Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stern and his groupies keep popping up, guerrilla-like, across the media landscape. Appearing with Jay Leno on the Tonight show during Leno's flap with < Arsenio Hall, Stern threw fuel on the flames by trashing Hall (a "moron") as well as former Johnny Carson cronies Doc Severinsen and Ed McMahon ("two of the biggest loads on two feet"). At her press conference last spring, Bill Clinton's alleged ex-girlfriend Gennifer Flowers was taken aback when a Stern reporter asked whether Clinton used a condom. When Today's Katie Couric opened the phone lines during a June appearance...
...radio that Stern has made the most noise -- and got into the most trouble. The FCC last month announced its intention to fine Los Angeles' KSLX-FM $105,000 for broadcasting his "indecent" material. (At the same time, three other stations were fined a total of $6,000 for airing an earlier Stern program.) A long list of Stern offenses were cited, ranging from lewd comments about Pee-wee Herman's self-abuse to gross sexual insults aimed at Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, his chief L.A. rivals. ("First I want to just strip and rape Mark and Brian...
...Stern has refused all press interviews since the FCC action, but he has ranted endlessly about it on the air. The FCC, he charges, is "targeting me because I'm the most visible guy" and is "trying to put a dead stop to my career." When he learned that FCC chairman Alfred Sikes was being treated for prostate cancer, Stern's response was, "I pray for his death...
...native of New York's Long Island, Stern, 38, graduated from Boston University and began his radio career in 1976. But he didn't hit his shock- jock stride until joining Washington's WWDC in 1981. He then moved to WNBC in New York, but his lewd material, including sketches like Bestiality Dial-a- Date, got him fired. He was picked up by a struggling FM station, wxrk, in 1985, and in short order boosted its ranking from 21st...
...Stern spends nearly five hours on the air each day, gabbing with Quivers, his giggling Greek chorus (who is black and female), and an array of in-studio regulars. Celebrities occasionally join him, in person or on the phone, among them regulars like Jessica Hahn. But the show is virtually all Stern and is always pushing the edge. Stern's conversation is every pubescent male's sex fantasy given voice; a one-man obscene gesture to the politically correct and socially discreet; the national id run wild. It is all an act, but a very savvy one: Stern's over...