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...worth. That's how much money Sandler's wan The Waterboy earned in its first weekend--a record for any non-summer three-day opening, and proof indeed that, while Oprah Winfrey may not be a film star, Adam Sandler surely is. This veteran of Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun Man? why?) now joins Will Smith and Jim Carrey as top movie money earners under 40. And in Hollywood, for just this moment, he is an even rarer commodity: a bargain. After three days in the plexes, The Waterboy made back its meager $23 million budget...
...make a living in the opera circuit as a "Verdi Baritone...
...didn't sing outside of my house until I was in ninth grade. By that time, I'd been singing opera around the house for a few years and my parents thought that I had some sort of voice [a worthy voice], so they had me go sing for the school chorus teacher. He had good things to say and I started taking lessons with his father, who was a well-known local voice teacher. I started doing opera productions with the local [Long Island] company, Island Lyric Opera. The first opera I ever did was Bruno's Faust, where...
...There was an episode when I was in 10th grade [with the Island Lyric Opera] and in 2-3 weeks La Boheme was supposed to open up, and the director came up and said 'Lee--do you think you can learn Schaunard in 21/2 weeks. My baritone can't do it, he's cancelled on me.' So I was like, 'yeah sure, why not?' so I learned that role--it's a great role. I was nervous initially, but afterwards I was pretty confident. I got a lot of compliments from the audience...
...want to sing Verdi baritone roles like Rigoletto, Don Carlo--every opera has a baritone role. He was pretty big on that...