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‘…bad art can be bad precisely because it’s a too-honest expression of who the artist really is’

June 16, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Grantland:

Sandler’s truth is that his onscreen persona has aged with his fans and experienced the same things at roughly the same time they’ve experienced it.

Over the course of 20 years, Adam Sandler has gone from being a staple of sleepovers to dorm rooms to lousy apartments to the suburbs. (…)

If you’ve grown up with his movies, Adam Sandler embodies a part of you that, at some point, starts to seem sort of ugly and embarrassing.

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