i was disappointed that you didn't mention the ridiculously unamusing racist portrayal of an asian "minister" in the LV wedding chapel.

Everybody is talking about how bad or good the picture is. Didn't anyone watch that marvelous looking Jennifer. She is considered to be one of the worlds 50 most beautiful women and now I see why! Even if the piture reeked, her stunning scene in her undies was a sight to behold. Besides that malvelous face, she has the most perfectly proportioned figure I've ever seen. What a perfect 10 or 11! Thank you Jennifer, you made my day!!

That Schmitts Gay sketch he did with Chris Farley on SNL way back when, during the turn of the '90s. Great, great sketch. :)

No stereotypes: no queens, no Barbra Streisand references, no preaching, no "ooh! look at how kinky and deviant and EVIL and SINFUL AND CERTAINLY HELL-HOUND we are!" sort of affectations from straight actors who feel the need to ONCE AGAIN reiterate and re-emphasize as many times as possible how they're not gay in real life, dammit!. No hypocritical, judgmental, old-fashionedness ("this is so weird and wrong -- we're not REALLY like this, but look at how experimental and adventurous we are for pretending to be otherwise!"); and no self-important pattings on the back ("look at how good and worldly-thinking we are!"). No "fair and balanced" sanctimonious crap, with two inarticulate sides of an argument (and there are always two) beating you over the head with political jargon. No cultural dictionary or encyclopedia required. No political or religious tirades. It was just...

...that old beer commercial with the bikini-clad women taken away and replaced with trunks-wearing buffed-up men. That's all it had. Great, great sketch. :)

Your eagle eye apparently did not catch that the reviewer is a woman. Unless you aren't aware that "Stephanie" is not a gender-neutral name. By the way, her name is right above the dialogue box where you wrote your letter. Not sure how you missed it, as you seem not to miss anything. Maybe you were too busy thinking about the obituaries.

My wife and I saw "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry" and couldn't stop laughing throughout the film. Neither could the filled theatre. The almost two-hour film went by too fast. It was one of the funniest movies we had seen in a long time.

Your movie reviewer needs to be put on the obituary beat or something because he obviously has no knowledge about what makes a good film. Instead of his worrying about his not laughing, maybe he should have opened his ears and listened to everyone else in the theater laughing.

It was a good movie, very funny, and both stars did an excellent job. Ignore the movie reviewers; most of them don't have a clue about what entertains the rest of us.

Fort Myers, FL.

I worked in our HR dept. and you can establish a domestic partnership with someone from the opposite gender, too! And how having a domestic parter would help you leave your pension to you kids is unclear.

But let's just say for the sake of the film that having a domestic partner unrelated to my kids has some possibility of being of import in that issue.

Why not just ask a woman! And then no one asks questions!

For that matter, we never asked anyone to prove anything. We didn't interview them or go to their houses. They said they were partners, we put them on the coverage. It's not the INS.

I disagree with the critic on two parts. Chuck and Larry went to Canada, not Las Vegas. AND... Gay marriage is hardly a necessity.

There was a very similar movie in the late 60's called The Gay Deceivers, about two young men dodging the draft by playing gay. And the recruiting officer who didn't believe them tried to out them, so they had to move into a gay apartment house, etc.

This new movie sounds inspired by it, but with a sickly heart.

Later, in a "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" moment, Chuck addresses a crowded courtroom, explaining to the gathered yobbos that the word "faggot" is an insult. He admits he's used it himself way too often in the past, but he knows better now, and he wants them to see the light, too. "It's like 'kike' for me," he explains, and the bluntness of that particular word hits surprisingly hard.

This is the trouble with most uplift and message movies: they are inherantly false. You don't have to explain the offensiveness of "faggot" to straights. They know it's offensive. That's why they use it. Is the assumption of this movie that they don't know this is an offensive word? That somehow they've made the mistaken assumption that it's a compliment? That they use it out of some fear that if they fail to, they would somehow cause offense?

On the other hand, gays use "faggot" often enough, though in a more joking manner than the word "queer" (a gay may seriously identify himself as queer, he won't identify himself as a faggot). It isn't always a bad word, it's a bad word in context. But addressing context would confuse the point blank message, would upset the uplift. Adam Sandler being the good little boy who's not going to use the word again, and who addresses the courtroom (i.e., America) on what our standards should be, is just too saccharine for me.

I'm the last guy to watch one of those fat-working-class-white-guy-with-unlikely-attractive-wife sitcoms, but I actually think Kevin James and 'The King of Queens' is very funny show. Adam Sandler on the other hand is way past his expiration date. This is the guy who was the founder of 'I'm gonna laugh at my own jokes on live TV' school of comedy that has somehow been handed down to other unfunny jerk-offs like Jimmy Fallon.

I don't need to see the movie or read the reviews. Anything Sandler is in is a must avoid. A total douchebag of the highest order. 'Opera Man'...yeah that was brilliant. And I'm reading he is a Republican? Not suprised. I guess he prays to the same responsive idiot god as Britney, Lindsey, and all of these other nuisances who just won't go away. In another sober minded galaxy floating out there somewhere in space he and they would have all been diposed of years ago. I wish the same would happen here.