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 ...

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Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking ...

The last time I marched under a homemade student banner we were chanting “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, out, out, out”. Mrs ...

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