First Look: Quite a Step Up from The Waterboy

Before you can teach a quarterback to run, you have to school him in the swagger. Lucky for ADAM SANDLER, who stars in next year's remake of 1974's football-in-prison film The Longest Yard, his coach is Hollywood's most beloved jock, BURT REYNOLDS. "What I told Adam is, 'Get a walk,'" says Reynolds, who played the QB inmate in the original. "A quarterback walk is like a cop walk, where you stride up there, and before you even tell the guy to roll the window down, he knows he's in deep trouble." With a cast including comic CHRIS ROCK and former NFL...

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