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Tending to her motherly duties, Sandra Bullock was spotted picking up her young son from school in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday (January 10).
The ?Blind Side? babe looked cute and casual in boots, jeans and a sweater as she headed inside the learning facility to scoop up little Louis.
And while there may not be wedding bells for Ms Bullock anytime soon, her ?Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? co-star Viola Davis has big plans for her 17-month-old daughter Genesis and 2-year-old Louis.
Chatting with E! News at last night?s Audi and Martin Katz 2012 Pre-Golden Globes party, Davis told, "I love Louis," she said, adding that Louis and Genesis have yet to meet. "He's so cute. He's smart, he's fun, he looks independent. It's good pedigree."
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| | Sandra Bullock & Little Louis: Pre-School Pickup | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Making sure to keep her mommy duties on top of her priority list, Sandra Bullock was spotted picking up her adorable little guy, Louis,from preschool in Los Angeles, California on Thursday afternoon (January 5).
The Oscar-winning actress toted her growing son in her arms, with little Louis - who is usually very straight-faced - even managed to crack a big smile and opened his arms up excitedly to reach for his favorite bodyguard.
The sighting comes as Miss Bullock is getting closer and closer to the release of her first post-divorce film, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close".
Set to hit theaters on January 20, the Stephen Daldry directed drama follows "a nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searching New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001."
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| | Sandra Bullock: 'I was perfectly content to be permanently broken' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I don?t have any interest in going to see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (or Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close, as I keep mistakenly calling it). It?s not that I don?t like Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks – I like them both a lot, and I wish they had worked together on a ?lighter? project, because then the film would be must-see. I just think that the subject matter – 9/11 drama – is still too much for fictional feature films. Give me a documentary about 9/11, sure, I?m there. Around the tenth anniversary, I watched a ton of documentaries, and they all made me cry, from the one about the construction of the memorial, to that epic Showtime 10-part series, to the one about the two French brothers who were making a documentary about a newbie fireman on what happened to be 9/11. Sobbing, weeping, sobering, mesmerizing. But I think the feelings are still too raw, and people don?t want to see the events of the day fictionalized, sensationalized, packaged in a neat, overwrought drama with a bow.
Anyway, Sandra Bullock hasn?t been all over the place promoting the film, and Tom Hanks has barely been anywhere. I don?t think Bullock even did any magazine interviews, did she? But she?s got a new interview with the AP, and? it got to me. The quote everyone is talking about is the ?permanently broken? statement, but what got me was Sandra talking about a scene in which Tom Hanks?s character calls her from one of the towers. GAH. I just teared up.
Sandra Bullock wasn’t looking to return to acting when Stephen Daldry called about “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” Bullock’s last film, 2009?s “The Blind Side,” was the kind of career apogee of which most actresses dream, winning her a best actress Academy Award in what essentially amounted to a coronation of Bullock as America’s most beloved female movie star.
But the accomplishment ? which would normally be followed by a wave of projects to capitalize on the momentum ? was soon marred by public scandal. Bullock’s husband, “Monster Garage” host Jesse James, was revealed to have been unfaithful. The fallout, which led to divorce, was covered relentlessly by the tabloids. Bullock still went ahead and adopted a baby boy.
When Daldry, the director of “The Hours” and “The Reader,” approached her about “Extremely Loud,” Bullock wasn’t sure she would return to acting at all.
“I was perfectly content to be permanently broken,” she says. Recognizing how that might sound in print, she smiles at the unintended hint of her personal turmoil, and adds “time-wise” to clarify the break as one from moviemaking.
“I honestly didn’t think I was in a place where I wanted to work or wanted to step out of where I was,” she says. “I wasn’t prepared. But the opportunity was louder than my head.”
The chance was to play a supporting but key role in Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel. In it, Bullock plays the mother of an uncommonly bright, precocious child (Thomas Horn), whose father (Tom Hanks) dies on Sept. 11. It’s a particularly wrenching story about grief and reconciliation.
