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Poster: Happy - Date: 16/9/2004, 18:30 |
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| Good Cook, Likes Music! |
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Poster: Happy - Date: 2/8/2004, 16:13 |
Es sieht so aus als wenn Adam Sandler im Jahre 2005 in einem weiteren Film mitwirken wird. Ob die Infos stimmen weiß ich allerdings nicht. Der Film trägt den Titel Good Cook, Likes Music.
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Director: Wayne Wang
bisher bestätigte Schauspieler: Adam Sandler, Zhang Ziyi
Release Company: New Line Cinema
Natürlich handelt es sich bei dem Film um eine Komödie.
Na dann wollen wir mal abwarten.  |
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| Interview auf MTV.COM |
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Poster: Happy - Date: 15/7/2004, 10:24 |
Und wieder einmal wurde Adam von MTV.COM zur momentanen Situation (u.a. zu seinem neuen Album) interviewt. Aber lest selbst:
CULVER CITY, California — A dozen or so contest winners, a couple of publicists and a few other lucky guests are crammed into a megastar's recording studio, listening to one of the summer's hottest dance tracks.
The beat is infectious and consumes a few fans, who start dancing, rubbing their rears together and smiling.
"It's charting in the 20s on some of the club charts," a publicist whispers.
Suddenly, the multiplatinum voice behind the track launches out of his corner chair and busts into a spontaneous dance routine, squatting like he's on the toilet, gyrating his hands uncontrollably. It's not pretty.
Really, though, would you expect anything else from Adam Sandler?
The fans, who won a chance to barbecue with the comedian and hear his new album before it hits stores, are eating it up like the baked beans being served outside.
"Go, Adam! Go, Adam!"
This is Adam Sandler in his element.
With a dozen blockbusters under his belt, he's one of the world's biggest movie stars, but in his recording studio, goofing off, is where he really has a blast.
A few weeks earlier, on a sunny Monday afternoon, I stop by the offices of Sandler's production company, Happy Madison, named after "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison."
Nick Goossen, one of the producers of Sandler's new album, leads me on a tour of the building, which is actually a house. Judy Garland stayed there, he says, when she shot movies on the old MGM lot, which now belongs to Sony.
The bedrooms have been converted to offices, where Sandler's staff is watching dailies of "Spanglish," which is shooting on the lot next door, and finalizing the script for a remake of "The Longest Yard" with Chris Rock and Sandler.
Many of Happy Madison's employees are also co-stars in Sandler's movies, like his old New York University roommate Allen Covert, most recently seen onscreen as 10 Second Tom in "50 First Dates."
Goosen, or "Goose" as Sandler calls him, takes me to his office to hear Shhh ... Don't Tell, Sandler's first album since 1999's Stan and Judy's Kid. Concert stubs from Coachella and the Strokes are tacked to the wall, and British rock blares from his computer. After a few seconds, however, it becomes apparent that it's not really British rock — it's Sandler paying homage to the Beatles.
The song is hilarious, like the rest of the album. By the end, my stomach literally hurt from laughing. This makes Sandler happy.
"I heard you listening over there. I heard a few chuckles coming out of you," he says as we pull up on the couches in his office. "That's good."
In person, Sandler is much like you might expect. He wears sweatpants and a T-shirt, talks in a lot of different voices and is always funny. He tells a lot of long stories that end in a punch line, after which he often adds, "There you go," as if he needs to punctuate them.
At the barbecue, Sandler provokes laughs by putting on an arrogant front. "They keep telling me how great I am; that's always fun," he says of the contest winners. "That's what I live for, just to sit with people who love me."
In reality, Sandler is surprisingly humble. He talks about his albums — which have sold millions on the strength of such classic sing-alongs as "The Chanukah Song," "The Thanksgiving Song," "The Lonesome Kicker," "Lunchlady Land" and "Red Hooded Sweatshirt" — as if anyone could've made them.
