For more than a week now the Howard Stern show has been on vacation. That’s fine, but it’s completely bizarre that they have played almost nothing other than the parts of the History of Howard Stern that relate to the movie “Private Parts.” The only other things they have played have been Fred’s argument with his wife and the Jesus Twins’ appearance, and probably a few more. The movie was good, but it’s shameless self-promotion to devote almost an entire week to the Private Parts movie. It just sounds really bad to hype it so much. If we can’t get the show live, at least play Stern on both channels. If you have to play History of Howard Stern, play other things besides “Private Parts.” It’s not like that was the only thing that happened in the history of the show. Howard’s arms must be injured from patting himself so much on the back.
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Howard Stern show won’t stop promoting “Private Parts” movie during “History of Howard Stern” – has show jumped shark?
July 10, 2011Wretches and Jabberers: Best movie of 2011?
November 6, 2010I just got back from a screening of Wretches and Jabberers at the ICDL conference in Tysons Corner, Virginia and the movie was excellent. It follows Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette, two men with autism who communicate by typing, as they travel to visit their peers in Sri Lanka, Japan, and Finland. (Full disclosure – I’ve known Chammi Rajapatirana, one of the people with autism who Larry and Tracy visit in the movie, for a long time).
The movie shows that non-verbal or minimally verbal people with autism are extremely intelligent, funny, and full of emotion. Tracy, Larry, and Chammi didn’t learn to type until they were adults. Tracy and Larry can read some of the words as they type them. It makes you wonder how many people are overlooked, underestimated and living in isolation because of their lack of verbal ability.
The movie passed the bathroom test. That’s when you have to go but you wait until the movie is over because you don’t want to miss even a minute of it.
Filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburg, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Autism is a World, may just win one for this movie.
The documentary comes out in the spring of 2011 and the soundtrack will be released in January. The incredible list of musical talent includes Norah Jones, Carly Simon, Ben Harper, Stephen Stills, and Bob Weir. My favorite song was by Stills, with solid rhythm and bass guitars behind his distinctive voice, which was played when Tracy and Larry were in Vermont in between globetrotting trips.
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