Some folks were mighty disappointed when a Daisy May's BBQ cart on Park Avenue and 52nd Street turned out to be a tease. According to Midtown Lunch, the cart was set up outside the Seagram Building for the filming of the next Adam Sandler movie, You Don't Mess With Zohan. The Hollywood Reporter says You Don't Mess With Zohan was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel and it "follows the exploits of......

Sunshine (directed by Danny Boyle) Sweltering in the humidity today it's hard to imagine being so upset about the sun going out, but that's the horrific premise in Danny Boyle's excellent new sci-fi fantasy Sunshine, which is out this weekend. The movie is set 50 or so years into the future, as the crew of the Icarus II are about to move outside of communication range on their voyage to the sun. The ship is......

Who hasn't been put off at least momentarily, after hearing an old roommate just purchased a 5BR house in the 'burbs? When a few years ago, his or her assets consisted of the crappy TV you're still watching and a couch you wish they'd taken with them when they left. You're sure he hasn't stumbled onto a highly lucrative cure for toe-stubbing in the dark, so what happened? Short answer: he or she moved......

Adam Sandler is showing his serious side again in "Reign Over Me" (named loosely after the Pete Townshend-penned song “Love, Reign O’er Me”). The film, also starring Don Cheadle, is the first to use the events of 9/11 as a plot device. Sandler's character, Charlie, loses his wife and three daughters when their plane crashes into the World Trade Center. He then begins to ride around a dark Manhattan on a scooter, looking a lot......

Air Guitar Nation (directed by Alexandra Lipsitz): Sure, you can jam like Jimi Hendrix returned from the dead alone in your bedroom, but can you wail with your invisible guitar on stage in front of thousands of people? The quest for the lofty title "world air guitar champion" is the story of the documentary, Air Guitar Nation, which begins a theatrical run in New York this weekend at the Angelika. Inspired by a Wall Street......

It's time to celebrate Chanukah! (Someone got the Adam Sandler song stuck in our head -- now we're passing that "gift" on to you). Part of the Chanukah tradition involves cooking foods in oil. To many, this means latkes. We're rounded up some great latke posts and recipes for you: - Food and Wine magazine features recipes for a Latke and vodka party (Smitten Kitchen takes a stab at some of the menu); -......

A quiet day on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing in Inwood, a few fires in Brooklyn, and a number of traffic accidents. Are we damned to hear Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving Song every year from now on? It's become the Alice's Restaurant of the 21st Cenutry! The Times has a sad background piece on one of the women found dead in Atlantic City on Monday-- she had been working as a prostitute in the area.......

THEATER: Both the Fringe Festival and the wildly successful, but once Fringe-y, 24 Hour Plays are celebrating their tenth anniversaries this year, so why not do it together? Starting tonight, some of the original cast members and plays from the series that proved that a gimmick (conceive, write, rehearse and perform a play in a day) can produce fresh theatre, reunite in five totally different sets of five. - Mallory Jensen Lucille Lortel Theater [121......

Foodies attack the silver screen! In today's Times Arts & Leisure section, the long history and current feast of food in film is given another look. Would there have even been a Big Night if not for the food? In the coming months, Russell Crowe, the first person we think of when the phrase "good taste" coming up, will star as a man who inherits a vineyard and Nora Ephron is working on an adaptation......

The movie releases list this week is determined to put the conception that summer is only about the blockbuster to the test. There are documentaries, foreign films and small indies about local hot button issues that are all worth a viewing. This weekend should be all about escaping the humidity with a quality flick. To get the mass market dreck out of the way first: Adam Sandler gets a universal remote to speed up and......

We were walking around the Upper West Side when we noticed that part of West 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue had been cordoned off by a film or TV production. Was it more Bruce-and-Halle filming? Or August Rush? Or Dedication? Or a Law & Order? But actually it was Reign O'er Me. Gothamist wracked our brain, because the name had sounded familiar... and then we found a production letter: It's the September 11-related movie with......

- Lawyers for Paramount and Columbia Pictures are suing a 63-year-old teacher's aide for allegedly downloading a copy of "The Longest Yard." Yes, the Adam Sandler movie. - The man fired by Bloomie for playing Solitaire hasn't quite left the news yet. The Times looks at his impressive name while one radio host teased Mike about it. - You hear the one about the X-rated fortune cookies? - A company in the United Arab......

Ah January. That lovely first month of the year which big Hollywood uses as its annual dumping ground. The Awards eligibility period is over, and now is the time to catch-up on all those films being talked about that came out at the same time over the past few weeks. Still, New Yorkers are lucky as we retain many filmgoing options. Sure you can check-out the latest video game adaptation from hackmeister Uwe Boll, but......

Adam Gardner and Dave Schneider, The LeeVees ...

