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We just finished filming two new TV shows on Paris—12 days of work. I was exhausted when we were done, but—I have to admit—in Paris it's hard to call it "work." Rather than hard working, let's call it hard living.

One of the great perks of TV production is the luxury of being alone with Europe's greatest art. A few weeks before we came to film, I scouted Paris' Orangerie Museum and developed a concept of strolling with Monet along the banks of his water lily pond. When I returned with the film crew, we commandeered a wheelchair to use as a "poor man's dolly" (in good guerilla-budget public television style), allowing us to capture that smooth "stroll along the pond" effect for our viewers—in hi-def!