How Kate McKinnon pulled off 'Hallelujah.'
Tuesday night is writing night at Saturday Night Live. So on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, the staff started the evening working on some sketches based on the assumption that Hillary Clinton would win that day's presidential election. As the long night wore on, though, it became more and more apparent that they would need to recalibrate for that week's show. Once the writers knew that Donald Trump had triumphed in the electoral college and would become the forty-fifth president of the United States, they were scrambling for how to handle the emotion of the country, of their viewers, of their cast. They delayed dealing with the famous SNL "cold open," which would set the tone for the episode. "There was no way to know what the country will be feeling like on Saturday, let alone Thursday or Friday," said writer Chris Kelly. They went for it anyway. Your home sweet home is desperate for good savings isn't it? Get a head start on shopping before the long weekend officially arrives. Is it possible? Is it true? Have the Stranger Things kids really grown up? I'm talking to Gaten Matarazzo, who, in the primordial era of July 2016, was once the babiest of all the baby Stranger Things kids—playing Dustin, the goofy one with the trucker hat—and he's telling me about moving into a new place with his girlfriend. He still has that sweet-hearted grin, the one made of butterflies and confetti, and now, the slightest tinge of aged wisdom, the kind that only comes when you've lived a certain amount of life, and been through a certain amount of things. Sure, Matarazzo played Switch Sports until 1 a.m. the night before we met (he's a tennis guy!), but he's highly concerned about bathroom appliances, too. "The lightbulbs in my bathroom haven't been changed in a month and I'm completely fine peeing in the dark," he says. "I'm like, 'I should probably change those!'" The Stranger Things kids have, in fact, grown up. Molded glassware inspired by world's greatest mountains, now all for 20% off. These ideas are for the golfer who dreams about green stretches of wide open course. I last saw Hiers in a rice paddy in Vietnam. He was nineteen then—my wonderfully skilled and maddeningly insubordinate radio operator. For months we were seldom more than three feet apart. Then one day he went home, and fifteen years passed before we met by accident last winter at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. A few months later I visited Hiers and his wife, Susan, in Vermont, where they run a bed-and -breakfast place. The first morning we were up at dawn trying to save five newborn rabbits. Hiers built a nest of rabbit fur and straw in his barn and positioned a lamp to provide warmth against the bitter cold. |
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