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Stars align to keep filming close to home
Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Orlando Bloom and others have been or will be shooting on Southern California streets.
Some Hollywood star power is lighting up local film production.
Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler Jet Off to Europe
Adam Sandler is going to have to make do without Jennifer Aniston for about a week.
The two are currently shooting the romantic comedy Just Go With It, but Ms. Aniston will be jetting…
Katy Perry Not “Bumping Uglies” With Benji Madden
Reports of Katy Perry getting cozy with Benji Madden have been greatly exaggerated.
The “I Kissed a Girl” songbird is none too pleased about stories coming out of Las Vegas this…
Winehouse Free to Roam Again
Filed under: Amy Winehouse
We’re told Amy Winehouse has just been released from the hospital in St. Lucia after being stricken yesterday by a mysterious ailment… the kind that’s caused by the whole “drinking heavily while battling drug addiction” thing.It’s nice to know Amy…
Adam Sandler Makes a Funny
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Kids
Adam Sandler put on his daughter Sadie’s tiara headband … … and it’s officially the funniest thing he’s done since “You Don’t Mess with Zohan” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” Click” “The Longest Yard” “50 First Dates” “Anger Management”…
Adam Sandler: Jew Know What It’s Like?
Filed under: Holidaze
Sure, instead of one day of presents, he gets eight crazy nights — but when it comes to shopping at the X-Mas centric Grove in L.A., we had to know, does Adam feel a little left out?
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So Hot … Want to Touch the Hineys
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Talk Sports
Adam Sandler was clearly captivated by last night’s Lakers, er, game.It’s all about having a seat near the action.
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‘Bedtime Stories’: An aw, gee rating for Sandler
Adam Sandler switches course to take a family-friendly journey
There are no potty jokes, no crass Rob Schneider cameos or anybody by the name of Zohan in Adam Sandler’s holiday movie, “Bedtime Stories,” unwrapping in theaters on Christmas Day.
Amy Winehouse: It’s All Rehab’s Fault!
Filed under: Train Wrecks, Wacky & Weird, Amy Winehouse
Another video has surfaced that British tab, The Sun has obtained, which shows Amy Winehouse allegedly snorting a substance in a DJ booth.Crazy is as crazy does.
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Amy Winehouse Takes a Powder?
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‘You Don’t Mess With The Zohan’ Is The Best Israeli/American Comedy of Our Time
For the past couple of weeks, my life has been met with one of the most difficult challenges it has ever dealt with: Convincing people to come see You Don’t Mess With The Zohan with me. Now I’ll admit, most of my friends are pretty smart, but I tend to go out of my way to surround myself with “Lowbrow Intellectuals”, i.e. people who can hold a deep political conversation while simultaneously pretending to be a foreign special needs person, or something of a similar ilk. Which is why I couldn’t get over that now, in my Adam Sandler time of need, these so-called “friends” were being way harsh, Tai. NOBODY would see Zohan with me. They claimed that the trailer looked “juvenile”, the movie “abysmal”, Sandler’s abs “too tan.”
But I felt otherwise. I had great faith in Zohan, mainly because my favorite funny man of alltime, Robert Smigel, was one of the writers (along with Judd Apatow and Sandler.) Most people know Smigel as the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, but not me… no, I knew him as Avi, the announcer on The Sabra Price Is Right, my fave SNL sketch ever. My mother was in the Israeli airforce; I had spent many summers in Israel caring for my ailing Grandparents (now deceased), and still have family there. And if ever the essence of Israelis — specifically in America — had been captured on film, it was in the following sketch, featuring Tom Hanks as the Israeli Bob Barker:
After the jump, I review the film… which I was forced to see at 10:50 IN THE MORNING.
HOW COULD PEOPLE NOT THINK ZOHAN WOULD BE HILARIOUS?
My longing to catch this flick was impacted when my Mom called to tell me she and my Dad had seen it on Father’s Day… and peed in their pants laughing. Would I have to go see it alone? Like that time I went to see Michael Clayton by myself, and sat next to an old woman, also alone, who told me to keep my hands off of George Clooney, because he was hers? i.e. That time I stared into a future mirror wanted to smash it over my face?
Eventually, after much begging and pleading, I was able to convince one of my loveliest and most handsome friend Norman here at Best Week Ever to see the movie with me. The only catch? We would have to see it on Tuesday at 10:50 IN THE F**KING MORNING. Having little say in the matter, and being very desperate, I agreed.
Having never been to the movies that early in the morning, I assumed that we would be the only two people in the theather. But I was mistaken. There were about 8 or 9 other people there: An older couple in front who laughed at the worst jokes, a mother and her young daughter (who two hours from now would have seen things that a little girl cannot unsee), and about 5 guys I was convinced were masturbating the entire time. The lights dimmed, and the film began.
And let me tell you — IT IS HILARIOUS. I don’t care what you’ve heard, or which reviews you’ve read, but the film is Sandler’s best since Happy Gilmore. Sandler plays an Israeli spy (think a darker version of Eric Bana in Munich) who moves to New York to become a hairdresser (he wants to make people “silky smooth” via an out of date Paul Mitchell styling book.) Along the way, he manages to seduce a gaggle of women 60 years and over (including MRS. F**KING GARRETT) with his scissors and bulging crotch alone. There were multiple times in the movie where I actually slid out of my seat, onto the ground, and took a laugh nap out of sheer exhaustion. At times, I flung my torso over into the next seat, to muffle my laughs in most velveteen cushion of popcorn farts to ever brush mine cheek.
The jokes are certainly very insidery, though I do think many of them translate to a bigger audience. But let’s face it, America was due for an Israeli/American comedy already. It reminds me of when An American Tail came out when I was little, and I was just so excited that there was a Jewish cartoon character (even if little Feivel was, essentially, a disease-carrying vermin). It seemed to good to be true! Same goes with Zohan. There are plenty of Israeli insider jokes — orange soda, hummus, electronics stores — but enough slapstick and mayhem to please even the most xenophobic of viewers (Ok, maybe not THE MOST xenophobic.) And thankfully, the film didn’t bomb!! Yay for America!! We don’t hate Jews! (That statement is nearly 100 percent sincere.)
The only criticism I can really give it is that it has Apatow Syndrome, meaning it was about 30 minutes longer than it should have been. (Ex.: “The Sex and the City movie was good, but it had a severe case of The Apatows.”) But on the plus side, Mariah Carey is in it! Trying her damn best, God bless her. And if you like early 90’s techno, the soundtrack is your ticket to crotchvana.
And because I fear that this very blog post is beginning to suffer from Apatow Syndrome, I will end with this review from the older woman sitting in front of us:
“That was hysterical! But why was it Rated PG-13? It should have been Rated X!”
p.s. Rob Schneider is amazing. THE END.
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