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...ordered his food yet, and Ben Stein is already crying. It is terribly discomforting to hear a voice so famously monotone disintegrate into squeaky phonemes. But as he talks about his father, the noted conservative economist who died two months ago, he loses it. The late Herbert Stein forced the Watergate to install a satellite dish in his apartment so he could watch his son's Comedy Central game show, Win Ben Stein's Money. "After every show, I'd call my father and ask him the questions," Stein says. "He'd always say he didn't know the ones...
...Stein's father understood the depths of his son's neuroticism. Although he wins more than three-fourths of the $5,000 trivia contests on the Emmy Award-winning game show, Stein is tortured by his losses. That mix of shock, disbelief and self-hatred isn't rehearsed; he says he sees a $250-an-hour psychiatrist to deal with his fear of losing. Stein's wallet is stuffed with affirming notes from the psychiatrist that say things like "This game does not measure your real intelligence, which no one would ever question" and "You are a star, and they...
They can't as long as he keeps working so hard to be one. With his hip-nerd uniform of a dark gray pinstripe suit and skateboarding sneakers, Stein, 55, basks in being recognized and, when that fails, in introducing himself to the wait staff by his full name. This week he hopes to up his recognition factor with Turn Ben Stein On, a talk show that airs on Comedy Central Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. E.T., right after his game show. The new show gathers, with mixed results, a small group of culturemakers to discuss a single topic, like...
...Joel Stein...
...Joel Stein's article on the new television shows featuring "buxom female action stars" [TELEVISION, Nov. 8] included a chart that rated the programs according to "jiggle factor." My hope for the next millennium: no one will feel that it is appropriate to use the word jiggle to describe female anatomy in a "news" magazine such as TIME. RACHEL DUNIFON Ann Arbor, Mich...