James Lipton passes away "Inside The Actors Studio"

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James Lipton is more than just a probing interview host, genius self-parodist,Arrested Development co-star, choreographer, equestrian, and pilot. In a new interview with*Parade, timed to his 250th episode ofInside the Actor's Studio* on Bravo, Lipton also admits to being a former Parisian pimp.

“It was only a few years after the war,” Lipton tells Paradeabout his experience in the 1950s. “Paris was different then, still poor. Men couldn’t get jobs and, in the male chauvinist Paris of that time, the women couldn’t get work at all. It was perfectly respectable for them to go into le milieu.”

Lipton speaks frankly, fondly, and idealistically about the women and he worked with in those days. “They were beautiful and young and extraordinary,” he recalls. “There was no opprobrium because it was completely regulated. Every week they had to be inspected medically. The great bordellos were still flourishing in those days before the sheriff of Paris, a woman, closed them down. It was a different time.”

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I only watch the show a couple of times, but his interview with Mike Myers was a great show. Really had some cool moments and some hilarious moments. So far all I know they were all that way.

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The tea guy?

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