'I’m a schlub with a show': In a 1998 Rolling Stone cover story, Jerry Springer opened up about the difference between the controversy-inducing Jerry on air, and his real self — and how a combination of the two made him an icon.
“Fuck off!”There’s a lot of fisticuffs and slapping, of course, and the requisite hair pulling, and when one lady topples sideways, her dress rides up, revealing a knot of thick red veins and chunky, cottage-cheese thighs. That part of it is disgusting. But the display of fighting and its aftermath is pretty cool. The security guys — led by Steve Wilkos, a Chicago cop who has become famous for hismoonlighting — step right up and lay on. Meanwhile, Jerry hangs back with the audience.
His college was Tulane, where he added a foot to his height, acted in a couple of plays, was president of his fraternity and graduated with a degree in political science. He then went to Northwestern Law School. Afterward he worked for Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign and decided to run for Congress, from Ohio, as an antiwar, civil-rights candidate. He lost by the slimmest of margins but forged ahead to win a seat on Cincinnati’s city council. He was twenty-seven.
Shortly thereafter, the public let him know what was wrong with that, which led him to spend the next ten years of his life as television-newsman Jerry instead of as governor.he next show Jerry will tape today is titled “Mom, Will You Marry Me?” It’s about a divorced woman who is engaged to marry her ex-husband’s son from a previous marriage. In other words, Brenda, 32, is about to marry her stepson, Bryan, 19, and they’re planning to do so on the show.
Chait bobs her head up and down. “If that’s what you’re going to do, do it fast, because security will try to stop you. So, you know, the point is moving objects. Moving objects are what get the attention of the audience. Get up out of your chair, move around. I’m not telling you to slug anybody. You know that for a fact. I don’t tell you to slug anybody.”Chait goes along with the stretch of the truth. “It’s incest. It’s disgusting, and people are going to know it by your physical reactions.
A half-hour later, Jerry learns the show’s basic plot during a pre-show meeting in Richard Dominick’s office. Since the show is hers, Chait does most of the talking. Dominick, a bearded, heavyset man, sits in his chair, hands folded neatly over his belly. Jerry is standing and holding a baseball bat, which he occasionally cuts through the air. He listens and takes swings. Then he ends the meeting with the words that end every such meeting.He doesn’t shout these words or even say them with punch.
It’s all rather confusing. On the one hand, Jerry says he could fill a week’s worth of shows, suggesting that his life is rife with major incidents of the sort he’d be loath to expose to anyone. On the other, he says that unlike his show’s guests, it’s been exceedingly easy for him to be alive, that nothing much has touched him, no pain, no anguish, no anger, no guilt, no doubt.
“I’ve been seeing this beautiful woman for about six weeks now,” he says. “I got a telescope for my birthday.” Finally, a newcomer shuffles onstage. It’s Brenda’s real son, from some other marriage. He’s sixteen, three years younger than Bryan. He sits in a chair. Tears flow down his cheeks. He, too, is unhappy with the impending wedding. He doesn’t want a stepdad who is so close to his own age. It seems unnatural, somehow. Brenda and Bryan had not known he felt this way. And, faced with it, they do what Jerry thinks is the right thing: They call off the wedding. Keith sits there, smugly happy.
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