Live From New York - James H. Miller [87]
But nobody noticed I said “fuck,” because we were doing these bad English accents. You couldn’t hear it, it wasn’t really clear, and there were no phone calls or anything. Everybody in the sketch heard it, though, and I remember Laraine coming over to me right after and saying, “Thank you for making broadcasting history.” And then Lorne came over and said, “You just broke the last barrier.” But I didn’t get in trouble, because it was clearly an accident. I didn’t get fired or anything.
HOWARD SHORE:
We really were of that period: the sixties. I think I was even more than Lorne. The spirit of that period was still inherent in our relationships through that time. By the eighties, we all changed and had quite different ideas. But I think the kinds of sexual ideas in the early days of the show were from the sixties — the idea of free love and different relationships with different partners.
ROSIE SHUSTER:
I wasn’t actually in a couple with Lorne when the show started; that’s the real folly of all of it. But I never really actually got divorced from him, I don’t think, until like 1980 or something. I just didn’t want to deal with that. And so I didn’t.
DAN AYKROYD:
By the time Rosie and I became involved, it was over between Rosie and Lorne. They might have been married in name, and all that, but he was seeing other people. There was definitely separation there.
TOM DAVIS:
When Rosie and Danny first started dating, Danny was sure that Lorne was going to kill him because Rosie was his ex-wife. I was very close to Danny, and he was like, “Don’t tell anybody, Davis, don’t tell anybody.” And of course everybody knew anyway. Finally Lorne said to me, “Danny and Rosie sure are hitting it off,” and it was like, why are we going through all this hiding and charade kind of thing? I mean, Danny and Rosie and I went on vacations together. But somehow, Danny was sure that Lorne was going to kill him.
DAN AYKROYD:
My thing with Rosie never really got in the way of work until near the end. I was pretty upset, because Rosie was breaking up with me and going with a guy who is one of my best friends now.
LARAINE NEWMAN:
I always had these long-distance romances, which were about as much as I could handle. I really didn’t get involved with people I was working with. I liked keeping it light. I was involved with lots of people who were just numb lotharios, but because I knew that about them I could just enjoy them and not get involved. I was in no shape to be involved with anybody.
ANNE BEATTS:
When Michael and I broke up, he “closed the iron door” on me. I was not a part of Michael’s life or attitudes after that except at a safe distance. It was very difficult, very difficult — not just for me, but for both of us. But I didn’t quite go to town on it in the same way that Michael did. We had some argument about something during the dress rehearsal of a show shortly after we had broken up, and Michael smashed his fist into a glass ashtray and had to be taken to the NBC nurse. He then spent the rest of the evening bandaged, and when people asked him about it he would say, “Anne and I had an argument.”
ROSIE SHUSTER:
On Wednesday mornings, people were scrambling for the showers. We did bunk there and it was pretty fun — and pretty funky. Sometimes people would crawl out of their offices in the glow of those fluorescents, and it was not pretty. It was dormlike. Gilda came in once in her pajamas to write in the middle of the night.
BUCK HENRY:
John and Danny left the show at the same time, and I thought they shouldn’t have. I thought they owed Lorne another season. The kind of spontaneity and cleverness and responsiveness that went into that night when