Adam Sandler did not die in a snowboarding accident. He is the latest victim of the ever-present Internet death rumor. The famous comedian is, in fact, alive and well.
The rumor about Adam Sandler dying in a snowboard accident appears to have been started by Global Associated News, according to Internet rumor busting site, Gossip Cop.
The article by Global Associated News claims that Adam Sandler died while vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland. The article even claims that witnesses observed Sandler losing control of his snowboard while at a high rate of speed. He allegedly hit a tree, which killing him instantly.
Folks, it isn’t true. The people at Gossip Cop were able to get in touch with Sandler’s rep who called the story “irresponsible journalism.” We couldn’t agree more.
It seems these stories will never end. Plenty of other stars have had these rumors spread about them. A few of the latest victims are Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen, Aretha Franklin and Justin Bieber. One can only imagine why articles such as this one about Adam Sandler are published. Is it an attempt to drive traffic to a website or just someone with nothing better to do? It’s pathetic and mean!
Why do you think these rumors are started? Sound off below!
Adam Sandler did not die in a snowboarding accident. He is the latest victim of the ever-present Internet death rumor. The famous comedian is, in fact, alive and well.
The rumor about Adam Sandler dying in a snowboard accident appears to have been started by Global Associated News, according to Internet rumor busting site, Gossip Cop.
The article by Global Associated News claims that Adam Sandler died while vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland. The article even claims that witnesses observed Sandler losing control of his snowboard while at a high rate of speed. He allegedly hit a tree, which killing him instantly.
Folks, it isn’t true. The people at Gossip Cop were able to get in touch with Sandler’s rep who called the story “irresponsible journalism.” We couldn’t agree more.
It seems these stories will never end. Plenty of other stars have had these rumors spread about them. A few of the latest victims are Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen, Aretha Franklin and Justin Bieber. One can only imagine why articles such as this one about Adam Sandler are published. Is it an attempt to drive traffic to a website or just someone with nothing better to do? It’s pathetic and mean!
Why do you think these rumors are started? Sound off below!
Adam Dunn wanted to make his home in Washington, wanted to play for the Washington Nationals for the rest of his career. That's what he decided last winter. He enjoyed his teammates, fans appreciated him and his family loved the area. "There's no question," Ryan Zimmerman said. "He wanted to be here."
But Dunn found a different team, in a different city, far more willing to match his contract demands, and so Dunn will now hit his home runs for the Chicago White Sox. On Thursday, Dunn agreed to a four-year, $56 million contract with the White Sox, pending a physical, according to a baseball source. The deal closes the door for the Nationals to re-sign their best slugger over the past two seasons and one of their most popular players, both among fans and teammates.
The White Sox and Dunn's agents agreed to the rough outline of the deal late Wednesday night, the source said, and finalized the deal Thursday afternoon. Dunn, 31, will move on to Chicago after drilling 76 home runs in his two seasons in Washington.
"I'd be disappointed for me," said Zimmerman, the Nationals third baseman and the face of their franchise. "I'm very happy for him. Obviously, if he's going to go there, he's going to get a four-year deal, and that's what he deserves. He doesn't get the amount of respect he deserves for what he does every year.
"There's no question he wanted to be here. So it's unfortunate. I couldn't be happier for him that someone's recognizing his work."
Both Dunn and the Nationals publicly expressed the desire to strike a contract extension before last spring training. The discussions never gained momentum. Dunn hoped for the four-year deal he eventually received. In the last week of the regular season, the Nationals offered Dunn a three-year contract worth roughly $35 million. Dunn admitted during the season that the lack of an extension frustrated him.
"I think he has wanted to be in Washington," said Zimmerman, one of Dunn's closest friends. "From the last time we talked about baseball, the last day of the season, he said he would love to come back here. If they would just have given him a fair deal, he even would have probably gone a little bit cheaper to come with us. That's the business side."
Dunn's deal will force the Nationals to move on to their other free agent targets. The most likely free agent first basemen the team will pursue are Carlos Pena, who hit .196 with 28 home runs and a .325 on-base percentage in 2010 for the Tampa Bay Rays, and Adam LaRoche, who hit .261 with 25 home runs and a .320 on-base percentage for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Both are regarded as defensive upgrades over Dunn, who played as a full-time first baseman for the first time this past season.
