If you need to rest your eyes at any point during the 146 min. comedy epic Funny People, your best bet is to do it early during a sequence in which Adam Sandler’s character has back to back sex with a couple of female fans. The second of these scenes is mildly amusing, but there’s just no need to put the images in your head of either Sandler with a face full of breasts or the actor taking a girl from behind.
There are some actors we don’t need to see in a sex scene, humorous or otherwise, and Adam Sandler is one of them. He’s of a generation of comedic actors who starred in movies where they get the girl but where there’s no need for gratuitous sex and nudity. Unlike most of his successors, including Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Dane Cook, he was never a pin-up in addition to being a funnyman. Even if he was better looking than some of his brethren, such as David Spade, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Rob Schneider.
Still, Adam Sandler isn’t the last male actor we’d want to see in a sex scene. He’s not even in the bottom ten, which we present in a list below: …Read more
I’m running off to the airport shortly and will be away from the computer until Friday afternoon Cannes time, but here’s a quick look at the news coming out of the festival as of Thursday morning:
Un Conte de Noel, Surveillance, and The Pleasure of Being Robbedhave been picked up. The former two were bought by IFC; the latter two deals were all but confirmed before the festival began.
David Lynch’s production company is putting together ALejandro Jodorowsky’s next film. Described as a “metaphysical spaghetti gangster film,” it’s set to star Nick Nolte, Asia Argento, Marilyn Manson and Udo Kier. Also, Lynch himself will allegedly team with the so-hot-right-now (tee hee) Werner Herzog on My Son, My Son, “a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story,” set for a “guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island” in March.
The news [via Vulture] that Larry David has been cast in the lead of Woody Allen’s upcoming return to New York project makes me really happy for some reason. I mean, obviously, he’s been cast in the traditional role of Woody stand-in; and, obviously, there is going to be either a romance or some kind of hokey mentor relationship between he and the sure to be precocious-yet-neurotic sexpot played by Evan Rachel Wood. But still! If Woody *has* to make films about old men and the young girls who are inexplicably drawn to them, at least he’s found a pair where the girl has experience kissing up to a much creepier older man.
For a taste of what David can do when working alongside a canonical New York auteur, check out the clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm above.
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I’m running off to the airport shortly and will be away from the computer until Friday afternoon Cannes time, but here’s a quick look at the news coming out of the festival as of Thursday morning:
