Private Parts is a 1997 biographical film directed by Betty Thomas from a script written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko. Produced by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is adapted from the 1993 best-selling autobiography of the same name by radio personality Howard Stern. It follows his life from boyhood to the cusp of break-out success in radio as a "shock jock."
The film stars Stern and members of staff on his radio ...
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Private Parts is a 1997 biographical film directed by Betty Thomas from a script written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko. Produced by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is adapted from the 1993 best-selling autobiography of the same name by radio personality Howard Stern. It follows his life from boyhood to the cusp of break-out success in radio as a "shock jock."
The film stars Stern and members of staff on his radio show as themselves, including sidekick Robin Quivers, producers Gary Dell'Abate and Fred Norris and comedian Jackie Martling.
Following an appearance at the 1992 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. Howard begins with his childhood, explaining that his father (Richard Portnow) would continuously verbally abuse him, but...
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