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...rare shot at instant stardom -- an appearance on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live in 1975 -- misfired when producer Lorne Michaels cut his spot from six minutes to one and Crystal pulled out. "It was awful," says Crystal. "Gilda ((Radner)) walked me to the elevator. I was crying all the way home on the Long Island Railroad, the tears running down the makeup." While friends Chevy Chase and John Belushi went on to become household names, he had to settle for a spot on ABC's wacky series Soap, playing television's first prime-time homosexual. Then came...
...Saturday Night Crystal portrays Young as a comic who has spent 50 years fighting his way to the middle. Buddy has come close to stardom several times in his career, but each time his antagonistic personality blows...
David Paymer (Crazy People) plays brother/manager Stan Yankelman who, throughout the years, has had to put up with Buddy's irksome personality. Yankelman has tried his best to get Buddy the stardom and attention he needs and craves, even at the expense of his own aims and goals...
Young's story is presented in the format of flashbacks about the most memorable episodes in his life. In its most basic form, Mr. Saturday Night chronicles the life and times of a comic whose caustic wit has cost him stardom. The film shows how Buddy has been his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close...
Harvard students with visions of overnight stardom may have their big chance this weekend when the director of Madonna's Truth or Dare comes to town...