The Adam Sandler Handbook - Everything you need to know about Adam Sandler

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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over $100 million at the box office. He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), Big Daddy (1999), and Mr. Deeds (2002), though he has ventured into more dramatic territory. In 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison, a film and television production company that has produced numerous films and developed the 2007 television series Rules of Engagement.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Adam Sandler's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Adam Sandler, Going Overboard, Shakes the Clown, Coneheads (film), Airheads, Mixed Nuts, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Bulletproof (1996 film), The Wedding Singer, Dirty Work (1998 film), The Waterboy, Big Daddy (1999 film), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Little Nicky, The Animal, Mr. Deeds, Punch-Drunk Love, Eight Crazy Nights, A Day with the Meatball, The Hot Chick, Anger Management (film), Pauly Shore Is Dead, 50 First Dates, Spanglish (film), The Longest Yard (2005 film), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Click (2006 film), Reign Over Me, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Bedtime Stories (film), Funny People, The Shortcut…and more pages!

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• Date de parution: 12 avril 2013
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• EAN13: 9781488504792
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Adam Sandler Going Overboard Shakes the Clown Coneheads (film) Airheads Mixed Nuts Billy Madison Happy Gilmore Bulletproof (1996 film) The Wedding Singer Dirty Work (1998 film) The Waterboy Big Daddy (1999 film) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Little Nicky The Animal Mr. Deeds Punch-Drunk Love Eight Crazy Nights A Day with the Meatball The Hot Chick Anger Management (film) Pauly Shore Is Dead 50 First Dates Spanglish (film) The Longest Yard (2005 film) Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Click (2006 film) Reign Over Me I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry You Don't Mess with the Zohan Bedtime Stories (film) Funny People The Shortcut

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Grown Ups (film) Just Go with It Zookeeper (film) Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Jack and Jill (film)

That's My Boy (2012 film) Hotel Transylvania Grown Ups 2 They're All Gonna Laugh at You! What the Hell Happened to Me? What's Your Name? Stan and Judy's Kid Shhh...Don't Tell

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler

Born

Nationality

Occupation

Years active

Influenced by

Spouse(s)

Children

Adam Sandler

Sandler in 2011

Adam Richard Sandler September 9, 1966 Brooklyn, New York, United States

American

Actor, comedian, musician, songwriter, screenwriter, film producer

1987–present

[1] Mel Brooks, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield

Jacqueline Samantha (Titone) Sandler (m. 2003–present)

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Website

[2] adamsandler.com

Adam Richard Sandler(born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming aSaturday Night Livecast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that [3] grossed over $100 million at the box office. He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the filmsBilly Madison(1995),Happy Gilmore(1996),The Waterboy(1998),Big Daddy(1999), andMr. Deeds(2002), though he has ventured into more dramatic territory. In 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison, a film and television production company that has produced numerous films and developed the 2007 television seriesRules of Engagement.

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Early life Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Stanley, an electrical engineer, and Judy Sandler, a nursery [4] [5][6] school teacher. His family is Jewish, descending from immigrants from Russia on both sides. When he was five, his family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he attended Manchester Central High School. He found he was a natural comic, and nurtured his talent while at New York University by performing regularly in clubs [7] and on campuses. Sandler graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988. The song "Lunchlady Land" from his debut albumThey're All Gonna Laugh at You!is dedicated to Emalee, the [citation needed] lunchlady at Hayden Dining Hall at New York University.

Career

Acting career

In the mid to late 1980s, Sandler played Theo Huxtable's friend, Smitty, on The Cosby Show(1987–1988). He was a performer for the MTV game show Remote Control, on which he made appearances as the characters "Trivia Delinquent" or "Stud Boy". Early in his career, Sandler performed in comedy clubs, taking the stage at his brother's urging when he was seventeen. He was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in Los Angeles. Miller recommended him toSaturday Night Liveproducer Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer forSNLin 1990 and became a featured player the following year, making a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including "The Thanksgiving Song" and [8] "The Chanukah Song". Sandler told Conan O'Brien onThe Tonight Show [9] that NBC fired him and Chris Farley from the show in 1995.

