It Mostly Reminds Us Of Much Ado About Nothing
If you thought you’d seen the end of Howard Stern’s “Private Parts,” guess again.
The radio shock jock, whose initial autobiography for HarperCollins sold more than 1.3 million copies, is working on a sequel scheduled to arrive in bookstores in midNovember.
“We will get people reading books who are illiterate,” said Stern, who’s writing about his brief campaign for New York governor and his bout with mental illness.
Added editor Judith Regan: “Howard Stern’s brilliance as a social satirist is exceeded only by his shocking literary talent. First there was Shakespeare, then Steinbeck - now, there’s Stern.
“Future generations will study the Stern oeuvre to gain (insights) on the true degeneracy of life as it is lived in the late 20th century.”
Loose talk
Montreal-born rock poet Leonard Cohen, on Quebec’s upcoming referendum on secession: “I think everybody should lean the same way at the same time and actually break off from Canada and move down to the coast of Florida. It would improve the climate.”
His career seemed to go totally downhill
Jean-Claude Killy turns 52 today.
They must not like his character development
Elsewhere in the literary world, Dove Books, which previously brought us Faye Resnick’s “Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted” and “Diary of an O.J. Juror” by Michael Knox, has pulled the plug on its deal with controversial Simpson case detective Mark Fuhrman “for both commercial and ethical reasons.”
He’ll take his chances with the reel world
While he’s only made two movies, there are three books in the works about director Quentin Tarantino (“Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction”). In “Quentin Tarantino: Shooting From the Hip,” already available in England, colleague Roger Avary says: “The one problem people have with Quentin’s work is that it speaks of other movies, instead of life. The big trick is to live a life and then make movies about that life.”
All of her personalities plan to proofread
Even Roseanne is scheduled to test her skills with the written word by guest-editing an upcoming issue of the venerable New Yorker magazine that will focus on women.
Their enthusiasm was practically infectious
Burt Ward, Robin on the old “Batman” TV series, promises to tell all about his off-screen sexual adventures with co-star Adam West in “Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights.” Says Ward: “Our characters were antiseptic, but we weren’t.”
Country guys are always doing those car tunes
Marty Stuart, meanwhile, is heading from the country to the comics as the star of Marvel’s “Marty Party in Space.” The storyline features the singer trying to defend a ring that gives him magical, musical powers against a gang of hillbilly aliens.
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