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...whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage boys, a cult figure on college campuses and a punch line for dismissive film critics. Punch-Drunk Love--for which Anderson received a best-director award at Cannes--is making the dumb-and-dumber Sandler persona seem smart and smarter...
...cult following of millions," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office-tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. "The thing about his audience--they are growing up with him, and they're still in that most-frequent-moviegoer category." Adam Sandler appears to be growing up but not wearing thin. Nothing dumb about that...
Whether that conclusion--or, for that matter, any conclusion--will satisfy Adam Sandler's fans is an open question. He plays dumb as well as anyone in the history of the movies, with the possible exception of Stan Laurel. And he does it here with a stoned shamelessness, an absolute refusal of self-comprehension that is near awesome. Laurel had a kind of sweetness and innocence that enlisted our sympathy. Sandler's stupidity is relentless, merciless, distinctly off-putting...
...sites. Halfway across the country, just outside St. Louis, Mo., a Boeing factory has gone to two shifts a day building a revolutionary weapon geared for those targets. Workers are assembling computer-steered bomb tails that, once loaded with those Pentagon-supplied coordinates, harness gravity and wind to turn "dumb" bombs into weapons of amazing--and amazingly cheap--precision...
...complicated procurement rules for this project, the Pentagon was able to keep the price of a JDAM at $27,000, pocket change compared with the $1 million price tag on a single cruise missile like the ones used in the Gulf War. JDAM tail kits are fastened onto standard dumb bombs of varying sizes. The bomb always knows where it is, based on information it gets from the plane or, after it is dropped, from GPS. Its aluminum fins steer it to the target, which is logged into the bomb's computer...