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...Benson (Sept...
...tenth movie, Die Laughing, Robby Benson, 23, is practically the entire show. He stars, wrote the script with his father Jerry Segal, and composed five songs for the score. Benson plays a cabbie trapped in an espionage plot who is lucky enough to have Elsa Lanchester, 76, as a sort of guardian angel. Her explanation of her role is vintage Lanchester: "You see, I have to go up into the California vineyards in an effort to help Robby, who's been caught by alien agents because his monkey that I'm taking care of has the secret...
...Benson was an illiterate private when his sergeant told him that he would never make a good soldier and should get out of the Army Air Corps. Benson took him at his word and headed for the rugged Kiamichi Mountains of his native Oklahoma. That was in 1943, and he has survived ever since on wild game, berries and occasional handouts from relatives who knew where he was hiding...
Last week, after the Army agreed to give him a formal discharge, Benson, now 57, stuck his weatherbeaten, snaggle-toothed face out of the woods for the first time in 36 years. He said that he was eager to make up for lost time. What had he missed most? Said Benson: "Fast cars and fast girls...
...Herbert Benson of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital agrees with that common-sense notion. Well known for his work on the physiological effects experienced by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, he has recently reviewed studies of patients suffering from angina, a severe chest pain related to heart disease. He found that when physicians were initially enthusiastic about a remedy, even if it later proved worthless by ordinary medical definition, it acted as a placebo in about 80% of all cases. Conversely, Benson says, flaws in the patient-doctor relationship may account for some of the equally puzzling unpleasant effects, including...