Ben is about to turn into a man, exactly the sort of creature who runs society and keeps women like Mrs. Robinson as pets. If for only a few weeks, she manages to turn Benjamin into a pet of her own.

Mrs. Robinson was voted the “hottest cougar of all time” in a recent poll. Now, she’ll be live and onstage at Interplayers Theatre in a stage adaptation of “The Graduate.” And she’ll ...

And when it came time in the script for Mrs. Robinson and Benjamin's first tryst at the Taft Hotel, Baruchel went out on a limb and planted one on Stone. The audience cheered.

Especially when Mrs. Robinson, a guilt-free predator who was once Benjamin’s lover, is present in the house. More manipulative than ever, she becomes a parody of her former self: the latest ...

It was Bancroft's idea to have Ben kiss Mrs. Robinson for the first time when she's still holding a lungful of cigarette smoke. The half-panicked, half-amused exhale follows the kiss.

1. Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft were not the filmmakers' first choices. Nichols was excited to have Robert Redford play the role of Benjamin; Turman wanted Doris Day in the Mrs. Robinson part.

The stage adaptation debuted on Broadway in 2002 with Jason Biggs as Benjamin, Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson and Alicia Silverstone as Elaine.

The quick flashes of imagery stitched together detail both Benjamin’s continuing affair with Mrs. Robinson and his increasing disillusionment. Effect: Montages are now standard practice in film.

Ben: "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me." Mrs. Robinson: (laughing) Ben: "Aren't you?" The movie and the song both struck a nerve in those divisive days of the late 1960s.

Kevin Costner is in talks to play the male equivalent of Mrs. Robinson in the Warner Bros. comedy that advances the storyline of '60s pic "The Graduate." ...

As for lead actor Rider Strong, who plays the Benjamin Braddock role made famous by Dustin Hoffman -- might he have found a discerning critic in Jason Biggs, who is over at the bar, since the ...