In compensation for losing Dunn, the Nationals will receive the White Sox's first-round draft pick, 23rd overall, in the 2011 draft and an additional pick in the "sandwich round" between the first and second rounds. In effect, since they did not end up with Dunn, the Nationals chose the draft choices over what they could have received for Dunn in a trade this past summer.
Dunn anchored the Nationals' lineup from the moment he signed with the team in February 2009. He was a behemoth whose presence lent credibility and drew fan support even for a team that specialized in losing. His 354 home runs over the past decade rank fourth, behind only Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols and Jim Thome. During his time with the Nationals, only Pujols and Prince Fielder hit more homers.
Dunn's departure leaves a massive hole in their lineup and a scar for fans and teammates, who cherished not only his production but his affable presence in the clubhouse. Dunn's durability was often overlooked; since 2004, only Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki has appeared in more games. At Nationals Park late in the season, every Dunn at-bat was met with chants of "Sign Adam Dunn!"
Zimmerman both privately and publicly expressed his wish that the Nationals sign Dunn this season, with great frequency. But he did not lash out at the team's inability to re-sign Dunn and pledged his allegiance to the franchise.
"To me, this is the place where I want to be, where I want to be for the rest of my career," Zimmerman said. "The only reason I wouldn't want to play here is if I thought we didn't have a chance to win. . . . I still believe that we will."
Zimmerman was clearly frustrated, though, and it's a frustration that assuredly will represent the overwhelming majority of the team's fan base. "I hope that this plan they have intact - I guess this is one of the years we were supposed to take that next step and become one of the teams that gets those free agent guys," Zimmerman said. "They've told us and the fans to be patient. Hopefully this is one the years we start acquiring impact guys and taking the team to that next level."
Adam Dunn wanted to make his home in Washington, wanted to play for the Washington Nationals for the rest of his career. That's what he decided last winter. He enjoyed his teammates, fans appreciated him and his family loved the area. "There's no question," Ryan Zimmerman said. "He wanted to be here."
But Dunn found a different team, in a different city, far more willing to match his contract demands, and so Dunn will now hit his home runs for the Chicago White Sox. On Thursday, Dunn agreed to a four-year, $56 million contract with the White Sox, pending a physical, according to a baseball source. The deal closes the door for the Nationals to re-sign their best slugger over the past two seasons and one of their most popular players, both among fans and teammates.
The White Sox and Dunn's agents agreed to the rough outline of the deal late Wednesday night, the source said, and finalized the deal Thursday afternoon. Dunn, 31, will move on to Chicago after drilling 76 home runs in his two seasons in Washington.
"I'd be disappointed for me," said Zimmerman, the Nationals third baseman and the face of their franchise. "I'm very happy for him. Obviously, if he's going to go there, he's going to get a four-year deal, and that's what he deserves. He doesn't get the amount of respect he deserves for what he does every year.
"There's no question he wanted to be here. So it's unfortunate. I couldn't be happier for him that someone's recognizing his work."
Both Dunn and the Nationals publicly expressed the desire to strike a contract extension before last spring training. The discussions never gained momentum. Dunn hoped for the four-year deal he eventually received. In the last week of the regular season, the Nationals offered Dunn a three-year contract worth roughly $35 million. Dunn admitted during the season that the lack of an extension frustrated him.
"I think he has wanted to be in Washington," said Zimmerman, one of Dunn's closest friends. "From the last time we talked about baseball, the last day of the season, he said he would love to come back here. If they would just have given him a fair deal, he even would have probably gone a little bit cheaper to come with us. That's the business side."
Dunn's deal will force the Nationals to move on to their other free agent targets. The most likely free agent first basemen the team will pursue are Carlos Pena, who hit .196 with 28 home runs and a .325 on-base percentage in 2010 for the Tampa Bay Rays, and Adam LaRoche, who hit .261 with 25 home runs and a .320 on-base percentage for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Both are regarded as defensive upgrades over Dunn, who played as a full-time first baseman for the first time this past season.
In compensation for losing Dunn, the Nationals will receive the White Sox's first-round draft pick, 23rd overall, in the 2011 draft and an additional pick in the "sandwich round" between the first and second rounds. In effect, since they did not end up with Dunn, the Nationals chose the draft choices over what they could have received for Dunn in a trade this past summer.
