What most folks don't know is that Ben had recently finished selling tickets to the William Bendix Film Festival and was planning on asking Yvonne De Carlo to be his date before Alicia walked in.And considering William Bendix hadn't made a movie in about 8 years prior to that issue of FF being printed, this was one of the worst attempts at being hip I've ever seen. It's as if Ben was making a reference to Rick Moranis.
I hope these candy-wandies give you heartburn, ya bum! You know, no matter how angry he was when he said it, I couldn't help but laugh if I was on the receiving end. Then, I'd probably get my face smashed into pudding, but that's a dang funny line.
