Added on 12/10/07
It's an inside look at James Lipton (of "Inside the Actor's Studio"), with occasional tales about the show and the actors who've graced its stage. On the tv show "Inside the Actor's Studio," James Lipton comes across as pompous and pedantic and far...
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It's an inside look at James Lipton (of "Inside the Actor's Studio"), with occasional tales about the show and the actors who've graced its stage. On the tv show "Inside the Actor's Studio," James Lipton comes across as pompous and pedantic and far too impressed with himself. This impression is only reinforced by this book, where Lipton manages to quote Charles Dickens, Chaucer, Moby Dick, John Donne, Yeats, Coleridge, Robert DeNiro, Orson Welles, and Irving Berlin and refer to DW Griffith, Renoir, Eisenstein, Scorsese, Spielberg, W. C. Fields, James Bond, Fellini, Marcello Mastrioanni, Will Ferrell and more in just the first five pages. Lipton's linguistic showing off gets tiresome quickly. It doesn't support him as a story-teller; it just makes Lipton sound like he's trying much too hard to sound clever. Which isn't to say that Lipton is not intelligent. As he goes through the history of acting theory and of the Actor's Studio, it's apparent that Lipton is thoughtful and insightful... See less
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