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Staff Picks: What to Watch in November

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Fantastical Physical Transformations

Check out Cynthia Erivo in <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/title/tt19847976/?ref_=nmawd_eds_right-5_lk"><em>Wicked: For Good</em></a> and more actors who totally transformed for their roles.

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On the Red Carpet: 'Wicked: For Good'

Check out our favorite premiere and event photos of <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm7248827/?ref_=nmawd_eds_right-7_lk">Cynthia Erivo</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm3812858/?ref_=nmawd_eds_right-7_lk">Ariana Grande</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm0000706/?ref_=nmawd_eds_right-7_lk">Michelle Yeoh</a>, and <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm0160840/?ref_=nmawd_eds_right-7_lk">Jon M. Chu</a> and more from the whirlwind <em><a class="ipc-md-link" href="/title/tt19847976/?ref_=nmawd_eds_right-7_lk">Wicked: For Good</a></em> premieres.

Although his actress wife Paula Prentiss became a star by the early 1960s, it took Richard Benjamin almost fifteen years to establish his screen persona, but the wait was rewarding. After extensive work in theatre as actor and director, and his participation in the cult TV series He & She (1967), in which he co-starred with Prentiss, he won the starring role in the screen adaptation of Philip Roth's best-seller, Goodbye, Columbus (1969). That was followed by roles in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) and another Roth adaptation, Portnoy's Complaint (1972), that turned him into a prominent "archetype of East Coast Jewish intellectual agony", as critic Jonathan Romney defines him. But his forte was comedy and he won a Golden Globe when he repeated his stage role in the film version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1975). Although he still performs, Benjamin turned to direction since the 80s with the highly acclaimed comedy My Favorite Year (1982).

Richard Benjamin in Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)

Awards

Richard Benjamin

Primetime Emmy Awards

Golden Globes, USA

Laurel Awards

Photoplay Awards

RiverRun International Film Festival

Valladolid International Film Festival

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

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