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78 / 54Los Angeles
78/Denver
55 / 32Denver
55/Houston
71 / 51Houston
71/Miami
91 / 73Miami
91/NewYork
52 / 40New York
Chicago 52/
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City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi LoL.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.County Height Period DirectionWednesday Downtown readingsMinutes to burn for sensitive peopleTemperature Los Angeles Fullerton VenturaToday’s rise/setMarch 9 March 16 March 24 April 1Los Angeles Co. Orange Co. Ventura Co.Key:Susunny;Pcpartly cloudy;Cycloudy;Fg
foggy;Prcpprecipitation;Drdrizzle;Hz;hazySh
showers;Tsthunderstorms;Rrain;Snsnow;Sf
snow flurries;Iice;Rsrain/snow;Wwindy;Tr
trace.Notes:National extremes exclude Alaska
and Hawaii. Missing data indicated by “xx”.U.S. cities
City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi LoSky City HiLo Prcp. HiLoSkyWorld
VENTURA CO.LOS ANGELES CO.RIVERSIDE CO.SAN BERNARDINO CO.SANTA
BARBARA CO.SAN DIEGO CO.ORANGE CO.Santa
Barbara
VenturaOxnardOjaiCamarilloSanta PaulaWestlake
Village Woodland
Hills
SantaMonicaTorrance
Long
Beach Newport
BeachSanta AnaLaguna
Beach San
ClementeMission ViejoIrvineOceansideEscondidoPowayRamonaSan DiegoTemeculaHemet Palm
SpringsFullertonChino
RiversideOntarioPomona/
Fairplex San BernardinoYucca ValleyHesperiaWhittier
HillsUCLASimi ValleyChatsworth
Burbank MonroviaSanta ClaritaL.A. DowntownSun 6:16a/5:53p 6:15a/5:52p 6:21a/5:57p
Moon 1:33p/3:21a 1:32p/3:20a 1:36p/3:26aAnaheim 71 50 -- 81 51 73 54
Avalon/Catalina 67 49 -- 67 55 60 46
Bakersfield 82 46 -- 84 53 82 50
Barstow 79 50 -- 81 50 82 49
Big Bear Lake 58 27 -- 57 29 55 30
Bishop 74 28 -- 73 37 72 39
Burbank 73 49 -- 80 54 72 51
Camarillo 68 44 -- 72 50 68 50
Chatsworth 77 48 -- 80 52 75 48
Chino 80 42 -- 84 50 78 50
Dana Point 63 47 -- 71 53 66 54
Death Valley 89 57 -- 87 64 88 62
Del Mar 61 54 -- 69 54 65 55
Escondido 77 46 -- 81 45 73 50
Eureka 54 46 -- 53 42 51 39
Fallbrook 72 48 -- 79 44 70 51
Fresno 79 46 -- 82 51 79 51
Fullerton 74 52 -- 80 54 73 55
Hemet 78 39 -- 83 46 79 45
Hesperia 77 43 -- 76 44 73 44
Huntington Beach 66 52 -- 70 53 65 54
Idyllwild 65 33 -- 68 46 66 39
Irvine 69 50 -- 76 53 69 54
L.A. D’ntown/USC75 58 -- 78 54 73 53L.A. Int’l. Airport 73 55 -- 69 58 68 58
Laguna Beach 67 47 -- 71 56 66 55
Lancaster 79 33 -- 78 42 76 45
Long Beach 66 52 -- 73 53 67 54
Mammoth Lakes 63 18 -- 60 29 58 32
Mission Viejo 72 45 -- 79 53 72 54
Monrovia 73 50 -- 82 53 76 49
Monterey 73 47 -- 63 48 59 49
Mt. Wilson 63 49 -- 65 42 59 38
Needles 79 52 -- 82 55 84 57
Newport Beach 68 54 -- 69 54 64 54
Northridge 76 47 -- 82 54 78 48
Oakland 77 47 -- 66 51 61 49
Oceanside 67 45 -- 76 47 70 51
Ojai 69 41 -- 78 49 73 44
