European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Laraine Newman never really found her Niche. Dressing room at the 30 Rock facilities for two to three years of his tenure. At times Newman weighed 80 pounds and would take to sitting in her room playing solitaire and resenting the events that had made Gilda a Star and her an also ran. Gilda Radner s vices did not include drugs but almost certainly she was bulimic. She once told an interviewer that she had thrown up in every toilet in Rockefeller Center. In his years immediately following his Short tenure on the show Chevy Chase went through a Bill Murray As the movie critic who never went to see the films. 17-month marriage and was snorting 2 Grams of cocaine a Day. Bill Murray went off one summer to make a movie called where the Buffalo roam about Thetie and times of Hunter s. Thompson. He returned to the show sporting a Long cigarette Holder and drinking himself Blind in emulation of the movie s hero. John Belushi s lifestyle killed him. The one person who appears to have come out of the experience intact is the one who was the most Normal going in. Jane Curtin did t indulge in drugs refused to put up with Belushi s Macho tactics and continued to fight for better parts in scripts. Curtin a Boston Debutante married to a Man who is the definition of preppy avoided the celebrity lifestyle and continues to Lead the suburban life in Connecticut. She has a hit show on television with Kate and Allie for which she has won emmy awards the last two seasons. The Book spends about a third of its pages on saturday night live since 1980 when the show went through a total cast and production change. The tone of America has changed in the Reagan years and so has the show. This part of the Book is not so interesting but then neither were the shows. Eddie Murphy comes across exactly As he has in the countless articles America has read about him in the last four years. And with the exception of the few who managed to come through the super stardom with their egos on straight like Curtin and Murphy it will be interesting to see How Many of the 1980s cast members Are fast burning comets. Certainly to the yuppies who came of age in the 1970s, saturday night live was a vital part of the experience. The show made staying at Home on saturday night a Cool thing. Belushi s but Nooroo Aykroyd s Jane you ignorant slut Radner s never mind and cheeseburger cheeseburger. No Coke Pepsi have All become a part of America s language. Television is often the Mirror of daily life. And saturday night live in its Good and bad was a reflection of the 1970s. Foe Piscopo left As Frank Sinatra with Eddie Murphy As Stevie wonder. April 17,1986 stripes Magazine