Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) is the junior writer on a top-rated variety/comedy live television show, in the mid 1950's. Young Benjy has a crush on a coworker, K.C. Downing (Jessica Harper), but rather than asking her for a date, he routinely tries to get her to sleep with him. Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole), aging movie idol, former star of swashbucklers, a womanizer and an alcoh...