LORNE MICHAELS HAS a rule, whenever he finishes another long season of Saturday Night Live, to take off the month of June. He might go to his home in Amagansett, or the blueberry farm he owns in Maine, and usually to Europe, where last summer he had a few work obligations in the middle of his break. In London, he stopped by the Savoy Theatre
to pose on the red carpet with Tina Fey at the British premiere of Mean Girls the musical, which he produced, and made time for dinner at the River Cafe with Jimmy Iovine, Paul McCartney, Dr. Dre, and Bruce Springsteen, who was in town to play Wembley Stadium. During dinner, Iovine told a story about how, in 1975, when Michaels was gearing up for SNL’s…