Nissan Engine Museum

The Nissan Engine Museum (日産エンジン博物館, Nissan Enjin Hakubutsukan^?) is a automobile engine museum run by Nissan Motor Company. The museum is located at the first floor of the guest hall in Yokohama auto plant, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.

Overview[link]

The building of the museum was built in 1934 in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. As the first auto plant of Nissan Motors in Yokohama, the building has also been worked as the headquarters of the company until 1968, when the headquarters was moved to Ginza, Tokyo.^[1]

The building was accredited as a historical building by the government of Yokohama city in November 2002, and the Nissan Engine Museum was opened officially at the first floor of the building, which had been used as a guest hall, in April 2003.^[1]

The museum exhibits the latest model car and a memorial car of Nissan brand, 28 Nissan's auto engines, history of Yokohama auto plant and equipments for environmental techniques.^[1]

References[link]

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External links[link]

• Nissan Engine Museum (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°28′54.5″N 139°39′43.9″E / 35.481806°N 139.662194°E / 35.481806; 139.662194

Nissan Motors uses a straightforward method of naming their automobile engines. The first few letters identify the engine family. The next digits are the displacement in deciliters. The following letters identify features added and are order specific based on the type of feature.

The features/letters follow a specific order and not all features are necessarily listed all of the time. The basic, common features follow this general order:

[Engine family character(s)] [two-digit engine displacement in deciliters] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

1 = Camshaft
2 = Fuel delivery
3 = Power adder
4 = 2nd power adder
5 = Special

A good example is the Nissan RB26DETT engine where the feature letters describe an engine with dual overhead camshafts, electronic port fuel injection and two turbo chargers.

The next example is the Nissan SR20DE engine where the feature letters describe an engine with dual overhead camshafts and electronic port fuel injection but leaves off any power adder descriptors because it is a naturally aspirated engine. The popular, (single) turbocharged version of this engine is logically called the SR20DET.

Not all features are necessarily described in the name. For example, the SR20VE engine has dual overhead camshafts but the variable valve lift (and timing) design of the camshafts takes precedence in the naming scheme even though the "V" feature designation doesn't necessarily describe a DOHC arrangement.

A good example of an engine where not all of the feature designation spots are used is the CA18ET engine. The two features listed being electronic port fuel injection designated with the "E" and the presence of a turbocharger designed with the letter "T". The engine has a single overhead camshaft so there is no "D" listed in the name; the camshaft type designation place being left out completely. Nissan does not have a letter designation for the SOHC configuration so the camshaft configuration type is assumed as SOHC if no letter is present.

Lastly, the MR16DDT engine designation describes an engine with dual overhead camshafts, direct cylinder fuel injection and a single turbocharger. This engine also has variable valve timing, but Nissan does not currently have a letter designation for that feature.

Straight-3[link]

• 1971-1983 Nissan UD engine — Diesel 3.0 L — UD3
• 2010–present Nissan HR engine — 1.0/1.2 L — HR10DDT, HR12DE, HR12DDR (See Straight-4 below for other HR engines)

Straight-4[link]

Nissan's Straight-4 engines include:

