A big sighting on Friday, December 7 @ the Culver Ice Arena, LA's most decrepit skating facility. The place was overrun with high school burnouts and geeks with nothing better to do. So, it was fitting then that Adam Sandler should show up with wife and small child in tow.

Soon thereafter, a frantic Sandler bolted back behind the skate rental counter in an attempt to dial 911. In turns out his wife found an elderly woman lying bloodied in the parking lot. She had a pretty big gash on her forehead and a sprained/bruised wrist. The Sandlers brought her inside and waited for the ambulance to arrive. Of course, his key teenage demographic stood slack-jawed the whole time. He was so upset over this woman's condition, I thought it was his own mother or grandmother. It wasn't until the woman's daughter arrived approximately 30 minutes later did I realize he didn't even know this woman (not sure who she was with or why she was there but she was pretty senile). The whole affair took some time because Culver City was having some sort of disaster preparedness drill. While the paramedics decided where to take the woman, Adam got in his Cadillac and waited to follow the ambulance, sacrificing his night of skating with his wife and offspring. Top that Cuba Gooding Jr.!

Not since Paris Hilton rushed to the side of a chocolate-sauce-hemorrhaging Oompa-Loompa have we been so moved by an act of celebrity selflessness. Mr. Sandler: We daintily defoil and proceed to devour a high denomination of chocolate gelt in your honor.

• Previously: Cuba Gooding Jr. Puts Gunshot Victim Before His Own Chicken And Waffle Eating Needs [Defamer]

The 39-year-old Oscar winner was waiting in his car outside a Hollywood restaurant "when he heard four gunshots," says a source.

"Cuba was picking up dinner for his family on the night of Memorial Day," says the spy. "He saw a young kid holding his head and walked toward him. The kid was bleeding from his neck and collapsed."

Gooding cradled the victim, described as a man around 20 years old, and called into the restaurant for towels. "They came out with paper towels and he said, 'No, we need real towels!'" says the source.

The actor stemmed the bleeding and hailed a passing police car. He waited on the scene until an ambulance arrived.

Gooding's rep, Nancy Kane, confirmed the story.

Tales of strangers courageously lending a helping hand to their fellow Angelenos-in-need never fail to pluck our heartstrings, but when the guardian angel in question also happens to be the beloved star of Radio and popularizer of the phrase "show me the money," darn it if we aren't reduced to a useless puddle of warm sentiment. We only hope the uplifting anecdote remains just that, and some opportunistic producer doesn't attempt to option the news item for Batter, a gritty urban docudrama set in and around the world of inner-city waffle-and-fried-chicken houses—a project to which Terence Howard will quickly be attached following an awkward phone call to Gooding informing him that they've passed on him in favor of someone "a little more hero-y."

• Cuba plays the hero for real [NY Daily News]