Television

September, 1983

He has a successful new production company now, Broadway Video, with two floors of elegant art-deco offices on 49th Street and Broadway. Even so, the past is never far away. From his window, Lorne Michaels has an oblique view of 30 Rock, headquarters of NBC. It was there, for a few electric moments, that he presided over the hottest TV phenomenon of the Seventies: Saturday Night Live.Like everyone I knew, I watched Saturday Night religiously back then, identified with its outsider's attitude, wa...

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