Ben Stein and a dull economics lecture - has there ever been a finer pairing of artist and repertoire?
The former Nixon speech writer and future game show host launched to instant fame in his brief but memorable role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Take note: while Ferris Bueller's Day Off features some of the most quoted lines in all of cinema, there is one that was NEVER said. Stein never calls out "Anyone? Bueller?" The repeating of the name "Bueller" comes from an earlier roll call, and the "Anyone?" search for a response amid a sea of bored teens is during a lesson on the Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act and its relation to the Laffer Curve and Voodoo Economics.