“What a great way to get back on the horse,” says Bullock, who was staying at a hotel 20 blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “It was hard, but it was what it’s supposed to be.”
It took some courting. Daldry visited Bullock at her house, and when he asked her what she might bring to the role, the actress was frank.
“I said, `I haven’t the slightest idea,’” she says. “I was like, `The well is deep. It’s your job to stop it or get it.’”
Bullock and Daldry have a charming, easy manner with each other, showering one another with compliments. Asked why he pursued her for the part, the British director quips, “She’s cheap as chips.”
“I have watched just about everything you’ve ever made,” says Daldry. Bullock, whose self-deprecating humor is undimmed, doesn’t miss a beat: “I’m so sorry.”
“I needed a partner in the project, somebody that would be a leading lady and look after me, look after herself, look after the character, look after the kid and look after the creation of the whole process,” says Daldry. “Sandy was literally like a partner on it for me. We would write and rewrite and focus down.”
One of the film’s most striking and emotional scenes is a flashback to Bullock’s character speaking on the phone with her husband, who is calling from atop one of the burning towers.
“The thing that made it so poignant for me was that Tom Hanks showed up that day,” says Bullock. “He sat in a room not far from where I was and made that call every single time. Every time I pick up that phone, it was Tom Hanks on the other end of the line. My husband who is calling because he knows he’s going to die, giving me some gift, some joy, some jewel ? something that he can leave me with so he knows I’m going to be OK.”
If Bullock, 47, was hesitant to return to acting, she’s now appears fully back. She recently finished shooting another highly anticipated movie: Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity,” a space thriller co-starring George Clooney.
[From The Associated Press via HuffPo]
Is it possible to feel a wave of sympathy for a rich, privileged actress that I?ve never met? Because Sandra just got another sympathy wave from me. I think she?s still raw too – she got burned so badly with Jesse James, and I think that she simply picked up her son from the ashes and that?s all she thinks she deserves at this point, you know? Like, it feels like she?s given up on men, on relationships, on anything to do with that part of life. Poor Sandy.
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| | Star: Sandra Bullock's $20 million defamation lawsuit against Jesse James | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Star Magazine has an inset story on their cover this week all about Sandra Bullock’s $20 million defamation lawsuit against her scumbag ex, Jesse James, for talking smack about her publicly. However, the story just says that Sandra could file a suit against Jesse if she were so inclined and that she could make it for around $20 million, according to some expert Star found. They only go so far as to quote a vague “source” who claims Sandra is considering it. My favorite part of this story is where Star speculates that Sandra won’t sue Jesse, also as they’ve speculated, because Jesse could potentially have some awesome dirt on her that he would bring out during a lawsuit. Isn’t this what we’ve heard all along? Like how can Sandy, “America’s Sweetheart,” have married a douchey neo-Nazi and still have kept her pristine public image? However, I think that Jesse was so butt hurt by getting rejected after cheating on Sandra that he would have already spilled Sandra’s secrets if he had any. Here’s more of Star’s story:
One month after shocking accounts of her husband’s wild cheating drove Sandra Bullock to file for divorce in April 2010, an emotional and repentant Jesse James appeared on Nightline and claimed, “I still have hopes of saving some sort of relationship with Sandy.”
Now it seems those sentiments were hollow, because the words Jesse has used over the last year to publicly describe his life with Sandra have been dipped in venom.
And his latest thinly veiled broad-side against her ? when he sneeringly referred to how he had “married some Hollywood actress… I’m not what I became,” during a recent appearance on the reality series American Chopper: The Build-Off ? could end up hurting him where it hurts the most: in his wallet!
An insider tells Star magazine that while Sandra, 47, “has consistently taken the high road by never talking about Jesse since their split, I don’t expect her to play the shrinking violet forever if his jabs have secretly been causing her emotional distress.”