"I sing dirty language over [music] and hopefully some of it rhymes," Sandler says. He especially downplays his musical talents, including his guitar-playing abilities, learned from his father when he was a child. "I play a little [on Shhh ... Don't Tell], but the guys who I play with are so awesome, I just said, 'You guys do it and I'll sing the stupid words and we'll move on.' "
On the new album, Sandler conquers several styles of music, including hip-hop. "I can rap all right, but believe me, it's a lot of start and stop [in the studio]. I can't get the flow going that good," he says. "I run out of air."
Though his albums have given birth to a string of memorable characters, Sandler insists his dozens of voices are just slight variations of each other. "I only can do so many voices, and so all my characters, you definitely know it's the same guy doing it. When I'm doing a voice for a character, in the back of my head I'm like, 'That's about 20 percent different from the character I did on the third album. So there you go."
Later, he gives an example. "The excited Southerner [from 1996's What the Hell Happened to Me?] is basically Bobby Boucher from 'Waterboy.' It's the same damn voice."
All these modest claims, though, are hard to believe when you look at Sandler's hugely successful catalog of movies and albums, or even just Shhh ... Don't Tell. Throughout the 20 tracks, Sandler transforms himself from a pushover college student to a blues singer to an overly adventurous old man named Pibb, the album's repeat character. ("There's nothing that makes us happier than an 85-year-old man getting hurt," he jokes of the skits.)
The common thread running through most of the tracks is, fittingly, a blending of arrogance with reticence. Sandler's character in "The Boss and the Secretary," for example, is a pompous ass who happens to be extremely ill-equipped. And then there's the British rocker, "The Amazing Willy Wanker."
"We wanted to do like a proud English rock and roll tune, like the guys from Oasis and a lot of the English dudes, when they sing they look very cool and believe in the words so much," Sandler explains. "And we wanted to write a song where the guy is very confident about what he was saying and it meant a lot to him, but it was about whacking it. There you go."
Whether it's Billy Madison or Henry Roth in "50 First Dates," Sandler's movie characters share the same sort of confidence paradox as those on his albums. The biggest difference is that the albums are far, far more obscene, especially Shhh ... Don't Tell.
"I think I curse more on this record than ever before," Sandler admits. "Yeah, the album's not too tame. In real life, though, I'm a little tamer at home. I don't curse as much. [Jackie Titone, his model wife of less than a year] yells at me for that, 'cause we're gonna have a kid [eventually] and I guess I can't curse [then]. I'm in trouble when my kid grows up and one of his friends goes, 'Hey, listen to your dad's album.' I'm dead. There's no way I could win any fight with that kid. 'You did this! You did that!' And I'll be like, 'Eh, eh ... You win.' "
To Sandler, a lot more than the amount of cursing separates his movies from his albums. While movies have certainly made him more money, the albums are more fun for him to make. Still, after starting Happy Madison and signing on for a string of too-good-to-pass-up movies (such as director Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love" and "Anger Management" with Jack Nicholson), he went four years without being in a recording studio.
With his film schedule looking as full as ever, he decided the best way to get back to making albums was to build a studio on the Sony lot, behind Happy Madison's offices. "I said, 'Let's just slowly do it while we're shooting movies.' We started out slow and then all of a sudden got excited and [started] skipping work on the movies and going, 'We'll get to the movie tomorrow; we've got to get this song.' "
"I guess there's less pressure on you," he says later. "It doesn't cost so much money. We're making movies every minute, it's money, and you've got to move on and everyone wants you to get done and blah, blah, blah. When making the album, I have all my equipment here, I've got all my friends here, I know how to work the equipment, so we can take our time and it was a great process."
Anytime one of Sandler's comedian friends stopped by the office, whether it was David Spade, Rob Schneider, Molly Shannon or newcomer Nick Swardson ("I told him I'd be more than happy to make him the Snoop Dogg of the record"), he coerced them into going into the studio to voice a character or two. He even convinced "Saturday Night Live" actress Maya Rudolph to co-star in what he calls one of the dirtiest skits he's ever been a part of: "The Boss and the Secretary."
