While looking back at past projects, Chris Columbus, the director behind holiday classics Home Alone and Gremlins, shared a not-so-merry holiday recollection involving comedian Chevy Chase. Speaking to Vanity Fair for a recent interview, Columbus said John Hughes had sent him the script for 1989’s Christmas Vacation, starring Chase. Columbus …
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Saturday Night Live wasn’t Saturday Night Live, both literally and spiritually, when it premiered on Oct. 11, 1975. Weeks earlier, ABC had debuted a prime-time variety show called Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell. So Lorne Michaels’ late-night creation had to go by, simply, Saturday Night — the same title …
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It was never going to work. They couldn’t give enough tickets away to fill the seats. There were sound issues, lighting issues, drug issues, ego issues. Some of the crew walked out. A key cast member wouldn’t sign his contract, then went missing right before the show was supposed to …
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Jason Reitman‘s forthcoming film about the inaugural broadcast of Saturday Night Live, titled Saturday Night, will be released in theaters Oct. 11 — the same date the late-night sketch show debuted in 1975. The movie, distributed by Sony, was directed by Reitman and co-written by Reitman and his Ghostbusters: Frozen …
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Never afraid of stirring the pot, Chevy Chase has once again opened up about his abrupt departure fromCommunityin 2012. On Mark Maron’sWTFpodcast, Chase told the host he has all but forgotten about his participation on the show. “They wanted me. So, I said okay,” Chase told Maron, in a wide-ranging …
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