{"id":402512,"date":"2026-01-11T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402512\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:10:09","slug":"ill-make-50-more-movies-and-at-least-25-will-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402512\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make 50 More Movies \u2014 and at Least 25 Will Be Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/adam-sandler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-sandler_1\" data-tag=\"adam-sandler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Sandler<\/a> received the Career Achievement Award at AARP\u2019s Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, where he got real about, well, getting old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cA lot of people said to me, \u2018Sandman, getting an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/movies-for-grownups-awards-aarp-hamnet-winners-1236469275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AARP award<\/a> means that you\u2019re old now.\u2019 To what I say, it\u2019s not because of this award. I\u2019ve got 10 other reasons that you know I am fucking old,\u201d Sandler joked after accepting the honor from friend Henry Winkler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe proceeded to have the crowd in stitches as he listed through those 10 reasons, which included, \u201cThe other day, I had to swallow a Viagra to take a piss. And I had to call my doctor because the piss lasted for more than four hours\u201d and \u201cthe font on my phone is so big that my texts can be read by anyone with a window seat on a Delta flight.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere was also \u201cAt my high school reunion, I spent most of the night saying, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry to hear that;&#8217;\u201d  \u201cNone of my toenails are the same color anymore. If I take my socks off, it looks like a fucking pack of Crayola crayons\u201d and \u201cWhen I receive the Academy Awards screeners, even though I press play on 44 different movies, I can only stay awake for a combined total of eight minutes. For all of you who are getting all the accolades, I must say I love the first 30 seconds of all of your work.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe then thanked his wife Jackie for \u201cstaying with me even though no part of my body is where it used to be\u201d and the star, who is in the midst of awards<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/jay-kelly-interviews-george-clooney-adam-sandler-noah-baumbach-1236464426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> buzz for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jay-kelly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jay-kelly_1\" data-tag=\"jay-kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Kelly<\/a><\/a>, mused, \u201cI don\u2019t know how much time I have left \u2014 60, 70 years. 80 tops, maybe 90 if I start working out and taking creatine.\u201d Regardless, he said, \u201cI promise to everyone here tonight, I will make at least 50 more movies before I am dead \u2014 and at least 25 of them will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler received the Career Achievement Award at AARP\u2019s Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, where he got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[169647,12893,49,48,75,32352],"class_list":["post-402512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aarp-awards","tag-adam-sandler","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-jay-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}