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How Lorne Michaels’s Biographer Got Him on the Record
Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator with or without his participation. She details why she thinks he eventually came to the table—and held nothing back.
SNL turns 50! How Lorne Michaels made comedy cool again | The Excerpt
SNL is the longest-running, most Emmy-nominated, and highest-rated weekly late-night show in television history. How has Michaels done it?
5 revealing stories that demythify ‘SNL’ creator Lorne Michaels
The book has too many good Michaels stories to count, but we picked five of the most revealing tidbits that might help you better understand the man behind the show. Michaels made his first trip to New York from Toronto in the winter of 1961 when he was 17.
‘No one has had more influence’ on how we laugh than Lorne Michaels, says biographer
Lorne Michaels, who MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell calls “the television miracle worker,” is the subject of Susan Morrison’s book called “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” After Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary,
New Lorne Michaels biography debuts after ‘SNL50’—Read it for $1
Just two days after the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special aired, a new biography on the man behind all of it is out now. “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” is the “definitive biography” of Lorne Michaels,
The (Sketch) Show of Shows: Author Susan Morrison on Lorne Michaels and 50 Years of Saturday Night Live
At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the ...
Book Review: ‘Lorne,’ by Susan Morrison
Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s ...
Liberals loved this earnest Kate McKinnon moment on ‘SNL’ — but Lorne Michaels wasn’t a big fan
Lorne Michaels, the creator, executive producer and Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” ...
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 ...
The Fight Between Jeff Zucker and Lorne Michaels That Precipitated the Announcement of ‘30 Rock' (Exclusive Excerpt)
The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,' Susan Morrison goes behind the scenes of a tense meeting just days before the 2006 ...
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How Lorne Michaels’ Biographer Convinced ‘SNL’ Chief to Reveal Rare View of Life Off-Camera
Susan Morrison may have ruined “Saturday Night Live” for a legion of journalists assigned to cover the world of late-night TV. Morrison spent years chatting up Lorne Michaels, the NBC ...
How Lorne Michaels manages creative people after 50 years of ‘Saturday Night Live’
Susan Morrison, author of a new biography on 'Saturday Night Live'-creator Lorne Michaels, reveals management lessons from 50 ...
Lorne Michaels reveals his POV for handling both Dem and Republican politics on ‘SNL’: ‘Whoever is in power is probably awful’
It can’t be, ‘I like everything you do’ — that’s dishonest,” “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels said of skewering both Republicans ...
Book excerpt: "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"
Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking ...
Lorne Michaels Biographer Susan Morrison On ‘SNL50', Her Subject's Legacy And His Likely Next Act: "He's Built This Whole Culture With Walls Around It"
There has been “an air of kismet” about Susan Morrison’s 10-years-in-the-making biography of Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the author said. The New Yorker editor ...