Adam Sandler Got Permission to Actually Clobber Kids for This Beloved Comedy: ‘Hurting Kids Is Funny’

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A lot of filmmakers strive for realism in their movies, but that’s not usually the case when the project they’re working on is a goofy comedy. Adam Sandler, as it turns out, had different feelings on the subject while 1995’s Billy Madison was in production. Remember that scene where Sandler destroys the kids he’s in […]

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56 Years Ago, Domestic Terrorists Accidentally Blew Up Dustin Hoffman’s House

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Three years after landing his breakout role in the 1967 romantic comedy The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman was living in a townhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village with his wife, Anne Byrne, and their daughter, Karina. Unbeknownst to them, the house next door was occupied by members of the leftist militant group the Weather Underground (a.k.a the […]

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40 Years Ago, John Landis Was Tried for Manslaughter Over the Deaths of 2 Children

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Prior to his involvement with 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie, John Landis was primarily known for directing comedies like National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and Trading Places. For Twilight Zone, which was, of course, a big-screen adaptation of the classic 1960s anthology series of the same name, Landis directed both the prologue and […]

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