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trade roundup
Freddy Krueger To Kill Black CW Sitcoms In Their Sleep
The return of Freddy Krueger. The sad remaining of Chace Crawford. Christina Ricci books a porn movie, The Hangover goes out on the town again, and The Game hopes to keep playing. More » -
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When TV Stars Ruled the Earth
Cannibals will soon roam the earth, as will comedians. Jennifer Aniston and dogs are Mother Nature's favorite creations. Audrina Patridge will never, ever die. Your in-town-for-pilot-season friend will never, ever leave. More » -
funny people
Spot The Real-Life Allusions in Judd Apatow's 'Funny People' Trailer!
Here's the trailer for Judd Apatow's Adam Sandler starrer Funny People, which looks like it will be hailed as the director's most mature, personal film yet. How personal? Let us count the ways: More » -
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The Blart Pack
· Kevin James and Adam Sandler will join Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade in a Columbia comedy about "five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on July 4th weekend." More » -
holidays
Adam Sandler Presents: A Kid's Guide to Understanding the Holidays
It's not always easy for young children of different faiths to distinguish the singular pleasures of Christmas from those of Chanukah. Now, thanks to Adam Sandler, the distinction is clearer than ever. -
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We Now Pronounce That Federal Employees Are Screwed Thanks To 'Chuck and Larry'
After offending gays, Asians, and audiences with its ignoble release last summer, the Adam Sandler gay marriage vehicle I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry has found itself back in the news this week with equally confounding results. According to the Washington Post (via Videogum), new legislation that could provide employee benefit programs to the partners of gay federal employees is under siege thanks to Office of Personnel Management deputy director Howard C. Weizmann, who cites the Sandler movie as reason enough not to put the plan into action: More » -
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Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and Others End Surprisingly Bootleg-Free 'Funny People' Rehearsals
We're more than a little disappointed to find that nobody has yet uploaded any video, audio or any record whatsoever of Adam Sandler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen or Kevin James's stand-up sessions last Saturday at UCB. The quartet was concluding rehearsals MC Judd Apatow's forthcoming comedian opus Funny People, insights into which we'd gone all the way to Canada to retrieve as recently as July. Then we miss one night in Franklin Village and it's radio silence. Folks, step it up. We're serious. It's not a Beatles reunion or anything, but if we have to read abstractly about Hill biting it or Rogen defaulting to his imaginative zenith of airplane flatus, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to see or hear it in all its stumbling, meandering glory: More » -
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Why Do The Spaniards Love 'Zohan'?
There's something about Zohan. The overseas box office had been buoyed recently by a flurry of well-received summer releases, the most confounding being Spain's love affair with Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess With the Zohan. What, exactly, is it about a crimping-iron-wielding Mossad agent that has locals skipping siestas to catch the comedy two, sometimes three times? We sent the data to the Defamer Foreign Box Office Analysis Dept. More » -
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Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen Encourage You To Try The Veal
Judd Apatow is the first to admit that he makes "dick movies with heart," and his latest project is no exception. It's a relationship saga set in the world of stand-up comedy, and as he explains, "It's not a big high-concept movie. It's hopefully going to be a very, very funny drama." More » -
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Israeli Takes on Panda in Long-Awaited Box-Office Bloodsport
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular cheat sheet to what's new, noteworthy and/or doomed among the week's movie releases. Today we break down the hand-to-hand combat between a violence-prone bear and an equally vicious Israeli hairdresser, determine which also-ran will look on pitiably from the sidelines, suss an underdog for the multiplex-allergic among you, and review the best and brightest new DVD's. As always, our opinions are our own, but in keeping with the spirit of this week's Big Two, they are also reliable and brutally precise. More » -
defamer
Adam Sandler Wins MTV Award For Best Actor with A Movie Opening Next Week
MTV announced Wednesday that this weekend's Movie Awards show would recognize Adam Sandler as its Generation Award winner, apparently the highest accolade an actor can receive at the annual festivities. Don't call it synergy, though; such shameless dovetailing is the last thing on the network's mind, with Sandler's market-cornering man-child apparently towering over the imminent opening of You Don't Mess With the Zohan five days later: More » -
Areola Squad
Emmanuelle Chirqui's Topless Photo Shoot Lures LAPD's 'Areola' Squad
Though celebrities dropping trou for the glossies has proven both controversial in Miley Cyrus’ case, and “artsy” in Lindsay Lohan’s, both of these spreads were intelligently shot behind closed doors. But when GQ decided to photograph Entourage’s Emmanuelle Chirqui fully exposing her curves in the bright light of day, controversy didn't come by way of conservative media pundits. It arrived in the form of the LAPD’s official nudity-watch squad, who interrupted the shoot toget a closer lookmake sure all was okay on set. As Chirqui recalls, one pervy fed stepped in as art director and instructed the crew "Could you make sure that her areolas aren't showing?" See what all the fuss was about for yourself after the jump: More » -
