Editing Lorne Michaels (section)

==Early life==
Lorne David Lipowitz was born to a Jewish family in [[Toronto, Ontario]], on November 17, 1944, to Florence (née Becker) (1915–2001) and Abraham Lipowitz (1908–1959), who worked as a [[furrier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/mcc-cjr-16206/page-9|title=Canadian Jewish review, November 24, 1944, page 9 - SFU Digitized Newspapers|date=November 24, 1944|access-date=24 June 2024|website=newspapers.lib.sfu.ca }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Canadian Jewish Review, 15 Nov 1957 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVMfAAAAIBAJ&dq=LIPOWITZ&pg=PA8&article_id=4376,3201395 |publisher=The Canadian Jewish Review |access-date=24 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lorne Michaels |url=https://walkoffame.com/lorne-michaels/ |website=[[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] |date=October 25, 2019 |access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref>

Several sources incorrectly state that he was born on a [[kibbutz]] in the then-[[Mandatory Palestine|British mandate of Palestine]],<ref name=birthKibbutz1>{{cite news| last1= Swaine| first1= Jon| title= Lorne Michaels: the inscrutable kingmaker of comedy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/feb/17/lorne-michaels-kingmaker-comedy-saturday-night-live|access-date= August 26, 2017|work=The Guardian|date=February 17, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170823204339/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/feb/17/lorne-michaels-kingmaker-comedy-saturday-night-live|archive-date=August 23, 2017| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=birthKibbutz2>{{cite news|last1=Kaplan|first1=Don|title=Lorne Michaels, the Kingmaker of Comedy|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/lorne-michaels-kingmaker-comedy-article-1.1323674|access-date=August 26, 2017|work=NY Daily News|date=May 12, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170826074035/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/lorne-michaels-kingmaker-comedy-article-1.1323674|archive-date=August 26, 2017| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=birthKibbutz3>{{cite web|title=Lorne Michaels|url=https://www.biography.com/people/lorne-michaels-16242370| website= Biography.com |access-date=August 26, 2017|publisher=A&E Television Networks|date=November 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826112758/https://www.biography.com/people/lorne-michaels-16242370|archive-date=August 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name= birthKibbutz4>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/05/lorne-michaels-snl-anniversary|title=Paul Simon on Friend and S.N.L. Creator Lorne Michaels |first= Paul|last=Simon|website= [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|vanityfair.com]] |date=April 13, 2012|access-date=February 26, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180119100645/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/05/lorne-michaels-snl-anniversary|archive-date=January 19, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and that his [[Jewish]] family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario when he was an infant.<ref name="jewishtampa.com">{{cite news|title=Jews in the News: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Neil Simon and Lorne Michaels|url=https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-lorne-michaels|access-date=August 25, 2017|work= jewishtampa.com| publisher= Tampa Jewish Community Centers & Federation |date=February 11, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170823204841/https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-lorne-michaels |archive-date=August 23, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

Michaels and his two younger siblings were raised in Toronto; he graduated from [[Forest Hill Collegiate Institute]] before attending [[University College, Toronto|University College]] at the [[University of Toronto]], earning a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in English  in 1966.<ref name=Robinson>{{cite magazine|last=Robinson|first=Joanna|title=New Lorne Michaels Biography Will Look at How Political Correctness Has Changed Saturday Night Live|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/lorne-michaels-biography-book-saturday-night-live|access-date=August 25, 2017|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=February 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715174959/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/lorne-michaels-biography-book-saturday-night-live|archive-date=July 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Shriver>{{cite news|last=Shriver|first=Ryan|title=Lorne Michaels |url= https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1548262/Lorne-Michaels/biography|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080321025954/https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1548262/Lorne-Michaels/biography|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]| date=2008|archive-date=March 21, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=The House That Dave Built|last=Gibson|first=Stacey|volume=35|number=2 |magazine= University of Toronto Magazine| publisher= [[University of Toronto]] |page=[https://magazine.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/winter08.pdf#page=22 22]| url= https://magazine.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/winter08.pdf#page=22|quote=Before he began his decades-long domination of Saturday’s late-night airwaves with Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels (BA 1966 UC) produced and directed the student-run University College Follies.}}</ref>