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Yahoo!'s Web Celeb Howard
Stern
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Howard Stern, the "King of All Media", is
currently making his motion picture debut in
Private
Parts. In addition to being the host of
The Howard Stern Show, the No. 1 daily
syndicated radio show in the world, he is the
author of the phenomenal best-selling books
Private Parts and Miss America.
As a pioneer in talk radio for almost 20 years,
Stern has been redefining (some would say lowering)
the standards of broadcast entertainment. "I always
resented the label of 'shock jock' that the press
came up with for me," Howard Stern has said,
"because I never intentionally set out to shock
anybody. What I intentionally set out to do was to
talk just as I talk off the air, to talk the way
guys talk sitting around a bar." Whether viciously
attacking his own employers, discussing graphic
details of his own and others' sex lives, or
humiliating studio guest or on-air callers, he has
been, from any viewpoint, relentlessly
controversial and undeniably successful.
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Howard Allan Stern was born on Jan. 12, 1954 in
Jackson Heights, NY. His first radio experience was
at Boston University, where he volunteered at the
college radio station. Along with several other
students, he created an on-air show called the King
Schmaltz Bagel Hour, a takeoff on the popular King
Biscuit Flour Hour. Predicting his penchant for
controversy, the show was canceled after its first
broadcast, which included the comedy sketch "Name
That Sin," a game show where contestants confessed
their worst sins.
Stern graduated in 1976 with a 3.8 grade-point
average and a bachelor's degree in communications.
During his first paying radio gig, at an
understaffed 3,000-watt station in Briarcliff
Manor, New York, "it dawned on me that I would
never make it as a straight deejay," Stern told
James S. Kunen in an interview for People
(10/22/84), "so I started to mess around. It was
unheard-of to mix talking on the phone with playing
music. It was outrageous, It was blasphemy."
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The six-foot four-inch Howard Stern "sounds like
an animated Alan Alda," according to Richard
Harrington of the Washington Post (Oct. 28, 1993),
but his "shoulder-length black mane makes him look
like a cross between Joey Ramone and Cousin It."
Described by his wife, Alison, as a "very caring
father," he has 3 daughters; Emily, Debra, and
Ashley Jade. The Sterns live just a 15 minute drive
away from his parents' home in Rockville Center, NY
Stern has often claimed to be more comfortable with
his radio personality than his true self. "When I'm
on the radio," he told Rick Marin of Rolling Stone,
"I can be exactly what I am and say exactly what I
feel. I really feel I'm role playing in real life.
But I can get in the radio and be who I feel I am
inside. In real life, I sit and hold back all the
time. I hate that. But you can't function in real
life if you go around telling people what you
think."
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