Ontario 77 48 -- 82 54 76 53
Palm Springs 77 52 -- 85 60 87 55
Pasadena 76 51 -- 80 54 74 50
Paso Robles 78 34 -- 73 39 66 44
Pomona/Fairplex 76 46 -- 83 52 77 49
Redding 81 50 -- 75 47 65 46
Riverside 77 45 -- 82 45 78 47
Sacramento 79 43 -- 75 48 66 47
San Bernardino 79 46 -- 83 52 78 48San Diego 67 57 -- 72 57 67 57
San Francisco 74 49 -- 64 51 61 49
San Gabriel 74 49 -- 82 53 75 51
San Jose 78 48 -- 71 48 65 47
San Luis Obispo 65 39 -- 67 44 63 47
Santa Ana 69 54 -- 77 57 70 58
Santa Barbara 63 46 -- 67 46 65 47
Santa Clarita 75 48 -- 81 52 76 47
Santa Monica Pier 68 53 -- 70 54 68 53
Santa Paula 75 42 -- 78 48 72 48
Santa Rosa 80 39 -- 66 45 61 42
Simi Valley 78 48 -- 80 51 75 48
Tahoe Valley 60 22 -- 60 36 57 35
Temecula 75 43 -- 83 44 75 46
Thousand Oaks 73 50 -- 76 50 71 50
Torrance 68 54 -- 70 53 67 53
UCLA 70 52 -- 74 54 70 53
Van Nuys 75 47 -- 81 52 74 52
Ventura 67 51 -- 65 50 63 51
Whittier Hills 78 48 -- 80 53 74 53
Woodland Hills 77 43 -- 82 51 78 46
Wrightwood 60 38 -- 64 42 62 36
Yorba Linda 75 47 -- 82 52 74 53
Yosemite Valley 71 35 -- 67 43 63 39Mostly cloudy 73/
A shower 62/
A shower 65/
Some sun 69/Mostly cloudy 75/
Cooler 59/
Partly sunny 62/
Mostly cloudy 67/Mostly cloudy 68/
A shower 61/
Mostly cloudy 62/
Mostly cloudy 66/Partly sunny 55/
Mostly cloudy 44/
Partly sunny 44/
Partly sunny 48/Partly sunny 87/
Not as warm 74/
Partly sunny 75/
Clouds, sun 76/Clouds clearing Partly sunny Clouds clearing Partly sunny Partly sunny
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
MondayTodayInnerwaters:Winds southeast
becomingwestat5-10knots.Wind
waves2-4feetwithawestswellof
2 feet.
Surf zone:The risk of strong and
dangerous rip currents will be mod-
erate for all area beaches, except
low for Orange County beaches.Santa Barbara 2-4’ 12 sec WSW
Ventura 2-4’ 12 sec WSW
Los Angeles 2-4’ 12 sec SW
Orange 1-3’ 14 sec SSW
San Diego 2-4’ 14 sec SWWed. Today Friday Wed. Today Friday Wed. Today FridayForecasts byAccuWeather, Inc.©Today 5:23a 5.2 Hi 12:51p -0.5 Lo
7:35p 3.7 Hi ------ Lo
Fri. 6:16a 5.7 Hi 12:11a 2.2 Lo
8:00p 4.0 Hi 1:28p -1.0 LoHigh/low 75/58 74/52 67/
Normal high/low 70/51 69/50 66/
High/low a year ago 65/52 65/50 63/
Record high/date 94/1972 95/2012 83/
Record low/date 35/1976 40/2018 36/24-hour total (as of 4 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.
Season total (since Oct. 1) 7.33 7.00 7.
Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 16.69 14.71 16.
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 11.51 10.91 12.
Humidity (high/low) 77/38 83/45 92/Precipitation Los Angeles Fullerton VenturaLas Vegas, 45
Los Angeles, 45Phoenix, 45
San Francisco, 45(^78) / (^5481) / (^5470) / (^5457) / (^2985) / 60
High92 in Sebring, Fla.
Low–10 in Crested Butte, Colo.
