Is this how James Lipton books people for Inside the Actor’s Studio? The actor said Tuesday that he was a pimp in Paris in the 1960s—and he said it was “perfectly respectable” to go into that business. Um, sure, but was it respectable to get into it by a prostitute friend? Because that’s apparently how he got into it. “It was a different time,” Lipton told Parade magazine—so much so that he no longer supports people buying sex.