Lorne released in 2025
"Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live (1975), offers unprecedented access to the man who built and sustained the institution for five decades."
"He takes 24 year olds really seriously in a way that a lot of people, maybe, wouldn't."
"When you're on page three of the 14 page piece, sometimes I really feel that my life slipping away from me. But you can never say, Okay I think we're done with this, I think we can move on" because in that kind of community everybody deserves to have their work heard even if
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it's awful."
"We were at a restaurant once and a woman came up with a script with like a fuzzy cover, like the kind like a little girl would have on her notebook, and she was like, "My husband wrote this. Will you read it?" And [Lorne] goes, "Yes, yes, I understand. I understand.
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I understand," and he took it and I go, "You took this script?" "Let me tell you why. Terry Melcher told Charles Manson, I'm not going to make your demo. And that's why Charles Manson sent them to Terry Melcher's house and Sharon Tate was there." [So "I understand" was
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meant to convey: "I get you. Don't kill me."] Also they did a couple Manson sketches in the 70s and Squeaky Fromme sent him a letter from jail that said, "I understand that you've been a bad boy. Charlie is God. Charlie is Jesus." and then a smiley face. And he said, "It was the smiley face that really got me."
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)