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Brave Harvey Fierstein Refuses to Be Adam Sandler's Token Gay
Amid yet another hot streak on Broadway, celebrated actor/playwright and Harvey Fierstein doesn't have to answer to anyone about anything — his nearly 40-year career, his iconic gayness, none of it! At least not until Adam Sandler, apparently in the market for a flaming foil, came a-calling while casting his new film. Fierstein did have a response for that: More » -
trade roundup
Penis-Curious Adam Sandler Reunited With Former Roomie Judd Apatow
· Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann will star in "Untitled Apatow Manchild Project" for Universal and Sony, providing ample opportunity for former Apatow-roomie Sandler to glimpse his director's flaccid manhood. [Variety] More » -
hollywood privacywatch
Gay Austrian In Sherman Oaks Looks Suspiciously Like Sacha Baron Cohen
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often—the fate of the universe relies upon it! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about how the sound of Mickey Rourke's loud snoring prevented you from getting any work done at the Santa Monica Public Library. More » -
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Adam Sandler To The Rescue At Culver Ice Arena
Because we're all desperately in need of some stories of spiritual uplift this dismal holiday season, we offer you an eyewitness account from a highly placed Defamer operative of box office titan and "Hanukkah Song" troubadour Adam Sandler coming to the rescue of an injured woman in the parking lot of local skating rink: More » -
hollywood privacywatch
Britney Spears Gets A Stress-Reducing Rubdown
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about the time you spotted inner-monologue-addicted serial killer Dexter and his completely clueless sister munching on tortilla chips at Marix. More » -
accidents
Though two stuntmen suffered burns in an on-set accident during a shoot for Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess With the Zohan on the Universal backlot yesterday, the quick-thinking star prevented even worse injuries by immediately dousing the flames with the fire extinguisher he'd wisely stored in his mankini in anticipation of just such a mishap. [Breitbart] -
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Catching Up With Some Amply Endowed Celebrities
· Either Adam Sandler's next movie is about the Geico Caveman they call Hung Like Woolly Mammoth, or we have a whole new appreciation for the actor. Either way, he has our attention. More » -
defamer
Pushy Junket Reporter Ropes Adam Sandler Into The Gay Cause
Mexican audiences will be able to find out what all the bear-on-bear fireman fuss was about, as Los declaro marido y ... Larry—aka I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry—is finally getting a release there. (It rolled into Spain a few weeks ago, with the far catchier title Os Declaro Marido Y Marido, and an accompanying feeder-fetish website that hearkens to other classics of the genre.) In Mexico City to promote the opening, Adam Sandler appears to have fallen for the oldest wire reporter trick in the book—answering "Sure, why not?" to a seemingly innocuous but strategically phrased question, then waking up to headlines outlining your passionate commitment to fighting for gay rights: More » -
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Judd Apatow on former roomie Adam Sandler's insistence on getting a peek at the future Lil' Mayor of Comedy: "'When we first moved in together, very early on he said, "Let me see your penis." I was like, "No! What do you want to see that for?" He's like, "I just want to know what I'm dealing with." He wasn't embarrassed about it... He would tell other people "Judd won't show me it, he won't show me it." More » -
monday morning box office
Moviegoers Pronounce 'Chuck and Larry' Delightful, Fake-Gay Fun For the Whole Family!
Through the Darkness of yet another Monday morning comes the Light of hope: the weekend box office numbers: More » -
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'Adam Sandler Tops Himself with Chuck & Larry': A Review Round-Up
From the moment Universal released the trailer for I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry—an edgier Adam Sandler vehicle in which he plays a fireman who comes to realize that his sexual and emotional needs can only be fully satisfied by the bear community—we were confident that the studio had not just a commercial and critical hit on their hands, but a watershed contribution to the Queer cinema canon. Shockingly, the nation's critics have completely missed the movie's point. What follows is a selection of headlines from today's reviews for this deeply misunderstood film, proving, at the very least, that not all of the marriage puns were used up trashing License to Wed: More » -
hilarious stereotypes
Masi Oka Next Likely Addressee Of Angry Open Letter From Part-Asian Actor Rob Schneider
Despite having received the GLAAD Squeal of Approval™, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry has mostly underwhelmed critics, one of whom wrote, "[It] isn't just unfunny; it's racist, sexist and homophobic — and truly unpleasant to watch." (In fairness, we should mention that the Village Voice review declared it "as eloquent as Brokeback Mountain," and included the pull-quote ready, "This sodomite had a gay old time"— sure to become the centerpiece of the movie's print marketing campaign.) It's not just critics who find themselves offended, however: At a TCA week promotional party for NBC's fall slate, Heroes' teleporting office worker Masi Oka disapproved of Rob Schneider's turn as the fake-gay couple's slanty-eyed officiating officer. From the USA Today report: More » -
defamer
Homosexual Groups Declare 'Chuck and Larry' Gay-OK!