And she has a powerful weapon at her disposal to strike back. Sources tell Star she could hit Jesse, 42, with a defamation suit, with one legal expert telling Star that “asking for $20 million in damages would not be out of the realm of possibility…”
Sandra “has every right to initiate a defamation lawsuit against her ex husband if she believes that any of the public statements he’s made about her have been defamatory,” noted NYC defamation lawyer Richard Ancowitz tells Star…
“I imagine that even the prospect of legal action would lead his lawyer to counsel Mr. James to keep his thoughts about Ms. Bullock to himself…”
“If Jesse keeps revealing personal information about Sandra, she could also stop him by suing for invasion of privacy,” Aaron Morris, a defamation attorney… tells Star…
Though Sandra’s rep denies that she is considering legal action, the legal source adds that she could also “go after Jesse for breach of contract if they had signed confidentiality agreements as part of their divorce.”
There is a possible consequence that could keep Sandra from taking action, the legal source tells Star. “It could open the door the defendant to disclose more embarrassing personal information as a defense against the claims. That information would then become public in the court record.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 26, 2011 and via OK!]
This “lawsuit” is as much a figment of Star’s imagination as Jennifer Aniston’s pregnancy with twins, but it’s still fun to speculate about. You know that Sandra is just actively ignoring this guy and he keeps throwing jabs at her hoping to get some kind of response. She’s not going to say a thing about him and that hurts his widdle ego more than anything.
Sandra has been doing the press rounds for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in which she plays the widow of a 9-11 victim. She’s only in the film for about 20 minutes, and the lead is the young boy who plays her son, Thomas Horn. She has a new interview on The Today Show in which she talks about her personal experience with the September 11 attacks (sad) and about hearing the last messages that victims left their families (double sad). Families shared the messages from their loved ones to help with research for the film, and Sandra called those “an incredible gift.” She does have a fun rapport with Matt Lauer and gives him crap throughout the interview, but it’s not enough to lighten the mood. Watching the press for this film just gives me the impression that it’s not going to do well at the box office given the subject matter. It may get some nods at awards time, though, especially for Horn.
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| | Sandra Bullock in an Alexander McQueen suit: too shiny & cheap-looking? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are photos from the premiere of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, that film where Tom Hanks plays a father who died in the World Trade towers on 9/11 and Sandra Bullock is the widow raising a young, precocious son who has a mysterious key that unlocks something in NYC. Let?s get through the superficial stuff first – Sandra Bullock is wearing Alexander McQueen, and? I really don?t like the execution of this. I love the idea of Sandy in a smart, well-designed suit, but the shiny silk/satin (?) fabric is pretty awful, and the suit ends up looking really cheap on her. I also have a problem with Bullock?s styling – the flat-ironed hair looks dated, and she paired her shiny black suit with a flesh-colored camisole that is playing tricks on my eyes. Also: Sandra looks like she got some new boobs. I don?t like saying that, but look at them. She?s never been that well-endowed.
Should we talk about Tom Hanks? Well, at least he?s aging naturally. I get tired of men who look as nipped and tucked as the ladies, but I want to force Tom to get some sleep and use some night cream. Rita looks good, though.
Viola Davis is in this too – and I loved her premiere dress. She was the one pop of color on the red carpet, and this cotton-candy Pink looks AMAZING on her.
As for the film? when it was being made, everyone thought it was possibly going to be a major Oscar contender, but as far as I know, it?s made no one?s ?Best of 2011? list, and it?s actually been criticized for it?s overwrought sentimentality. I can see how it looked great on paper, though – pair America?s Sweetheart with America?s Most Beloved Leading Man, insert national tragedy and a kid who is wise beyond his years, and wait for the awards. Why didn?t that work out? Here?s the trailer:
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| | Sandra Bullock Premieres "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out to promote her new movie, Sandra Bullock took to the red carpet for the premiere of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" in New York City on Thursday night (December 15).
