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Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain Prize salute from loyal friends, co-stars

Adam Sandler greets fans while filming "Hustle" at 18th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia.

Billy Madison is all grown up, winning big prizes like the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — an award previously bestowed on comedians and actors such as Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett.

Comedy legend Adam Sandler, whose popular movies include “Billy Madison,” “Happy Gilmore” and “The Wedding Singer,” was celebrated Sunday by several of his friends and loyal co-stars at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C., for

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