Wednesday Today Wednesday Today
Albany 50 41 .14 46 28 Pc
Albuquerque 63 35 -- 65 38 Pc
Anchorage 14 2 -- 17 -3 Su
Aspen 479-- 4720Su
Atlanta 58 55 .67 52 42 R
Austin 68 65 .82 72 46 Su
Baltimore 64 43 .02 55 36 Pc
Boise 60 34 -- 68 44 Pc
Boston 50 44 .05 52 37 Su
Buffalo 39 35 .01 44 33 Pc
Burlington, Vt. 41 38 .05 42 26 Cy
Charleston, S.C. 67 62 .64 57 45 R
Charlotte 59 46 -- 51 38 R
Chicago 49 37 Tr 52 29 Pc
Cincinnati 63 32 -- 56 34 Pc
Cleveland 45 35 .02 50 35 Su
Columbia, S.C. 59 58 .22 54 41 R
Columbus 56 34 Tr 52 34 Pc
Dallas/Ft.Worth 58 53 .87 71 43 Su
Denver 65 29 -- 55 32 Su
Detroit 48 31 Tr 47 32 Pc
El Paso 61 40 .54 63 44 Pc
Eugene 58 45 -- 60 41 Pc
Fort Myers 87 64 Tr 86 67 Fg
Hartford 54 41 .02 51 29 Pc
Honolulu 84 70 .05 82 68 Sh
Houston 76 69 .13 71 51 Su
Indianapolis 54 35 Tr 57 32 Su
Jacksonville, Fla. 88 67 -- 81 53 Ts
Kansas City 61 42 -- 60 30 Su
Knoxville 65 43 -- 54 39 R
Las Vegas 73 49 -- 76 55 Pc
Louisville 68 38 -- 61 38 Pc
Medford 66 33 -- 69 39 Pc
Memphis 61 53 -- 66 41 R
Miami 85 71 -- 91 73 Su
Milwaukee 45 35 -- 48 29 Sh
Minneapolis 42 24 -- 40 26 W
Nashville 65 43 -- 62 39 Cy
New Orleans 82 72 .01 67 53 Cy
New York 56 45 .13 52 40 Su
Norfolk 65 49 -- 52 43 Pc
Oklahoma City 57 45 -- 66 33 Su
Omaha 63 30 -- 54 24 W
Orlando 90 63 -- 90 64 Ts
Philadelphia 59 43 .07 53 37 Su
Phoenix 74 51 -- 84 62 Pc
Pittsburgh 53 35 .05 51 33 Su
Portland, Ore. 56 44 Tr 59 42 Pc
Providence 54 44 .06 51 32 Su
Raleigh/Durham 60 47 -- 54 40 R
Reno 69 30 -- 70 40 Pc
Richmond 63 39 Tr 55 38 Pc
St. Louis 57 40 -- 63 35 Su
Salt Lake City 60 31 -- 62 41 Su
Acapulco 91 75 -- 85 74 Pc
Amsterdam 48 37 .75 45 39 R
Athens 66 57 -- 63 48 Sh
Bangkok 95 77 -- 92 78 Pc
Barcelona 60 50 -- 66 48 W
Berlin 46 30 .02 49 39 Cy
Cabo San Lucas 75 57 -- 79 61 Su
Cairo 80 52 -- 81 57 Hz
Dubai 75 66 -- 79 65 Su
Dublin 48 32 -- 45 34 Pc
Havana 88 59 -- 89 69 Pc
Ho Chi Minh City 93 75 -- 93 76 Pc
Hong Kong 73 67 .43 70 64 Cy
Istanbul 64 48 -- 59 48 Cy
Jerusalem 71 45 -- 72 48 Cy
Johannesburg 75 54 -- 80 53 Hz
Kuala Lumpur 94 78 .16 91 77 Ts
Lima 82 71 -- 79 73 Cy
London 47 34 .21 47 33 R
Madrid 65 52 -- 61 41 W
Mecca 90 67 .04 93 69 Hz
Mexico City 81 54 -- 82 47 Pc
Milan 56 35 -- 49 39 R
Montreal 39 34 .21 40 27 Su
Moscow 43 37 -- 46 43 Cy
Mumbai 84 75 -- 85 76 Su
New Delhi 85 63 .08 76 59 Ts
Paris 46 37 .16 53 39 R
Prague 43 32 .03 49 39 Pc
Rome 59 41 -- 57 50 Pc
Seoul 41 36 Tr 45 24 Su
Singapore 91 79 -- 87 78 Ts
Taipei City 65 63 .37 63 60 R
Tokyo 51 50 .34 57 42 W
Vancouver 50 41 -- 46 34 R
Vienna 50 41 .03 53 40 W
Seattle 52 42 .12 55 39 R
Tampa 81 68 -- 81 63 Ts
Tucson 72 41 -- 79 60 Pc
Tulsa 61 40 -- 68 33 Su
Washington, D.C. 65 46 .02 56 40 Pc
Wichita 61 40 -- 61 29 Su
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Clouds and fog, partly sunny: A large upper-level high pressure will move eastward, allowing for an onshore
wind pattern. This will allow low clouds and fog to form over and near coastal and some valley areas this morn-
ing and again Friday. This afternoon and Friday afternoon will be partly sunny and still nice. A weak upper-
level system will bring more clouds, lower temperatures and maybe a shower this weekend.