• 1952-1955 Nissan D engine — 0.9/1.1 L — D10, D11
• 1955-1966 Prince G engine — 1.5/1.8/1.9/2.0 L — GA-4/G-1, GB-30/G-2, G-15, G-18
• 1957-1960 Nissan C engine — 1.0 L
• 1961-1970 Nissan G engine — 1.5 L — G
• 1965-1987 Nissan SD engine — Series One — Diesel 2.2/2.3/2.5 L — SD22, SD23, SD25 (See Straight-6 below for other SD engines.)
• 1965-1982 Nissan J engine — 1.3/1.5/2.0 L — J13, J15, J16
• 1965-1970 Nissan R engine — 1.6 L — R16
• 1967-1970 Nissan H engine — 1.9/2.0 L — H, H20 (See Straight-6 below for other H engines.)
• 1967.5-1970 Datsun U engine — 2.0 L — U20
• 1968-1980 Nissan L engine — 1.3/1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0 L — L13, L14, L16, L18, L20B (See Straight-6 below for other L engines)
• 1966-2008 Nissan A engine — 1.0/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 L — A10, A12, A12T, A12A, A13, A14, A15
• 1971-1983 Nissan UD engine — Diesel 4.9 L — UD4
• 1979-1989 Nissan Z engine — 1.6/1.8/2.0/2.2/2.4 L — Z16, Z18, Z18ET, Z20S, Z20E, Z22E, Z24
• 1981-1993 Nissan CA engine — 1.6/1.8/2.0 L — CA16, CA18i, CA18DE, CA18DET, CA18ET, CA20
• 1958-1964, 1982-1988 Nissan E engine — 1.0/1.2/1.3/1.5/1.6 L — E, E-1, E10, E13, E15E, E15ET, E16, E16E
• 1983-1985,1991-1997? Nissan CD engine — Diesel 1.7/2.0 L — CD17, CD20, CD20T, CD20ET, CD20E
• 1983-1986? Nissan FJ engine — 2.0 L — FJ20E, FJ20ET
• 1983-1992 Nissan MA engine — 0.9/1.0/1.2 L — MA09ERT, MA10S, MA10E, MA10ET, MA12S
• 1987-2007 Nissan GA engine — 1.3/1.4/1.5/1.6 L — GA14DE, GA16E, GA16DE, GA16DS
• 1986–present Nissan TD engine — 2.3/2.5/2.7 L — TD23, TD25, TD27, TD27T
• 1986-2004 Nissan KA engine — 2.4 L — KA24E, KA24DE
• 1987-2007 Nissan SR engine — 1.6/1.8/2.0 L — SR16DE, SR16Di, SR16D, SR16VE, SR16VE N1, SR18DE, SR18DET, SR18Di, SR20DE, SR20DE GT Spec, SR20DET, SR20Di, SR20VE, SR20VET
• 1993-2002 Nissan CG engine — 1.0/1.3/1.4 L — CG10DE, CG13DE, CGA3DE
• 1999–present? Nissan YD engine — Diesel 2.2/2.5/ L — YD22DDT,YD22DDTi, YD25DDT, YD25DDTi
• 1994?-2000 Nissan QD engine — Diesel 3.2 L — QD32
• 1999–present Nissan QG engine — 1.3/1.5/1.6/1.8 L — QG13DE, QG15DE, QG16DE, QG18DE, QG18DD, QG18DEN
• 2001–present Nissan QR engine — 2.0/2.5 L — QR20DE, QR20DD, QR25DE, QR25DD
• 2002–present Nissan CR engine — 1.0/1.2/1.4 L — CR10DE, CR12DE, CR14DE
• 2005–present Nissan HR engine — 1.5/1.6 L — HR15DE, HR16DE (See Straight-3 above for other HR engines)
• 2005–present Nissan MR engine — 1.6/1.8/2.0 L — MR16DDT, MR18DE, MR20DE, MR20DD
• 1998–present Nissan NA engine — 1.6/2.0 L — NA16, NA20 - replacement of Z series and mostly used in commercial vehicles. Designed based on Z series.
• 1999–present Nissan ZD engine — Diesel 3.0 L — ZD30DD, ZD30DDT, ZD30DDTi

Straight-6[link]

Nissan's Straight-6 engines include:

• 1965-1967 Nissan H engine — 3.0 L — H30 (See Straight-4 above for other H engines.)
• 1968-1983 Nissan P engine — 4.0 L — P40
• 1968-1984 Nissan L engine — 2.0/2.3/2.4/2.6/2.8 L — L20A, L20E, L20ET, L20P, L23, L24, L24E, L26, L26E, L28, L28E, L28ET (See Straight-4 above for other L engines)
• 1969-1973 Nissan S20 engine — 2.0 L
• 1971-1983 Nissan UD engine — Diesel 7.4 L — UD6
• 1977-1989 Nissan LD engine — Diesel 2.8 L — LD28, LD28T
• 1980-1988 Nissan SD engine - Series Two — Diesel 3.3 L — SD33, SD33T (See Straight-4 above for other SD engines.)
• 1983-1995 Nissan FD engine — 3.3/3.5/4.2/4.6 L — FD33, FD33T, FD35, FD35T, FD42, FD46
• 1985-2002 Nissan RB engine — 2.0/2.4/2.5/2.6/2.8/3.0 L — RB20E, RB20ET, RB20DE, RB20DET, RB20DET-R, RB24DET, RB25DE, RB25DET, RB26DETT, RB28DETT, RB30S, RB30E, RB30ET, RB30DE
• 1985-1999? Nissan RD engine — Diesel 2.8 L — RD28, RD28T, RD28Ti
• 1987–present Nissan TB engine — 4.2/4.5/4.8 L — TB42E, TB42S, TB45E, TB48DE
• 1988-2004 Nissan TD engine — Diesel 4.2 L — TD42, TD42T, TD42Ti

