“We try to shoot before the people show up,” says Stern, who has been here since 5, grappling with his past: How does a man at 43 remember the anxieties of being 20? Was I the same person back then? Even now, with the city still cool and full of shadows, the crowds have begun to gather. In America, if a celebrity wants to move through a city like a regular person, he must do it early. “When I bring back some of these old feelings, I get really fucking emotional.” “It can be very hard playing your life,” says Stern. In the movie, for dramatic effect, Robin is simply fired. Howard was hired by NBC radio Robin was not. Stern has now returned, along with a 120-person crew, to the Rockefeller Center entrance to NBC, where, 15 years ago, his radio co-host, Robin Quivers, was frozen out of a job. “We’re making a movie.” This is on location for Private Parts, the film that Paramount Pictures is releasing of Stern’s best-selling autobiography. “Let’s see it on the monitor.” And then he’s back on his feet, moving through a cloud of PAs and ADs, pleasant-looking young people (clipboards, Styrofoam cups) who control the block like an occupying army. “I don’t know,” he says, rubbing his hands together. Even when he is sitting still, he is moving. Sitting on a fold-out chair on 50th Street in Manhattan, Howard Stern just keeps moving.
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