Tracking two storms:One storm will bring heavy rain and severe
thunderstorms to the Southeast while another storm spreads snow over
the upper Great Lakes. Dry weather will span the Northeast and mid-
Atlantic states as well as the majority of the West.
E
mmy Award win-
ner James Lipton,
the influential
drama dean who
for more than two
decades hosted revealing
conversations about the act-
ing craft on “Inside the Ac-
tors Studio,” has died. He
was 93.
Lipton died Monday
morning at home after a bat-
tle with bladder cancer, his
wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lip-
ton, told the New York
Times.
The loquacious host was
both exalted and lam-
pooned for his hyperbole
and over-the-top enthusi-
asm. He welcomed actors,
filmmakers and writers on
his long-running Bravo se-
ries to pull back the curtain
on tricks of the trade, pre-
senting professional ques-
tions to members of Holly-
wood’s elite.
“It was my child, it was
my love!” Lipton told the Los
Angeles Times in 2007. “Of
course I had hopes, but re-
member, this show is not
about gossip. When I started
it, I said it’s going to be about
craft, craft, craft. I had no
dark hopes for it. I just had
no way of guessing these
things would happen — that
one day ... my friends would
say, ‘You are getting a life-
time achievement award.’ I
could not have looked
ahead.”
For 24 years, the erudite
multi-hyphenate divulged
his experiences as an actor,
theater, film and television
director and producer, as
well as choreographer, au-
thor, playwright, lyricist,
screenwriter, author and ac-
ademic. Yes, at one point he
even worked as a “macro” in
Paris’ red-light district, a
topic broached during a sit-
down with “Pretty Woman”
star Julia Roberts.
Despite his rich back
story, the Michigan native
was modest when he spoke
of himself, telling The Times
matter-of-factly, “I’ve never
achieved anything that’s
really exceptional in ways
that others have.” The inter-
view show — Bravo’s first
original series — was offered
as part of a course in a mas-
ter’s degree program at the
renowned Actors Studio
Drama School of Pace Uni-
versity in New York, of which
Lipton was a founding dean.
Each episode was a con-
densed version of a four- or
five-hour master class in act-
ing for graduate students.
“The relationship be-
tween the guest and the au-
dience is totally different
from any other show that I
know of. Our guests come
here because I’ve asked
them to come and teach,”
Lipton said in 2013. “I ask
questions that will elicit an-
swers that will be of use and
interest to our students, and
it turns out they’re of use
and interest to Bravo’s 94
million subscribers.”
Luminaries, Oscar win-
ners and former students
plopped onto the studio’s
couch and shared tales of re-
jection, words of wisdom
and improvisational bits for
students and the cameras.
Also unlike talk shows, Lip-
ton never conducted pre-in-
terviews, resulting in him
and his guest being “out
here on a high wire for four
hours.”
Lipton kicked off the se-
ries in 1994. His first guest
was Paul Newman, but his
favorite guest was former
student Bradley Cooper.
The “A Star Is Born” actor-
director was a question-ask-
ing audience member as a
student and went on to ap-
pear in five additional epi-
sodes — not as Lipton’s
pupil but as his weeping
guest.
