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...campaign books, but suddenly we all woke up to the election-season power of a shrewdly timed ... documentary. Michael Moore's bumper car of a movie crashed into Bush from all angles while attracting the kind of box-office gross (U.S. numbers: $119 million) that usually goes to Adam Sandler pictures...
...Four Marx Brothers--Groucho, mute Harpo, Italianate Chico (pronounced Chick-o) and straight man Zeppo--weren't the fathers of every aggressive film comic from the Stooges to Sandler, they were surely their Dadas. And they're seen to best effect on The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (UMVD, $59.98), which gathers the five Paramount farces they made from 1929 to '33: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business and Duck Soup. Compared with the bounty of extras offered on the recent package of seven other Marx Brothers films, the new DVD is pretty skimpy: no commentary, no documentaries...
Amongst the 21 tracks by Sandler are a host of collaborations with celebrity comedians, including Saturday Night Live veterans David Spade, Molly Shannon and Rob Schneider. Topics covered in these jokes vary from what has become the ordinary for Sandler—innumerable jokes centered around potty humor—to the extraordinary, including the ins and outs of what you never knew it means to be a “Best Friend” on the track entitled as such. Intermingling with such innocuous lyrics like “Best friends tell you when you?...
...distasteful four-minute skit painting an auditory picture of a homosexual machine known as “Gay Robot” has blown up in popularity already, and in response, Sandler is promoting the album with in-character interviews. But even stranger than the numbers involving a hunk of metal propositioning his friends and neighbors is the fact that Sandler’s fans have apparently discovered a new obsession—the dance club scene. DJs have remixed a number of the tracks off Shh...Don’t Tell—including “Secret...
...Don’t Tell is sure to please the die-hard Sandler fan and a few surprising social groups, too. Even though the average person could perceive much of the content of this album to be offensive, it remains true to Sandler’s longtime mantra of making people laugh, period. The courage to be himself—even if that self is an immature, potty-humor-revering grown man—and to challenge the heavily imposed restrictions of the media today, is somewhat admirable...