CLASSIC FILM SERIES
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) can't believe his luck
when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann
(Peter O'Toole), gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes
for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen
image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright.
Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can
do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.