Lipton interviewed Jane
Fonda, Harrison Ford, Meryl
Streep, George Clooney, An-
thony Hopkins, Goldie
Hawn, Jerry Lewis and Tom
Hanks, among numerous
others. He also managed to
elicit revelations from Drew
Barrymore, Jack Lemmon,
Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie
and Gene Wilder, as well as
song, dance and improv per-
formances from the likes of
Carol Burnett, Robin
Williams, Jamie Foxx, Will
Smith, Sally Field and Dave
Chappelle.
In 2018, Lipton stepped
away from the series when it
was announced that “Inside
the Actors Studio” would be
changing networks and get-
ting new hosts. By then, it
had received 19 Emmy nomi-
nations and one win with
Lipton at the helm.
“It’s very gratifying to see
the legacy of ‘Inside the Ac-
tors Studio’ being carried
forward for a new generation
to appreciate and enjoy,”
Lipton said at the time.
His interview style be-
came so well known that it
was mercilessly spoofed by
Sacha Baron Cohen on “Da
Ali G Show” and by Will Fer-
rell on “Saturday Night
Live.” “He feasted on me,”
Lipton joked about Ferrell.
“He devoured my flesh.”
But it also led to a role in
Nora Ephron’s 2005 film “Be-
witched,” which co-starred
Nicole Kidman and Ferrell,
as well as dozens of appear-
ances on his mentee Conan
O’Brien’s talk shows and
guest roles on “Arrested De-
velopment,” “The Simp-
sons,” “Family Guy” and
“Glee.”
He also served as a
boardroom advisor on Don-
ald Trump’s “The Appren-
tice” in 2012. Lipton began
his television career writing
for several soap operas, in-
cluding “Another World,”
“The Doctors” and “Guiding
Light,” which he also starred
in.
He also had a hand in nu-
merous specials, including
Jimmy Carter’s inaugural
gala, which was the first
presidential concert ever
televised; 12 Bob Hope birth-
day specials; and “The Road
to China.” He wrote and pro-
duced an adaptation of his
dance novel, “Mirrors,” for
NBC and wrote the story
and teleplay for “Copaca-
bana,” a 1985 TV movie for
CBS based on the charac-
ters of Barry Manilow’s 1978
song.
“An Exaltation of Larks,”
his classic nonfiction book of
group terms and collectives,
has been in print since its
publication in 1968.
In 2007, he published his
memoir, “Inside ‘Inside,’ ”
which served as an account
of his experiences as the
founding dean and Bravo se-
ries host.
He made his onstage
Broadway debut at the Cor-
onet Theatre in 1951 in the
play “The Autumn Garden.”
He then wrote the book and
lyrics for the musicals “No-
where to Go but Up” (1962)
and “Sherry!” (1967), and
also produced the play “The
Mighty Gents” (1978) and
the comedy special “Mon-
teith & Rand” (1979).
Though the majority of
Lipton’s numerous credits
lie in television and theater,
his first onscreen film credit
came in 1953 with Joseph
Strick’s crime drama, aptly
titled “The Big Break.”
Lipton was born in De-
troit on Sept. 19, 1926, to Jew-
ish immigrants. His father,
Lawrence Lipton, was a
journalist and Beat poet but
abandoned the family when
Lipton was 6. He was raised
by his mother, Betty, a
teacher and librarian, and
his upbringing was pep-
pered with a newspaper ap-
prenticeship and his dec-
ade-plus of studying acting
and dance.
He underwent intense
performance training under
Stella Adler at the Stella Ad-
ler Studio for Acting for
more than a decade, which
inspired him to start the Ac-
tors Studio Drama School in
1994.
“I created the school to
provide in three years what I
studied over 12 years. I could
have had four PhDs now if
they had given degrees for
those subjects,” he said in
2007.
Lipton, who was also an
avid horseman and a pilot, is
survived by his wife,
Kedakai, a model and real
estate broker. He was previ-
ously married to Nina Foch.
JAMES LIPTON, 1926 - 2020
Effusive host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio’
Jennifer S. AltmanFor The Times
INFLUENTIAL DRAMA DEAN
James Lipton, shown in 2007, welcomed actors, filmmakers and writers on his
long-running Bravo series to pull back the curtain on tricks of the trade.
By Nardine Saad