Richard Benjamin

...KARMA came about when Wisoff and pal Carol Lee Sirugo karmically met while working as "homeless" extras in Brooklyn on a Richard Benjamin film set and decided on the spot to write and co-star in an original screenplay. Thus is...

In this article: New York City, Broadway, Connecticut, Borscht, DVD, NYU, and Todd Solondz

Richard Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of productions, including the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus '', based on the novella of the same name by Philip Roth, and with Yul Brynner...

In this article: Philip Roth, Yul Brynner, Goodbye, Columbus, Walter Matthau, Mike Nichols, Westworld, Oscar, and Count Dracula

...read Harry's latest novel. In the novel, fictional Leslie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is having an affair with her sister's husband Ken (Richard Benjamin). Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Harry's own affair. As a result,...

In this article: Woody Allen, Deconstructing Harry, and Ingmar Bergman

I don't even like Woody Allen movies, unlike Leitch (how about those Cards, Willie?). Anyway, there's a scene in the movie where Richard Benjamin, who looks like this, gets a blowjob from Julia Louis Dreyfus and finishes her off by banging her...

In this article: Adam Carolla, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Iggy Pop, Deconstructing Harry, Viagra, Halle Berry, and Woody Allen

...real fear of punishment or death. Predictably, this all goes wrong when the robots quit listening to their masters. Brolin's and Richard Benjamin's characters then have to fight for their lives against the liberated slave-bots, one of whom...

In this article: Westworld, Yul Brynner, Michael Crichton, James Brolin, Delos, Starship Enterprise, Surrogates, Self-determination, and Medieval

...one, unavailable on DVD. What I call my "cult closet" in my office is full of almost-forgotten shows of my youth like Quark (Richard Benjamin as a space garbageman) and H. R. Pufnstuf. And with thirtysomething just having come out on the...

In this article: DVD, Relativity, Adam Goldberg, Silver, YouTube, and Jason Katims

...as "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein," there'll be a discussion with Brooks and Carl Reiner, Richard Benjamin, Teri Garr, Tracey Ullman and Lesley Ann Warren. Film historian Leonard Maltin will be the host.

In this article: Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Your Show of Shows, Oscars, Grammys, Leonard Maltin, Teri Garr, and James Cagney

...credits most notably include producing 1967's high-grossing hit The Graduate (1967 ). It starred Goodbye Columbus (1969 ) actor Richard Benjamin in the lead role, Joanna Shimkus, later on to become the wife of Sidney Poitier, as his...

In this article: Goodbye Columbus, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Leonard Maltin, Leslie Halliwell, Lawrence Turman, and Elizabeth Ashley

...Judith Crist is 87. Singer Charles Aznavour is 85. Actor Michael Constantine is 82. Conductor Peter Nero is 75. Actor-director Richard Benjamin is 71. Actor Frank Converse is 71. Actor Michael Sarrazin is 69. Former CNN anchor Bernard...

In this article: Richard Nixon, R&B, Apollo 10, Sherlock Holmes, USS Scorpion, Conservative Party, and Columbine High School

...sailors, African and Asian servants, and runaways who journeyed to Africa. But rather than focus on the local story, Richard Benjamin, who directs the new museum and is a Briton of Guyanese descent, takes a different tack. Under his...

In this article: Liverpool, Dog, Africa, International Herald Tribune, Archaeology, Civil War, Dysentery, University of Liverpool, and Tobacco