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3
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Howard Stern Doing What He Does Best
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(May 21, 2019) Howard Stern is
the master of all things marketable and promotable.
Especially himself. He’s got a new book, Howard Stern
Comes Again. The self-proclaimed “King of All Media”
and former KLSX morning man has carefully cherry-picked the
crème of the crop in media outlets to once again get
headlines.
The Hollywood Reporter (thanks
to THR for use of the artwork) gave him the cover along
with eight, count ‘em EIGHT, pages of copy and pictures.
Whether you think he is making big self-reflections on his
life and career or attempting to sell a book, he knows how
to generate buzz.
Regardless of what you think, he’s
thinking about the hourglass, “and the sand emptying.” He
paints in his spare time and the author concludes, “Still
it’s hard to imagine the guy who regularly sneaks onto
Twitter to gauge listener reactions is really ready to hang
it all up. His eyes, which have been darting around the
studio for the past hour-and-a-half, suddenly settle on the
microphone hanging high about his desk: ‘To walk away from
what I’m good at? I don’t even know that I have it 100
percent right yet. And maybe there’s more to explore…’”
Hear Ache. Speaking of Howard
Stern, he created more headlines recently with a
feud over heated disagreement over comments Wendy
Williams made about him on her talk show.
Apparently, they have since mended their friendship. She
claimed that Stern had lost his edge and was “so Hollywood,”
to which he responded by calling her a “jealous bitch.” The
pair seem to have called a truce. Howard regrets his
comments made toward the former radio personality turned
talk show host. “That was me at my worst. I thought she was
saying that I was a piece of s— and I sucked. But as [I hear
it] now, I don’t see it as an offense at all.” … KPFK’s Bill
Gardner was playing the Top 25 r&b songs from the
early 1950s on his Saturday Rhapsody in Black program.
The top 10 included the two Annie (Had a Baby and Work
With Me) songs, along with Chords’ Sh-Boom.
The number one song was 60-Minute Man by the
Dominoes … LA Magazine has a delight story about
“Secrets of the Chateau” by Hailey Eber. Details are
contained in a new book. The storied hotel has only 63
rooms, which is more than that on one floor of the Hollywood
Roosevelt. The author was asked to recount the most
surprising thing in the research. “Roman Polanski and Sharon
Tate got pregnant there and left because Sharon didn’t want
to bring a baby back to a hotel. A pregnant Tate was later
brutally murdered by the Manson family in Benedict Canyon.”
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"Many thanks for
reprinting Ken
Levine's story
about Robert W.
Morgan. I miss
him too, just about
every day.
Don't
know if I ever told you
this: sometime around 20
years ago Metro Traffic
moved into the KRTH
building on Venice
Blvd., while I was
wrapped up in the
weekday-morning shift
doing traffic and
sidekick-stuff on God
knows how many stations
within 100 miles. Three
or four weeks later, RWM
was hired to do mornings
on KRTH, down the
hall. Everyone of course
had heard about his
infamous temper, and you
could cut the tension in
the building with any
butter knife, once he
finally signed on.
At the time I
sported hair down a
little past my
shoulders. One morning
when I was somewhat out
of sorts for whatever
reason, Robert and I
each turned a corner
down the hall from each
other. This marked the
fourth or fifth time he
had seen me and muttered
something about a 'long
haired hippie freak.'
This time I barked back,
'Yeah, I keep it long
for gorgeous young
women, not for old
washed-up AM djs.'
So as soon as I got
that out, and started
thinking, 'O shit what
have I done? Robert
kinda' smirked his way
around the corner back
toward the KRTH studio.
About an hour later, I
was in my Metro booth,
and heard a knock at the
door. I opened it, and
there stood Robert W.
Morgan in the flesh,
handing me a stack of
paper, saying: 'Here are
some bits I know I'll
never get to. Perhaps
you can use some of 'em
on your reports.'
Needless to say I was
fully dumbfounded and
bumfuzzled by this
Legend, who had no
reason to give me the
time of day! I can't
recall whether I even
said "thanks", much less
anything else. I could
only think about the
mornings I'd catch
snippets of his KHJ gig
while cutting 1st Period
PE back in High
School. All I soon knew
was, after that, we
became very good
friends, and I quickly
grew to love the guy. We
remained that way until
he passed in 1998, and
as I said, I still miss
him on a daily basis. I
certainly count my
getting to know Robert
W. the way I did, as one
of my greatest
accomplishments in
life!" - Greg
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Justin Turner, Vic the Brick Jacobs,
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Greg Habell, Sandy Kelley, Magic Matt
Alan
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Michael Savage, Humble Harve, Randy
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Jim Thornton,
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Pete Arbogast, John Chin, Stephanie
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Don Mac, Claudia Marshall, Earl
McDaniel
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Helen Borgers,
Mucho Morales, Brian Roberts, Rob Newton
Gerry Cagle, Sandy Stec, John Phillips
Rachel Maddow, Petros Papadakis, Emily
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Bill Earl,
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Clark Race, Mike Butts,
Bill Handel
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Harve
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Schreiber, Sam Benson, Bob Wilson
Jo Kwon, Len Weiner, Steve Jones
Paul Freeman, Gary Lycan,
Mary Beth Garber, Al Michaels
Ellen K w/son Calvin,
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Howard Stern, Matt Lauer, Rich Buhler,
Ed Pyle, Bob Mayfield
Ian Whitcomb, Cliff Winston, Phil
Hendrie
Joe Reiling, Don Martin, Robin
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Steve Gregory, Dave Sholin, Bob
Hamilton, Jim Pewter
Bob Koontz, Brian Phelps, Lori Koontz,
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