Dunn anchored the Nationals' lineup from the moment he signed with the team in February 2009. He was a behemoth whose presence lent credibility and drew fan support even for a team that specialized in losing. His 354 home runs over the past decade rank fourth, behind only Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols and Jim Thome. During his time with the Nationals, only Pujols and Prince Fielder hit more homers.
Dunn's departure leaves a massive hole in their lineup and a scar for fans and teammates, who cherished not only his production but his affable presence in the clubhouse. Dunn's durability was often overlooked; since 2004, only Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki has appeared in more games. At Nationals Park late in the season, every Dunn at-bat was met with chants of "Sign Adam Dunn!"
Zimmerman both privately and publicly expressed his wish that the Nationals sign Dunn this season, with great frequency. But he did not lash out at the team's inability to re-sign Dunn and pledged his allegiance to the franchise.
"To me, this is the place where I want to be, where I want to be for the rest of my career," Zimmerman said. "The only reason I wouldn't want to play here is if I thought we didn't have a chance to win. . . . I still believe that we will."
Zimmerman was clearly frustrated, though, and it's a frustration that assuredly will represent the overwhelming majority of the team's fan base. "I hope that this plan they have intact - I guess this is one of the years we were supposed to take that next step and become one of the teams that gets those free agent guys," Zimmerman said. "They've told us and the fans to be patient. Hopefully this is one the years we start acquiring impact guys and taking the team to that next level."
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine wasn't in the front row at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show just to check out all the gorgeous models.
He had his sights set on one in particular: girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna.
In September, Levine told shock jock Howard Stern that he'd been dating Vyalitsyna for "almost 8 months of a really amazing time."
The two met after his band performed at a party for Sports Illustrated's infamous Swimsuit Issue, in which Vyalitsyna has appeared since 2005.
"She's so intelligent and so sweet, it doesn't matter that she's beautiful," Levine, 31, said to Stern.
The 24-year-old Russian-born supermodel appears in the Maroon 5 video for their song "Misery," but Levine looked anything but miserable at the fashion show, which aired on CBS Tuesday night.
At an after-party, following the taping last month, Levine affectionately planted a kiss on Vyalitsyna while on the pink carpet.
The two are frequent spectators at Lakers games, including last week's match-up against the Golden State Warriors.
But if anything's clear, it's that Levine and his blond beauty are lovers, not fighters.
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine wasn't in the front row at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show just to check out all the gorgeous models.
He had his sights set on one in particular: girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna.
In September, Levine told shock jock Howard Stern that he'd been dating Vyalitsyna for "almost 8 months of a really amazing time."
The two met after his band performed at a party for Sports Illustrated's infamous Swimsuit Issue, in which Vyalitsyna has appeared since 2005.
"She's so intelligent and so sweet, it doesn't matter that she's beautiful," Levine, 31, said to Stern.
The 24-year-old Russian-born supermodel appears in the Maroon 5 video for their song "Misery," but Levine looked anything but miserable at the fashion show, which aired on CBS Tuesday night.
At an after-party, following the taping last month, Levine affectionately planted a kiss on Vyalitsyna while on the pink carpet.
The two are frequent spectators at Lakers games, including last week's match-up against the Golden State Warriors.
But if anything's clear, it's that Levine and his blond beauty are lovers, not fighters.
Watch the Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song video below for Adam Sandler’s beloved turkey song first heard on Saturday Night Live’s SNL Weekend Update when he was a cast member.
The Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song has become a Thanksgiving song tradition, offering up one of the funniest little ditties about turkey day ever.
Of course, you will want to watch Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving Song when the kids aren’t around – there are a few jokes that aren’t appropriate for the younger set.
Watch Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving Song video here – and start your Turkey Day off on a funny note!
Everybody now… “Turkey lurkey doo and turkey lurkey dap… I eat that turkey, then I take a nap.”
Watch the Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song video below for Adam Sandler’s beloved turkey song first heard on Saturday Night Live’s SNL Weekend Update when he was a cast member.
The Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song has become a Thanksgiving song tradition, offering up one of the funniest little ditties about turkey day ever.
Of course, you will want to watch Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving Song when the kids aren’t around – there are a few jokes that aren’t appropriate for the younger set.
Watch Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving Song video here – and start your Turkey Day off on a funny note!
Everybody now… “Turkey lurkey doo and turkey lurkey dap… I eat that turkey, then I take a nap.”