V6[link]

Nissan's V6 engines include:

• 1984-2004 Nissan VG engine — 2.0/3.0/3.3 L — VG20E, VG20P, VG20ET, VG20DE, VG20DET, VG30S, VG30i, VG30E, VG30ET, VG30DE, VG30DET, VG30DETT, VG33E, VG33E-R
• 1992-1994 Nissan VE engine — 3.0 L — VE30DE
• 1995–present Nissan VQ engine — 2.0/2.3/2.5/3.0/3.5/3.7/4.0 L — VQ20DE, VQ23DE, VQ25DD, VQ25DE, VQ25DET, VQ25HR, VQ25VHR, VQ30DD, VQ30DE, VQ30DE-K, VQ30DET, VQ35DE, VQ35HR, VQ37VHR, VQ40DE,
• 2008–present Nissan VR Engine — 3.8 L — VR38DETT

V8[link]

Nissan's V8 engines include:

• 1965-1989 Nissan Y engine — 4.0/4.4 L — Y40, Y44
• 1971-1983 Nissan UD engine — Diesel 9.9 L — UD-V8
• 1987- Nissan VEJ30 & VRH35 (Non-Production)
• 1989-2001 Nissan VH engine — 4.1/4.5 L — VH41DE, VH45DE, VRH racing engines
• 2001–present Nissan VK engine — 4.5/5.0/5.6 L — VK45DE, VK45DD, VK50VE, VK56DE, VK56VD

V12[link]

Nissan's V12 engines include:

• 1969-1970 GRX-III — Nissan R382, Nissan R383
• 1971-1983 Nissan UD engine — Diesel 14.8 L — UD12
• VRT35 — Nissan P35

Diesel engines[link]

Diesel Engines in summary (model, displacement)

• Nissan CD engine — 1.7/2.0 L
• Nissan ED engine —
• Nissan FD engine — 3.3/3.5/4.2/4.6 L
• Nissan LD engine — 2.0/2.8 L
• Nissan RD engine — 2.5/2.8 L
• Nissan SD engine — 2.0/2.2/2.3/2.5/3.3 L
• Nissan TD engine — 2.3/2.5/2.7/4.2 L
• Nissan YD engine — 2.2/2.5 L
• Nissan ZD engine — 3.0 L
• Nissan QD engine — 3.2 L
• Nissan M9R engine - 2.0 L
• Nissan V9X engine engine — 3.0 L
• Nissan UD engine UD12 —
• 12CY,

Wankel engine[link]

Nissan showed a prototype Wankel rotary engine at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1972, but it never reached production. [1]

Glossary[link]

• Nissan PLASMA ("purazuma") (Powerful ＆ Econonomic, Lightweight, Accurate, Silent, Mighty, Advanced) is an acronym for the Nissan engine series designed to counter Toyota's Lightweight Advanced Super Response Engine (LASRE).

• Nissan ECC, or (EGR), is the Exhaust Gas Recirculator.

• Nissan ECCS ("eltukusu") Electronic Concentrated Control System (ECCS), or Electronic Gas Injector (EGI), is an electronic fuel injection system designed to improve fuel economy and to reduce exhaust emission.

• N-VCT or Nissan Variable Cam Timing(commonly abbreviated as "N-VCT") is an automobile variable valve timing technology developed by Nissan.

