Under the category of 90% of the cool stuff I know I learned looking up something else :
while checking "There Will Be Blood" on IMDB for another thread I noticed Paul Thomas Anderson also directed Punch Drunk Love.
(it was the reason Danial Day Lewis agreed to do TWBB)
I forgot how surprised I was by that movie and how much I liked it - especially as the star was Adam Sandler whom I have always otherwise found unwatchable
( Canteen Boy anyone?)
He is Wonderful in this (it is not a comedy - though as far as I'm concerned neither is his other stuff)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/Odd, felt the same about Jerry Lewis. Not at all my kind of humor but directed by Scorcese in King of Comedy and playing off Deniro's Rupert Pupkin he's brilliant.
And his story arc on the much under-rated "Wiseguy" on TV was one of the best guest spots on TV in that era (another, of course, was Kevin Spacey's Mel Profitt on the same show)
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/11/arts/television-wiseguy-recruits-some-stylish-acting-support.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
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