b'muchlongerdress show has to be cut or The Fur Salon edited down for the live show. The entire Weve Moved!day is spent refining, rewriting,tweaking, Visit us at our New Location: taking out, and find-51 Academy Street in South Orange ing what works. ProducingUp-dateisfast-paced andrelentless.Says W ere yours ource for thatWeinstein,Any-The Update office on the Saturday of last years Christmas s pecialh olidayG ift thinginvolvingshow. This was dubbed the COVID episode when every-wardrobe,props,one but a few got to go home early. Photo credit: Rosalind Come see our Gorgeous SelectionOConnor/NBC Universal.of Custom and Ready Made Furs: hairandmakeup, graphics,thingsthings to do and I thought, Oh I wish coatshatsscarvescapesgloves like that for Updatemy job is tothere was a team of Scotts to do all of make sure everyone knows what theythis. And then I was like, Oh wait. W e also offer : need to do to make sure it happens byThats something cool. What is that? Storage Alterations air[time]. So I expanded on it and ruminated on Cleaning Cold Storage The whirlwind news cycle and theit for years, and when I came out to Glazing paceoftheshow,whichacceleratedMaplewood I started writing it. during the Trump years, has become re- Weinstein wrote drafts of all three lentless. What was consuming our na- books, which he ultimately decided to tions attention on Wednesday may beself-publish.Thisiswherehismany Thank you for supporting our business. a blip in our collective memory by theyears in television production proved timeSaturdaynightrollsaround.Itto be invaluable. He says, There is a 51 A cAdemyS treet| S outho rAnge| 973-763-2283 was a lot simpler back then, says Wein- certain standard of quality you expect, stein, who has worked with eight dif- especially working at SNL. Just good ferent Update anchors. There wasntenough is never enough for me, so I the same attention on the show. It was awas always pushing myself on that. smaller staff. We did a lot less material.He drew on his experience commu-Over the years the staff has grown a ton,nicating with the shows graphic artists Flowers + Gifts on Scotland Rd theturnaroundtimeshavechanged,to convey his expectations for the books andtheshowisalotmorepackedillustrator.Andheconstantlykepta than it used to be, he says, noting thatweather eye out so as not to fall in love theshowincludessignificantlymorewithyourownworkandincorporate sketches and filmed pre-tapes (such as fake commercials) than before. Every-oneispulledinathousanddifferent directions, and so its a far more hectic schedule than it used to be. Despite all the changes, much has nature-inspired designs stayed the same. At the end of the day, deliveries | subscriptions | events its still two guys reading cue cards, sit-ting behind a desk, he explains. Its 9 Scotland Rd. South Orange, NJ such a stripped-down form of comedy, and thats why its lasted so long.wildlyfloral.co WhilereturningtoSNLseason after season and raising two children, Weinstein somehow found the time to explore his own creative side to write and publish a book series called Team of Steves about a high schooler named Steve Buchmann who comes face-to-facewiththreeversionsofhimself from different dimensions. A mix of sci-fi and high school angst, the ideaWeinstein published Team of Steves in came to him years ago when he was2019 and followed up with Book 2, Team of StevesDimensions in 2020. Book 3 leaving the gym. I had a long list ofshould be out in February.18/ matters magazine / holiday 2022'