• NEO or Nissan Ecology Oriented, is an engine technology used by Nissan to reduce fuel consumption and emission output while improving overall engine performance.

• CVTCS or Continuous Valve Timing Control System, is an engine technology used by Nissan to reduce fuel consumption and emission output while improving overall engine performance.

• VVEL or Variable Valve Event and Lift (commonly abbreviated as "VVEL") is an automobile variable valve timing technology developed by Nissan.

Rob Schneider
Schneider performing at a USO show, November 16, 2001
Birth name	Robert Michael Schneider
Born	(1963-10-31) October 31, 1963 (age 48) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Spouse	London King (1988–1990; divorced; one child) Patricia Azarcoya Arce (2011-present)

Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider has gone on to a successful career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Hot Chick, and Grown Ups.

Early life[link]

Schneider was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. He is the son of Pilar Schneider (née Monroe), a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider, a real estate broker.^[1] Schneider's father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.^[2] Schneider's maternal grandmother was a Filipina who met and married Schneider's maternal grandfather, a Caucasian American army private, while he was stationed in the Philippines.^[3][4] Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982.

Early career[link]

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Schneider started his stand-up comedy career while still in high school, opening for San Francisco favorites Head On, a band managed by Rob's older brother John. After high school, he played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and The Other Cafe, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for the late night NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.

[edit] Saturday Night Live

Schneider was hired at Saturday Night Live in 1988. Schneider swiftly graduated from writer and featured player to full cast member.^{[citation needed]} From 1990 to 1994 at SNL, he played such roles as "Tiny Elvis" and "Orgasm Guy." His best known recurring character^{[citation needed]} was "Richard Laymer," an office worker whose desk was stuck beside the photocopier, and who addressed each of his fellow employees with an endless stream of annoying nicknames. Schneider is featured in the video release The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live, along with colleagues Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and Chris Farley.

[edit] Recurring SNL characters

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• Richard Laymer ("The Richmeister"), an office worker who annoys people by giving them nicknames
• Carlo, from the Il Cantore Restaurant sketches
• The Sensitive Naked Man, a nude man who gives advice to other characters

Celebrity impersonations[link]

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• Fred Schneider from the B-52s
• Former SNL cast member Billy Crystal
• Adolf Hitler
• k.d. lang
• Jeff Gillooly
• Erik Menendez
• Soon-Yi Previn
• Rick Dees
• Elvis Presley

Feature films, sitcoms, and other work[link]

After leaving SNL, Schneider played supporting roles in a series of movies including Surf Ninjas, Judge Dredd, The Beverly Hillbillies, Demolition Man and Down Periscope. He also appeared in a recurring part on the TV series Coach. In 1996, he co-starred in the NBC sit-com Men Behaving Badly, an American take on the hit British series of the same name. The U.S. version ran for two seasons.

Schneider starred in the 1999 feature film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a tale of a fish-tank cleaner who incurs a massive debt and is forced to become a "man-whore". This was followed by The Animal, about a man given animal powers by a mad scientist; The Hot Chick, wherein the mind of a petty thief played by Schneider is mystically switched into the body of a pretty, but mean-spirited high school cheerleader (Rachel McAdams); and the sequel Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. The latter movie was not well-received by critics or moviegoers, and as a result, Schneider won a 2005 Worst Actor Razzie Award for his role in the film.^[5]

In 2006, Schneider co-starred in the baseball-themed family comedy The Benchwarmers, along with his fellow SNL alumnus David Spade as well as Jon Heder. Other film roles include Schneider's appearance with Jim Henson's Muppets in the 1999 film Muppets from Space, and his role as a San Francisco hobo in the 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days.

Schneider's directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, was released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, with a U.S. release in early 2009. In the film, he stars as a con artist who is arrested for perpetrating real-estate scams. He is sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration.

