larry king. james well my style is. it takes two to three weeks. to prepare for. seven days a week and i work twelve hours a day. mr trump for a long time. and therefore when the time came for the election i recused myself. that i didn't want to live with somebody who was. good for. one of my students as achieved. that he or she comes back. for us since we started this.

thread. head was washing the last night for cassidy. when i was thirteen and i spent the summer translating all of this. into all next on larry king. very special guests is the creator and executive producer and writer and iconic host of inside the actors studio james lipton the one and only who this year was seen just twenty of them a nomination james is also a director playwright choreographer lyricist author and academic it's an honor to welcome you so it's an honor to be here thank you very done so many things in your life to award still matter to you oh you bet to do that you know why why because. it's an honor just to be nominated. within that lies the kernel of

a great truth is an honor to be nominated thousands of shows out there that wasn't a better show than mine i'm sure and yet year after year were chosen by. ko evils as inside the actor's studio ever get old to you know what keeps it fresh good guests i do have to say this to you every guest is different every guest as you need every guest has his own life and entail to tell inside the actor's studio how did that show. i was a member of the actor's studio and. we've for years had been a very reclusive organization. nobody was allowed inside it was a private place and and it had it didn't charge any kind of admission price or anything and as a result it was going broke and one night after a meeting. was worried about what was going have to happen to the studio and i had

this notion that somehow or other we could save ourselves by creating for the first time. a school. and we did create the school the school took off within three years it was the largest graduate drama school in america and then i had one category that wasn't covered that was people whom i knew worked with members of the studio who were too busy to be on the show more than once in their lifetime and so i wrote to them and said would you come and do this and everybody answered and i sent word back into the television community and said these people lived to say something worth preserving however the television that's how it was born and you describe your style well i think will ferrell is already done sufficiently but my style is is preparation is all the preparation you do you don't do that so much you are much quicker than i am in life

but everything is in the preparation it takes me two to three weeks or more to prepare for every single guest and i work seven days a week esther and i work twelve hours a day and there are actors and directors and writers and writers when you research that was then you know a lot going in need i do but but the guest is not because there is absolutely no pre interview we go out there and we go up to it's like it's a circus there's a tightwire up there with no net we're on the i'm on stage with him for four hours it's a masterclass of the actor's studio drama school of pace university and so we're up there on that tight wire with no net for hours and neither of us knows what's coming next isn't that wonderful any when you're not been able to get well. brando as opposed to. the. cats after you and i'm sure you have every idea good but the one person i want of the most when i was asked the answer was always

a saying i was dean for ten years that is true school and i have answered the night that one of my students. has achieved so much that he or she comes back and sits down in the chair next to me will be the night i've waited for since we started this thing twenty three years ago and it turned out to be bradley cooper. he was a student he was i auditioned him if i had turned him down he would have gone on to a different career what did you see in him i saw in him what i see in or dishes i auditioned everybody what i was doing in their very applied and it is a unique accessibility to this so i can't this it's very difficult to describe but if it's not there it's not there and if it is you spot it would you recognize your sister in a crowd that's what happens to me when i see that and i went down to the stage and

i said to him if we accept you're ready for three years with us and he started to cry and said yes and cried again when he came on the show as everybody knows wept bitterly walked on the stage he's as comfortable in theaters or using film is the elephant man that was his master's degree thesis in our school how about that yes he did on broadway and he did it on broadway weatherman. some actors can be difficult correct they can be who have had problems with don the reason being that i have only one criterion is this factor writer director have something to teach our students is a master class and nobody has ever let me down there's a relationship between the guest and those masters to be candidates out there it's a very different relationship and it colors the whole event had your being an actor . makes it better for you of course and i hope it makes it better for the guest

colin firth won the oscar after he appeared on our show for the purpose of publicizing his candidacy and he wrote me. a letter saying no one has ever taught me as much in the time that i was facing him and who knew as much as i did about my own craft i i don't but i wish i did you grew up in detroit and that city is revitalized now things are jumping and detroit that's what i hear i hope it's true what was it like growing up there. look my father was a poet he was a very famous american poet is he was a beatnik poet my mother was a teacher. the net result of that was that we grew up without a nickel in our genes i mean the poor times and we were very very poor so it was tough my father who couldn't wait for me to read his poetry taught me to read when i was one and a half years old i could read when i was one and half years old i doubted that later in life and my mother said i can prove what she said i used to take you on

a trolley up to see how many and ferndale and you would sit on my lap and you would read everything that we passed i'd walk a mile for a camel you would say people thought i was a puppet a puppet. and you were puppet they thought you were a puppet and when i was three i was writing i wrote when i was twelve i wrote three novels none of a very good but nevertheless that was the influence of those two people my father and my mother until he left and vanished you and i have both known mr trump for a long time and i know thirty five years i think i know him as a what do you make what i make my relationship with him of course had nothing to do with politics as long as political friends but a real friend when i. used to do one near me. it was for a two hundred fiftieth anniversary show and. he was on the show he tweeted out the nicest things anybody's ever said. me congratulating me and saying was an honor to

be on the show and his son donald two years every year the radio city music hall christmas spectacular i take him and his family there their family to me and therefore when the time came for the election i recused myself for the obvious reason that i didn't want to get into a political argument with somebody who has been really hard to be good for and do you have a mentor who helped you get started what was her greatness her greatness was that she understood thoroughly the stanislaw school system and taught it in a way that i was able to understand and that others have been able to understand it changed my life it taught me what a teacher teaches what a teacher does and it taught me the craft. not a great actor god knows but anything i know about i have to use but i've had stanislav ski actors also tell me their praise for example anthony quinn told me i love the status of skin method that he thought gary cooper.

