Posted on 12/09/2018 7:03:46 AM PST by Twotone
Happy Hanukkah to all our Jewish readers around the world. On this penultimate "crazy night", I thought it appropriate to look out a slab of Hanukkah Hollywood, but the pickings are thin, save for this 2002 offering from my sometime fellow Granite Stater Adam Sandler. Born in Brooklyn, Sandler grew up in New Hampshire and was discovered in an LA comedy club by Dennis Miller, who recommended him to "Saturday Night Live". Eight Crazy Nights was a flop on its first release but has become something of a cult film, and is in its way a significant cultural artifact: a big-budget multiplex animated gross-out comedy about a Jewish holiday. Only in America!
It takes its title from a lyric in a comedy sketch Adam Sandler first did on American TV three decades ago. Surrounded by Christmas standards, he decided to create the first Hanukah song - or, if you prefer, Channukah, it being the first major American holiday without an agreed spelling (the Presidents Day/Presidents' Day/President's Day variables are a punctuation dispute). Anyway, Sandler's song includes the attitudinal line that "instead of one day of presents we get eight crazy nights".
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I’ve noticed a spate of articles attacking Hannukah that mirrors the routine attacks on Christianity during the Christmas season.
Example: You Don’t Want Fries With That
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/health/french-fries-nutrition.html
Judaism is sliding down the social justice stack, while Islam is being elevated up. That explains the rising open anti-Semitism by the far left.
Fifty first dates was good and mr deets... the Hanukkah song is creative too.
The Wedding Singer,,,,?
One of My Favs’
Mark Steyn...”still not a Jew”. Although his paternal great-grandmother was...
I’ve liked Sandler in a couple of movies (which I can’t name - Oldtimer’s Disease!). But generally, his name in the credits is a good reason to find something else to watch.
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