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Ben Stein Leaves Monday Night at Morton's
By Bubba Craner | Image from official site
Ben Stein says goodbye to his biweekly column at website, Monday Night
at Morton's
Ben Leaves Morton's
For many years Stein was host to a biweekly column for the website, Monday
Night At Morton's. (Yes the steakhouse). However his latest column
was announced to be his last, for he just doesn't see it to be beneficial
to his life or anyone else's to glamorize the lives of the rich and famous
and call them idols and inspiration when real hero's and inspiration is
being found in other places.
He concedes his post as column host with dignity, though also with unforeseen suddenness, and embraces a new beginning for himself. He now will no longer be toasting the lives of people who make us smile, laugh and cry for a few dollars but the ones who do it for free and without praise and pride.
"I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to."
It is clear that Stein's last column sings like a call-to-arms song, though
he is not necessarily calling upon any one of us, or maybe he is calling
on all of us. In any case, Monday Nights At Morton's will
miss the famous writer it once celebrated, but to shed more than a single
tear would be superfluous, for he has heard his calling and is answering
to it. Any and everything that Mr. Stein does from here on out should be
seen as a means to establish himself for what it is exactly that his maker
has called upon him to do, and we should all be so lucky to be humbly called
upon as he has been.
"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human."
Goodbye Mr. Stein, and welcome!!
To read more about this, go to E!
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Bubba Craner
Sources: Image from official site
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