Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Judy, a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. Sandler is Jewish. 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 and on campuses. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991 (Wikepedia).
His SNL skit the lunch lady land was inspired by his real lunch lady at New York University. He was very sucessful on SNL, but he left to pursue a career in film. He has starred in, produced, and helped write many of them. His main money maker right now is his film prouction company Happy Madison.
Although he has produced some sucessful films, he has also starred in many of them. Such as Billy Madison his first major hit. Before that was a film called Going Overboard. He proceeded those films with Happy Gilmore, where he played a hockey player turned golfer. Then came Big Daddy where he watches over a best friends kid, claiming to be him to social services as Sunny Cofax. Next there is Water Boy, he played a waterboy turned football player, Bobby Bouschay. Then came Mr. Deeds, where he played the nephew of a deceased billionare and recieves his foutune. Then came 50 First Dates, where he played a man who falls inlove with a girl who forgets him each night. Later came The Longest Yard remake, where he plays Paul Crew. He then did two serious films; Spanglish and Reign Over me. They were ill recieved by some of the die hard fans, but he came back with Chuck and Larry, Co starring with Kevin James, they act as a gay couple for insurance purposes.
In every film sandler uses a lot of the same people. His usual crew includes: Rob Schnieder, Steve Busceni, John Turturro,John Lovitz, Clint Howard, Norm Mac Donald, and longtime pals Allen Covert, Peter Dante, and Johnathan Laughron.
He is currently working on a film called Funny People. Also he will be working on a movie this summer with, Kevin James, David Spade, Chris Rock, and Rob Schneider.
He is married to Jacquline Samantha Titone, whom he met on the set of Big Daddy, she played the waitress. They have two beautiful daughters together.
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