You don't have to make up these things, there are enough anecdotes in the book.' They're absolutely boring and dull I said, `Why can't we base this in reality? My life story can be funny. It's like all these Hollywood comedies that come out and they ship them overseas. Stern, who cannily had script approval, rejected the first 22 drafts. If I can do it, anyone can.Īfter the massive success of the book, Hollywood came running. I mean, what have they really done? They acted in a film. I was awfully awkward and shy and uncomfortable and still am, and don't feel particularly secure and never have felt good about myself like I'm some great person. In ordinary everyday life I had no ability to function and still don't to this day. "I knew at five years old that I wanted to go onto the radio. You're a moron.) These were journeys into another world, a world where the microphone was king, nobody answered back and what you looked like didn't count.
His domineering father was a radio engineer in New York and occasionally young Howard would go with him to the Manhattan studio. I thought they looked better than regular ones.") (When I ask why he is wearing them in the gloom of his suite in the Dorchester, Hollywood's London hotel of choice, he removes them and apologises: "I'm near-sighted. Now 42, rich and famous, Stern still exhibits the body-language of the gawky teenager, his 6'7" frame stooping apologetically as we shake hands, sunglasses hiding watery blue eyes. And Stern's mass of classic teenage neuroses continue to form the bedrock for his hum our and his success. Now comes the film, also called Private Parts, a typically self-deprecating reference to Stern's assessment of his own most vulnerable private part which, he happily tells the world, is very small. For nearly 20 years the self-styled "king of all media" has hit drive-time New York in the solar plexus and the jury is still out as to whether he is an unreconstructed suburban lout attesting to all America is trying to hide with his in-your-face brand of scatological and sexual humour, or a very sophisticated manipulator of the mass media, or the Candide of our time.įour years ago, when he had already broken all records as the most listened to (and the most fined) radio broadcaster in the world, he broke yet another record when his autobiography, Private Paris, became the world's fastest selling book. Whatever else he does, Howard Stern does not play it safe. To be that to me would be a death sentence." Stepping outside of things and mixing it up and generating something interesting? Anybody can go on the air and play it safe. That's why I'm always amazed that people criticise what I do because, isn't it exciting that someone is pushing the envelope? Nobody is stepping out and pushing the envelope.
OPRAH Winfrey does a show that is bland, that is boring and adds nothing to the medium.
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