"It felt a little psychotic because my character's a little nasty and Maya's a real nice girl," he says, thinking back. "Why would I want to be talking that way in front of her? But through concentration and vodka, we got through it."
Nowadays the studio has become a welcome release for Sandler during movie shoots. "It's better than the movies because you don't have to put makeup on, worry about the lighting," he says. "Just hang out, get loose, be funny ... hopefully be funny."
Making albums also allows Sandler to get back in touch with the kind of sketch comedy he launched his career with. "I'm not on 'Saturday Night Live' anymore, so if I think of an idea that I think could be funny for a couple of minutes, I don't have any place to do it except the album."
The title Shhh ... Don't Tell is a reference to the punch line of the dance track, "Secret," which was inspired by the techno music he heard on the radio constantly while visiting his parents in Florida.
The real secret, however, is that Sandler is actually able to set aside the penis jokes (OK, not entirely) and make a truly heartwarming tune. The album's closer, "Stan," is a tribute to his late father, who passed away earlier this year. "When Jackie and I have children of our own," he sings to the piano accompaniment. "We'll try to raise 'em just the way you did."
"That was a real tough thing to go through," Sandler says. "He was definitely the leader of my family, and I worshiped ... I still do worship him. I was doing 'Letterman' and I had a movie coming out, '50 First Dates,' and I felt weird going out and telling jokes after my father had just passed away. So I wrote a song with my friends about my dad and sang it on 'Letterman.' We had to cut a few verses out to keep it shorter, so I figured we'd do the whole thing and keep it on the album.
"I love the song and I love that it's on the album," he continues. "I know that my mother's not a big fan of my albums. She is disgusted by what I say. In fact, when I was driving here, she said, 'You're doing press for this? You told me you were just going to release it and no one would know.' And I said, 'Well, it's MTV, don't worry about it.' So the fact that a song about my dad is on the record, it's great for me, but Mother's a little disturbed by it."
Judy, his mother, has heard the song, but that's about it from Shhh ... Don't Tell.
"That was the best thing [about] when my dad was here," Sandler recalls. "My other albums, my dad would go, 'Judy, sit down, you can [safely] hear track seven.' And then he'd go, 'All right, now here's track 16. All right that's it, that's all you can hear.' "
Back in the studio, Sandler is playing the role of his father, shielding the contest winners from some of the album's filthiest material. Afterward, he leads the pack back through Happy Madison to the back porch, where tables are set up on the basketball court. One of the publicists follows with a surprise for the fans — acoustic guitars signed by Sandler.
One girl pulls out the instrument like a child on Christmas morning and plucks it with little know-how. Sandler, without missing a beat in his conversation with her, grabs the guitar, tunes it and strums a couple of chords.
"You're good," she says.
"Nah," he responds.
Just in his element.
by Corey Moss
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| The Longest Yard |
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Poster: Happy - Date: 9/7/2004, 08:55 |
Hier mal ein paar Infos über den im Jahr 2005 erscheinenden Film The Longest Yard, welche ich aus dem Internet zusammengekratzt habe. 
[img:db46b0bc87]http://www.adamsandler.de/album_pic.php?pic_id=157[/img:db46b0bc87]
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Deutschlandstart: 2005
The Longest Yard: Gary Oldman neben Adam Sandler, Chris Rock und Burt Reynolds
Gary Oldman steht in Verhandlungen um neben Adam Sandler, Chris Rock und Burt Reynolds im Remake von The Longest Yard zu spielen.
Im Original von 1974 spielte Reynolds einen ehemaligen Profi-Quarterback, der im Knast von seinem sadistischen Wärter (Eddie Albert) gebeten wird, ein Team von Gefangenen zusammenzustellen um gegen die vollschlanken Wärter zu spielen.
Im Paramount-Remake wird Sandler Reynolds´ Rolle übernehmen. Oldman wird den Wärter spielen und Reynolds einen Trainer.
Regie führt Peter Segal, der zuletzt bei 50 Erste Dates mit Sandler zusammen arbeitete.
Der Film wird sicherlich klasse!! |
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