was amazing. status laughs he said there are those who believe that. by the grace of god and they don't need any kind of system. but on occasion that deserts them what happens when they act by the grace of god not will but they have that he said is when you need a conscious trained learned technique that will bring you back to the center of the moment. you're ninety i'm eighty three kid i hate being old i wish i were young i don't want to not exist do you fear death. you know i feel very remote from i don't feel remote in sense the. that i don't have increasingly as time goes by. friends who had done elizabeth camp from my

arse who ran the acting department of our school died last weekend and all of us at the studio are still trying to cope she was a genius so i see death around me i. don't look forward to that moment but it's not something that preoccupies me i'm too busy living why do we. like praises look up to actors so much because they represent us because they are up there on stage or or on the screen doing things saying things being things that we know in our heart of hearts we also are and it resonates in us and as a result we form a relationship with them that is not like any other relationship in the arts it's funny albert chinos

a very good friend when i see him on stage he did very well in ross work. he became that person i always how we had dinner of the show but on the stage he was that person he is transformed for that moment by and by by the way technically transformed he was trained thoroughly by these drugs and is absolutely a product of the actor's studio and when he what happens is that when the camera turns. he is literally transformed and is not is not you know for the time that he is being x. or y. or z. the willing suspension of disbelief that well i have to do that that's what the audience most like was willing to suspend disbelief and there are actors who enable you to do that very readily because they so thoroughly inhabit the character that they have chosen to play you like the british school of acting do i like it. really

were a little movie a it was a great actor sure that the british school of acting was bypassed by the stand starsky system which jumped over england and came to america with a group theatre and as a result there are two different kinds of acting but for example i don't have kids was on my show he said while i was studying at rada studying this classical technique which which is more present ational and. he said that i was secretly taking lessons with a teacher of the stanislaw school system so he he combines them both when you combine them both your talent can't be taught technique can and so if you bring a wonderful talent to the table and at the same time you learn of. iron clad technique then you get the great ones the really great it's up next to good talents guilty pleasure strange jobs with twenty times i mean i made james lipton an

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you could never. saw. all of the world all. james live to have them with us i understand you've developed a product called needs ease to help with arthritis you bet tell me about it i studied ballet for many years when you studied ballet you jump a lot you learned a lot you take it in the knees and as you as you probably know i sure. do develop arthritis much more at a much younger age than other do i did when you developed arthritis i had a three d. pain in the knees and i would wake up at night and uncomfortable for the child wake

up time after time after time what does the doctor tell you the doctor or the orthopedist tells you sleep with a pillow between your knees the problem with that is the pillow migrates and then i had an idea i thought to myself one night what if somehow that pillow small neat were attached to you what if it were actually killing your knee so that no matter what position you took during the night you were comfortable and you stopped waking and i stopped waking up i took it to a panel of physicians and they. they worked with me over a three year period developing the final product which is news which is unlike anything else i'm going to get it you get it in newsies dot com the head of pain management of the hospital to search special surgery has been following us for three years and said there is nothing on earth like it if there were i would know it how long you suffered with it for years and since i stopped dancing and so you have no pain at night none none absolutely not once once i was asked to give my

knees does somebody else for a night i did and i was up half the night and i thought my god i've been spared this all these years other people can be spared it works gotta pay more attention to chronic pain suffering. and look at all who do look what you have done over all of medicines those people straight kill pain i know i know we play a game of if you only knew was a secret talent you have a secret talent that i have. learned i still convincing myself that i have any talent at all person you would trade places with for a day i would trade places with pope francis think of what i could accomplish in twenty four hours guilty pleasure i love boxing boxing yeah i watch boxing and i and i know that i know that it's there's something wrong about that but i like watching like mayweather. yeah i did when he was at its peak last

time you were starstruck this is going to sound stupid. if you're talking about inside the studio it's never occurred i have not felt that way because what are we talking about we're talking about craft the actors craft their students out there on the drina if you're asking questions it's a master class there's no room in that for a big starstruck best complement you have a got. the best compliment i ever got i mean nominations are a bad problem well twenty of them were the fifth most nominated television series in the history of broadcast television how about that and we are a school i'll take that as a compliment reader's job you ever had the weirdest ever had was washing the last of nitric acid in a photo grave when i was thirteen i had to be closed in the room shack because that to protect the other workers from the fumes and i spent the summer translating all of the popular songs of the time into latin and what not to go crazy and i would sing in latin and there my piping voice until the boss came in one and said it's

