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Sandra Bullock
BIOGRAPHY Full name:
Sandra Annette Bullock Education:
Dropped out East Carolina University, Eye
color: brown Favorite
music: Bob Schneider,
Tom Jones, Salsa, Classic, Jazz Factoid*:
FILMOGRAPHY
So far Sandra Bullock appeared in 36 movies (this does not include producers, writers, directors history but movies in production). In 1993/1998 she made with 5 movies the most within one year. All movies are listed in the year of the US release which might be different to the release in your country. 2003 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1987
ARTICLES Bullock Renews Production Deal (10th september 1999) NEW YORK
(Variety) - Sandra Bullock's Fortis Films has renewed its production deal at
Warner Bros., and is ramping up two projects in which she will star. WB has just paid a mid-six figure sum for "Babe Behind Bars," a comic pitch about a beautiful and ruthless Hollywood executive sent to prison after a car accident leaves her elderly victim in a coma. Bullock, who recently wrapped the Betty Thomas-directed "28 Days" for Columbia, has increased producing activities at Fortis, which she runs with sister Gesine Bullock. Fortis has just completed its first feature in "Gunshy," the comedy starring Liam Neeson and Oliver Platt, with Bullock playing a small role. The film was just acquired for distribution by Disney, and the studio has set a Feb. 4 release date. Fortis has also set two animated projects to aid WB's foray into the animation game. "Nicholas Cricket" is an animated adaptation of the William Joyce children's book. The title character is a cynical bandleader who conquers a broken heart and helps his ex-girlfriend and her army of resistance fighters battle evil wasps. The other project, "Jingle," starts on Christmas Eve, when the world's most sarcastic elf is left behind at the home of the world's naughtiest little girl. The elf has a few months to get the girl to be good enough for Santa Claus to return and take the elf home. It's likely that Fortis' first greenlit project at WB will be "Miss Congeniality," which is shaping up to be Bullock's next starring vehicle. Negotiations are under way for Bullock to produce and star as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a Miss America contestant. Bullock is also keen on the WB/Fortis romantic comedy "The List."
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Allure
(April 2000) Speeding
Bullock
With
her role in the edgy new movie 28 Days, a mouth like a trucker’s, and a
model’s sexy strut, Sandra Bullock is moving away from the girl next door. SANDRA
BULLOCK IS THE UNCELEBRITY
She hates cell phones. She spends most of her time in Austin, Texas, obsessed by
the house she's been building for years. She walks into a restaurant in SoHo,
assesses the noise level and dimly lit tables, and suggests going somewhere that
"isn't so trendy" (never once letting on that celebrities like her are
what makes a place trendy to begin with). When a waiter shyly asks for her
autograph, she obliges-and engages him in a five-minute conversation about the
brass hardware on the restaurant's front door. She is, if such a thing is
possible, even nicer than the girl next door, an image that has followed her
around like a lost puppy since her breakout role in Speed in 1994. Betty Thomas,
who directed Bullock in this month's 28 Days, says the 35-year-old actress
“should give lessons on how to be a movie star. She's accessible to the entire
crew on the set, and then she can tune it all out and go in and play her
role." As Gwen Cummings, Bullock is an alcoholic party girl who's sent to
rehab; Thomas admits, "This is a tough subject. I picked Sandy for the part
because she is so accessible, and people feel that they know her. They might
accept seeing her do things they wouldn't accept from anyone else. She could be
your sister, your cousin, or you, on a really good day." As for real life,
Bullock is hard-pressed to recall a moment when she so much as vandalized
something, though she does have a vague memory of leaning over the rail of a
bridge with a can of spray paint in North Carolina during college. Even so, she
promises that she's done lots of risqué things--really, lots--she just has the
good sense to do them in private. 0N PLAYING AGAINST TYPE"I
read the script for 28 l7ays and said
[to director Betty Thomas], `Don't cast me if you're going to make it really
sweet.' I've already got that element, and I'm not saying that I'm really sweet,
I'm just saying that there's something about me that will always back down to
nice rather than attack.
