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Original SNL players memoir looks back in fondness, humor LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE - Laraine Newman arrives at the premiere "Live from New York!" in Los Angeles on June 10, 2015. Newman released her memoir “May You Live in Interesting Times." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5FILE - Comedian Chevy Chase, second from left, joins the cast of NBCs "Sa...

LOS ANGELES — If Laraine Newman recounted only her experiences as an original “Saturday Night Live” player — a storied ensemble that included Gilda Radner and John Belushi — she’d have plenty of memoir material. But she has other adventures to share in “May You Live in Interesting Times,” from the quirky — she studied […]

Laraine Newman was a founding member of the improv group The Groundlings and an original Saturday Night Live cast member. Shes now voiced dozens of animated characters. Shes pictured above in Los Angeles in June 2015. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP When Tracy Newman was younger, she remembers walking past the door to her little sisters room: Laraine was "a little bit of a loner," Tracy recalls. Her "fantasy life was very active. ... Id walk by her door and hear voices like she was ta...

/ Jane Curtin, from left, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman in February 1978. Newman wasnt necessarily happy living in New York, working on a show where everyone competed fiercely for airtime. She was in her early 20s, prone to self-sabotage, and missed her friends and family in Los Angeles. Alan Zweibel was a writer in the early years of SNLwhen Newman was in the cast. "I was nuts about her," he recalls. He remembers her fearlessness in particular; "You can give her a ...

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