But Mr. Sandler, his producers and his writing partner, Tim Herlihy, have their fingers on the pulse of "all of us who weren't born handsome and charming and cool," as one character says toward the end of "The Waterboy".
The founder of New Directions was born "handsome, brilliant, and rich"; his charm and literary zeal got him taken under wing by both Ezra Pound (who recommended that he become a publisher) and Gertrude Stein while he was still an undergraduate at Harvard.
He tweeted little Eric was born "healthy and handsome" at 17:45 pm EST at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital.
Both were tall and handsome, born in the States but raised in poverty in the British West Indies, home of their fathers.
Christened Helen Lydia Mironoff, and called Ilyena at home, she was the second of three children born to a handsome, well-educated Russian émigré, Vasily Petrov Mironoff, in 1945.
When the Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal," for instance, it does not mean that they are all born equally smart, handsome, athletic, or rich, but only that they are all deserve the same political rights.
In the dark, improbably handsome Cook – born on Christmas Day in 1984 – English cricket, so long derided, has found an unlikely messiah.
"The Dead Republic" tells of the later life of Henry Smart, an Irishman born in 1901: a "handsome man" to all the women, an I.R.A. hit man as a teenager, a con man after he arrives in the United States in 1924, and almost a dead man when the director John Ford finds him in the Utah desert in 1946.
I nurse the assumption that the man was tall, dark and, if not quite handsome, then born with a brow and a nose that suited the nobility of a great hound – not the Baskerville type, but a master dog who sniffs everything.
A handsome man born in Uganda to parents with roots in India, he spoke quietly, breaking his sentences with long pauses.
He was a regal figure, born into tribal royalty, tall, handsome and charming.
