Who Could Fill Lorne Michaels’s Shoes? |
Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live, is a singular figure in American entertainment, and something of an enigma. He rarely talks about himself, and a veritable cone of silence surrounds him. None of which deterred filmmaker Morgan Neville from making the new documentary Lorne. “Lorne is a maestro of mixed signals,” Neville told Vanity Fair’s Joy Press hours before the film’s premiere in New York. “On the one hand, he wants to be understood, and on the other hand, he doesn’t think it’s possible to understand him.” Neville did his best—and even got some insight into how the show might move forward when the almost 82-year-old titan eventually steps away from it. “I don’t think there’s one person that can take over” for Michaels, said Neville. “When people talk about Tina [Fey] or Seth [Meyers]—they have enough of a profile that they can publicly defend the show and keep it in the cultural conversation. But my guess is that maybe two or even three people would take over.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Chris Murphy charts how Titaníque went from basement-bound Titanic parody to Broadway show; Dan Adler goes back, back to the beginning, with the cast of Laguna Beach; Eve Batey introduces us to Anitta from Brazil; and Rebecca Ford explains just why it took so long for Euphoria to return. |
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