soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4 1964 to June 25 1999. Agnes Nixon (born Agnes Eckhardt on December 27 1927) is an American Writer and producer. Agnes Nixon (born Agnes Eckhardt on December 27 1927) is an American Writer and producer. Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975 or simply GL) is an Emmy award winning American Television Irna Phillips ( July 1, 1901 – December 22, 1973) was an American actress and most notably writer who created and scripted many of Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975 or simply GL) is an Emmy award winning American Television Bridget and Jerome Dobson were writers for American Soap operas and created the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in 1984 Henry Slesar ( June 12 1927 - April 2 2002) was an American Author, Playwright and Copywriter Capitol is an American Soap opera which aired on the daytime schedule of CBS from March 29, 1982 to March 20 Bernard Pivot (born 5 May 1935) is a Journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural Television programmes Film Reference. Retrieved on 2008-05-12. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
  2. ^ Bloom, Nate (2004-04-02). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Celebrity Jews. Jewish SF. Retrieved on 2008-05-12. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
  3. ^ USC Rare Books & Manuscripts. University of Southern California. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly Retrieved on 2008-05-12. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
  4. ^ Lipton, James (2007-10-18). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Inside Inside. Dutton Adult. ISBN 0525950354.  
  5. ^ Lipton, James (1993-11-01). An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition. Penguin Books. Penguin Books is a British Publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ISBN 0140170960.  
  6. ^ What's better than Liza Minielli's favorite swear word?. Needs Inspiration (2006-02-12). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Retrieved on 2008-05-12. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.

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