Private Parts
Directed by	Betty Thomas
Produced by	Ivan Reitman
Written by	Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko (screenplay) Howard Stern (book)
Starring	Howard Stern Robin Quivers Mary McCormack
Music by	Porno for Pyros Marilyn Manson Dust Brothers Howard Stern
Cinematography	Walt Lloyd
Editing by	Peter Teschner
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
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Running time	109 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$28,000,000
Gross revenue	$41,198,146 (USA only)
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Private Parts is a 1997 biographical film directed by Betty Thomas from a script by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko^[1]. 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. Poster for Man on the Moon (1999), a biopic A biographical picture— often shortened to biopic— is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. ... Betty Thomas (born July 27, 1947) is an American actress and director. ... This article is a biography of Howard Stern as an individual; for information regarding his radio show see The Howard Stern Show. ... A shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disk jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Private Parts (ISBN 0671880160) is the autobiography of radio personality and shock jock, Howard Stern. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...

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 flashbacks. The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into The Howard Stern Show. ... As in film, a flashback in literature is a technique which takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ...

At the same time that the film charts his rise from routine if not mediocre DJ to humorous morning personality, it also follows his relationship with Alison Berns who will become his wife. Both of these elements of his life were not without their ups and downs. DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ...

Cast

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Reception

The film premiered at the top of the box-office in its opening weekend with a gross of $14.6 million. It grossed slightly more than $41 million in total, with a production budget of $20 million.^[2]

It received mostly positive reviews from critics, most notably from Siskel and Ebert who were frequent guests of Stern's radio show. Some critics claimed that film glossed over his use of sexual and racial humor.^[3] At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper is a movie review television program featuring film critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper, both of the Chicago Sun-Times. ...

For his performance, Stern won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Male Newcomer. The awards are given by the result of write-in votes from fans and Stern won by a wide margin. Stern was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy. He was also nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst New Star. Blockbuster franchise in Porto, Portugal Tippett ad for Blockbuster Blockbuster Video, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, is the name of the largest chain of video tape, video game and DVD rental shops in North America, with shops in countries like Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and Taiwan. ... A write-in candidate is a candidate in an election whose name does not appear on the ballot, but for whom voters may vote nonetheless by writing in the persons name. ... The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. ... The Golden Raspberries or Razzies were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to complement the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. ...

Other versions

USA Network version

For the film's basic cable premiere on USA Network in 2000, Stern appeared in new taped segments in which he occasionally pauses the film to comment on it. USA premiered the film even though no alternate scenes had been filmed to replace the nudity nor had any alternate dialogue been recorded to replace the profanity for television broadcasts. The nudity was simply pixelized and the profanity bleeped. In 2007, VH-1 began airing this version. USA Network is a popular American cable television network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the graphical editing/censorship technique. ... VH1 (which stands for Video Hits 1) is an American cable television channel that was created in 1985. ...

Rough cut

Deleted scene

A substantially different version of Private Parts appeared on Internet fan sites devoted to Stern sometime in May 2006. The newly-found version is an early rough cut of the film with substantially different dialogue and music, several deleted scenes, and a very different ending. Some of the deleted scenes, such as Howard being fired and escorted out of WNBC, appeared in the film's original trailer and publicity materials before being cut. The picture quality of the Internet version is very poor with compression artifacts, VHS artifacts, and visible dust on the print. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Rough Cut (1980). ... For other uses, see WFAN (disambiguation). ... Movie trailers are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown; they are commonly known as previews of coming attractions. ...

Video cover

Alternate VHS cover

When the film was released on video, some store customers objected to the original cover featuring Stern with no clothes on. An alternate version of the cover was produced featuring Stern fully clothed. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

Trivia

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• 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 two 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.
• 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 an uncanny 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,^[4][5]but is named Kenny Rushton and referred to as Pig Vomit in the film.^[1]

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References

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