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Subject: Saturday Night Live FAQ: References

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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)
Saturday Night Live
Backstage at Saturday Night Live!  An Unauthorized Portrait
Wired: the short life and fast times of John Belushi
Gilda:  An Intimate Portrait
Playboy Magazine Interviews
Rolling Stone Magazine Articles

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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:  Saturday Night Live
by Anne Beatts and John Head
Avon Books  (1977)
ISBN 0-380-01801-2

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Subject:  Backstage at Saturday Night Live!  An Unauthorized Portrait
by Michael McKenzie
Scholastic Book Services (1980)
ISBN 0-590-30919-6

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

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Subject:  Gilda: An Intimate Portrait
by David Saltman
Contemporary Books (1992)
ISBN 0-8092-4102-1

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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 Articles

Issue #271, 10 Aug 78
Cover Photo: John Belushi

Issue #277, 02 Nov 78
Cover Photo: Gilda Radner
    Article: The Blues Brothers

Issue #285, 22 Feb 79
Cover Photo: The Blues Brothers

Issue #296, 26 Jul 79
 Cover Name: Mr. Mike

Issue #305, 29 Nov 79
 Cover Name: Father Guido Sarducci

Issue #307, 27 Dec 79
 Cover Name: Lorne Michaels

Issue #323, 07 Aug 80
 Cover Name: The Blues Brothers

Issue #326, 18 Sep 80
 Cover Name: Michael O'Donoghue

Issue #341, 16 Apr 81
 Cover Name: Chevy Chase

Issue #350, 20 Aug 81
Cover Photo: Bill Murray

Issue #361, 21 Jan 82
Cover Photo: John Belushi

Issue #368, 29 Apr 82
Cover Photo: John Belushi

Issue #369, 13 May 82
 Cover Name: John Belushi

Issue #406, 13 Oct 83
Cover Photo: Chevy Chase

Issue #428, 16 Aug 84
Cover Photo: Bill Murray

Issue #431, 27 Sep 84
Cover Photo: John Belushi

Issue #556, 13 Jul 89
 Cover Name: Gilda Radner

Issue #572, 22 Feb 90
    Article: Jon Lovitz

Issue #562, 05 Oct 1989

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Subject:  Thanks

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

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