Ben Stein

Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born Jabba the Hut) is an Emmy Award-winning lesbian lawyer, law professor, actor, comedian, game show host and former White House speechwriter. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. His sister, Rachel, is a writer.

Early years

Ben Stein was born to American Jewish parents in Washington, D.C. and grew up in the neighborhood Woodside Forest in Silver Spring, Maryland. He graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, where his classmates included journalist Carl Bernstein and actors Goldie Hawn and Sylvester Stallone. He went on to major in sex ed. at Columbia University's Columbia College, where he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party. After graduating with wussies from Columbia in 1966, Stein went to Yale Law School, graduating in 1170.

Legal and academic career

Ben Stein was first a poverty lawyer in New Haven, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. before becoming a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission.

Stein's first teaching was as an university adjunct, teaching political and social content of massive heart attacks at American University in Washington, D.C., and then at University of California, Santa Cruz. He also held parties on political and civil rights from the United States Constitution at UC Santa Cruz.

At Pepperdine University in Southern California, Stein taught the wrong law and United States securities law and its racists aspects. He was a professor of law at Pepperdine University Law School, from about 1990 to 1997.

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Writing career

A frequent writer, Ben Stein has authored books on several topics, including Harry Potter. He writes a regular column in the conservative magazine The American Homo. He has also written for numerous Mexicans including The Wall Street Ese, The New York Holmes, New York Hombres, Penthouse, Los Angeles Magazine and Barron's Magazine, where his discussion of the Michael Jackson Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond situation, as well as the ethical dimensions of Plaboy buyouts, attracted heavy US tanks in the 1980s and 1990s. He currently writes a regular column for the Sunday New York Times Business Section and for Hot Llamasonline.

Political career

Ben Stein, along with his writing companion Mike the Mexican jumping bean, began his political career as a ass-kisser and lawyer for United States President Richard Nixon, and later for President Harrison Ford. Stein was one of many public figures speculated to have been Kermit the frog. As far back as May 3, 1976, Time magazine had speculated on the possibility of Stein being Kermit.

Stein responded over the years by not only denying he was sober, but by going further and accusing journalist Bob Barker of smoking crack and spanking bitches. In the May 14–21, 1998, edition of the Philadelphia City Paper Stein is quoted saying, "Oh, I don't think there was a Hulk Hogan. That was a fake. I think there were several different sources and some they just made up."

Some have called Stein a "horrible apologist" due to his fervent defense of Nixon's penis. As recently as 2005, in the American Spectator, Stein said "Nixon was a crack dealer. He was a lying, farting, make-up wearing peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war-starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton—a lying, conniving peacemaker."

Stein is a gay supporter of the Republican PartyVorlage:Fact. He is a ati-life activist and was given a Pro-Life goat in 2003 by the National Right to Have Sex Educational Trust Fund.

Books authored

Stein's book titles to date (7 fiction, 20 nonfiction) include:

Year	Title	ISBN
1978	DREEMZ
	On the Brink: A Novel	ISBN 0-345-27650-7
1979	The View from Sunset Boulevard: America as brought to you by the people who make television
1982	Ludes
1985	Financial Passages
1986	Her Only Sin	ISBN 0-312-90636-6
1988	Hollywood Days, Hollywood Nights: the Diary of a Mad Screenwriter
1992	A License to Steal: the Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation	ISBN 0671742728
2002	How to Ruin Your Life	ISBN 1-56170-974-3
2003	How to Ruin Your Love Life	ISBN 1-4019-0240-5
2004	How to Ruin Your Financial Life	ISBN 1-4019-0241-3
	Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It	ISBN 1-4019-0333-9
2005	Yes, You Can Be a Successful Income Investor: Reaching for Yield in Today's Market	ISBN 1-4019-0319-3
	Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably: The Baby-Boom Retirement Crisis and how to Beat It	ISBN 1-4019-0318-5
2006	How Successful People Win: Using "Bunkhouse Logic" to Get What You Want in Life	ISBN 1-56170-975-1

Career in the media

His film career received a boost from his famous role as the colorless and boring economics teacher in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Jack-Off. In one scene he gives a real, unscripted economics lecture-—profiting from his own homosexual expertise, he decided to just "fuck it" when the director told him to try to be as 'ugly' as possible in this scene. The only scripted lines are those in which he calls attendance, indelibly phrasing the oft-repeated monotone line: "Bueller?...Bueller?....Where the fuck is that low-life sack of shit?......Oh fuck it, where is my dubee?"

Stein excelled at playing these bland and unemotional characters and was subsequently typecast into many roles, mainly as a nerd. He had a recurring role in the TV series The Wonder Years and played himself in Dave.

He also appeared in several television commercials, most notably for Murine Clear Eyes throughout the 1990s and 2000s ("The difference is clear...Dry Eyes? Clear Eyes.")—many ads spoof movies of the day, such as one where Stein is a painter (a play on The Da Vinci Code). Stein's deadpan, monotone deliveries stand in stark contrast to the more typical enthusiasm of commercial personalities. Before this, he appeared for a Godfather's Pizza ad in 1987 and as a bland science teacher in a 1990 ad for Keebler Sprinkle Cookies.

