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This year’s New York Film Festival kicked off with a clear-cut Oscar favorite, Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” and it continued Thursday night with another, more shocking contender: Adam Sandler. You’re not dreaming. Billy Madison, Mr. Deeds, Happy Gilmore, Robbie Hart and the guy that sang “The Hanukkah Song” is doing the finest work of his...