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One of the most salacious emails to be revealed from the giant hack of Sony was a list of complaints from employees about the studio. Among them was griping that Sony has stayed married to Adam Sandler despite the “mundane, formulaic” quality of his movies, some of which have been outright flops, like That’s My Boy and Jack and Jill.

Here’s more fuel for that fire: For the second year in a row, Sandler tops the Forbes List of the Most Overpaid Actors in Hollywood. Forbes looked at the last three movies of the biggest stars in Hollywood and calculated what they were paid and what the movies earned to come up with what is essentially a return on investment number for each star. They estimate that for every $1 Sandler was paid, he returned an average of $3.20.

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Damien's note: A number of people have questioned the Forbes report, basing their criticism on the dubious assumption that Mr. Sandler can really be called an actor in any acceptable sense of the term.