It’s Oct. 11, 1975, just minutes before the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” (then called “NBC’s Saturday Night”). John Belushi (Matt Wood) is missing, but Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt) has found him. She watches as he glides around the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink wearing a bumblebee costume.
This is one of the sweeter scenes in Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” which chronicles the 90 minutes before the premiere of the counterculture comedy show that would become the juggernaut “Saturday Night Live.” Radner looks serene and happy as she watches Belushi skate around the rink, waxing poetic about what she’ll remember when she’s grown old and this is all over. It won’t be the sketches or the chaos, but rather moments like this one.
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