Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.) is a fervently conservative (with strong libertarian economic impulses) pro-life former White House speechwriter (for the late Republican President Richard Nixon); he is/was also an attorney, (former) game show host, actor, commercial personality, screenwriter, law professor, economist, author, and columnist. He is the boy of noted economic expert & writer Herbert Stein, and his married woman, Mildred. Ben Stein has the sister, Rachel, the writer.

Personal background
His early years were spent growing higher inside the heavy Jewish & Democratic neighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland. Stein graduated from either Montgomery Blair High School, where a select few of his class fellow involved journalist Carl Bernstein and actors Goldie Hawn and Sylvester Stallone. He went in to attend Columbia University in New York City, where he majored inside economics. He graduated using honors within 1966, and then enrolled around Yale University Law School, graduating as a class valedictorian in 1970.

Stein is married to amusement attorney Alexandra Denman, whom he divorced & late remarried. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825401/bio]. Stewithin presently lives by using Denman & their boy in Beverly Hills, California. He was antecedently the San Fernando Valley resident of Los Angeles, California. He survives a share period inside Malibu, California in the home sustaining a Pacific Ocean view while teaching at Pepperdine University.

Work
Stein finally became the Hollywood consultant, helping liberal writers portray a conservative family on television. He so get into acting. Stein's film career received a boost from either his famed role when the colorless & deadening economics teacher in the 1986 movie ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Stearound holds a degree within political economy, thus in his class scene, he is returning the really economic science lecture (the merely a share of his scenes that was written was while he known as attendance). Stein shine at swimming these bl& & reserved characters, and was later typecast into numbers of roles, chiefly as a nerd. He experienced the revenant role in the TV series The Wonder Years and played himself in Dave''. He as well did the series of commercial message for Clear Eyes. Stein's deadpan, monotone deliveries substitute stark direct contrast to a extra average enthusiastic commercial personalities, making the Clear Eyes advert different & memorable.

He was number one the poverty lawyer in New Haven, Connecticut and Washington, D.C. prior to becoming the trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Stein's number 1 teaching stint was as an adjunct professor, teaching political and social content of mass culture at American University in Washington, D.100, so at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). In additiin, he likewise held classes on political & civil rights from the United States Constitution at UCSC. At Pepperdine University in Southern California, Stein taught libel law and United States securities law and its ethical aspects. He remains an active law prof at its Malibu campus, having joined Pepperdine's faculty in the mid-1980s.

Among his voice roles come The Pixies on the hit animated series The Fairly OddParents and Pip on Animaniacs.

Inside 1997 Stein was given his own game show by Comedy Central titled ''Win Ben Stein's Money. True to its title, a money that contestants won on a indicate was subtracted from either the $5000 Ben earned (additionally to his remuneration). Whenever any contestant dared to respond to the wonder in the "What is…" style of Jeopardy!, Stein would force him or even her to put on the dunce cap. A indicate won seven Emmy awards before ending its process around 2003. As of 2005, repeats air in the United states in Game Show Network.

Within 2003, and too inside 2004, he judged for Star Search. Inside 2005, he began his run when unsuspecting hosts of Game Show Moments Gone Bananas on VH1. Despite getting appeared inside several "Hollywood" flick, he occurs as noted critic of numerous attitudes incurred among film studio leaders, but not of the "rank and file" of the film industry itself.

Stein presently appears in Fox News Channel as a regular member of the Cavuto on Business'' panel.

Writing
Stein began his career as a speechwriter & attorney for United States President Richard Nixon, and late for President Gerald Ford. Stein was constantly accused of existence Deep Throat until W. Mark Felt finally admitted to being Deep Throat on May 31, 2005. Stewithin, as a matter of fact, has very much contempt for Felt & his role in illuminate the Watergate scandal; he has said, "If there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth."

the few stand known as Stein a "Nixon apologist" due to his fervent defence of Nixon's bequest. When recently when 2005 in the American Spectator Stein said "[Nixon] was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up 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."

His efforts at film and television screenwriting have largely been for naught, though he is notable for his script Execution inside Mississippi & contributed to the creation of the easily-liked TV comedy Fernwood 2-Night, among other works.

The prodigious writer, Stein has written books in many topics including economics, and occurs as vocal supporter of the Republican Party. He writes the regular column in the conservative magazine The American Spectator. Stein has likewise written for many publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine and ''Barron's Magazine, where his discussion of the Michael Milken Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond situation as well as the ethical dimensions of management buyouts attracted heavy US national attention in the 1980s and 1990s. Stein occurs as pro-life activist and was given the Pro-Life Award around 2003 per National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund.

He is very interested around American Civil War history, and occurs as heavy supporter of the Civil War Preservation Trust.

His book titles up to now (Heptad fiction, Niner nonfictional prose) include: DREEMZ (1978) A Look at from either Sunset Boulevard: America equally bring around busy humans per people world health organization produce television (1979) Ludes (1982) Fiscal Passages (1985) Her Merely Sin (1986) ISBN 0312906366 Hollywood Times, Hollywood Nights: the Diary of a Mad Film writer (1988) a License to Steal: a Untold Story of Michael Milken & a Conspiracy to Bilk the United states (1992) Training Ruin Your systems Life (2002) ISBN 1561709743 Training Ruin Your systems Lovemaking (2003) ISBN 1401902405 Training Ruin The Fiscal Life (2004) ISBN 1401902413 May Us Last? A Rage of a Left, the Truth, & What to Run All about It'' (2004) ISBN 1401903339

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