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Right here is everything you'd ever want to know about Ben, excluding
his shoe size and length of his left arm. Now read until your eyes
start getting all foggy and stuff.
Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born November 25, 1944 in Washington,
D.C., (He is the son of the economist and
writer Herbert Stein) grew up in Silver Spring,
Maryland, and attended Montgomery Blair
High School. He
graduated from Columbia
University in 1966 with
honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his
class by election of his classmates. He also studied in the graduate
school of economics at Yale. He has worked as an economist at The
Department of Commerce, a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington,
D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade
Commission in Washington, D.C., a university adjunct at American University
in Washington, D.C., at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at
Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. At American U.
He taught about the political and social content of mass culture. He taught
the same subject at UCSC, as well as about political and civil rights under
the Constitution. At Pepperdine, he has taught about libel law and about
securities law and ethical issues since 1986.
In 1973 and 1974, he was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon at The
White House and then for Gerald Ford. (He did NOT write the line, "I am
not a crook.") He has been a columnist and editorial writer for The Wall
Street Journal, a syndicated columnist for The Los Angeles Herald Examiner
(R.I.P.) and King Features Syndicate, and a frequent contributor to Barrons,
where his articles about the ethics of management buyouts and issues of fraud
in the Milken Drexel junk bond scheme drew major national attention. He has
been a regular columnist for Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, E!
Online, and most of all, has written a lengthy diary for twenty years
for The American Spectator. He currently writes a column for The New
york Times Sunday Business Section and has for many years, a
column about personal finance for Yahoo!, is a commentator for CBS
Sunday Morning, and for Fox News.
He has written, co-written and published thirty books, including
seven novels, largely about life in Los Angeles, and twenty-one
nonfiction books, about finance and about ethical and social issue in
finance, and also about the political and social content of mass culture. He
has done pioneering work in uncovering the concealed messages of TV and in
explaining how TV and movies get made. His titles include A License to
Steal, Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation, The
View From Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Days, Hollywood Nights,
DREEMZ, Financial Passages, and Ludes. His most recent
books are the best selling humor self help series, How To Ruin Your
Life. He has also been a longtime screenwriter, writing, among many other
scripts (most of which were unmade ) the first draft of The Boost, a
movie based on Ludes, and the outlines of the lengthy miniseries Amerika,
and the acclaimed Murder in Mississippi. He was one of the creators of
the well regarded comedy, Fernwood Tonight.
He is also an extremely well known actor in movies, TV, and commercials. His
part of the boring teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was recently
ranked as one of the fifty most famous scenes in American film. From 1997 to
2002, he was the host of the Comedy Central quiz show, "Win Ben Stein's
Money." The show has won seven Emmies. He was a judge on CBS's Star
Search, and on VH-1's "America's Most Smartest Model."
He lives with his wife, Alexandra Denman ( former lawyer,) six cats and
three large dogs in Beverly Hills. He is active in pro-animal and pro-life
charitable events.
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