Subject: Saturday Night Live FAQ:  References
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Date: 22 Mar 1996 14:10:34 -0800
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Saturday Night Live FAQ:  References
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This is a list of written references for Saturday Night Live.  It
is intended as a pointer for those who want to learn more about the
show.


Written works included:

Saturday night: a backstage history of Saturday night live (1986)
SNL!  The world of saturday night live
Rolling Stone Visits Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live  The First Twenty Years  (1994)
Wired: the short life and fast times of John Belushi
Playboy Magazine Interviews
Rolling Stone Magazine #562, 05 Oct 1989

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Subject:  Saturday night: a backstage history of Saturday night live (1986)
by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad

I highly recommend this book.  It gives a detailed, in-depth
analysis of the show from its beginning to 1984 or so.  Most
of the information comes from interviews and the authors view-
ing old episodes on videotape.

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Subject:  SNL!  The world of saturday night live
by Hal Schuster

I don't not recommend this book on the whole.  It has some
interesting information and pictures, but it is poorly written
and has many errors (including at least three different spellings
of Aykroyd).  Another glaring error is in the biography section.
The page devoted to John Belushi has a picture of his brother,
Jim.  If you can check this book out from a library, go ahead and
get it.  But be sure to take all the information in it with a
shaker of salt.

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Subject:  Rolling Stone Visits Saturday Night Live

Frank Serpas III writes:

I found an SNL-related book in the UT library entitled "Rolling Stone
Visits Saturday Night Live."  It's made up of articles that originally
appeared in the magazine.  It has some behind-the-scenes stuff and 
interviews with the original cast members, Michael O'Donoghue, and Lorne
Michaels.

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Subject:  Saturday Night Live  The First Twenty Years  (1994)
Edited by Michael Cader
Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 0-395-70895-8

(Will review later. -ed)

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Subject: Wired (1984)
By Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster

(Haven't read yet. -ed)

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Subject:  Playboy Magazine Interviews

May 1977:  Dan Aykroyd, Anne Beatts, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin,
           Al Franken, Tom Davis, Lorne Michaels, Garrett Morris, Laraine
           Newman, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, Rosie Schuster, and
           Alan Zweibel
Jan 1980:  Steve Martin
Mar 1988:  Billy Crystal
Jun 1988:  Chevy Chase
Mar 1992:  Lorne Michaels

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Subject: Rolling Stone Magazine #562, 05 Oct 1989

(Have not found yet. -ed)

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Subject:  Thanks

  Frank Serpas III <serpas@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
  Keith Privett <72704.2453@compuserve.com>

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