Considering that we taped "to time" and did no editing, it took a certain amount of guts to take unrestricted questions this way, but Tony was willing to do it. I’d have liked to do this on my show more often, but there were few takers.If this was a rarity then, it happens even less frequently now. I can't remember seeing a talk show in the last decade or two in which a guest took open questions from the audience. James Lipton used to allow his students to query the interviewees on "Inside The Actor's Studio," but we usually only saw two or three exchanges, all of them heavily edited.
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