Lorne Michaels Reflects on His ‘S.N.L.’ Legacy Ahead of the 50th Anniversary
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Lorne Michaels Reflects on His ‘S.N.L.’ Legacy Ahead of the 50th Anniversary

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I happened to be there that night, when then-candidate Trump got the most laughs in one sketch by gamely dancing to Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” a precursor to his “Y.M.C.A.” rally dance. The mood at that after-party was very strange. Some in the cast…

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
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Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in La Conner, Wash. He was 92. His son Fleetwood confirmed the…

Tony Roberts, Nonchalant Fixture in Woody Allen Films, Dies at 85
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Tony Roberts, Nonchalant Fixture in Woody Allen Films, Dies at 85

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines His first movie with Mr. Allen was the comedy “Play It Again, Sam” (1972), written by Mr. Allen but directed by Herbert Ross. Mr. Roberts played a businessman who had had “the foresight to buy Polaroid at 8 1/2” but is too busy…

Timothée Chalamet Is Himself and Bob Dylan on ‘S.N.L.’
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Timothée Chalamet Is Himself and Bob Dylan on ‘S.N.L.’

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If you’re “Saturday Night Live” and you need someone to play Alexander Hamilton in an opening sketch about the Founding Fathers, there’s only one person you can turn to: Lin-Manuel Miranda. And then you make him stand there in silence for most of…

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95
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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations made by the Fleischer brothers in the 1930s and ’40s. When…

Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Popular Sportscaster, Dies at 90
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Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Popular Sportscaster, Dies at 90

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Bob Uecker, the clubhouse wit who turned his tales of inferiority as a major league catcher into a comic narrative that animated his second career as a sportscaster and commercial pitchman, died on Thursday at his home in Menomonee Falls, Wis. He was…

‘The Interview’: Ben Stiller Knows How ‘Severance’ Ends
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‘The Interview’: Ben Stiller Knows How ‘Severance’ Ends

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In my reading of your career, around 2010, a real change happens. You started doing fewer of the big, broad comedies and instead made films like “Greenberg,” “While We’re Young” and “The Meyerowitz Stories.” You did “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and…