Inside Inside
by James Lipton
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Author: James LiptonEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-10-18
ISBN: 0525950354
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Book Review: Lipton's life, craft and show reveal more than suspected.
Summary: 5 Stars
I, like most readers I assume, ventured to this book under the auspice that it could possibly reveal some kernels from behind-the-scenes of a show so devotely watched and scrutinized. I, also, have joined the legions that have enjoyed mocking, mimicking and wondering what possibly could have spawned such a fawning, erudite boob. Yet, while Lipton has over the years been the easiest of targets (i.e. Will Farrell, Ali G, etc.) there has always been an aspect that you cannot dismiss about him altogether.
Not only has he survived such ridicule with aplomb, but he has embraced it. (i.e. having Ferrell on show, appearances on Conan O'Brian)
What emerges in the book is a life enmeshed with literary and artistic giants but also a portrait of grace, intelligence and generosity. Lipton is uncommonly frank and is only discreet when the embarrassment is for someone other than him.
Most likely unknown are his previous best-selling books, Broadway musicals and collaborations with Arthus Miller, Baryshnikov, Stella Adler and other world movers that he can count as friends and heroes.
While I, too, was seeking more on the likes of Johnny Depp, Dustin Hoffman and Martin Scorcese, what I found was something more interesting. My own assumtions eroded and a new appreciation of the man, the arts and all the people that come and go through his long journey to the show. It's quite impressive.
That being said, be WARNED. Lipton is an erudite, a son of a writer, who published a book on words themselves ('The Exhaltation of Larks'). Don't go two steps from this reading without a dictionary in hand. Think I'm kidding? Then ask yourself- Are you a sesquipedalian?
Not a tell-all, nor a peep backstage, but a deep and winding discovery of a treasure hidden in plain sight.
Summary of Inside Inside
A REVEALING BEHIND-THE-SCENES PORTRAIT OF THE AWARD-WINNING TV SHOW INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO? AND ITS CREATOR AND HOST JAMES LIPTONEach week Inside the Actors Studio takes the unique insights and intimate revelations of its celebrated guests into 84 million homes on the Bravo network and 125 countries. Now, with Inside Inside, James Lipton, the 2007 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Emmy, is handing every one of us a backstage pass.
You will witness in unprecedented close-up the wit, wisdom and candor of a galaxy of stars, from Paul Newman to Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Ellen Burstyn, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone and many, many more, and marvel at the comic inventions of Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle ? and Will Ferrell as James Lipton on the Inside stage.
With the same candor he demands of his guests, James Lipton reveals a life that began under the tutelage of a poet, his father, and a teacher, his mother; continued in the orbit of three theatrical giants, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman and Robert Lewis; and, as writer and producer, took him to the White House with two presidents, the Great Wall of China with Bob Hope, and a wild flight at the controls of an Alaskan bush plane, on his journey to Inside the Actors Studio.
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