Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!199.60.229.3!newsfeed.direct.ca!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: Doug Krause Newsgroups: alt.tv.snl,rec.arts.tv,alt.answers,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Saturday Night Live FAQ: References Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 21 Aug 1997 18:09:19 -0700 Organization: Lido 24 Hr. Pizza and Video Lines: 194 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Expires: 25 Sep 1997 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell4.ba.best.com Keywords: nbc snl saturday night faq Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.tv.snl:20040 rec.arts.tv:259422 alt.answers:28444 rec.answers:33326 news.answers:110392 Archive-name: tv/sat-night-live/references Last-modified: 1997/02/11 Posting-Frequency: Monthly Saturday Night Live FAQ: References ==================================== 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------ Subject: Saturday Night Live by Anne Beatts and John Head Avon Books (1977) ISBN 0-380-01801-2 ------------------------------ Subject: Backstage at Saturday Night Live! An Unauthorized Portrait by Michael McKenzie Scholastic Book Services (1980) ISBN 0-590-30919-6 ------------------------------ Subject: Wired (1984) By Bob Woodward Simon and Schuster ------------------------------ Subject: Gilda: An Intimate Portrait by David Saltman Contemporary Books (1992) ISBN 0-8092-4102-1 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ Subject: Thanks Frank Serpas III Keith Privett <72704.2453@compuserve.com> Ralph Morse ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If this document is out of date, the latest version can be obtained from one of these sources: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/sat-night-live/references ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/tv/sat-night-live/references.Z http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/tv/sat-night-live/references/faq.html Please send any corrections or new information to snl-faq@lido.com. -- Doug Krause dijon@lido.com http://www.lido.com/ "The circle is now complete. The Circle of Life!" -Mufasa Vader