EXCLUSIVE: Disney's Wizard of Oz prequel "The Great Powerful" is turning into a hot directing gig in Hollywood -- so hot that "Hairspray" director and Oscars producer Adam Shankman has taken the bold step of removing himself from another Disney project as he aims to land the job.
Shankman had attached himself to direct "Bob the Musical" -- a musical about a man who, after being struck on the head, hears melodious versions of others' thoughts -- at the end of 2008, right as Disney was bringing out his children's fairy tale "Bedtime Stories." But Shankman has now stepped aside from "Bob" in an effort to show Disney where his heart lies.
Shankman will still have to sell Disney executives Rich Ross and Sean Bailey, as well as producer Joe Roth, on his take on the story of the Wizard before he came to Oz, a broad adventure story that will be shot in 3-D. And he will need to outmaneuver his main rival, Sam Mendes, for the gig. The winner could almost become the answer to a high-concept parlor game: Is it better to imagine the Wizard of Oz by way of "American Beauty" or by way of "Hairspray"?
Shankman's move throws into question the future of "Bob," which already wasn't considered an especially high priority with the current Disney regime. It does speaks to how much of a priority "Powerful" is at Disney, with directors angling to land one of the few big gigs currently available.
It also offers a clue as to the professional intentions of Shankman, a choreographer earlier in his career who has remade himself as a versatile director and producer, particularly on musicals. In February, Shankman told my colleague Amy Kaufman that he feels he has graduated beyond some of his earlier work. "I’m being picky," he said. "I want to do something more adult than kids and animals, something with a more sophisticated sense of humor." The wizard awaits -- for one man, anyway.
EXCLUSIVE: Disney's Wizard of Oz prequel "The Great Powerful" is turning into a hot directing gig in Hollywood -- so hot that "Hairspray" director and Oscars producer Adam Shankman has taken the bold step of removing himself from another Disney project as he aims to land the job.
Shankman had attached himself to direct "Bob the Musical" -- a musical about a man who, after being struck on the head, hears melodious versions of others' thoughts -- at the end of 2008, right as Disney was bringing out his children's fairy tale "Bedtime Stories." But Shankman has now stepped aside from "Bob" in an effort to show Disney where his heart lies.
Shankman will still have to sell Disney executives Rich Ross and Sean Bailey, as well as producer Joe Roth, on his take on the story of the Wizard before he came to Oz, a broad adventure story that will be shot in 3-D. And he will need to outmaneuver his main rival, Sam Mendes, for the gig. The winner could almost become the answer to a high-concept parlor game: Is it better to imagine the Wizard of Oz by way of "American Beauty" or by way of "Hairspray"?
Shankman's move throws into question the future of "Bob," which already wasn't considered an especially high priority with the current Disney regime. It does speaks to how much of a priority "Powerful" is at Disney, with directors angling to land one of the few big gigs currently available.
It also offers a clue as to the professional intentions of Shankman, a choreographer earlier in his career who has remade himself as a versatile director and producer, particularly on musicals. In February, Shankman told my colleague Amy Kaufman that he feels he has graduated beyond some of his earlier work. "I’m being picky," he said. "I want to do something more adult than kids and animals, something with a more sophisticated sense of humor." The wizard awaits -- for one man, anyway.
The onslaught of megaselling relationship books like Elizabeth Gilbert's "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage," which sits at No. 9 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for the week of Feb 19, and Lori Gottlieb's "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough," which is at No. 18, might lead you to believe that female commitment-phobes and uberpicky daters are the modern obstacles to relationships and marriage.
Yet a 2007 poll by Meredith, a research and marketing company, found that 73% of women born between 1977 and 1989 place a high priority on marriage. That sounds right to me. It's an attitude that surfaced again and again in the interviews I conducted with young women for a book project on the long-term unmarried relationship. Unlike our boomer and hippie mothers who broke the rules of the '50s, my generation is marriage-minded. But society's messages to young women are so mixed that the path to that goal has been obscured and, at times, blocked. Those of us in our 20s and 30s know that dating—and getting into a relationship that leads to marriage—is at turns ambiguous, arduous, perplexing and often heartbreaking.
