CINEMA: HOW NICE

This has to be considered a love story: Howard Stern says, "I love you, Alison" even more often than "penis." The mostly genial Private Parts, written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko and directed, with more style and verve than absolutely necessary, by Betty Thomas, is like Stern's radio show: self-obsessed, paranoiac, very funny and way too long.

It is best in its first half, when Stern, looking like a taller Weird Al Yankovic with his geeky posture, vulture profile and Isro hairdo, plays the familiar failure--a disappointment to his parents and bosses. Only his wife Alison (Mary McCormack from TV's...

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