Private Parts (1997 film)

Infobox Film
name = Private Parts


imdb_id = 0119951
amg_id = 1:154686
producer = Ivan Reitman
director = Betty Thomas
writer = Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko (screenplay) Howard Stern (book)
starring = Howard Stern Robin Quivers Mary McCormack
music = Porno for Pyros Marilyn Manson Dust Brothers Howard Stern
cinematography = Walt Lloyd
editing = Peter Teschner
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released =
runtime = 109 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $28,000,000
gross = $41,198,146 (USA only) "This article is about the 1997 film. For other uses, see Private Parts (disambiguation).

"Private Parts" is a 1997 biographical film directed by Betty Thomas from a script by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko. cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119951/ |title=Private Parts (1997) |accessdate=2007-06-06 |work=Internet Movie Database |publisher=Internet Movie Database ] The film follows the life of radio personality Howard Stern from boyhood to the cusp of break-out success as a shock jock. It is based on Stern's autobiography "Private Parts" which was released in 1993.

Synopsis

Following an appearance at the MTV Music Video Awards (as alter-ego "Fartman"), Stern boards a flight to go home and finds himself seated next to an attractive woman visibly repulsed by him. In order to win her over, he begins to tell her his life story using his "radio persona" for a wedge.At the same time that the film charts his rise from a routine, if not mediocre, DJ to humorous morning personality, it also follows his relationship with Alison Berns who will become his first wife. Both of these elements of his life were not without their ups and downs.

Cast

Trivia

*Stern, Quivers and the rest of the cast of "The Howard Stern Show" were still broadcasting five days a week during the production of the film. At the end of every show, they would immediately drive to the film's set.
*Stern's love for his then-wife Alison is a central theme in the movie, and she even has a bit role as one of the receptionists at WNBC during the "Lance Eluction" segment. Howard and Alison divorced four years after the movie.
*Julia Louis-Dreyfus was originally cast as Stern's wife, Alison, but later backed out because she wanted to spend time with her family.
*Producers originally considered Jeff Goldblum to play Stern.
*Ozzy Osbourne has a cameo in the film, commenting on Stern saying: "What a fuckin' jerk."
*LL Cool J is featured on the film's soundtrack album with Red Hot Chili Peppers in the song "I Make My Own Rules". But he had not gotten Def Jam Records' permission to perform on it. His name was blanked out on the album's track listing but he is still credited as a composer under his real name "James T. Smith".
*In the film Stern drives a 1970 Plymouth Valiant four-door sedan.
*For the scenes that featured Stern in high school, filming was done at Union High School. Years later Artie Lange would join the Howard Stern show and coincidentally graduated from the very same school several years prior.
*"Dee Dee" , the WWDC Program Director portrayed by Allison Janney , was in reality Denise Oliver , but her real name was never spoken in the movie , probably for legal reasons .
*John Stamos stood in for Luke Perry for the Fartman MTV scene. Perry later admitted that he feared the movie would not be good and turned down the chance to play himself.
*The Private Parts film cover/poster bears a close resemblance to the album cover of The High and the Mighty (album) by American rock musician Donnie Iris.
* WNBC Program director Kevin Metheny is referred to as Pig Virus in the book and in real life, [cite book |last= Stern|first=Howard |authorlink=Howard Stern |coauthors= Larry "Ratso" Sloman|editor= Judith Regan|others= |title=Private Parts |origdate=1993-10-15 |edition= 1st edition|publisher= Simon & Schuster|location= |isbn=978-0671880163 |oclc= 28968496|doi= |id= |pages=158|quote=I was scheduled to go on the air right after Labor Day, 1982, but the station program direcotr, Kevin Metheny, decided he wanted to "test" me out before that.] [cite book |last= Stern|first=Howard |authorlink=Howard Stern |coauthors= Larry "Ratso" Sloman|editor= Judith Regan|others= |title=Private Parts |origdate=1993-10-15 |edition= 1st edition|publisher= Simon & Schuster|location= |isbn=978-0671880163 |oclc= 28968496|doi= |id= |pages=159|quote=The program director, Kevin, whom I started calling Pig Virus because he reminded me of a kid I knew in camp who looked like a stupid porker, would always make me practice saying the call letters.] but is named Kenny Rushton and referred to as Pig Vomit in the film.
* The last WNBC Program Director Howard Stern worked under , Dale Parsons, is not mentioned in the movie at all , although he was WNBC's Program Director at the time Stern was fired.

References

*cite video
people = Betty Thomas(Director)
year =
date = 1997-03-07
title = Private Parts
url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119951/
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medium = Motion picture
publisher = Paramount Pictures
location = Los Angeles, CA
accessdate = 2007-05-04
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External links

*dmoz|/Arts/Movies/Titles/P/Private_Parts/|Private Parts (film)
*imdb title|id=0119951|title=Private Parts
* [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=privateparts.htm Private Parts] at Box Office Mojo
*rotten-tomatoes|id=1075777-private_parts|title=Private Parts (1997)

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