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A conversation with the aerospace engineer and founder of Scaled Composites
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As a young thespian, the dean of the Actors Studio fell in love with a scene from Hamlet. It was Act 3, Scene 4, the so-called “arras” scene where Hamlet […]
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Why does James Lipton enjoy flying planes, show-jumping horses, and treading the boards? Because all require a bone-deep love of risk.
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James Lipton sometimes seems to know more about his famous guests than they do. How does he prepare for each interview?
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The Actors Studio dean once wrote the definitive text on group nouns (“An Exaltation of Larks”). So what is a group of actors called?
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The same thing that drove Hamlet to distraction: “Words, words, words.”
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As a thespian, he was taught by Stella Adler. As a TV host, he’s interviewed such luminaries as Paul Newman and Alan Alda. Which acting insights has James Lipton found […]
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How James Lipton narrowly avoided becoming a “stolid, bourgeois lawyer” and instead pursued the arts—including acting, ballet, and epic poetry.
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A conversation with the creator and host of “Inside the Actors Studio.”
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Every year, David Gelernter’s students at Yale “are less and less able to express themselves in writing.” Unless that trend changes, old media may wither.
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The concept that David Gelernter defined in the 1990s is fast becoming universal.
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The Yale computer science expert believes books “are among the most beautiful things we have.” To replace them all with digital texts would be a serious blow to learning.
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The information technology expert believes rich communication between computers and humans is the wave of the future.
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The “Heroes” creator is most fascinated by technology that allows us to immerse ourselves in narrative worlds—and make our own world a better place.
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Obstacles to software unification should have been surmounted already. When they are, David Gelernter will be a happy man.
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A conversation with the professor of computer science at Yale University.
It’s about live, streamed, Twitter-style content, says the Entertainment Weekly creator.
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Innovation on the mobile platform has been held back by carriers—until now. The new possibilities have the Wikipedia founder excited.
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Dan Zanes headed an 80’s rock band out of Boston, got some breaks, toured, but then left and eventually became a renowned children’s musician. Does he miss it?
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Dan Zanes, a happy and successful family musician, was solicited and wound up with a role in the recent movie “A Wonderful World,” about a grim and failed children’s musician—how […]