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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 9731990" data-attributes="member: 59">Last night, I finished Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison.  It's kind of a fascinating book, equally a Lorne Michaels biography and a book about SNL and its processes.  As a biography, I thought it was even-handed and interesting. Michaels is a bit of a weird dude, and Morrison doesn't shy away from that or from detailing some of his less-appealing traits and decisions, but he also seems to have figured out his personal best life early, pursued it, and lived it -- there's an authenticity to his single-mindedness and weirdness that I found somewhat charming, even if I found some of his choices disagreeable or worse, though most everything to say about that has been said.  The process stuff about SNL is particularly strong, and Morrison's structuring of the book (a chapter on how each day of the week works on the show, followed by a handful of chapters of biography) is clever and paces the book nicely.  If you're into pairings, the book would go particularly well with a viewing of Jason Reitman's Saturday Night.</blockquote>