The Oscar-winning actress lit up the Ziegfield Theatre venue while clad in a stylish black pant suit as she was joined by co-stars including Tom Hanks and Thomas Horn.
Also starring Viola Davis, John Goodman and James Gandolfini, the drama tells the story of "a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist who searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks."
Directed by Stephen Daldry, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is set to be released in theater on January 20, 2012.
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| | Sandra Bullock's Big Apple Winter Workout | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Bundling up and ready for an exercise session, Sandra Bullock was spotted leaving her hotel in New York City earlier today (December 14).
The ?Blind Side? babe looked cute in workout shoes, spandex pants, a puffy coat and winter hat as she made her way past the always-present photogs.
After taking quite the long break from her career to deal with her divorce from Jesse James and the adoption of her son Louis, Sandra is back in action on the silver screen.
We will see her next in a 9/11 based film called ?Extremely Loud and Incredible Close? directed by Stephen Daldry.
Of what compelled Bullock to take on this role, she recently told press, "Whatever next opportunity that I was given had to be an amazing opportunity for myself and for my son. So we had a great time. It was no longer being a selfish actress having a moment. I wanted to have an amazing time with [Louis] and myself, and fortunately, Mr. Daldry presented that. In every possible way, it was the best!"
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| | Sandra Bullock on life pre-motherhood: 'like you were dead compared to now' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I don’t want to give the wrong impression of what Sandra Bullock said, but I can’t fit the full quote in the title of the story. She said that “You feel like you were dead compared to the way you were emotionally before” after you become a mother, and added “at least I did.” It makes sense in context and didn’t reach Gisele Bundchen levels of righteousness by any means.
Bullock is doing the press circuit for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which co-stars Tom Hanks and is out in the US in limited release this Christmas. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer about a young boy who loses his father in the September 11 terrorist attacks. (The trailer is here and be forewarned that it made me cry.)
Bullock plays the mother to the boy who stars in the film, Thomas Horn. In a new interview with E!, (you can watch it here) Bullock is asked how being a mother has informed her acting. She said that it’s made her more vulnerable, essentially, and that she feels things more deeply now. You could tell that she didn’t mean to be sanctimonious and was just trying to explain her experience with it.
On how being a mom informs her performances now.
I’ve played moms before, I’ve always been very maternal, I’ve always loved being around kids.
I’m sure Louis informs me in ways I don’t even know how. Everything becomes richer or more important or more frightening or more challenging.
Everything becomes far more emotional, which I’m grateful for. You feel like you were dead compared to the way you were emotionally before. At least I did. I don’t know how, but I know it did profoundly affect me in the way I
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| | Sandra Bullock's Quest for the Perfect Pre-School | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Still searching for the perfect place for her growing boy to begin his educational quest, Sandra Bullock was busy checking out schools for her son in Studio City, CA on Friday afternoon (November 18).
The Oscar-winning actress was accompanied by a male companion as the pair toured the grounds of Sunnyside pre-school as a possible landing spot for little Louis.
The outing comes as Miss Bullock is nearing the release of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" - which happens to be her first movie since adopting Louis and dealing with her highly-publicized split from Jesse James after his serial cheating was revealed.
Set to hit theaters on January 20th, the Stephen Daldry directed drama is about "a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player, and pacifist searching New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks."
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| | Shopping Lover Sandra Bullock Boosts the Economy | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Helping out the local economy, Sandra Bullock was spotted doing some shopping in New York City on Monday (November 7).
Looking cute and casual, the ?Proposal? actress hit up the upscale women?s specialty store, Henri Bendel, and left with several bags, perhaps in preparation of the holiday season.
The outing comes as Sandra?s friends are allegedly urging the star to spark up a romance with long-time pal Keanu Reeves.
Bullock and Reeves recently enjoyed a low-key meal at Craig?s restaurant in West Hollywood with their mutual publicist and, according to an insider, ?there was a spark between them like never before.?
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