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Mourning MTV's Remote Control Host Ken Ober
Ken Ober, who hosted MTV's pop-culture-centric game show Remote Control for five seasons beginning in 1987, was found dead in his home on Sunday, the network reports. The 52-year-old's cause of death has yet to be determined.
Ober began his career on Star Search but spent recent years behind the scenes, working in production on comedies like The New Adventures of Old Christine and Mind of Mencia.
"Kenny Ober was and always will be the quickest wit in the room," fellow funnyman Denis Leary tells MTV News. "He was fall-down funny from the moment he was born—a smart, fast and hilarious human being who made many of us, including myself, laugh until we cried. As the star and host of Remote Control, he was a welcoming ringmaster who helped to kick-start the careers of numerous talents, including Adam Sandler, Colin Quinn and myself. He will be remembered always by each of his friends not only for his massive talent but for his true, deep and enduring friendship."
"Ken Ober was one of the sharpest, quickest, sweetest guys I ever met," Sandler told the network. "He was always a great friend and I will miss him very much."
Lee Kernis, the star's manager, said that Ober complained to a friend of a headache and flulike symptoms on Saturday.
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Funny People Gets Last Laugh?
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If you think Funny People was tough to figure out as a movie—Is it a comedy? Is it a drama?—try making sense of its box office debut.
The Judd Apatow-directed, Adam Sandler-fronted hybrid grossed $23.4 million Friday-Sunday, per estimates, enough to top the weekend standings.
And while the take reigned over Reign Over Me, Spanglish and Sandler's other uncomic pieces, it didn't really stack up, dollar for dollar, with Apatow's previous films.
Crunching the numbers:
Sandler, Crowe, Cusack, Wahlberg Add Star Power to Walk of Fame
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A new batch of stars has aligned to light up Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce today unveiled its Class of 2010, the 28 lucky A-listers from film, TV, music and theater whose names will be memorialized on the tourist-trap infamous row sometime next year.
The honorees were selected from more than 200 nominations and have the added distinction of receiving their stars during the Walk of Fame's 50th Anniversary year.
Leading the way in the motion picture category are Adam Sandler, Russell Crowe, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, James Cameron, Mark Wahlberg, and a couple of Disney's go-to composers, Alan Menken and Randy Newman.
Those being honored for services rendered on the small screen are Jon Cryer, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Waterston, Bill Maher, sportscaster Chris Berman and O.G. Mission: Impossible star Peter Graves.
The recording roundup includes Van Morrison, Chaka Khan, Alan Jackson, Ringo Starr, ZZ Top, the Funk Brothers, Bryan Adams, Marco Antonio Solis and next year's sole posthumous honoree, Roy Orbison.
Only two acts made the cut for the live performance/theater category: Andrea Bocelli and Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberte.
No dates have yet been scheduled for the ceremonies.
Adam Sandler Is a Big Baby
Adam Sandler has made a name for himself often playing adults who act like children. Well, now he's gone and taken it one baby step further.
In a creative effort to get butts into theater seats when the film Funny People opens July 31, a movie-within-a-movie-type clip has just been released. Let us quickly explain.
In Funny People, Sandler plays comic George Simmons, who has made his fair share of less-than-stellar cinema. One example, Re-Do, costarring Justin Long, is about a lawyer whose wish to be young again has gone horribly wrong.
Here's one Sandler, er, Simmons flick where we wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.
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Adam Sandler Pronounced a Father of Two
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Adam Sandler brushed up on his Bedtime Stories just in time.
The funnyman and his wife, Jackie, welcomed their second daughter together last week.
"Jackie and Adam had a beautiful baby girl, Sunny Madeline, on November 2. Everyone is happy and healthy," read a statement on Sandler's website.
Sunny joins sister Sadie, 2, in the Sandler brood.
Sandler, 42, and Jackie, 34, tied the knot in 2003. The You Don't Mess With the Zohan star joked about his wife's pregnancy during a Tonight Show appearance earlier this year, telling Jay Leno how he eloquently explained the impending arrival to Sadie.
"'[Mommy] just has something growing in her that's eventually gonna shoot out her vagina and take half your toys,'" Sandler quipped.
A-List Secrets: Hollywood's (Unlikely) Hot Dog
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Do tell us what's the current must-have Hollywood pet? Puggles seem to be way over. Tiny totable dogs seem to have gone the way of last season's purse. What animal weirdness will be next on the scene?
—Libbye, Kentucky
Hollywood's dog o' the moment is an unexpected breed, one that has famous owners ranging from Samantha Ronson to Adam Sandler to John Legend. That dog is the English bulldog, he of the blunt nose and invisible neck and solid legs. To a lesser extent, stars also have fallen in love with the French bulldog, I am told, but really, right now, it's all about the English.
Sound exciting? You too can have one of these trendy canines, which come complete with frequent breathing problems and the occasional snoring habit. And all for the A-list price tag of...
Beat Ben @ the Box Office: Can Adam Slay 'Em?
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It's not a good idea to mess with Adam Sandler at the box office. The most bankable comedic star on the planet is coming off a series of films that have opened huge, and You Don't Mess With the Zohan will be no different. How big will it be? Well...
Sandler Breaks a Funny Bone
Maybe golf is more Adam Sandler's speed after all.
The 41-year-old funnyman is on the mend after breaking his ankle while playing basketball this weekend, according to a statement issued Monday by his rep.
Sandler's team still won the game, however, and—better yet—the injury won't affect production on his new comedy, Bedtime Stories, in which he plays a hotel handyman whose fantastical bedtime stories that he tells to his niece and nephew start coming true.
Only, unlike M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, Sandler's take on the nighttime-tales-come-alive will be intentionally funny. His castmates include Keri Russell, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce and Lucy Lawless.
Meanwhile, previews are starting to trickle out for Sandler's next big-screen escapade from his Happy Madison Productions, the fish-out-of-water comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Sandler stars as an Israeli secret agent who fakes his own death so he can start anew as a New York hairdresser.
The film hits theaters June 6.
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