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EXCLUSIVE: Leander Suleiman will play comedy writer Anne Beatts in Sony Pictures’ film SNL 1975 (working title), based on real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of the opening night of Saturday Night Live, Deadline has learned. Writing for SNL from 1975-1979, Beatts garnered two Emmys and six…

Tonight, Saturday Night Live paid photographic tribute to Anne Beatts and DMX, both of whom died this week. Beatts, one of the late-night sketch show’s original writers, died on Wednesday at the age of 74. Her cause of death was not disclosed. Beginning her career in comedy writing at National Lampoon magazine, Beatts…

UPDATE, with reactions Anne Beatts, an original Saturday Night Live writer who created some of the show’s earliest breakthrough characters, among them the nerdy high schoolers Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Loopner, died yesterday. She was 74. Her death was announced in a tweet by SNL original cast member Laraine Newman. A…