So why are "Marry Him" and "Committed" flying off the shelves? Because they do what all popular books on the subject have done over the years, decades and even centuries: They lay out rules, treating love, romance and relationships as if they are quantifiable and controllable. To be a young, single woman looking to settle down today is to be in the Wild West of dating history. Daters are ravenous for advice to order the chaos, even if it comes from a book, like "Marry Him," that berates them or, like "Committed," claims that marriage is a terrible institution for women (though the author gets hitched by her memoir's end).
"People are desperately looking for order out there because they want to be in committed relationships," says Jessica Massa, 26, who is developing WTFIsUpWithMyLoveLife.com, an interactive forum to help young people make sense of their relationships or absence thereof. "But the lack of signposts and guidance is making it very hard to get to the point where you end up in one."
You live together, but only until one of you gets a great job offer in London. You go out to dinner and a movie, but aren't even sure if it was an actual date. There is no longer that social urgency that pushes couples to the next stage.
The more pressing dating issue for young women today is not that they are skeptical about marriage or too choosy, but that their potential spouses are in less of a hurry to tie the knot than they are. A 2005 poll, "Coming of Age in America," which surveyed 18- to 24-year-olds, found that women had the edge on eagerness: 55% said they would like to be married in the next five years, compared with only 42% of men.
Adam Rich, 29, editor of Thrillist, a daily email blast targeting young men, says all this ambiguity is obscuring the traditional march to marriage and giving guys more leeway when it comes to casual dating. "This whole set of cliché indicators—call a girl to ask her out for drinks, then later a dinner date—are becoming less the dating norm. What if he Facebook messages her to meet at a wine bar where they share small plates? Where does that put them on the roadmap to the altar?"
Beth Bailey, the author of "From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America," thinks this might be an unprecedented time in the history of dating and courtship. "The lack of rules and structure in dating means it's become more difficult than it's ever been to get to the place where marriage seems like the obvious next step," she says.
Ms. Massa says that the many books on relationships that she has read "don't give me the lay of the land." Notes Mr. Rich: "If marriage is the destination, it's now increasingly unclear how one should put one foot in front of the other."
Just don't fault my generation for a lack of trying. Fault Ms. Gilbert, Ms. Gottlieb and their ilk—those who project their own neuroses on to the rest of us.
The onslaught of megaselling relationship books like Elizabeth Gilbert's "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage," which sits at No. 9 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for the week of Feb 19, and Lori Gottlieb's "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough," which is at No. 18, might lead you to believe that female commitment-phobes and uberpicky daters are the modern obstacles to relationships and marriage.
Yet a 2007 poll by Meredith, a research and marketing company, found that 73% of women born between 1977 and 1989 place a high priority on marriage. That sounds right to me. It's an attitude that surfaced again and again in the interviews I conducted with young women for a book project on the long-term unmarried relationship. Unlike our boomer and hippie mothers who broke the rules of the '50s, my generation is marriage-minded. But society's messages to young women are so mixed that the path to that goal has been obscured and, at times, blocked. Those of us in our 20s and 30s know that dating—and getting into a relationship that leads to marriage—is at turns ambiguous, arduous, perplexing and often heartbreaking.
So why are "Marry Him" and "Committed" flying off the shelves? Because they do what all popular books on the subject have done over the years, decades and even centuries: They lay out rules, treating love, romance and relationships as if they are quantifiable and controllable. To be a young, single woman looking to settle down today is to be in the Wild West of dating history. Daters are ravenous for advice to order the chaos, even if it comes from a book, like "Marry Him," that berates them or, like "Committed," claims that marriage is a terrible institution for women (though the author gets hitched by her memoir's end).
"People are desperately looking for order out there because they want to be in committed relationships," says Jessica Massa, 26, who is developing WTFIsUpWithMyLoveLife.com, an interactive forum to help young people make sense of their relationships or absence thereof. "But the lack of signposts and guidance is making it very hard to get to the point where you end up in one."
You live together, but only until one of you gets a great job offer in London. You go out to dinner and a movie, but aren't even sure if it was an actual date. There is no longer that social urgency that pushes couples to the next stage.
The more pressing dating issue for young women today is not that they are skeptical about marriage or too choosy, but that their potential spouses are in less of a hurry to tie the knot than they are. A 2005 poll, "Coming of Age in America," which surveyed 18- to 24-year-olds, found that women had the edge on eagerness: 55% said they would like to be married in the next five years, compared with only 42% of men.
