In Defense of Sandler's "Hallelujah": The Comic Wasn't Butchering Leonard Cohen's Classic. He Was Rescuing It. – Tablet Magazine
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More than the mummified Stones, the bloated Billy Joel, or the slithering Roger Waters, Sandler was one of very few real, live rock stars on display last night, doing that thing that rock stars do: he kicked and mocked and questioned and took great, sophomoric, hormonal joy at picking up our cherished object and tossing it on the floor to see it shatter.
---SPSmith
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