Saturday Night is the intimate, original history of Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy.This is the book that revealed to the world what really happened behind the scenes during the first ten years of this groundbreaking program, from the battles SNL fought with NBC to the battles fought within the show itself. It's all here— the love affairs, betrayals, rivalries, drug problems, overnight successes, and bitter failures, mixed with the creation of some of the most outrageous and original comedy ever.This reissue features nearly fifty photographs of cast, crew and sketches.
"A fascinating analysis not only of a mercurial bunch of 'wild and crazy guys' but of the evolution of American television... Amid all the turmoil emerges an absorbing study of how corporate money and personal talent converged in a comedy-creating crucible that was unique in TV history."--Boston Herald
"A splendidly informative and entertaining book [that] succeeds admirably from a multiplicity of perspectives: critical, historical, sociological... Hill and Weingrad even meticulously trace the show's genesis and sometimes precarious survival amid the treacherously conservative jungle of NBC's corporate politics."--Washington Post Book World
"An anthropological masterpiece."--Vanity Fair
"In this riveting account of the people, pressures, and sometimes bizarre process that produced the hit show, the authors explain Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SNL."--Newsweek
"The best reported book I've ever read about a TV program."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"The book is packed with the kind of behind-the-scenes information that reveals the world behind the hoopla."--New York Times Book Review
An absolute 'must' for the legions of SNL fans, and in an updated edition to celebrate Saturday Night Live's enduring pop culture television legacy, "Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live" is a unique and especially recommended pick for personal, professional, community, and college/university library television history/comedy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.-- "Midwest Book Review"
"Thorough and nonpartisan... a paradigmatic morality tale."--Frank Rich, The New Republic
Doug Hill has studied the history and philosophy of technology for more than twenty years, and it is that study that informs "Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology."Hill has led a peripatetic personal and professional life. He was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, went to high school in Carmel and Burlingame, California, undergraduate school in Oregon and graduate school in New York City. After living for 20 years in Montclair, New Jersey, he now resides in Philadelphia.
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