How Lorne Michaels helped keep Keith Richards from a life sentence after the Rolling Stones hosted “SNL ”(exclusive)
Saturday Night Live kicked off its fourth season in 1978 with one of the show's most unconventional emcees to date, the ...
Lorne Michaels Helped Keith Richards Dodge Life in Prison
The SNL honcho returned to his hometown of Toronto in 1978 to testify on the guitarist's behalf as he faced serious drug charges in Canada ...
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The Unfunny Man Who Believes in Humor
a new plane of absurdity, a new something. Michaels, when he talks about Kaufman, sounds atypically wonderstruck: “It was as beautiful a thing as you could witness,” he recalls in Lorne.
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How Lorne Michaels’ Biographer Convinced ‘SNL’ Chief to Reveal Rare View of Life Off-Camera
Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC impresario who has seen “SNL” transform itself from an upstart, avant-garde program into an American institution on par with Apple ...
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How Lorne Michaels manages creative people after 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’
When he first gathered his newly assembled team to write the 1975 premiere episode of Saturday Night Live (then called, NBC’s Saturday Night), creator Lorne Michaels started with a simple credo ...