PRIVATE PARTS

 

Let me first start off by saying how I'm not the biggest fan of Howard Stern. It's not that I object to him on "moral" reasons (since anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows how I'm NOT the most politically-correct person on the planet!). It's just that I find his schtick to be--what's the word I'm looking for?--tedious. I mean, over three-fourths of his repertoire consists of farting & lesbians. Not that I think there's anything necessarily wrong with farting & lesbians, mind you, but Howard Stern doesn't do ANYTHING on the air that, say, a foul-mouthed 8-year-old couldn't do, you know what I mean? With that being said, I actually found this film--supposedly based on Stern's (supposed) autobiography of the same name--rather entertaining even though, as some critics attested about this flick, it glossed over some of the more, shall we say, controversial aspects of Stern's schtick (racial humor, anyone?) and/or the obvious embellishments in the flick; like, for instance, the scene that depicted the president of NBC harping about Howard coming to work for them on "moral" issues even though I saw this very same president state during a TV biography I watched of Stern--which, of course, was probably more "accurate" about his life & career than this film was--how "happy" they were to have Stern to help bolster their ratings. Howard Stern also turned out to be a halfway decent actor. Of course, it probably didn't hurt his acting capabilities that he was "acting" as himself (or, at least, his public persona thereof!). In any case, Private Parts isn't too bad of a flick to pass the time with; that is, if you can "tolerate" the more raunchier parts of the flick--like, for instance, the scene where the woman swallows the kielbasa whole!--and/or if you can swallow (pardon the pun!) the obvious bunk for about 90 minutes or so! Of course, my own favorite part of the flick is when former "adult" film star Jenna Jameson appears in ze buff in Howard's studio during that one by-now-infamous scene (this was, of course, years before she became a shameless Republican-ass-kisser and--of course!--before she got all that godawful plastic surgery!). Of course, these days Howard Stern is hosting the "family-oriented" show America's Got Talent. My, how times HAVE changed indeed!