Private Parts

I recently saw this movie again for the first time in a long time. While the movie doesn’t hold up due to the fact that Howard is remarried and is no longer on free radio, it does show the human side of a man who may just be misunderstood. For those who have Sirius, and who have been listening to Howard, know how much of a radio genius this guy really is. Plus, if you’ve listened to the History of Howard Stern, you know the whole story of how Howard worked his way to the top.

Private Parts takes bits and pieces from the History of Howard Stern and shows us how one man could do so much with no true backing from his own employers. The movies starts with his upbringing in New York. For those that have listened to him talk about his parents on the air, get to see a funny reinactment of Ben and Ray Stern, It shows how he met his first wife Alison at Boston University. Then it show the stations he worked for, along the way meeting the people who would later become part of the Stern show, Fred Norris and Robin Quivers. From Hartford, to Detroit, to Washington, and then to the (at that time) mecca of radio, WNBC in New York, we see how Howard Stern became the radio legend that he is today.

The movie does leave out a few things however. While signing to go to WNBC, the people at DC-101 let him go after he tried to call Air Florida after one of their planes crashed into the Potomiac. While the WNBC years focused on the Pig Vomit years (Pig Virus in real life), they left out the Incubus years, the other program director who gave Howard a hard time.

All in all, it was a delightfull, funny movie that, quite frankly, aren’t made anymore!