We’ve already expressed our sentiments on controversial comic Sarah Silverman, whose racist, off-colored jokes often shock you into laughter or completely offend you. Silverman’s new movie, Jesus is Magic, combines her outrageous-character driven and hilariously distasteful standup routine with comedy sketches and poppy (though lukewarm funny) Adam Sandler-esque musical numbers, boasting such lyrics as “I love you more than Jews love money/ I love you more than Asians are good at math.”......

If you're not a fan of any of the other sandwiches we mentioned earlier today, you may be better off making your own. Surfing on kottke.org not too long ago, we spotted a remaindered link to a recipe for what was referred to as a "Spanglish Sandwich." This name is in reference to the movie "Spanglish," starring Adam Sandler and Paz Vega. In the movie, Sandler is a famous chef who owns a well-regarded California......

With just two new episodes so far this season, the NY Post wonders if Saturday Night Live is really dead. It's a good, if evergreen question. Horatio Sanz is certainly no Tina Fey during Weekend Update, though Gothamist has been impressed he's been able to hold it together this long. With Maya Rudoph's pregnancy, it seems like most sketches with a female character involve Amy Poehler (who rules, but maybe she needs a break). There......

By now we’ll assume most saw Episode III or are at least quite tired of seeing it butchered and plastered all over their Burger King fountain sodas. So I guess we can focus our attention back to more current matters, like deciphering Katie & Tom's publicity gymnastics (who else caught the jump, fall-to-one-knee, & arm wrestle move on Oprah?) and the new movies opening this weekend: New York’s animated zoo animals move from the Big......

Sure, there are lots of big movies opening tomorrow - The Aviator (DiCap flies a plane), Spanglish (Adam Sandler plays a Thomas Keller-like chef - ha! - and Tea Leoni hopes this will make her a star), and Lemony Snicket (okay, the baby biting the table is cute) - but Gothamist's pick for a must-see film this weekend is The Sweet Smell of Success. Sweet Smell is playing as part of Film Forum's Essential Noir......

Tonight is the start of Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights. While it's not the most holy of the Jewish holidays, it's hard not to hear about it. Especially since they play Adam Sandler's song over and over on the radio. That song, along with the dreidel song embeds Chanukah in Gothamist's head right up until Christmas songs start. During the holiday, fried foods are traditionally consumed because oil plays an important role in the......

To add to greg.org's disbelief that the New York Times is just coming to the South Park table now, Gothamist can't believe that there was no mention of the Death Camp of Tolerance episode (with Lemmiwinks) or Scott Tenorman Must Die (with Radiohead). South Park does lampoon all religions well, but it's also an excellent hotbed of social satire (the recent metrosexual-skewering South Park is Gay! and Michael Jackson inspired The Jeffersons). And more attention......

There's an item in Page Six about how contributors to Suicide Girls don't want to be associated with the site anymore (there's a power struggle between publisher and editors there). An insider "sniffs" to the Post, "The magazine quickly went from a contemporary, hip production to a little more than a hipsterized Maxim with nipples." Now, Maxim is problematic and so is hipsterization. But nipples - there ain't anything wrong with that. Interpol's Carlos D......

Leo Tolstoy. Adam Sandler. Justin Case. Aside being great men of their times, their common thread? September 9. Happy Birthday, Justin. - Rachel Hunter also shares this birthday. Hunter is currently Fountains of Wayne's Stacey's Mom video. And FoW is a favorite band of Justin's. - Goran Visnjic's birthday, too. Justin is not particularly a fan of Goran's; Gothamist just likes saying/typing-then-checking-the-spelling three times over..."Goran Visnjic." Mmm.......

Considering how fat Americans have become is it any wonder that pets are getting obese as well? A new study by the National Research Council says that one in every four pets is overweight. The study gives tips on how to take care of your pet and help it slim down, so it lives a long and healthy life, but since it's the report is available for pay, take a look at the study's......

The New York Post has more information about Adam Sandler's wedding, but all Gothamist cares about is this picture of Sandler and his dog, Meatball. Yarmulkes for dogs! Awesome! Adam Sandler's official site has more pictures.......

Adam Sandler gets married, and gets a classic Reuters headline to boot: Adam Sandler Marries Model/Actress Girlfriend (Jackie Titone). He is actually wearing a tux (not his usual sweats or flannel shirt) but his best wedding face still looks very Little Nicky-esque.......

I saw Anger Management the other night and while it's incredibly stupid, there were two things that brought down the house for me: - There's a plot point where Jack Nicholson's character's mother is having surgery in Boston. Jack and Adam take a road trip from New York to Boston, finding themselves at Boston Country General - which happens to be set at 114th Street and Broadway in Manhattan: The exteriors were shot at......