The New York Daily News reports that Howard Stern's 22-year-old daughter, Emily, has abruptly quit off-off-Broadway's Kabbalah, in which she played a sometimes-nude Madonna, after some of the shock jock's fan sites outed her famous parentage, which the religious spoof's producers had agreed to keep top secret. Stern's manager had no comment for the paper.
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When Howard Stern takes his act to satellite radio on Jan. 9, subscribers to the month-old Sirius Canada will be left wondering, "Where are the farting midgets, eh?" In a move that all but implores Canucks to illegally tap into Sirius' U.S. feed, Sirius Canada has opted not to include Stern in its lineup. "At the end of the day, it was a company decision," a spokesperson tells the Hollywood Reporter, neglecting to specify that the "company" is probably one little old lady from Sackville.
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Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson has made a career out of bouncing back. Having made the tricky segues from pinup to camp action heroine to Internet video star to, now, sitcom actress, she is back with a second season of Fox's Stacked (Wednesdays at 8:30 pm/ET), on which she stars as party-girl-turned-bookstore-employee Skyler Dayton. How has she deflected the slings and arrows of critics? TVGuide.com stole a few minutes with Anderson to talk about her resolve, her romances and her radio-show-host buddy Howard Stern — but not before we got one pressing question out of the way.
TVGuide.com: You and I were born exactly a month apart, same year and everything. What do you think that m
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Shock jock Howard Stern was hit with a one-day suspension by Infinity Broadcasting — hence today's repeat — allegedly for pimping his employer-to-be, Sirius Satellite Radio, a bit (OK, a lot) more than usual on Monday's broadcast. Stern is expected back on air on Wednesday. In the meantime, can someone help me out with a new term for the overused "shock jock"? "D-mented-J"? "Naughtycaster"? Don't all speak up at once now.
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Most fittingly, Howard Stern "Whack Pack" regular Beetlejuice crashed the Tuesday press conference announcing Infinity Broadcasting's plans to replace the shock jock when he moves to Sirius Satellite Radio in 2006. Among Stern's successors, former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth will inherit seven Infinity's stations, including flagship WXRK in New York; The Man Show's Adam Carolla gets five markets, including Los Angeles' KLSX; and virtual unknown Rover gets Chicago and three other stations. With Infinity's announcement, Scores stock dropped 2 1/8 cup sizes.
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Sirius-bound shock jock Howard Stern told listeners Tuesday that his replacement on FM radio will be ex-Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth. Stern added that Roth is "a train wreck waiting to happen." In other words, perfect for the job.
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As shock-jock Howard Stern's January 2006 debut on Sirius satellite radio draws nearer, there is talk that he will not move his companion television program to Spike TV, as has been rumored. Instead he may strike a deal with Comcast Cable to distribute the show on a video-on-demand basis, TV Week reports. While this would require Stern fans to pay twice (for Sirius and VOD subscriptions), it would solve the problems of broadcasting nudity (E! pixelated such images when it carried the program) and a lack of advertiser support. Asked to comment on the rumor, a Scores stripper said, "Like, wow!" then asked that we give her a $20 bill.
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Wise guy Artie Lange is on The Howard Stern Show every day, joking about hard drinking and heavy eating, because in Artie's world, nothing is ever done "light." The 37-year-old sidekick began his career as a Mad TV cast member and soon moved to movies (Dirty Work) and back to TV (ABC's Norm). But it's been with radio icon Howard Stern that Lange has hit his groove, providing his own "average guy" sensibility to the conversational mix. Lange's new DVD It's the Whiskey Talking (out today) documents his expletive-filled live act and proves that, even when the comic is flying solo, he's always got something intriguing to say.
TV Guide Online: How much Jack Daniel's was consumed during the making of your DVD?Artie Lange: I'd say about four carafes. Honestly
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He's got shows on radio and TV. He's unafraid of controversy and would love to be the new King of All Media. Just call Tavis Smiley the thinking man's Howard Stern. This year, the author of six books and host of a National Public Radio show has added PBS news talk-show host to his resume.
TV Guide Online: You've talked about having "conversations of substance." How are your interviews different from other talk shows?Tavis Smiley: I could ask all the regular pop-culture questions. But I try to stay away from that. For example, I interviewed Anthony Minghella, the director of Cold Mountain, and I asked him how he could do a movie set in the Civil War and walk all around the issue of slavery. He was ecstatic. He said, 'You are the first person to ask why I did not do any scenes about that.' So that's what I mean. It's in [my approach]. But more important, [my shows] are the first on NPR and on PBS to come from the West Coast.
TVGO: W
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