Whatever progress Hollywood looked to be making in telling mature, well-observed stories of sheepwrangler-on-sheepwrangler action in Brokeback Mountain appears at first glance to have been set back considerably by the impending release of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, an Adam Sandler comedy about two straight firemen who unconvincingly masquerade as a gay couple in order to get into Jessica Biel's pants. Don't let the stereotype-laden and unfunny trailer that's been running ad nauseam since April give you the wrong idea, however. A GLAAD authority has seen the movie twice, and stamped it Gay Kosher: More » -
gays
'I Now Pronounce You' Trailer Hints At A Fun, Fake-Gay-Husband-Beating Night At The Movies
In the off chance you haven't yet seen the trailer for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, the meticulously field-researched comedy starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James as firemen forced intoreenacting Boat Trip on landmasquerading as a gay couple in order to receive their pensions, we invite you to feast your eyes on the two-minute teaser above. It's chock full of proven pink-scare comedy formulas (impending man-on-man kiss + hard blow to the face = guaranteed laughs), precocious children ("homosexicals"—mercy!), and some old fashioned ugly ethnic stereotyping thrown in for good measure, courtesy of an uncredited Rob Schneider as their Charlie Chan-channeling officiator. Still, while the trailer is cleverly edited to seem like another hack romcom in which the lead falls for the gorgeous female but is forced to pretend he's something he's not, we think the movie redeems itself when it's revealed at the end that [spoiler alert!] the entire sham marriage scenario was just Sandler's repressed character's convoluted way of indulging his deepest, bear-lusting desires. More » -
trade roundup
Trade Round-Up: 'The Tudors' Hopes to Avoid The Curse Of Kirstie Alley
· Showtime is positively atwitter about heavily promoted costume drama The Tudors' 1.2 million premiere night viewers (over two showings), a number representing the network's biggest debut success since Fat Actress kicked off its tragically short-lived run of three years ago. [Variety] More » -
defamer
Trade Round-Up: Word 'Terrifying' Thought More Disturbing Than Prince's Demonschlong
· CBS's Les Moonves agrees to a skittish Harvey Weinstein's request for a last minute edit removing the word "terrifying" from a Hannibal Rising commercial, which Weinstein apparently feared would induce mass panic in potential ticket-buyers for his film. [Variety] More » -
defamer
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Adam Sandler And Chris Rock Break Bagel Together At Jerry's
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers. Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let everyone know about the (most recent) time you saw Tyra Banks and Brittany Murphy high-fiving the night away. More » -
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Hollywood PrivacyWatch Special Edition: Adam Sandler And Kevin James Do Boystown
Alexander Payne's follow-up* to Sideways, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, is the Backdraft-meets-Boat Trip story of two firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefit. The fake firemen lovers in question are none other Adam Sandler and Kevin James, who, according to a Defamer operative, are either taking their field research very seriously, or just bouncy-shlong crazy and could care less who knows it: More » -
box office
Monday Morning Box Office: Sun Rises, Sun Sets, Adam Sandler Vehicle Grosses $40 Million
Enjoy a tall glass of these fresh-squeezed box office numbers on your Monday morning:
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Defamer TrendWatch: Being Too Rich To Perform Parental Duties
Recent dads Donald Trump and Adam Sandler stand proudly at the forefront of a movement promoting a return to traditional domestic roles, in which the father is relied upon to provide for his family by starring in stale reality show franchises and/or one-joke movies based entirely around magic-imbued electronic devices, their wives expected to pose elegantly for visiting In Style photographers, and, somewhere down a long hallway in a nursery room outfitted with the latest in fashionable cribware, an around-the-clock staff tending to their soiled little ones, dusting their fresh bottoms in the finest powdered gold. More » -
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The Idiot's Guide To Celebrity Childbirth
Thank you, Adam Sandler, for showing your peers how it's done: Quietly impregnate wife, wait nine months, post self-deprecating birth announcement on website, avoiding speculation that newborn is of alien or turkey-baster provenance. Is it really so hard? More » -
sightings
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Adam Sandler And Liv Tyler Threatened With Cheetos In Elevator
Hollywood PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers. Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let everyone know about the night you saw Keanu Reeves show up overdressed for a pajama party with a hammered blond on his arm. More » -
trade roundup
Trade Round-Up: Ethan Hawke Can Do It All
· Adam Sandler and Kevin James will bravely mine the previously unexplored comic territory of domestic partner insurance benefits in More » -
trade roundup
Trade Round-Up: Regis Philbin Tries To Finish Off Vulnerable Dick Clark
· Sensing a chance to finally behead momentarily weakened New Year's Eve immortal Dick Clark, Fox recruits Regis Philbin to host a competing ball-dropping special to ring in 2006. [Variety] More »
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