On Demand
Survival Kit
Sunday, July 11, 2004
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James Lipton
For more than a decade, James Lipton has been getting actors and directors to tell him things they’ve never told anyone else before, and as a result, his show Inside the Actor’s Studio has become required viewing for drama students and anyone else interested in understanding the craft of acting. An actor himself, he’s also produced, directed, choreographed and written plays, TV specials, films, musicals and ballets and he’s spent many years as dean of the Actor’s Studio Drama School in New York. Let’s see if we can turn the tables and find out what makes him tick, by taking a look into his survival kit.
His List:
1) A photo Album of my wife, our family and our friends
2) The unabridged Oxford English Dictionary
3) The films of Charlie Chaplin
4) A videotape of the Ballets of George Ballanchine
5) An anthology of the poetry of John Donne, Arthur Rimbaud and W.B. Yeats
6) The Caedmon CD of Dylan Thomas reading his poetry (We heard “Fern Hill”)
7) My Krummhorn-with a book of instruction on the proper playing of Renaissance music (We heard The Early Music Consort of London playing "Ballet of Baccanale" by Michael Praetorius on soprano, alto, tenor and bass krummhorn)
8) A recording of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (We heard a version by Bach Ensemble Helmuth Rilling)
1) A photo Album of my wife, our family and our friends
2) The unabridged Oxford English Dictionary
3) The films of Charlie Chaplin
4) A videotape of the Ballets of George Ballanchine
5) An anthology of the poetry of John Donne, Arthur Rimbaud and W.B. Yeats
6) The Caedmon CD of Dylan Thomas reading his poetry (We heard “Fern Hill”)
7) My Krummhorn-with a book of instruction on the proper playing of Renaissance music (We heard The Early Music Consort of London playing "Ballet of Baccanale" by Michael Praetorius on soprano, alto, tenor and bass krummhorn)
8) A recording of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (We heard a version by Bach Ensemble Helmuth Rilling)
