Antichrist Superstar  What the Devil Made Adam Sandler Do  Two-
ton box office gorilla Adam Sandler doesn't do print interviews.
So we can't ask him how he felt when a pair of national weeklies
and the Millennium Hell Web site last year proposed him as the
Antichrist—unless the answer is to be found in Little Nicky, the
$80 million vanity project that allows the most bankable movie
star of the past three years to play the "spawn of Satan."
Early in 1999, after Jerry Falwell informed a conference of
evangelical Christian leaders that the Antichrist walked among
them, it was Sandler—regularly cited by film reviewers as
evidence of America's cultural decline—whom amused commentators
in Timeand The Nationnominated for the role. Had he not already
played Satan in the Norm Macdonald comedy Dirty Work (possibly
the worst reviewed movie of 1998)? Sandler, who became a star on
Saturday Night Livefor cracked-voice renditions of songs so lame
they broke even him up, had garnered an inexplicably huge
following. Plus, as