Sandler tees up new comedy tour
You are so invited to Adam Sandler’s new 25-date comedy tour.
The actor’s North American “I Missed You Tour” was announced Wednesday amid the critical success of his latest Netflix outing, “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.”
The Brooklyn-born “SNL” alum, 57, will kick off the tour Oct. 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, hitting the Northwest until he returns to his native Northeastern roots before touring cities across the Midwest, South and Southwest. He’ll wrap up Dec. 12 in Denver.
Sandler has been on a roll this year, following the critical acclaim of his 2022 Netflix sports drama, “Hustle.” Though he didn’t score an Academy Award nod, he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award. The following month, Sandler was awarded the 24th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
“You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” — produced by and starring Sandler — debuted on Netflix in August and stars his “Uncut Gems” co-star Idina Menzel as well as Sandler’s wife, Jackie, and daughters Sunny and Sadie. The family affair garnered rave reviews and boasts a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
“I Missed You” tickets are available from Live Nation.
’N Sync releasing new song: ’N Sync wasn’t trolling after all when they reunited at the MTV Video Music Awards this week. The ’90s boy band is “bringin’ da noise” once again as the members team up to release their first new song in over 20 years for the latest “Trolls” sequel.
The world got a sample of “Better Place” — the band’s first new song since 2002’s “Girlfriend” — at the end of the “Trolls Band Together” trailer that dropped Wednesday. The track will be released in full Sept. 29, while excerpts are available now on Tiktok.
The trailer also features one of ’N Sync’s oldies but goodies — 1997’s “I Want You Back.”
The group took to Instagram on Wednesday with a video of the five bandmates mouthing along to audio from “Friends,” in which Joey and Rachel trying to suss out the secret the other knows.
Book award nominees announced: Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding, and Nana Kwame Adjei-brenyah’s dystopian prison novel “Chain-gang All-stars” are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction.
Phillips, a former National Book Award finalist, was cited for “Night Watch,” and Harding, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was nominated for “The Other Eden.”
The 10 fiction titles announced Friday by the National Book Foundation also include Mona Susan Power’s multigenerational “A Council of Dolls,” Eliot Duncan’s coming-of-age novel “Ponyboy,” and two other historical works, Hanna Pylväinen’s “The End of Drum-time” and Tania James’ “Loot.”
Sept. 16 birthdays: Singer Betty Kelley is 79. Actor Ed Begley Jr. is 74. Actor Mickey Rourke is 71. Illusionist David Copperfield is 67. Singer Richard Marx is 60. Comedian Molly Shannon is 59. Comedian Amy Poehler is 52. Rapper Flo Rida is 44. Actor Alexis Bledel is 42. Actor Kyla Pratt is 37. Musician Nick Jonas is 31.