Yeah, I gotta admit, “Happy Gilmore” is one of my favorite movies. “The Wedding Singer” wasn’t bad either. But “Waterboy” sucked and I haven’t seen any of his movies since.
We liked the Wedding Singer and “Grow Old With You” is a really great song… I sing it all the time to Lola and judging by the fact she doesn’t strangle me I think she likes it too. (No-one who knows her would describe her as being overly romantic).
One must remember that Adam Sandler isn’t performing Shakespeare, it’s more of the beer and pretzels vs wine and cheese thing happening where each has it’s place and time.
Was. Born and bred in the Granite State, went to UNH (Geek alert - also the alma mater of Peter Jurasik, aka Londo Mollari). Moved to CT to build submarines.
I’ve really got to clean out my basement. Somewhere I’ve got my old Central High Schools yearbooks that have a couple of pix of Adam. Curly-permed hair, glasses, braces, the works. He was always one of these anything for a laugh kids. Nothing was below him. Should’ve known he would go far.