Thoughts on Howard Stern
I used to be a ginormous fan since the 8th grade. Then I lost touch when he hit his repetitive political kick during the previous election cycle.
Anyway, yesterday I was listening to Opie and Anthony and they were making fun of him because his fiancee Beth O had been on The View with Rosie O’Donnell and company. I zoned out and started thinking about all the projects that Howard has had over the years.
- The radio show - probably the biggest most important radio show in the 80’s and 90’s
- Private Parts Book - Wildly successful
- Miss America Book - Successful
- Private Parts Movie - Successful
All those were really good. Then he exhausted the opportunities to use his own biography as a project idea. While the radio show continued to do well, all the rest of his projects failed. I started to wonder what happened to all these.
- Howard Stern The High School Years Cartoon - This was in production, but never hit the air
- Son of the Beach - Mildly successful program on FX, but it doesn’t hold up with any of the acclaimed cable shows
- Remake of Porkies - Stern supposedly had this in development and nothing ever happened
- Remake of Rock and Roll High School - This also never happened after it was announced to be in production
- Robin Quivers Talk Show - I know that this wasn’t necessarily Howard, but it definitely speaks to him and who he surrounds himself with that this didn’t go anywhere
And this isn’t to take away from his radio career which has been great, and is still thriving at Sirius today, but what does it say about him that he hasn’t been able to get any projects done that didn’t involve his own biography?
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