I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Saturday Night Live is 50 years old this season. (They’ve tried to keep it quiet.) That makes the time especially fortuitous for this doorstep of a book about it’s founding impresario, the inscrutable Lorne Michaels. Everyone knows who Lorne Michaels is, but even those who know him best say they don’t really know what makes him tick. Susan Morrison makes a decent stab at capturing his essence, starting with his upbringing in Toronto and the untimely death of […]
Mr. Saturday Night
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