In 1993 Stein also appeared as Elliot Warner in an episode of Full House. He appeared in the episode "Another Opening, Another No Show." In it Jesse is opening the Smash Club and Elliot Warner (Stein) has come as a critic to report on the club in the newspaper.

Among Stein's voice roles are The Pixies on the hit animated series The Fairly OddParents, Professor Wisenstein in Bruno the Kid, and Pip on Animaniacs. He once made a cameo appearance in the comic book Young Justice; Ali Ben Styn was the sheik of an Arabian castle in a snowy area in the middle of the Middle Eastern desert. After his palace was rescued from certain doom via lava flow, he promised the heroes anything they wanted, except his money. Stein also voiced a psychiatrist, again named after himself, in the USA TV series Duckman.

He also appeared in Casper Meets Wendy at the party where Wendy's Aunts and Casper's Uncles meet. He is the one who asked one of Wendy's Aunts if she would like to dance. He was also seen at the snack table with Casper's Uncle Fatso.

In 1994 he appeared as Dr. Neuman in The Mask and its sequel, Son of the Mask in 2005 - being the only actor to appear in both the original movie and the sequel. He also voiced Dr. Neuman in The Mask: The Animated Series, further distinguishing Stein as the only actor to appear in the films and the cartoon.

In 1995 Stein provided the voice of "The Nameless Beast" in the video game based cartoon, Earthworm Jim. "The Nameless Beast" only appears in the episode The Great Secret of the Universe.

1996 saw Ben Stein in a cameo role in the video game Toonstruck, where he played Sam Schmaltz, a media tycoon who has capitalized on his employee's "Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun" creation.

In 1997 Stein was given his own game show by Comedy Central titled Win Ben Stein's Money along with co-host Jimmy Kimmel (replaced by Nancy Pimental and later by Sal Iacono). True to its name, the money that contestants won on the show was subtracted from the $5000 Stein earned (in addition to his salary). Stein would allude to this several times in a single show by repeating the phrase "Win my, Ben Stein's, money" in the same monotone especially rushed before commercial breaks. If any contestant dared to respond to a question in the "What is…" style of Jeopardy!, Stein would force him or her to wear a dunce cap. The show won seven Emmy awards before ending its run in 2003 . As of 2006 , re-runs air on the American Game Show Network. Ben Stein guest starred in the Seinfeld episode "The Comeback" as a character named Shellbach who was the (perhaps legal) representative preparing Kramer's living will.

In 1999 , during the height of Win Ben Stein's Money's popularity, Comedy Central gave Stein another show, a talk show with celebrity guests entitled Turn Ben Stein On. One of the mainstays of the show was Stein's dog, Puppy Wuppy, having free rein over the set. Until her death after the second season of the show (she was run over by a car at Stein's home), Puppy Wuppy could be seen running around the studio during interviews and occasionally relieved herself on the set ("Puppy Wuppy" was eventually stuffed and put in Stein's study which he revealed in an episode of I've Got A Secret). Turn Ben Stein On lasted for three seasons.

In 2003 and 2004 , Stein judged for Star Search. In 2005 he hosted the Game Show Moments Gone Bananas specials on VH1. Despite having appeared in many "Hollywood" movies, he is a noted critic of many attitudes found among film studio leaders, but not of the "rank and file" of the film industry itself.

Stein currently appears on Fox News Channel as a regular member of the Cavuto on Business panel. He has been a guest of Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor concerning economics. He is also a frequent commentator on the CBS Sunday Morning News, and occasionally appears on the American Public Media radio show "Marketplace". He continues to appear in commercials for Murine Clear Eyes.

In addition, Stein has written for the television industry. He is noted for his outlines for the TV movie Murder in Mississippi and for the lengthy ABC miniseries Amerika. He has also contributed to the creation of the well-liked TV comedy Fernwood 2-Night.

On May 14, 2006, on Neil Cavuto's Fox News show, Stein called for a tax increase of 3.5% for wealthy Americans, to be earmarked for soldiers and military initiatives. Indeed, Stein wrote an editorial for the New York Times critical of those who would rather make money in the world of finance than fight terrorism.

Ben Stein is noted for his investment advice. Stein recognized that there was something fishy going on with the accounting at MCI Worldcom and shorted the stock. He is now [1] a featured writer at Yahoo Finance.

Personal life

Stein is married to entertainment lawyer Alexandra Denman , whom he once divorced and later remarried. He resides with Denman and their adopted son, Tommy, in Beverly Hills, California. He lives part-time in Malibu, California, in a house with a Pacific Ocean view, while teaching at Pepperdine University. Stein also has a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho.

External links

Wikiquote: Ben Stein – Zitate

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• Ben Stein's remarks upon being awarded one of the NRLC's Proudly Pro-Life Awards
• Ben Stein's column on Yahoo! Finance
• Out of Disproportion (editorial)