Pajiba

Thank you for not using the word.

Remember that one time Adam Sandler was in a pretty good movie with pudding and Emily ...

Nope it's gone. I think it died of loneliness.

Adam Sandler in character from his upcoming movie, Jack and Jill, where he will play both title characters and rip a hole in the stupidity continuum.

Does it open on December 21, 2012?

Knucklehead had a (slim) chance until the scene on the bus. You have to go a long way to make fart jokes funny and they didn't make it.

I know some people are desperate (literally, desperate) to maintain or jump start their careers, thus Knucklehead. But just what is Sandler thinking?

Is it a fame thing? Does one get addicted to being talked about and seen? To making movies? Or does he have a gambling/drug addiction that he needs to feed? I'm sincere in this. Why, Adam? Next he'll be costarring with Mike Myers in a remake of The Love Guru. But perhaps I judge too soon? Any hope?

I laughed at the fart joke so I guess one of the unwashed masses.

Ok, "Knucklehead" does not look like a great movie, but it still looks several times superior to the movie suggested by the Adam Sandler screen grab. I don't want to see either one, but if forced to choose, I guess I'd rather watch a giant, dim human run into shit for 90 minutes than even half a minute of Adam Sandler in drag.

I still maintain that any number of TV "reality" shows are a bigger embarrassment to humanity than all the cruddy movies put together. At least the people in the movies are PRETENDING to be stupid. The people on TV actually ARE stupid, and they're proud of it.

What do you mean, "next ostracized minority"?

When was the last time we weren't one? Where the Hell did you go to highschool?

Jesus, Dustin, I know it's Halloween time but if you want to freak me out why not just strap me to a chair and force me to watch A Serbian Film.

Please no more pictures Sandler in drag.

@juicjui: Shirley Q. Liquor gets weekends off just like all of God's other li'l Caged Birds.

Dear Hollywood...do not get your ideas from Ed Wood...thanks.

I guess it's always different if you don't consider yourself to be a member of said group, whether you're squarely offended, or interested in 'reclaiming' a term.

But Diablo, if not him or him-sto-her, then who or hoo-wah?

The Big Show, much like Shaq, has charisma and presence, but they are not as funny or as elegant as I think they pictures themselves to be. Part of it is sheer physical size, The Rock has more charisma, and isn't so hulking as to be distracting. That sounds crazy, but if you think about it, I think you'd agree. This seems like a lesser Kingpin.

@thepants and @Vince Noir

I'm also curious. I fully support the intention of the campaign, and would support the campaign itself (and will, if it starts to succeed) but around here it's already far too late. No one I know would used 'R' to describe someone with developmental disabilies, however lots of people I know would use it to describe someone who is being really stupid.
So here, at least, and I suspect in other places as well, the meaning of 'R' has been mostly decoupled from meaning developmentally disabled and like it's predecessors, Moron, Idiot and others, has been left as merely an insult. Just from what I've observed about the way the meaning of words tend to evolve, and how it is easier to get the scientific community to abandon a word than it is to stop bigots and people who just don't care to stop, I think that the campaign is doomed to failure.

I have two brothers with autism and additional intellectual disabilities. I also have two jobs working with disabled people (or people with disabilities to be politically correct). I work at a special needs school and a holiday program for teenagers with disabilities. So I spend a hell of a lot of time with people with disabilities.

I dunno. I'm not really offended by the "r-word" anymore. I used to get outraged. I just don't give a shit anymore.

Back on topic, that picture of Adam Sandler keeps haunting me. He looks like my uncle but my uncle if he aged really badly and dressed in drag. And now I'm thinking about my uncle in drag. Uck.

@Vince Noir
In response to the use to the R-word. First of all developmentally disabled and "retarded" aren't the same thing. Some people who have a developmental disability can have a clinical diagnosis of mental retardation but not all. Some have cerebral palsy, some autism, some a traumatic brain injury etc. The reason I get upset with the word is that people don't mean it as an insult BUT I've been on field trips with my students and someone sitting nearby uses the word very casually and unknowingly and all of a sudden I have a group of people who either want to cry or tear someones head off because they feel insulted.
My feeling is that by changing the way we speak we can sometimes change the way we look at the world. I teach acting and these guys are phenomenal but they don't often book work outside of my program because people don't think they can do anything. They want to change the world with their art but no one will let them because they're "the R-word".
(This is the most I have ever commented on any website- mainly because I'm not very eloquent or witty-so I will now go back to lurking).