In 1994 he co-starred inAirheadswith Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi. He starred inBilly Madison(1995) as a grown, though uneducated, man repeating grades 1–12 to earn back his father's respect, along with the right to Sandler in 2002 inherit his father's multi-million-dollar hotel empire. InAt the Movies, Siskel and Ebert gave the film a very bad review, and said of Sandler "...Not an attractive screen presence, he might have a career as a villain or a fall guy or the butt of a joke, but as the protagonist his problem is he creates the fingernails on [] the blackboard" with Siskel adding "...you don't have a good motivation for the character's behavior". He followed this film with other financially successful comedies such asBulletproof(1996),Happy Gilmore(1996) andThe Wedding Singer(1998). He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thrillerVery Bad Things(1998), but had to back out due to his involvement inThe Waterboy(1998), one of his first hits.

Although his earlier films did not receive critical praise, his more recent films, beginning withPunch-Drunk Love (2002), have received more positive reviews - although they lack the meagre humour of his earlier films. Roger Ebert, in his review ofPunch-Drunk Love, concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly [10] written scripts and characters with no development. Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementionedPunch-Drunk Love(for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe),Spanglish(2004) andReign Over Me(2007). He played a loving father figure inBig Daddy(1999). During filming, he met Jacqueline Samantha Titone—his future wife and mother of his two daughters -—who was cast as [citation needed] the waitress from The Blarney Stone Bar. At one point, Sandler was considered for the part that went to Jamie Foxx inCollateral(2004). He also was one of the finalists along with Jim Carrey and Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka in Tim Burton'sCharlie and the [citation needed] Chocolate Factoryreturned to more dramaticWikipedia:Neutral point of viewTalk:Adam(2005). He

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Sandler# fare with Mike Binder'sReign Over Me(2007), a drama about a man who loses his entire family in 9/11 and rekindles a friendship with his old college roommate (played by Don Cheadle). He starred in the filmI Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry(2007) alongside Kevin James, as a New York City fireman pretending to be gay to keep up an insurance scam so that his best friend's children can have benefits. Sandler headlinedYou Don't Mess with the Zohan(2008), a comedy about a Mossad agent who fakes his own death and moves to the United States to become a hair stylist. The film was written by Sandler,The 40-Year-Old Virginwriter-director Judd Apatow (who was an old roommate of Sandler's when both were starting out), andTriumph, the Insult Comic Dogcreator Robert Smigel, and was directed byHappy Gilmoredirector Dennis Dugan. "Like Will Ferrell, Sandler has layers of tenderness under layers of irony under layers of tenderness—plus a floating anger like Jupiter’s great red spot," wrote David Edelstein ofNew Yorkmagazine in a review ofYou Don't Mess with the Zohan. "Some performers become stars because we can read them instantly, others—like Sandler—because we [11] never tire of trying to get a fix on them." Sandler starred inBedtime Stories(2008), a fantasy film directed byBringing Down the Housedirector Adam Shankman, about a stressed hotel maintenance worker whose bedtime stories he reads to his niece and nephew begin to come true. This marked Sandler's first family film and first film [12] under the Walt Disney banner. Keri Russell and English comedian Russell Brand co-starred.

In 2009, Sandler starred in Judd Apatow's third directorial featureFunny People. He played a very successful stand up comedian who finds out he has a terminal illness and he takes a young inexperienced comic, played by Seth Rogen, under his wing. Filming began in October 2008 and finished in [13] January 2009. The film was released on July 31, 2009. At one point, Sandler was in talks to star in Quentin Tarantino's World War II film Inglourious Basterds, which he confirmed, but he did not appear in it due to a Sandler in 2009 [14] scheduling conflict withFunny Peoplethe release of. Following Funny People, it, along withPunch-Drunk Lovewere cited in the June 2010 announcement that Sandler was one of 135 [15] people (including 20 actors) invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Sandler appeared inGrown Ups, teaming up with Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade (all of whom have worked with Sandler before) for a film about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on the July 4 weekend. Other costars include Salma Hayek (playing Sandler's wife), Maria Bello (playing James' wife), and fellowSNLalumna Maya Rudolph (playing Rock's wife), Colin Quinn, Tim Meadows, and Norm [16] Macdonald. Sandler andDickie Robertsscribe Fred Wolf wrote the script and Dennis Dugan directed the film. Sandler starred in the 2011 filmJust Go with It, with Jennifer Aniston, a romantic comedy written by Allan Loeb and Tim Dowling and directed by Dennis Dugan. He played a plastic surgeon who asks his office manager, played by Aniston, to pose as his wife, in order to prove his honesty to his much younger girlfriend, played by Brooklyn Decker. Sandler also provided the voice of a capuchin monkey in Kevin James'Zookeeper, released on July 8, [17] 2011. In 2012, he starred inThat's My Boywith Andy Samberg. The film was about a man, played by Sandler, who fathered a son, played by Samberg, with his teacher in high school. Then, years later, he visits his son on the eve of his wedding and clashes with the bride (Leighton Meester). In 2011, Sandler pulled off an extraordinary double in which he won both Worst Actor and Worst Actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards for his filmJack and Jill. Not only was he the first person to win both awards, but he also was the first male actor to win the Worst Actress dishonor. The film also won every other award, becoming the first film to sweep the Golden Raspberry Awards.

