With ''Funny People,'' Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen join the line of jesters who took a detour in
RED BUTTONS
Sayonara (1957)
In his first major film
role, Buttons won an Oscar playing a dedicated Air Force sergeant whose
marriage to a Japanese woman is outlawed by the strict U.S. military.
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Unaccustomed to movie close-ups, Buttons had to recalibrate the overt
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