{"id":74854,"date":"2020-01-07T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=74854"},"modified":"2019-12-29T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T06:42:37","slug":"07-05-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=74854","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler Speaks! Some New Jewish Facts About The Comedy Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Adam Sandler Speaks! Some New Jewish Facts About The Comedy Legend<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

PJ Grisar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Getty\/Andreas Rentz\/Staff<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In his first magazine profile since 1996, Adam Sandler, primed to debut an intense and morally itchy performance as diamond dealer Howard Ratner in the Safdie Brothers\u2019s \u201cUncut Gems,\u201d appears menschy and family-oriented.<\/span><\/p>\n

The November 27 write-up<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by The New York Times\u2019s Jamie Lauren Keiles is also, unsurprisingly, an insanely Jewish affair. It begins at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles over matzo-ball soup and ends at Katz\u2019s Deli before a spread of pastrami and mini knishes. Here are some of the piece\u2019s biggest Yiddishkeit insights into the Sandman.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Sandler\u2019s early influences were the Marx Brothers and Rodney Dangerfield<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys were my favorite,\u201d Sandler tells Keiles, pointing to a portrait of the Marx Brothers at the Hillcrest (the first Jewish country club in L.A.) \u201cMy father would wake me up, and I\u2019d get to watch, you know, \u2018Duck Soup\u2019 or \u2018A Night at the Opera.\u2019\u201d\u2009<\/span><\/p>\n

When Sandler first began performing stand-up in his late teens, all he had as points of comedic reference were Rodney Dangerfield albums and the early years of S.N.L. The only time he had seen live comedy was during a family vacation in the Catskills \u2014 a true Jew origin story.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. The actor is committed to his Jewish heritage \u2014 due in no small part to his father<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more about tradition,\u201d Sandler told Keiles of his Judaism. \u201cRemembering history, making sure that you have pride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sandler\u2019s father, Stan, who died in 2003, was also his son\u2019s biggest fan, taping all his TV appearances. Sandler thinks his dad is still watching over him. When told that his turn in \u201cUncut Gems\u201d is getting Oscar buzz, Sandler replied \u201cMy dad must be happy hearing stuff like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The go-to adjective to describe Sandler is \u201cLoyal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s something of a punchline that many Sandler films seem to be designed to boost the flagging careers of his less-famous friends. While Sandler insisted this wasn\u2019t the case \u2014 he said he just liked working with people he loves \u2014 Keiles provided a wall of glowing quotes about Sandlers\u2019s commitment to collaborators and friends. The kind words come from Jennifer Aniston, Paul Thomas Anderson, Drew Barrymore and more. Almost all of the quotes use the word \u201cloyal\u201d or \u201cloyalty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSuch a menschy, sweet person,\u201d said Judd Apatow.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. He thinks about his family before he agrees to take roles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sandler originally resisted playing the part of Ratner in \u201cUncut Gems,\u201d concerned about how his kids might feel watching him in it. (The character has a relationship with a much younger woman \u2014 like, 20 years younger.) While his dramatic work, notably in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cPunch-Drunk Love,\u201d has courted considerably more critical praise than the bulk of his Happy Madison comedies, Sandler largely avoids edgier material out of deference to his wife and kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. The Safdies wanted Sandler for their film (and had some big names lined up as contingencies)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Josh and Benny Safdie based the character of Ratner on their own father, a Sephardic emigrant who worked in New York\u2019s diamond district. The film-making brothers told Keiles their dad introduced them to Sandler at an early age with his album \u201cThey\u2019re All Gonna Laugh At You!\u201d The duo knew when they began working on \u201cUncut Gems\u201d that Sandler would add a much-needed sense of pathos to their central character.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted you to root for him to win,\u201d Benny Safdie told Keiles. \u201cSandler, we knew, could bring that out of him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the brothers were unsure they could get Sandler attached, they had, at different points of a decade-long pre-production process, pegged Sacha Baron Cohen and Jonah Hill to star as Ratner.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Sandler still thinks everything\u2019s fair game in comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n

No one will ever accuse Sandler\u2019s work of being P.C., but in the profile, Sandler appeared introspective about missteps he may have made in offending other groups \u2014 notably, in his Western film \u201cThe Ridiculous Six,\u201d which prompted an on-set walkou<\/strong><\/span>t<\/a> by Native American cast members over an insensitive script.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI try not to hurt anybody along the way, but ultimately I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve made a lot of mistakes over the years,\u201d Sandler told Kiele. But he added that his jokes are ultimately harmless (with him often being the butt of them). \u201cEverything has the potential to be funny.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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