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...Ford, Intel and two News Corp. subsidiaries, British Sky Broadcasting and Hughes, the parent company of DirecTV. (Star TV, also owned by News Corp., is one of two Western stations broadcast into China.) "He's looking forward to slowing down a bit," says Jeffery Harte, a brokerage analyst at Sandler O'Neill & Partners, "but I expect him to be an active and involved board member...
Comedian ADAM SANDLER was a surprise guest speaker at the graduation ceremony of his old high school in Manchester, N.H. Sandler, whose nephew was a class valedictorian, filled in for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who canceled because the date changed--or as Sandler put it, because he came down with "a wicked bad case of a fake tummy ache." Sandler himself was never a valedictorian. "I came very close," he said, "but was narrowly beaten by 622 other students...
Pause here for a brief head swivel. Jack Nicholson in an Adam Sandler comedy? That's right. Nicholson is here to bring a touch of Mephistophelian class to the standard Sandler paranoid-fantasy recipe. Dr. Buddy moves into Dave's apartment and bed, dates his girlfriend and--all right, this is inspired--forces Dave to sing I Feel Pretty while parked on a city bridge at rush hour...
...Every Sandler movie is a course in anger management: in the care and feeding of rage, first suppressed, then geysering into an explosion of smashed crockery and punched-out supporting players. All the ingenuity goes into justifying sociopathic behavior--for example, how can Sandler beat the pacifism out of a Buddhist monk and keep the audience's sympathy? It's classically infantile comedy, ending in a payoff so corny it would have made Frank Capra wince. (This time Sandler has all of Yankee Stadium as his theater of catharsis, with Rudy Giuliani cheering...
...Sandler may see Anger Management as a step in the maturing of his movie image: penis envy has replaced peeing as a running gag. He also surrounds himself with a high breed of stooge (John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Heather Graham). And even a longtime Adamophobe has to admit that Sandler is an agreeable presence here, and that the film has some funny filigree work to offset the oppressive schematics. It should make audiences happy. But then so did most of his earlier movies, and they were lame, gnat-brained pieces of demagogic...