Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What about one in which the host makes humorous references to sexuality, bodily functions and body parts, as Howard Stern does...
...easy target," says Judith Regan, "because I have a big mouth and people don't always agree with me." It is fitting that the editor who brought both Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern between hard covers is, in her own world, as controversial as either. A former reporter for the National Enquirer, she joined Simon & Schuster in 1988 without a lick of book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan...
What was it like to work with the bigmouths of radio? No problem, says Regan. Limbaugh "is impeccable in his work, requires next to no editing. He is a gentleman, and I do mean gentle. He treated me like a queen." Stern, on the other hand, is "a slave driver." To crash-edit his book last summer, Regan spent weeks living in the guesthouse of his Long Island home. "It was pressure-cooker intense, very creative and very interesting. He is an extremely driven man. I needed a permission slip to go to the bathroom. He is a maniac, this...
Editing both authors' often inflammatory prose didn't seem to faze her. "My position is not to take a position," she says. "I sell books, and allow people to have their say." Yet she admits that some of Stern's material bothered her, especially his verbal assaults on her other clients, like Limbaugh and Gifford: "It is not my job to censor Howard Stern, although I have to say it was very painful to sit there and deal with the fact that he had some nasty things to say about some of my friends...
Populist right-wing king Rush Limbaugh and populist wild man Howard Stern have millions of listeners -- and new mega-best sellers. They're surfing the same part of the zeitgeist...