TUBE TALK Adam Sandler is producing a TV comedy for his former ''Saturday Night Live'' pals Jon Lovitz and Norm Macdonald. Longtime Sandler collaborator Tim Herlihy will write the NBC pilot, which will star the two comics as ''Odd Couple''-type mismatched roommates.
Now that there's a deal in place to film Alan Moore's seemingly unfilmable graphic novel ''Watchmen,'' the next unlikely work of comic-book art to go before the cameras will be Harvey Pekar's ''American Splendor.'' The movie will mix animation, documentary footage, and fictional sequences starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis. Producing the film for HBO is Good Machine, the indie company behind Ang Lee's movies.
HEALTH WATCH Slipknot and Waylon Jennings are the third and fourth acts this week (after Usher and Status Quo) to postpone their concert tours for health reasons. The wife of Slipknot percussionist 6 (a.k.a. Shawn Crahan) had surgery for the bowel ailment Crohn's Disease last week, and he's taking off the next six weeks to help her recuperate at home in Des Moines and take care of their three children. As a result, the masked rockers' tour, which was to begin Nov. 21 in Fargo and end a month later in Des Moines, has been put off until well into next year, after the band tours Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada.
Country outlaw Jennings postponed two concerts this weekend in Phoenix and Tucson after undergoing vascular surgery in one of his legs in Phoenix on Nov. 8. Circulation problems have made walking difficult for the 64-year-old singer in recent years. Jennings, who lives in Arizona, also underwent surgery in April.
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