CINEMA: WHAT PRIVATE PARTS?

HOWARD STERN, THE MOST UNINHIBITED MOUTH ON RADIO, STARS IN HIS FIRST MOVIE AS...HOWARD STERN

I grow on you like a fungus," Howard Stern claims at the end of Private Parts, the often very funny autobiographical film in which he stars. What's growing on Stern, he has found, is a taste for the grudging though genuine praise that the movie, and the best-selling book before it, has drawn. "I never thought that kind of stuff mattered to me," he says, "but it does."

Will critical success spoil Howard Stern? Suffering praise is a relatively novel sensation for the New York City radio personality whose morning show is now heard in 35 markets around the country and...

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