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...current climate question whether a nation needs to underwrite a performance like that. Sue Townsend, author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, has just published a novel called The Queen and I, which imagines that the royal family has been consigned to a public housing development by a stern republican government that has overthrown the monarchy. The book is both funny and impudent, but it contains a portrait of Elizabeth that is admiring in spite of itself. Townsend plays up Her Majesty's awkwardness, but of all her clan she adjusts best to her alien circumstances, simply by applying...
...MORNING DRIVE TIME, but there are no traffic reports, no weather updates, no chirpy deejays whiling away the minutes between hits of the '60s, '70s and '80s. Instead, the day's major issues and news events are given thoughtful consideration. Listen as host Howard Stern offers his usual running commentary...
...Navy has decided to reinstate a gay officer, reports Stern's sidekick, Robin Quivers. Stern responds with a mincing homosexual imitation, then argues that gays in the military should have separate quarters to avoid sexual promiscuity. "When I get nude in front of a gay guy, they get so hot that they can't control themselves." Russian President Boris Yeltsin has made another plea for economic aid. "Those stupid lazy bastard Russians," snaps Stern. "They're under communism so long they can't even produce anything." Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager charged with murder, has just appeared...
...that's just the tame stuff. On any given morning, The Howard Stern Show might feature a game called Guess the Jew, in which callers try to pick the Semitic celebrity from a choice of three. Or a good-looking actress might show up in the studio and set off Stern's riotous hormones. (To Sally Kirkland: "I'm completely aroused by you . . . You wearin' underpants?") Stern demeans women, insults blacks, makes fun of the handicapped. Comedian Richard Pryor, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, should come on as a guest, says Stern, so they can "watch...
...Howard Stern is radio's most notorious "shock jock," and a few minutes of his program is enough to show why. But the biggest shock lately is how popular he has become. Stern's morning show is ranked No. 1 in New York City, and has spread to eight other cities, with one more (New Orleans) soon to join. In Los Angeles, where he went on the air just over a year ago, Stern's is now the top-rated morning show. In Cleveland, Stern has been on for only nine weeks and has doubled his station's ratings...