Can Adam Sandler patch things up with Native Americans?

AFTER "ORANGE Is the New Black" and "House of Cards" raised its coolness factor through the roof, Netflix has hit its first two bumps.

"Fuller House"? Seriously? People are going to have to pay to watch a gender-switching update of a so-so sitcom?

What's next "My Two Moms"? Here, all-grown Nicole Bradford (played by Devon native Staci Keanan) marries a woman and the pair raise a feisty boy. Paul Reiser plays cranky grandpa.

But we digress.

Netflix's latest thing that makes you go hmm . . . comes from its new deal with Adam Sandler, as reported by Indian Country Today and Julie Miller of Vanityfair.com.

It seems about a dozen Native American actors and the movie's Native cultural advisor walked off the set of Sandler's "The Ridiculous 6," because they felt "the satirical western's script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture."

They did realize they were signing on to make a Sandler movie, right? Imagine how insulted General Custer would be to know that David Spade is playing him.

Netflix's response to E! (which also has some experience with offending stereotypes): "The movie has ridiculous in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous. It is a broad satire of Western movies and the stereotypes they popularized, featuring a diverse cast that is not only part of - but in on - the joke."

Note to Netflix: The Native cast appears to no longer be "in" on the joke.

"Age of Adaline" director Lee Toland Krieger told Daily News movie critic Gary Thompson that star Blake Lively worked very hard to make her character feel to audiences like a woman from another time.

Which in a sense she is - Adaline is born in 1908 but stops again at 29. Though most of the movie follows her through a contemporary romance, there's something in her carriage and diction that suggests a woman from an earlier, more decorous age.

"This was the first thing we talked about. How does a woman who was born in 1908 speak, how does she move. We certainly didn't want to burden her with obviously antiquated mannerisms. I have a 93-year-old grandmother, and she doesn't speak the same way she did in 1945. She's changed with the culture, but at the same time there's a sense of decorum that seems to speak to an earlier time. That's what Blake and I were looking for."

Krieger also looked for subtle links to the past by working with Academy Award-winning costume designer Angus Strathie (best known for his work on Baz Luhrmann movies), who put Lively in modern clothes with a hint of '40s tailoring.

"Adaline was coming of age in the '30s and '40s, and we felt the touchstones for her style would be the clothes she grew up liking. She wouldn't keep a dress from 1945, but we wanted her clothing to be embroidered with texture and a form from that era."

See Gary's review on Page 27.

* CBS will honor David Letterman's looooooong career in late-night television with a 90-minute special on May 4. Ray Romano hosts.

Dave's last show is May 20.

* Glenn Close will help honor playwright Tom Stoppard at next month's PEN Literary Awards Gala, the PEN American Center announced yesterday.

Close, who starred in the 1984 Broadway production of Stoppard's "The Real Thing," will present him with the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, given for artistic achievement and defense of creative expression.

The PEN center also announced that Charlie Hebdo editor- in-chief Gerard Biard, who took over the Parisian satirical publication after the deadly shootings in January, will attend the May 5 ceremony. Charlie Hebdo is receiving the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award.

* Reese Witherspoon will narrate Harper Lee's new-old novel "Go Set a Watchman," HarperCollins announced yesterday. Lee, 88, stunned the world by agreeing to the release of "Go Set a Watchman," scheduled for July and her only published work besides "To Kill a Mockingbird," which came out in 1960. The new book was completed before "Mockingbird," but takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after the setting for her first novel. Both books feature Atticus Finch, Scout and other famous literary characters.

* Lady Gaga will receive the inaugural Contemporary Icon Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 18.

The award is to honor a performing songwriter "who has attained an iconic status in pop culture," according to a statement yesterday from the hall.

This year, Bobby Braddock, Willie Dixon, Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia, Toby Keith, Cyndi Lauper and Linda Perry are being inducted into the hall. Van Morrison will receive the Johnny Mercer Award and fun.'s Nate Ruess will receive the Hal David Starlight Award, given to young songwriters.

At 33, young songwriter Ruess is four years older than Icon Gaga.

- Daily News wire services

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