Schneider has also appeared in numerous comedies starring his SNL comrade Adam Sandler, most recently on 2010's Grown Ups. The comedic characters Schneider plays in these films include an overly enthusiastic Cajun man who proclaims the catch-phrase, "You can do it!"; an amiable Middle Eastern delivery boy; a prison inmate; and Sandler's one-eyed Hawaiian sidekick, Ula. Schneider has uttered the line "You can do it!" as a running gag in Sandler's films The Waterboy, Little Nicky, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, and Bedtime Stories, as well as in a deleted scene from Click. (A sample of Schneider saying the phrase also turns up in the song "Original Prankster" by The Offspring.) Returning the favor, Sandler appeared in a cameo to spout the same line in Schneider's The Animal, in which as a reference, Adam Sandler utters: "Yeah! You can do it!," and showed up briefly in Schneider's The Hot Chick. Schneider narrated Sandler's 2002 animated movie Eight Crazy Nights, and voiced the part of a Chinese waiter. Schneider also had an uncredited cameo as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister in the 2007 Sandler-Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and played a Palestinian cab driver who serves as the title character's nemesis in the 2008 Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Schneider played a variety of roles in the 2005 TV special Back to Norm, starring another former SNL player Norm Macdonald, and appeared on episodes of the popular TV shows Seinfeld and Ally McBeal. Schneider hosted the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit '97 TV special, and the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, and is a frequent guest on NBC's late-night variety program The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (Schneider's most recent appearance with Leno was on the July 24, 2007 episode of The Tonight Show; he showed up in drag as actress Lindsay Lohan after Lohan cancelled following a controversial arrest for driving under the influence.^[6]

Besides his efforts in movies and television, Schneider released his first comedy album Registered Offender in July 2010. Registered Offender is composed of audio sketches and songs, with Schneider himself doing all of the character voices on the recording. He also revived his stand-up comedy career in 2010 with an international tour of theaters, clubs and casinos.^{[citation needed]}

Schneider appeared in the music video for country singer Neal McCoy's "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On," as the song's title character. McCoy and Schneider met while the two went on a USO tour in support of U.S. troops two months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Currently Schneider is starring in a lead-role of a comedy sitcom ¡Rob! which is loosely based on his real life.

Satire and parody[link]

In Schneider's movies, the main character often undergoes some type of transformation, be it an unlikely career change, or a supernatural or science-fictional transformation. This formula was spoofed on the satirical animated television series South Park, in the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe." (The title refers to television psychic John Edward, and not to Schneider.) In the show, trailers are shown for a series of movies that feature Schneider undergoing absurd transformations: a stapler, a carrot, and even the South Park character Kenny. Asked about being parodied on South Park, Schneider responded in an About.com interview: "I loved it. That was genius. I thought the only thing, they were too nice to me...When you're spoofed by the best people in the business, that's an honor."

Criticism and controversies[link]

Disputes[link]

Schneider has engaged in a number of high-profile disputes with public figures:

In January 2005, film critic Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said in an article that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was overlooked for an Academy Award because "nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic." Schneider responded two weeks later with full-page ads in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, saying he had done research and found that Mr. Goldstein had never won any journalistic awards, commenting, "Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers." Schneider also wrote, "Patrick, I can honestly say that if I sat with you and your colleagues at a luncheon, afterward, they'd say 'You know, that Rob Schneider is a pretty intelligent guy, I hope we can do that again.' Whereas, if you sat with my colleagues, after lunch, you would just be beaten beyond recognition."^[7] He also called Goldstein a "real scumbag" in an appearance on Tom Green's House Tonight when referring to his criticisms of the film, and opined that Goldstein's criticism was unimaginative.^[8] Patrick publicly asked, "Who are Schneider's colleagues and why would I want to have lunch with them?"^{[citation needed]}

In August 2005, film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times responded to the Schneider-Goldstein conflict in his review for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. While noting that an online search showed that Goldstein had won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists' Guild award for lifetime achievement, Ebert said, "As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."^[9] (Ebert's 2007 collection of reviews of movies for which he gave negative reviews was titled Your Movie Sucks, a reference to his review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.) In a later interview with Stuff magazine, Schneider called Ebert an "ass", saying that Ebert "irks" him and that he had been told that Ebert is "not nice to the people he works with." Ebert rejected the accusation, and reaffirmed his opinion of the film, stating, "If he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews."^[10] On May 7, 2007, Roger Ebert reported via his website that he had received a beautiful bouquet of flowers with a note stating it was from "Your least favorite actor, Rob Schneider." Ebert had recently undergone a very serious surgery to remove a cancerous salivary gland, and spent months recovering. Ebert saw the flowers as a kind gesture and publicly thanked Schneider, and said that Schneider may have made a bad film, but he was not a bad man. Ebert also expressed hope that Schneider would make a film that Ebert finds wonderful.^[11][12]

