Barrymore mentions love for coasters on Late Show

I think "That 70's Show" has a lot more to it. Besides the obvious, they rarely make references to the 1970's, like "That 80's Show" did. The characters on the latter weren't exactly the best either.

And ya gotta love Red Forman! He makes the show IMHO!

Yes, "Donna" she did die her hair blond.......saw the season premiere the other night.

I will never forget running into "Kitty" at LAX. LOL! She and Ben Stein were the only celebrities I saw out in L.A. Funny.

-Tina

Ben STEIN? Tina one-ups me yet AGAIN! Argh!

I get Scott Baio ( I do NOT want Charles in Charge of ME)...Tina gets one of the great conservative thinkers/wits of the 20th century...

bill, lived thru the 70s once, that was enough...;)

The only Adam Sandler movie that's any good at all is Happy Gilmore, as far as I'm concerned. He was so funny on SNL; I have no idea what happened when he started making movies.

Punch-Drunk Love was no good either. I thought for sure the director of the masterpiece "Magnolia" and Sandler could make something really special, but it's just too bizarre.

Give it time..."That 70's Show" will become "That 80's Show."

Bill, I got a better one. In the Philly airport one time I saw Richard Simmons. It was in the middle of winter and he was walking around in a tank top and shorts as usual. LOL!

Happy Gilmore was OK. How about The Waterboy? I loved that one, but mostly because of Kathy Bates. I don't believe I have seen Punch Drunk Love.

Oh yeah, I miss him on SNL, as well as Chris Farley. :-(

Moosh,

I can see that happening. I think they are up to 1977 or 1978 now?

-Tina

<-----also lived through most of the 70's and doesn't remember much, except for the important stuff like Pong and the Electric Company. ;-)

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Tina, if you had seen Punch-Drunk Love, you would remember it. It was supposed to be Adam Sandler's first "serious" role - and he's pretty good - but... well just see it... it's messed up.

I will have to remember that. I did see "50 First Dates" recently (I am way, WAY behind on my movies) and didn't care for it at all.

-Tina

And Tina brings the thread full circle with the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore film.

As for 'playa's Olsen comment, I caught it, but there was no point in messing with perfection. Although I don't think they've changed the weight side of the equation much. ;)

It will? I thought that this was the last season for That 70's Show, Moosh? ;)

Den- Punch Drunk Love was just... weird. Not artsy weird like it tried to be, just "WTF" wierd.

Personally, I liked 50 first dates. I like nearly all of Sandler's movies. I think he is like Jim Carrey in that either people love 'em or hate 'em.

I dunno... I don't think that Adam Sandler is as polarizing as Carrey was in films like Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber and The Mask. But I get what you're saying...

The difference is that Jim Carrey has acting skills and continues to take roles that are challenging (Man on the Moon, The Truman Show, The Majestic, etc.) whereas Adam Sandler tried once with Punch-Drunk Love and then went right back to making slapstick crap.

I gotta jump in with a bit of a defense of "Punch Drunk Love". No doubt it was a strange, unsettling film. P.T. Anderson had said that after the epics "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia" he wanted to make a light, 89-minute comedy starring Adam Sandler. I just don't think he's capable of that. There's just so much going on in his films, with meanings and counter-meanings ...

For example - his use of Jeremy Blake's impressionistic video art instead of words to convey Sandler's internalized rage; his editing and scoring the love/"funny" scenes as drama, creating unexpected tension; and my favorite, the several references to photographer Andreas Gursky's masterpiece "99 cents", which helps you understand the film, if you are familiar (which I was lucky enough to be) with his work.

Of course, none of this means it was any good. I sorta liked it, but I definitely appreciated the frightening talent of the guy who made it more than the film itself ...

2 words: Billy Madison.

I like how threads get soo lost in themselves.

The problem with PDL was that it was FAR from being a light comedy. A light comedy is something like the Wedding Singer or Bruce Almighty (keeping with the Sandler/Carrey discussion)... PDL was so strange that, even if it WAS light, it certainly didn't feel it because it made you look for some kind of deeper meaning in all of the scenes.

I agree that the movie is the result of some very good talent. It's just that good talent doesn't always make a good movie. Look at Tom Hanks' Castaway!