So, Private Parts now exists as a tribute to a love whose flame extinguished long ago. He’s been married to another woman since 2008. Perhaps not surprisingly, Howard and Allison’s marriage crumbled just two years later, leading to a separation in 1999 and amicable divorce in 2001.
Except unlike Gump Stern routinely addresses the camera during these sections, at one point lamenting how much it hurts knowing that if he wasn’t so in love with his wife he could easily use his undeniable charm and considerable celebrity to bed not only this random woman but countless others like her. The framing device of the film is not unlike Forrest Gump in that it is simply Stern telling his life story to someone, in this case, a gorgeous airplane passenger (played by sex symbol Carol Alt) who failed to really hide her disgust over having to sit next to him.
Private Parts actually turns 20 today (it came out March 7, 1997), and what you don’t get from that trailer is how the movie is actually a love letter to Stern’s then-wife Allison, the mother of his three daughters and ever-patient center of his chaotic universe. As the face and voice of the radio shock-jock movement, he continually courted controversy and battled with the censors while also leveraging his fame into a long-running TV series on E! (which was often like a Skinemax substitute), two best-selling memoirs and a cultishly adored biopic in which he played himself:
However, there was a time when Howard Stern, the self-dubbed “King of All Media,” was a genuine cultural force in America. If you are too young to remember the 90s you might only know Howard Stern as that one America’s Got Talent judge who made kids cry or as Donald Trump’s buddy who loved hearing stories about walking backstage at Miss Universe to peek on nude and semi-nude contestants.
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