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REVIEW: ‘Saturday Night’ goes inside the chaotic ‘Live! From New York!’ debut

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64% Informative

Jason Reitmans movie “ Saturday Night ” arrives this week to remind us of what the show was like in the 90 minutes before it first aired on Oct. 11, 1975: in short, an imminent disaster that almost no one expected to last more than an episode or two .

The script by Reitman and Gil Kenan is structured as a ticktocker, following the events on, behind and around Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center .

The one duff choice is Matt Wood as John Belushi , not through any failings on Wood ’s part but simply because the actor lacks the air of cherubic innocence.

Rosie Shuster is the show's serenely funny Mother Courage , confident that even if the whole thing goes up in flames, they were right all along.

J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle , who arrives at Studio 8H to check out the new kids.

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47

Informative language

34

Neutral language

58

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

42

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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Time-value

short-lived

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