Comedian, actor, writer and producer – as well as former “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 1975- ) castmember –Adam Sandler was the man behind a genre of comedy blockbusters so closely associated with his formulaic wackiness that it eventually bore his name — “Adam Sandler movies.” At the center of hits like “Billy Madison” (1995) and “The Waterboy” (1998) were Sandler’s character creations — hapless, moronic, outsiders entangled in absurdly improbable circumstances. But critics be damned, the adolescent-skewed offerings proved to be box office gold and their creator repeated his success with
