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If you're working hard all through this weekend, or couldn't justify squandering precious spondulicks on a babysitter only for a night in the local dive bar, catch some brilliant Monday night burlesque in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

I know, I know. You're already wondering, "where is our beloved Josh Learn and why aren't we reading his witty banter?". Truth is, I'm with you.

After seeing so many top-grade entries from the world's top art-film directors, this year's Cannes Jury had given the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" - a careful, conventional tale of one Jew's six awful years in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.

Judd Apatow has become the twenty first century version of the Mack Sennett comedy studios.

HA: Leslie Mann, Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Eric Bana in Funny People. Casting Adam Sandler to play a depressed and misanthropic comedian must be what passes for a stroke of genius in Hollywood these days.

"What is it, a quirky comedy?" Michael Cera asks Charlyne Yi about the film she's making in next week's docu-rom-com Paper Heart .

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HE MAY BE BARELY ON SERIOUS cinemagoers' radar, but if you have young sons you will know Adam Sandler.

Misunderstood Masterpieces 9.01.09: You Don't Mess with the Zohan Posted by Will Helm on 09.01.2009 ...or, Oh, I Will Mess with the Zohan Whether You Like It or Not Through the '90s, few comedy stars were as bankable as Adam Sandler.

Stocky, tough-looking Latino character actor of film and television has been featured in several films helmed by Sidney Lumet .

FUNNY PEOPLE **** DIRECTED BY: JUDD APATOW STARRING: ADAM SANDLER, SETH ROGEN, LESLIE MANN, ERIC BANA, JONAH HILL LIKE comedians, film-makers primarily identified with making comedy films sometimes reach a point in their creative lives when gags are no longer enough; they yearn to be taken seriously as artists.

ADAM SANDLER admits that he had second thoughts about making no holds barred comedies - now he's a dad.

Proper importance is placed on oysters and other crustacea and I was impressed to see a well stocked, well cared-for cheese trolley Le Bouchon Breton Barry Millington With drum tattoos and muted trumpet fanfares crisply delivered, the narrative thrust of the work was clearly, almost cinematically, delineated BBCSO/Bychkov London, The Adam Sandler ...

Verdict: But not as funny as they could be *** 22/08/2009 RING out, ye bells! Adam Sandler's back! And this week, he's playing a sell-out comedian who got rich quick making low-rent, unfunny turkeys.

I've always been kind of fascinated by stand-up comedians. I like funny people, and hearing and telling funny jokes and stories.

Taking Adam Sandler seriously can be a losing proposition. Just ask the producers of Funny People, which took a 65% dive in its second weekend, after opening July 31 at the lower end of expectations.

Taking Adam Sandler seriously can be a losing proposition. Just ask the producers of Funny People, which took a 65% dive in its second weekend, after opening July 31 at the lower end of expectations.

LOS ANGELES - If only Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen hadn't gotten in the car. If only they hadn't left Los Angeles, where everything in "Funny People" was going so well, and driven north to Marin County, where everything falls apart.

Chris Herrington was on assignment this week , so Chris Vernon asked if I would fill in for the "Movies" segment on Vernon's show .

By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Writer "Funny People" might have been a much better movie if it didn't feel, structurally speaking, as if was two different movies smashed into one.