Following anti-Semitic remarks made by Mel Gibson during his arrest for a DUI in late July 2006, Schneider took out a full-page ad in Variety to send an open letter to the Hollywood community, pledging as "a 1/2 Jew" to "never work with Mel Gibson-actor-director-producer-and anti-Semite." He further wrote that "even if Mr. Gibson offered me a lead role in 'Passion of the Christ 2,' I, like Bernie Brillstein, would have to say 'No!'" Schneider also used the ad to make reference to his upcoming directorial debut, Big Stan.^[13] In 2008, Schneider described this ad as "a comedic, satirical view of how I saw the situation with Mel Gibson, and also the hypocrisy of show business when they're all standing in line to say what a bad person he is when they're all a bunch of hypocritical assholes."^[14]

In early July 2007, film reviewers in Australia noted the similarities between the 2007 American movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and the 2004 Australian feature Strange Bedfellows.^[15] On July 18, 2007, the Sydney Morning Herald published an online article in which Strange Bedfellows director and co-writer Dean Murphy aired his concerns that Chuck and Larry may infringe on his copyright.^[16] The article reported that Michael Caton had stated he had passed a DVD of Strange Bedfellows to Rob Schneider when the two actors were working on The Animal. Caton was then quoted as saying, "I'm going to have to get onto Rob Schneider and say you owe me one pal ... or Adam Sandler owes me one. They're really good mates and it's obvious [Schneider] said 'Hey, have a look at this'." In August 2007, Schneider took out a full-page ad on Page 10 of the Sydney Morning Herald in the form of an open letter, in which he repudiated the charges. Caton replied through the Herald that he was disappointed with Schneider for not understanding his earlier criticisms were "obviously tongue in cheek."^[17]

Accusations of ethnic stereotyping[link]

A 2005 New York Times editorial admonished, "Watch Rob Schneider play Ula, a leering Hawaiian in the Adam Sandler movie 50 First Dates, with a pidgin accent by way of Cheech and Chong, and you get the sense that Hollywood still believes that there is no ethnic caricature a white actor can't improve upon." In a letter to the editor, Schneider defended himself by asserting his Filipino heritage, adding that he believes that "Hollywood should give roles to the most talented person irrespective of ethnicity, race or in my case 'looks'."^[18][19]

In 2007, The Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) criticized Schneider for donning prosthetic make up to play a Japanese minister in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry by likening it to "yellow face." Richard Roeper said in his review that "Rob Schneider's Filipino background hardly excuses his portrayal of an Asian minister in perhaps the most egregious stereotype of its kind since Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's."^{[citation needed]}

MANAA also criticized Schneider for an Asian character's dialogue in 2005's Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, which he co-wrote. The organization stated that the portrayal of the character "perpetuated the tired stereotype that Asian men have small penises."^[20]

Personal life[link]

In 1996, Schneider established the "Rob Schneider Music Foundation." The foundation returned music education to Pacifica's elementary schools by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to Schneider's efforts, the school system had done without music education programs for many years.^[21]

Schneider once co-owned the DNA Lounge, a San Francisco nightclub.^[22]

Schneider's mother has made cameo appearances in her son's films, playing a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick, a restaurant patron in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and a nosy neighbor in The Animal.

Schneider is an environmentalist. He drives a Toyota Prius hybrid automobile, and served as host for the 13th annual Environmental Media Awards in 2004.^[23]

On April 23, 2011, Schneider married Mexican television producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce in Beverly Hills, CA.^[24]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Rob Schneider at the Internet Movie Database
• The Rob Schneider Music Foundation
• Environmental Media Awards
• 2009 interview with Bullz-Eye.com