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Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss by Tom Davis ISBN: 0-8021-4456-X / ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4456-0 US $14.00 - 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 320 pp - Mar. 2010 |
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider’s view of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live, and features laugh-out-loud stories about some of its greatest personalities—Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O’Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Davis’s memoir describes not only his experiences on the set of SNL but also his suburban childhood, high school in the ‘60s, the discovery of sex, and reveling in the hippie culture—and psychoactive drugs—from San Francisco to Kathmandu to Burning Man over the last four decades. Lucky for us that he remembers so much of it.