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Happy Madison Productions

Sandler formed his film production company, Happy Madison [18] Productions, in 1999, first producing fellowSNLalumnus Rob Schneider's filmDeuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Happy Madison has produced all of Sandler's subsequent films to date with the exceptionsPunch Drunk LoveandSpanglish.Reign Over Meand Funny Peoplewere produced by Happy Madison but under the subsidiary label "Madison 23".

Sandler is known for consistently working with a core group of friends and associates through Happy Madison, frequently casting fellowSNLperformers in various roles in his films. Sandler and Happy Madison producedSNLcontemporary Rob Schneider's vehiclesDeuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo(1999),The Animal(2001), The Hot Chick(2002), andDeuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), andThe Benchwarmers(2006), with Sandler making cameo appearances in the middle three. Meanwhile, Schneider has Sandler has collaborated with Henry Winkler and appeared in cameo roles in Sandler filmsThe Waterboy,Little Kevin James for several film projects, 2011. Nicky,Mr. Deeds,Click,The Longest Yard,I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, andBedtime Stories. Schneider had larger roles in Sandler filmsBig Daddy,50 First Dates,Eight Crazy Nights,You Don't Mess with the Zohan, andGrown Ups.

Happy Madison produced David Spade'sJoe Dirt,Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, andThe Benchwarmers, which also featured Rob [18] Schneider. Spade additionally made a cameo appearance inI Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larryand had a prominent supporting role inGrown Ups. Sandler cameoed as a special audience member in an episode ofThe Showbiz Show with David Spade.SNL contemporary Kevin Nealon has appeared in ten Happy Madison productions or Sandler films, includingHappy Gilmore,The Wedding Singer,Little Nicky,Joe Dirt,Eight Crazy Nights,Anger Management,Grandma's Boy,You Don't Mess with the Zohan,Just Go With Itand the Dana Carvey vehicle,The Master of Disguise.

The handprints and shoeprints of Adam Sandler in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 2008.

Happy Madison also producedPaul Blart: Mall Cop, the first starring vehicle for Kevin James. James had costarred with Sandler inI Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larryand Grown Upsand made a cameo appearance inYou Don't Mess with the Zohan. Happy Madison also produced James' second starring vehicleZookeeper.

He appeared as the featured guest on the final episode of John McEnroe's eponymous CNBC talk show, airing in late 2004. McEnroe appeared as himself in three of Sandler's films (Mr. Deeds,Anger Management, andYou Don't Mess with the Zohan). Anna Faris, who appeared inThe Hot Chick, became the first female actor to headline a production for Happy Madison withThe House Bunnyand will headline another film for Happy Madison in the near future. Others who frequently appear in Sandler films include Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, John Turturro, Jon Lovitz, Clint Howard, Norm Macdonald, Nick Swardson, and longtime friends Allen Covert, Peter Dante, and Jonathan Loughran. Covert starred in his first leading role inGrandma's Boy, also produced by Happy Madison productions.

