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...Norman Vincent Peale b) Carl Jung c) Gertrude Stein d) Allen Ginsberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Stein became a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where a rant about racist writing on The Jeffersons led to a job as a creative consultant for Norman Lear. Stein left D.C. for L.A., where he continued to write columns for publications ranging from Penthouse to Barron's, along with screenplays. John Hughes hired him when he was 40 to play a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, asking him to speak extemporaneously on economics to a class. When Stein received applause from the crew members, he figured it was for successfully explaining the Hawley-Smoot Tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stein Also Sings | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Though he maintains his role as a Pepperdine law professor, an author of 17 books and a contributor to Slate, The American Spectator and the Washington Post, the smartest man on basic cable is most animated when talking about Hollywood and its beautiful women. Perhaps Stein's oddest avocation is being a financial guru to hookers. "Aside from practicing pimps, nobody knows as many call girls as I do," he says. It began when Stein was a columnist for the Journal, spending his afternoons by the pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stein Also Sings | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Stein is not a performer by training. A fallen hippie Yale law graduate (with Hillary Clinton), Stein used his father's connections to get a job as a speechwriter for President Nixon (with Pat Buchanan, David Gergen and John McLaughlin), who was then under siege from, among others, Carl Bernstein, Stein's childhood next-door neighbor and Maryland public high school classmate (with Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn and Connie Chung). Although some have posited him as Deep Throat, Stein has always remained a Nixon loyalist. Tapes of Nixon's resignation show Stein crying, and he insists that he was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stein Also Sings | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Stein is an avowed, if preachy, family man. He cries when talking about his dog, Puppy Wuppy, which has a large role on episodes of the already taped talk show and, having been run over, is being stuffed. Stein, who remarried his entertainment-lawyer wife in 1977, has an adopted son. Of all Stein's desires, perhaps the strangest is his Kennedyesque hope that the 12-year-old will be elected to Congress when he grows up. So Stein continues to sweat over the $5,000 each night, hoping to stockpile enough to make his son independently wealthy and complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stein Also Sings | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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