'Stone Phillips: 15 Years of Dateline'

Howard Stern, 1993

Howard Stern:  Ah, mother -- see I have a mother, isn't that great? Satan has a mother.

Shock jock Howard Stern wasn’t at the mic but at home with his family.

Howard Stern: Nice to see you, you handsome devil.
Stone Phillips: Don't start with me Howard!

Actually, I was the one who started with him -- with a few questions at the dinner table for Howard's then-wife Alison.

Stone Phillips: When Howard starts talking about your private life--your sex life, does that embarrass you?
Alison: Sometimes it gets to me.  It depends.  You know, some--certain things are exaggerated and certain things taken out of context.  But you know, I let him have a good time with it.
Howard Stern: What are you looking at me for? (laughter)

But Howard may have gone too far when he talked on the air about Alison's miscarriage.

Alison: I think I just assumed it was a private incident in our personal life.

Howard Stern: I don't apologize for anything I've ever said, and I don't regret anything I've ever said.
Stone Phillips: Do you regret having hurt anybody's feelings?
Howard Stern: I don't think I regret it, no.  I don't.  I don't think I do.
Stone Phillips: You hurt your wife Alison … I think when you talked about the miscarriage, don't you?
Howard Stern: At the time, it did hurt her feelings.  And I guess I really didn't understand why she felt so bad about it.  And that's my failure, I guess, as a human being.

Chris Rock, 2004

Chris Rock: Marriage is beautiful. But if you think you're going to hold onto your individual self, you're an idiot.
Stone Phillips: If you're a guy.
Chris Rock: If you're a guy, that part of you is dead.

Chris Rock was riffing on marriage.  He was seven years into his.

Chris Rock: Take yourself to the door and wave, 'Hey, see you later.' You don't walk around the house like you're Stone Phillips. You're 'Her husband.' That's it.
Stone Phillips:  I know that, I guess the sooner we realize that, the better off we are.
Chris Rock: Hey, if bin Laden was here right now, he's going, 'Oh, yeah, my eight wives are killing me, too.'

He also revealed the childhood pain that fuels some of his brilliantly biting humor.

Chris Rock:  When I was bused to white school, I basically became a hermit, it killed a part of me. I retreated into myself. 
Stone Phillips: What kind of things did you experience?
Chris Rock: Being a skinny kid is going to get you beat up anyway. You know, you just--even if I was white, I would probably gotten my ass kicked every day. But being black, and being one of the only black boys in --in my grade. You're dealing with ‘nigger this, nigger that.’ I mean, I'm not going to dwell on it now. I think I won, you know.

Eva Longoria, 2005

Eva Longoria: You don't have an apron, but I only have one.
Stone Phillips: You know, I don't plan to really get that dirty as a matter of fact.
Eva Longoria: Oh, no, you are, you're going to get dirty.

Eva Longoria looked glamorous during our interview, even in the kitchen. But surprising as it may seem, she told me it wasn't always that way.

Eva Longoria: I grew up as the ugly duckling. They used to call me "la prieta faya,” which means "the ugly dark one." Because my...
Stone Phillips: That is hard to believe.
Eva Longoria: Yeah, I know. People would literally walk up to my mom when we were little and they--they would go, “Oh, my God! Your daughters are so beautiful. And who is this?”

That's before she became a cover girl, one of TV's Desperate Housewives and NBA star Tony Parker's biggest fan.

Stone Phillips: Do you want to get married?
Eva Longoria: Yes. Absolutely … I want the engagement and the wedding and the kids and the family. I'm desperate to be a housewife.

Salma Hayek, 2003

Stone Phillips: Tell me about the tango scene [in Hayek’s movie “Frida”].
Salma Hayek: Look at your face change, Stone.  You have been looking at me with one face the whole interview.
Stone Phillips: Ok. Ok.
Salma Hayek: You--you go--and all of a sudden you go, `Tell me about the tango.'
Stone Phillips: Just--just please tell me about the tango scene, Salma.
Salma Hayek: And your face completely transforms.

The scene was from “Frida,” the Oscar-winning movie that Salma Hayek produced and starred in.

Salma Hayek: I've got to say, you know you're not gay when you kiss Ashley Judd, because she has the most amazing mouth.  It's soft, she's such a great kisser, and you don't get butterflies in your stomach.
Stone Phillips: No thrill.
Salma Hayek: No.  You just sort of giggle and say, `Ooh hoo!  We kissed in the mouth.’

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