Adam Rich, 29, editor of Thrillist, a daily email blast targeting young men, says all this ambiguity is obscuring the traditional march to marriage and giving guys more leeway when it comes to casual dating. "This whole set of cliché indicators—call a girl to ask her out for drinks, then later a dinner date—are becoming less the dating norm. What if he Facebook messages her to meet at a wine bar where they share small plates? Where does that put them on the roadmap to the altar?"
Beth Bailey, the author of "From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America," thinks this might be an unprecedented time in the history of dating and courtship. "The lack of rules and structure in dating means it's become more difficult than it's ever been to get to the place where marriage seems like the obvious next step," she says.
Ms. Massa says that the many books on relationships that she has read "don't give me the lay of the land." Notes Mr. Rich: "If marriage is the destination, it's now increasingly unclear how one should put one foot in front of the other."
Just don't fault my generation for a lack of trying. Fault Ms. Gilbert, Ms. Gottlieb and their ilk—those who project their own neuroses on to the rest of us.
When you think of classic holiday songs, "Jingle Bell Rock," "White Christmas" and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" come to mind.
But one of the most popular holiday songs has nothing to do with snowmen, reindeer, trees or even jolly ol' St. Nick himself.
Comedian/actor Adam Sandler's seasonal favorite, "The Hanukkah Song," is a hilarious roll call of Jewish actors and actresses that remains a favorite of holiday partygoers everywhere.
Marcia: There aren't too many catchy Hanukkah songs I've heard. In fact, this is the only one I've ever heard. I think it really raised religious tolerance when we heard of all the cool people who are Jewish like David Lee Roth, Arthur Fonzerelli and my favorite, Paul Newman and Goldie Hawn, both half-Jewish. In the words of Sandler, "Put them together, what a fine-looking Jew!"
Dustin: Same here. I really can't name another Hanukkah song off the top of my head. Sandler's goofball charm comes through here in the way he rhymes all the celebrities together.
Marcia: I agree, he is charming in a goofy way, definitely not a rock and roll superstar in the musical sense.
Dustin: A rock superstar he is not. This was the time when Sandler's film choices weren't questionable; when he could get away with making hilarious, though somewhat juvenile, comedies like "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore." Now, not so much.
Marcia: This song did translate into an animated movie, "Eight Crazy Nights," in 2002. I wish it hadn't. Sandler looked OK animated, but most of the other characters were really nasty looking and not in a funny way.
Dustin: Movie aside, this is a great tune. And you don't necessarily have to be Jewish to appreciate it.
Marcia: I doubt gin and tonics and marijuanakkah are part of the Hanukkah tradition. They probably are part of Sandler's tradition, I guess.
When you think of classic holiday songs, "Jingle Bell Rock," "White Christmas" and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" come to mind.
But one of the most popular holiday songs has nothing to do with snowmen, reindeer, trees or even jolly ol' St. Nick himself.
Comedian/actor Adam Sandler's seasonal favorite, "The Hanukkah Song," is a hilarious roll call of Jewish actors and actresses that remains a favorite of holiday partygoers everywhere.
Marcia: There aren't too many catchy Hanukkah songs I've heard. In fact, this is the only one I've ever heard. I think it really raised religious tolerance when we heard of all the cool people who are Jewish like David Lee Roth, Arthur Fonzerelli and my favorite, Paul Newman and Goldie Hawn, both half-Jewish. In the words of Sandler, "Put them together, what a fine-looking Jew!"
Dustin: Same here. I really can't name another Hanukkah song off the top of my head. Sandler's goofball charm comes through here in the way he rhymes all the celebrities together.
Marcia: I agree, he is charming in a goofy way, definitely not a rock and roll superstar in the musical sense.
Dustin: A rock superstar he is not. This was the time when Sandler's film choices weren't questionable; when he could get away with making hilarious, though somewhat juvenile, comedies like "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore." Now, not so much.
Marcia: This song did translate into an animated movie, "Eight Crazy Nights," in 2002. I wish it hadn't. Sandler looked OK animated, but most of the other characters were really nasty looking and not in a funny way.
Dustin: Movie aside, this is a great tune. And you don't necessarily have to be Jewish to appreciate it.
Marcia: I doubt gin and tonics and marijuanakkah are part of the Hanukkah tradition. They probably are part of Sandler's tradition, I guess.