Similar to Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are a “couple” that repeatedly work together, except rather than make music, they make movies together.
The pair appear to have a comfortable and close relationship, claiming that they love eachother and that they’re strictly platonic, both being married (to other people) with children. Though that doesn’t stop Adam from joking that their relationship has become “hornier” over the years.
Movie-wise, however, they come across as perfect for eachother. Some hail them as this generations Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who were the RomCom couple of the 90’s era.
Born to actors and growing up in the limelight, Drew experienced more than her share of troubles while quite young. Its been reported ad nauseum how she was in and out of rehab in her pre-teen/early teen years, how her mother would snort coke with her when she was just 12, she battled addiction and has really cleaned up her act. In pop-culture terms, she started off very young like Lindsay Lohan with a mother like Dina Lohan, but has become…well, a modern day Meg Ryan. Seemingly squeaky clean, adorable, and loved by the public.
Adam’s early years, to public knowledge, was relatively drama free. Not really much to comment on. In the late 80’s he landed a couple recurring roles on TV, did a couple movies that flew under the radar, focused mainly on stand-up, then was hired on SNL. Some biographers claim that it wasn’t until he starred opposite Drew in the Wedding Singer that his career really started to take off.
So…if Drew’s credited with Adam’s career blowing up, does that make her his Handler? I mean, she’s the one who grew up in Hollywood. She may have started off as an MK victim in her youth, but pretty much all celebrities start off as slaves then work their way up. No matter how sweet and down-to-Earth they may seem to us. Even being aware of the darkness that surrounds many public figures, I still fall under the spell of some. But that’s the point of the work that they do.
Meg Ryan, since the two Hollywood “couples” are being compared, was also born to a family in the industry. Somewhat. Her father was a math teacher, and her mother had done some acting in commercials and briefly worked as an assistant casting director in New York City. Her brother, Andrew Hyra, is a musician. Meg got into acting while doing commercials in college to earn extra money. She dropped out of college shortly before she would have graduated.
Tom Hanks’ early life, as written on his website, fits the making of an ideal MK slave:
“From a very early age, my parents never really communicated to me what was going on in the dynamic between them… My mother moved away from our home when I was 4 years old… My father, through all of his marriages, never, ever sat me down and told me how much he either loved or did not love the women he was married to, or shared with me the problems that he was going through. So I was just constantly attempting to cope before I really learned how to cope. I would go through some brand of self-medicating process : becoming very involved in doing something like going to church or making sure that my calendar was filled with something that I was doing every minute.” -Presumably written by Tom himself on his website.
” At 14, Tom Hanks had a part time job at the Oakland Coliseum selling peanuts and sodas and would later work as a bellman in an hotel, carrying the bags of some celebrities including Cher, Sidney Poitier, Slappy White and Bill Withers.” -Also from his website
He threw himself into school and became beyond involved with his drama courses.
What is the point of these showbiz “couples” that aren’t, and have never been, actual couples? I honestly couldn’t tell you. I think it’s tied in with spirits possessing the actors, spirits who believe the events unfolding on film are really happening and, in effect, are in romantic relationships with the spirit possessing their co-star. Or something to that effect. Or perhaps one is the Handler and the other is the puppet. Those are purely my speculations, not necessarily facts.
Alexis Arquette really has nothing to do with this article, although is briefly in Blended and, in my (not so humble) opinion, completely made The Wedding Singer. Honestly, her performance of Do You Really Want to Hurt Me was the best part of the movie!
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