Word: radner
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...hectic weekly schedule and live format have kept its cast and crew in a state of barely controlled mania since the first show in 1975. The pressure-cooker atmosphere helps explain why Dan Aykroyd ended up sleeping with producer Lorne Michaels' wife, not to mention with Gilda Radner, who developed an eating disorder, and Laraine Newman, who was snorting heroin. It led to Julia Sweeney and Dana Carvey weeping in their dressing rooms, and Chris Farley running around naked and defecating out of a 17th-story window. Not to mention Bill Murray and Chevy Chase throwing punches moments before...
...Even when she was first told she had a terminal illness, the doctor and staff gave little comfort. "They don't want you crying," Gans says. A nurse had two words for her: "Calm down." Eventually Gans found a support group, Gilda's Club, named for comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. When Gans arrived for the first meeting, she saw that it was called a "wellness group." But what she needed was a chance to discuss the reality of her impending death--her frail appearance, the sheer mundanity of her days. "I'm not into talking about...
...Literally, "the rest" 2. Fla. neighbor 3. Travel like Lance Armstrong 4. Hindu discipline 5. Ending for 22-Across? 6. Toughen, as steel 7. Bob of Full House 8. Radner and namesakes 9. Results of arms treaties, sometimes 10. Knocker's reply 11. Congressman Rothman called him a "brutish thug" 12. __ de deux 16. Seemingly forever 19. Senator Joseph, who endorsed Gore 21. Hsia, who was found guilty of making illegal contributions to the Democrats 23. Hell, to Sherman 24. D.C. fund raiser 26. Natural-selection theoretician 27. __ Halonen, Finland's first woman President 28. Hall of Famer Lefty...