But then, he thought, maybe the point was to capture it? "Can we show someone being shot on live television?" Mason asks in the film, echoing the questions he was asking in real life. Mason had ...

Such battles often pit the little guy against a corporate behemoth ... States to settle a simple but critical question: who invented television? Many great tales of American achievement start ...

"Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live," by New ... rewritten the rules of live television, and captured or challenged the zeitgeist for a half-century. Read the book's prologue below ...