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Personal life

On June 22, 2003, Sandler married actress Jacqueline Samantha Titone. [19][20] Titone converted to Sandler's religion, Judaism, in 2000. The [21] couple have two daughters: Sadie Madison Sandler (born 2006) and [22] Sunny Madeline Sandler (born 2008). Sandler lives with his family in [citation Los Angeles, but also owns homes in New York City and Florida. needed]

Political and charitable donations

In 2007, Sandler made a $1 million donation to the Boys and Girls Club [23] in his hometown, Manchester, New Hampshire. He donated $2,100 to [24] Republican Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign the same year.

Discography

Title

They're All Gonna Laugh at You!

What the Hell Happened to Me?

What's Your Name?

Stan and Judy's Kid

Shhh...Don't Tell

Year

1993

1996

1997

1999

2004

Notes

2a Platinum

2a Platinum

Gold

Gold

Sandler with his two daughters, February 2011.

References [2] http://adamsandler.com [4] "Adam Sandler Biography (1966?-)." (http:/ /www.filmreference.com/film/70/Adam-Sandler.html) Film Reference.com. [5] "Adam Sandler's Jewish Roots." (http:/ /www.jewogle.com/article/Entertainment/Actors/283/)Jewogle.com [6] http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/content/just-go-with-it-2011-03-21-118361894/224464.html [8] "Adam Sandler Biography." (http:/ /www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542505)Biography.com. [9] "You're not alone, Conan O'Brien: Adam Sandler says NBC fired him and Chris Farley from 'SNL'" (http:/ /www.nydailynews.com/ entertainment/2010/01/21/2010-01-21_youre_not_alone_conan_obrien_adam_sandler_says_nbc_fired_him_and_chris_farley_fr. html) Joe Dziemianowicz,New York Daily News, January 21, 2010. [10] Ebert, Roger. "Punch-Drunk Love." (http:/ /rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021018/REVIEWS/210180308/ 1023)Chicago Sun-Times. October 18, 2002. [12] "Adam Sandler's Bedtime Stories Come True." (http:/ /www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19719)ComingSoon.net. [17] coloradoan.com (http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110722/COLUMNISTS76/107220304) [18] "Happy Madison." (http://www.adamsandler.com/index.php?section=happy) AdamSandler.com. Accessed October 9, 2008. [21] "Adam Sandler, Wife Have a Baby." (http:/ /www.people.com/people/article/0,,1191818,00.html)People.com. [22] "Adam Sandler and wife have second daughter." (http:/ /www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE4AB18Q20081112) Reuters.com. November 12, 2008.

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[23] "Adam Sandler donates $1 million to Manchester charity." (http:/www.newhampshire.com/nh-people/adam-sandler-biography.aspx) newhampshire.com. [24] Sandler is a Republican ( Sandler in Zimbio's list of "Famous Republicans" (http:/ /www.zimbio.com/Famous+Republicans/articles/ VDhfQPXl2FW/Adam+Sandler) [accessed 2012-05-08]).

External links

Official website (http://www.adamsandler.com/) Adam Sandler (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1191/) at the Internet Movie Database

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Going Overboard

Going Overboard

Directed by

Produced by

Written by

Starring

Music by

Going Overboard VHS cover Valerie Breiman

Mark Daniel Jones Adam Rifkin

Valerie Breiman Scott LaRose Adam Rifkin Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler Burt Young

Steven "Scooby" Scott Smalley

CinematographyRon Jacobs

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Randy D. Wiles

Trimark Pictures (Original) Lions Gate (DVD)

May 11, 1989

97 minutes

United States Canada

English

$200,000

Going Overboardis a 1989 American comedy film released on May 11, 1989. It stars Adam Sandler (in his film debut), Burt Young, Allen Covert, Billy Zane, Terry Moore, Milton Berle, and a small role by Billy Bob Thornton. [1] The movie frequently ranks very "high" on the top 100 worst rated movies IMDb Bottom 100 . As of February 2013[2], it is at #7 on this list, and has been moving closer to the top spot.

The production was shot entirely on a cruise ship going from New Orleans to Canccn. The ship was going to the Miss Universe Pageant and was filled with beauty queens from all over the United States. The camera crew forgot to bring a box of lenses on the ship, so the director of photography was forced to shoot with the wrong lenses.

The film was originally released in 1989. However, once Sandler became successful after appearing onSaturday Night Liveand in the filmsBilly Madison, andHappy Gilmore, it was given a wider release by Vidmark Entertainment in 1996.

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