And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

The dust jacket biography for the first edition of Exaltation claimed his activities included fencing swimming and equestrian pursuits and that he had written two Broadway productions. Career
A 1944 graduate of Central High School Lipton portrayed Dan Reid on WXYZ-Radio's The Lone Ranger. The score and orchestrations were lost for over 30 years and the original cast was never recorded.

He is the executive producer writer and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio which debuted in 1994. James Lipton (born September 19 1926) is an American writer composer actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City.