Adam Sandler’s Everlasting Shtick

November 29, 2019

The Adam Sandler comedy is its own genre, encompassing nearly 30 films and counting. He has churned out those movies out at an astonishing rate — about one per year for the last quarter-century. Netflix users have streamed well over 500 million hours of Adam Sandler content. In our cover story this week, Jamie Lauren Keiles spends time with America’s most reliable comic star, and finds out what the man who never leaves his comfort zone is doing in this year’s most anxiety-inducing film.

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Photo illustration by Zachary Scott for The New York Times. Stylist: Jeanne Yang. Prop stylist: Faeth Gruppe.

Adam Sandler’s Everlasting Shtick

He became America’s most reliable comic star without ever leaving his comfort zone. So what’s he doing in this year’s most anxiety-inducing film?

By Jamie Lauren Keiles

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In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion.

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Photo illustration by Nicolás Ortega

Feature

The Curious Case of Aurelius Capital v. Puerto Rico

How a hedge fund’s efforts to take the island territory to the cleaners wound up before the Supreme Court — with ordinary Puerto Ricans arguing in the hedge fund’s favor.

By Jesse Barron

Photo illustration by Ina Jang

Diagnosis

He Had a Temporary Blast of Amnesia. What Was Going On?

The man lost his memory and then quickly got it back. Doctors were perplexed when tests ruled out seizure and stroke.

By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

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Talk

The Who’s Pete Townshend on Rock’s Legacy, and His Own Dark Past

“We don’t have the brains to answer the question of what it was that rock ’n’ roll tried to start and has failed to finish.”

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