over you no more singing. the other workers can't stand it i'll get an actor were you wasn't bad. do you have a favorite question sure. you know what is heaven exists what would you like to say when you arrive at the pearly gates. willy nilly americans who just because of it every time somebody does i get calls for twenty four hours every show on television just to talk about. what is something you wish you were better at. every. strangest fan encounter. that happened once. my wife and i. would walk to block on the stadia street to our house and there were five or six fire engines in the block there'd been a false alarm and they were packing up and. the firemen in the in the first one we

passed they left and what's your favorite curse word and the they all poured out and we got a standing ovation from five the five trucks as we passed them it seems that policemen and firemen who have a lot of leisure time watching the actors studio don't ask me why but they do and i'm very grateful that they do and that night was a standing ovation from five fire trucks. to tell them the word my favorite curse word. you can say here oh i can say anywhere in it isn't scatological which is not obscene it's profane and does offend people and is jesus christ when i'm upset that's what pops out right away jesus called racist so what's a luxury you can't live without. almost any with my wife and i we need we need to run this simple life i don't. i don't think about i'm sure maybe

my my car or home in bridgehampton i guess that would be is there something you long believed to be true and then realize wasn't. that inevitably life will be just. tell me something people don't know about you. because. i guess. the amount of things they don't know. mostly i worry about what i do know. that although. there are plenty of that going on some social media questions karen woo chaison who was the most difficult person on your show you're looking at him. d. thirteen fifty eight was there ever an interview where he was lost for words because from the response the interviewer gave was so unexpected when it's unexpected. i'm

sure you agree with the best possible morse when that answer comes out of left field then we're off and running then the preparation counts you have as i'm ready to go in any direction home you have an example of a guess that i was sure when i asked jack lemmon about today's wine and roses and i . talked about my favorite scene when he stands up in front of a and says as they were trying to get him to say them and because i like to my students to hear the person on stage in person and he said my man name isn't so and i want an alcoholic which is what they say. and it was a brief pause and i said to the students you see no pushing he didn't push you don't have to push comes he said which i am i said a bigger person speaking is the character now or as jack and speaking is he said i'm an alcoholic and in the green room afterward his wife said to me that's the first time in his life that he has ever said that public i interviewed him many

times and never knew that. good man james jay roach one if he had the chance what one movie role would you like to play. to have been ripped on. rec. what was so special about that film. because it was a perfect movie was a perfect was a movie movie it was pretty also to have took place during the war and it. is just there are better movies and more important movies but there are none that are more ideal movie movies it's v. for me. start of a beautiful friendship. crafts the budget issue water scott edwards g.b. who inspired you to pursue a career in television. nobody did i just drifted into television because there was so much going on and york and then everybody started moving to hollywood because of

the cost of. property in new york. and so we all began doing more and more television chris sell us how long it takes for him to prepare how much research does he have a team that helps you know i have somebody who gives me raw material they fill my computer with raw materials just from and i started the day a person was born and i gradually as i'm working in my computer creating those blue cards i see a pattern emerging i start to fall i start of and in the end it has a beginning a middle and an end it's a narrative it's a conversation it's something like i was there it came through for many years and tried to emulate it thank you. i'm very honored but one riccardo di is would love if you share a story about robin williams robin williams was on the show. it was our first two hour show him how he does what he does and he demonstrated with a young woman in the front row with

a passerby that he did five minutes which he has admitted the people work with who have admitted and generally speaking the public is the is one of the greatest five minutes in the history of television in which he improvised with that meeting one thing after another and subsequently i said to me you know what you don't know is the young woman from whom you took the pashmina to do that great improvisation is my god daughter and we gave her the media for christmas. it was a tragedy of his death. tell me about it. brown did you ever try to get more brando oh marlon used to call me he would call me in the office and we would talk and i'm never going to be on inside the actor's studio why because lee strasberg said he train me that's a lie i was trained by the mob and i was trained to come on we'll talk about what do you know about the american indian we had long conversations with dr. what did he have nothing else to do up there he didn't like talking about acting no he

didn't he spit the bit. to use a question term and he decided that it wasn't a word the. patient despite the fact that for a few brief years he was the greatest. live on the. we kissed when he said acting is lying for a living and he'd rather read the play than watch the play a lot of his contemporaries took umbrage with him and they were and it isn't like you know why it isn't mine for a living because what he was every single moment of of that moment you were in search of the truth which is the opposite of lying he was talking nonsense in the end he was talking absolute nonsense but he was a greatest for a while brooke drivers please ask his favorite comedy. my favorite time. how many would have to be for you to be in this school just makes me laugh more than any

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greetings and salutation is syria the military industrial complex is favorite money pit of mystery intrigue in danger is back in the headlines again arc watchers with with even more twisted merit it was and twisted logic and twisted true let's start with the announcement of the total liberation of the city of raka the self proclaimed isis capital and stronghold in syria u.s. backed militia rebel groups re took the city late last week after a four month long siege in massive airstrike campaign that essentially left the once vibrant city in ruins the devastation of rock and even caused the russian spokesman for the defense ministry to spark up a little controversy by stating publicly that rocca has inherited the fate of dresden in one thousand nine hundred forty five wiped off the.