Adam Sandler Biography
Adam Sandler
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Adam Sandler Biography:
Born: 9 September 1966
Where: Brooklyn, New York USA
Height: 5' 9"
Back in the early Nineties, it was generally held that Saturday Night
Live was finished. Having re-invigorated American comedy and spawned
such cinematic stars as John and Jim Belushi, Dan
Aykroyd, Eddie
Murphy,
Chevy Chase and Bill
Murray, it was reckoned that the show had run out
of steam, that it had become childish, crude and desperately un-funny.
None of the current crop would cut it in the movies. Well, maybe Dana
Carvey...
Amazing, then, that Mike Myers should become one of the biggest film
stars in the world. And more amazing still that Myers should be eclipsed
by the crudest and most childish SNL comedian of them all. Come 2002,
Adam Sandler had enjoyed a string of massive hits, breaking box-office
records and shattering the magical $100 million mark several times. And,
where Myers was pulling them in as Austin Powers, Sandler was doing it
as Adam Sandler. His name had become a guarantee and, as such, he was
being paid more even than the likes of Harrison Ford.
He was born Adam Richard Sandler on the 9th of September, 1966, in
Brooklyn, New York, the third of four kids. His dad, Stanley, was an
engineer, while his mother, Judy, was a homemaker, looking after Scott
(now a lawyer), Elizabeth (a dentist), Adam and Valerie (a restaurateur).
While Adam was still young, they moved north, to Manchester, New
Hampshire.
Sandler did not excel as a student. His interests lay elsewhere. He
loved wrestling, and basketball - he played on Manchester Central High
School's junior varsity team. Even now he keeps a hoop nearby whenever
he's on-set. And there was music. At age 11, he got up to sing at
Elizabeth's wedding, performing Ringo Starr's You're Sixteen to huge
applause. Overly enthused, he then broke into Yesterday, and was roundly
booed for trying to be the centre of attention. This was always the way
with Sandler. You love him or you hate him. Or you love him, THEN you
hate him. Then you love him again. Like Jim Carrey, he SERIOUSLY divides
opinion. |
