Bean's work was known by multiple generations – from "What's My Line" to "Desperate Housewives," from his many appearances on "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" to the surrealist classic "Being John Malkovich." Bean was pre-hip, then hip and finally a kind of ironic post-hip. Many Hollywood people who knew Bean were amazed that the final act in his wild life – from Communist sympathizer to father-in-law of the late conservative raconteur Andrew Breitbart – didn't make it into news reports. He went looking for the "Higher Power" in his 12-step program and eventually found peace. What finally turned Bean's life around was a religious conversion. I wanted to be famous so as to be happy." Not so famous that I had to wear dark glasses to walk down the street, but famous enough that head waiters would give me a good table. I didn't want to be famous for its own sake.
"For most of my adult life I've been at least somewhat famous. "Who had time? I was too busy with things of this world: getting ahead, getting laid, becoming famous. "For most of my life I didn't believe in God," noted Bean.
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However, the answer has hiding in plain sight in several cable TV interviews, his one-man stage show and an online testimony he wrote entitled "How Orson Bean Found God." 7, when he was hit by two cars while walking in his Venice, Calif., neighborhood. Surrender to what? The answer to that question didn't make it into the media tributes after the 91-year-old Bean's death on Feb. I didn't find happiness until I learned to surrender, to give up the crazy pursuit." On one occasion, Bean said he was trying to become the "happiest son of a bitch alive." In another Los Angeles Times interview he added: "I did all this stuff, the drugs, getting my kisser on the tube, because I thought it would make me happy. What was this funny guy trying to do, while embracing drugs, edgy politics, sexual healing, hippie communes, experimental forms of therapy and other diversions involving his body, mind and soul?
Orson Bean answered the same question many times during his crazy ride from Broadway to doing every conceivable kind of work during his decades in Hollywood.
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