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A great deal has changed since “Saturday Night Live” first aired in 1975, but one carpenter has remained a constant. Stephen “Demo” DeMaria, 85, has helped build the sets for every one of the show’s 960 episodes. “I never missed no show,” the Brooklyn native told The Post in his thick accent.
The weekly production schedule is an adrenaline-fueled race. DeMaria, who now lives in Staten Island, comes into the shop at 1 a.m. on Thursdays.
By 2 a.m., he gets sketches of the sets the show will need for the week. Then, he divides up the work between five crews and about 50 carpenters. They have barely 36 hours to get everything built by Friday night.
“You gotta know who can do what,” he said. “Some of these sets are really hard to do, and you gotta have the right people – I give out all the sets to different guys.” Not all the sets make the cut. For a February episode hosted by actress Ayo Edebiri, his team built an enormous boat that the show didn’t end up using.
“A lot of times that happens,” said DeMaria. “We build 10, 12 sets, they might cut two.”The father-of-two and grandfather-of-three — his wife of over 60 years passed away in 2022, with many “SNL” people attending her funeral — isn’t always up to watch the show when it airs late Saturday evening. But, he and his team make a point of viewing it Monday morning.
“We got a big TV in the shop. All the guys that work on the show, we put it on the TV and watch the whole show, to see the sets,” he said, adding that it’s often funny to see how their work looks in the broadcast. “Some of the sets are tremendous, and when you see it on TV, you see a very little bit of it.”Many of his colleagues are like family.
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Cillian Murphy very nearly pursued a career as a musician.At the age of 19, the Oppenheimer star teamed up with his brother, Páidi, to form their own band: The Sons of Mr Green Genes, named after the Frank Zappa tune from his 1969 album ‘Hot Rats’.Now, in the afterglow of Oppenheimer‘s success (and his BAFTA Best Actor win), a video of Murphy talking about the band’s unique sound, and the importance of live music, has resurfaced on social media. You can watch it above.“It came from the whole spirit of jazz, which is the freedom to express yourself on your instrument, which has been lost,” a teenage Murphy said of the band’s style.The actor then explained how “it can be argued through the ’80s and through the early ’90s [bands were] playing to a pop formula.”“This is the freedom to go a bit further,” he continued.
The murder trial of Harmony Montgomery continues with another witness against the accused murderer. This time a friend of Adam Montgomery, the father accused of murdering the 5-year-old, took the stand to reveal more disturbing details of the alleged abuse the child faced. According to the Associated Press,
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A murder accused told police his alleged victim was in Scotland before officers discovered the man's decomposing body in his own home, a jury has heard. Ian Connell denies murdering 45-year-old Donald Patience, who was found dead in a property on Ainsworth Road in Radcliffe, Bury.
Christopher Vourlias Abel Ferrara has made a career out of staring unflinchingly into the abyss, interrogating man’s weakness and depravity and daring his audiences to look away. Faced with the catastrophic violence of the war in Ukraine, however, which he chronicles in the Berlin-premiering documentary “Turn in the Wound,” even the iconoclastic director finds himself at a loss — for words, and for easy answers.
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