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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler poses for media at a photo-call for the movie 'Spaceman' during the International Film, Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Wednesday, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
March 7, 2024, 10:05 pm
Jewish comedian Adam Sandler was Hollywood’s highest earner in 2023
Netflix subscribers spent 500 million hours watching the actor’s movie catalog during the first half of last year, according to Forbes
By ToI Staff
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino makes a solidarity tour of southern Israel on October 13, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2023, 10:21 am
Once upon a time in the south: Tarantino solidarity trip to troops, towns
Social media lights up with spottings of the director at IDF bases and in southern communities; other Hollywood celebs speak out in support of Israel
By ToI Staff
Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler in 'You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.' (Scott Yamano/Netflix via JTA)
September 2, 2023, 9:02 pm
Adam Sandler’s new Bat Mitzvah movie highest rated of actor’s career
Film receives 96 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, despite criticism of nepotism in casting
By Gabe Friedman
Idina Menzel (from left), Samantha Lorraine, Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler and Sadie Sandler in a scene from the Netflix film 'You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.' (Courtesy Netflix)
August 25, 2023, 1:47 am
‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ draws inspiration from real celebrations
Production designer and set director say they crashed 10 ‘amazing and big and outlandish and extravagant’ parties to prepare for new Adam Sandler comedy
By Shira Li Bartov
Police at the scene where four men were shot dead in the Arab Town of Abu Snan, northern Israel, August 22, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
August 23, 2023, 1:09 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 23: Are rising murders and terrorism exposing a double standard?
US bureau chief Jacob Magid on violence against Arabs and Jews, and the government’s response; news editor Amy Spiro on new attention to Golda Meir, and Adam Sandler on Netflix
By ToI Staff
Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler in a scene from the Netflix film 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.' (Scott Yamano/Netflix)
August 23, 2023, 2:42 am
‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is an endearing Sandler family affair
Dropping this Friday, a new Netflix film starring Adam Sandler alongside his wife and daughters puts Jewish ritual front and center in a sweet coming-of-age tale laced with humor
By Amy Spiro
File: Adam Sandler accepts the award for best male lead for "Uncut Gems" at the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, February 8, 2020. (AP/Chris Pizzello)
March 19, 2023, 5:04 pm
Adam Sandler to be awarded Mark Twain Prize for lifetime in comedy
Actor rose to fame on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ starred in slapstick comedies ‘You Don’t Mess with the Zohan’ and ‘Happy Gilmore,’ shined in drama ‘Uncut Gems’
By ASHRAF KHALIL
Adam Sandler poses in the press room with the award for best male lead for "Uncut Gems at the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
December 13, 2022, 11:21 pm
Adam Sandler to receive 2023 Mark Twain comedy prize
Kennedy Center says star will receive prestigious award at March gala where Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal have been honored in the past
By AP
Screenshot from Adam Sandler's Netflix special, '100% Fresh.' (Netflix)
December 7, 2022, 11:46 pm
Adam Sandler recounts how he wrote ‘The Chanukah Song’
At an event at the 92nd Street Y, the Jewish celeb credits his family for pushing him toward success and describes how his career didn’t exactly start off with a bang
By Alan Zeitlin
Adam Sandler gave us the Zohan, an IDF soldier with superhuman strength, in 2008's "You Don't Mess with the Zohan." (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images/Getty Images via JTA)
September 23, 2022, 6:06 am
The Zohan’s never been to Israel? Sandler says it’s top of his bucket list
In interview with AARP upon entering group’s membership demographic, Hollywood star says he’d also like to learn to speak Hebrew fluently and improve his guitar skills
By Gabe Friedman
Actor Adam Sandler (left) with Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin of Toronto's Beth Tzedec Synagogue, where Sandler and cast spent much of the summer filming his upcoming tween film, 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!' (Courtesy: Robyn Fryer Bodzin)
August 18, 2022, 7:08 pm
Adam Sandler spends 6 weeks at Toronto shul shooting bat mitzvah film
Sandler, Idina Menzel and SNL actor Sarah Sherman get friendly with the rabbis, Beth Tzedec’s Steven Wernick and Robyn Fryer Bodzin
By Jessica Steinberg
Adam Sandler attends the after party for the Netflix World Premiere of 'Hustle' at Baltaire on June 01, 2022 in Los Angeles, California (Phillip Faraone / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
June 8, 2022, 10:05 am
Adam Sandler’s production company making bat mitzvah-themed film
Unclear if the Hollywood star will take a role in movie version of ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,’ a 2005 young adult novel by Fiona Rosenbloom
By CALEB GUEDES-REED
Adam Sandler accepts the award for best male lead for "Uncut Gems" at the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 8, 2020, in Santa Monica, California. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
October 7, 2021, 11:11 am
Adam Sandler is Gen Z’s favorite celebrity
After some flops, 55-year-old US Jewish actor remains a favorite among teens after ‘Uncut Gems’ success and appearances in pickup basketball
By Gabe Friedman
Jamie Lee Curtis with 'Letters from Camp' co-creator and writer Boco Haft (Jamie Lee Curtis)
August 10, 2020, 1:51 am
A portal back to youth: Jamie Lee Curtis on her new summer camp mystery podcast
Cast of tween delight ‘Letters from Camp’ includes Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Sandler’s daughter Sunny, who plays an awkward, precocious 11-year-old investigating a ghost
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This image released by A24 shows Kevin Garnett, Lakeith Stanfield and Adam Sandler in a scene from 'Uncut Gems.' (A24 via AP)
June 14, 2020, 11:17 pm
Locked down? Open up to Adam Sandler’s ‘Uncut Gems,’ a lesson in race relations
Now streaming on Netflix, the film is a nuanced look at the close but sometimes tense relationship between Jewish and black New Yorkers
By Ben Sales and Gabe Friedman
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