And that's the baggage I come with-not that that's bad. There's a vulnerability
and a humour that's sort of self-effacing. Even though [my character is] making
a really nasty mistake, there's a lot of laughing involved. It's not like all of
a sudden I'm playing What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Something that comes
across, say, Angelina Jolie's desk probably would not come across mine, because
we're not considered for the same roles. But eventually, if there's something
that I want to play, I'll play it-if I want to be an actor for the rest of my
life. I'm in no hurry." ON REHAB AND 28 DAYS"Understandably,
it was really hard for any [rehab center] to let an actress go in to do a little
research. If I were a patient in there, I would've been like, `Tell her to fuck
herself.' But we found a great place where a counsellor said it was OK to come
into the group, and I entered as though I were one of them. A lot of the people
in the group were really angry-one woman left. The only way I figured I could do
this honestly was to go in as though I were there for a reason. Everything there
is based on confidentiality--each person says, `I pledge you my confidentiality
so I figured, ‘What have I got to lose?' When I left the group, I kind of
didn't want to go. I'd started this, I'd opened up a lot of things for me, and I
kind of wanted to finish." ON BEING THE GIRL NEXT DOOR"I've
lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.
'~hen I was little, I didn't really do anything bad-I'd just do stuff like pull
plants out of their yard, pot them, and resell them to them. I made a lot of
cash. I'd build skateboard ramps and put on plays and make everyone come, cheesy
stuff like that. I was just wild-I didn't mind getting into anything or hooking
up with anybody. When we were living in Germany, I was always running around,
and my mom said somebody came up to her and asked, `Does anyone know who that
gypsy child belongs to?' And my mother was like, `Uh, that's my daughter."' ON HAIIING A POTTY MOUTH"When
I finished doing Gun Shy, which was almost all guys, it's like we had all become
Denis Leary I carried that truck-driver mouth into 28 Days, and then I got
around Betty, and everything with her was like, `Listen, you little fuck, fuck,
fuck, fuck.' It's kind of a guilty pleasure, being able to talk like that.
Towards the end of shooting, I couldn't stop--it's like I had Tourette's. It
took me awhile to curb back." ON SPOOFING HERSEIF AT THE IIHI/ VOGUE FASHION AWARDS"When
I was picking out the dress to wear on stage, I wanted to go to a place where no
one would expect me to go. I needed the ultimate gown. My living room was full
of clothes from every designer on the planet. Then I pulled out
this tiny little dress. It's amazing that it even fit over my kneecaps. So I
called Versace and told them I loved it. I wanted to copy Kirsty Hume's model
walk. I was trying to do that walk while carrying a mike-not easy If anyone
thought I was taking myself seriously, I could never have done it." ON CLOTNING"You
see someone like Gwyneth or whoever looking great and you say, `That's great, I
would look good in that, too.' They're great marketing tools because I'll buy
whatever they have on. But one day I decided, `I like what I like to wear and I
know what I look good in. It's not a lot of things, but I know those few things
and I'll stick with them.' It's like I grew into my own skin and I knew the
clothes that made me feel comfortable and sexy.
The other night I must have gone through about 20 tops to end up with this '70s
Wonder Woman T shirt. And it fit perfectly, it said what I wanted to say. But
there was a pile of shirts and sweaters all along the stairs. Some people have a
knack for getting dressed-I have temper tantrums." ON FASHION MISTAKES"There's
one dress in particular from what my friends and I call the Pink Walrus Period.
I gained about 15 pounds for my part in In
Love and War [1997), and I decided to wear a pink satin Calvin Klein dress for
the premiere. But I'd been measured for the dress months before, so I had to
pour myself into it. I was busting out at the seams-I was a fat, shiny, pink
walrus. [After the screening,] I bent over to get in the car and busted the
strap, and my boob
fell out.
My friend had to jump out to get a sewing kit, and we drove in circles as we
mended the dress. Do not go pulling out pictures of that night. I will never buy
your magazine again if you ever..." ON BEAUTY ROUTINES"Makeup
is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to
do that. If I'm going out, I use an eyelash curler I like lip balm or gloss,
because I'm always chewing on my lips. Frederic Fekkai has a perfume, Beaute de
Provence, it's like a lemon; I like things that smell fresh. And I really ask
that other people try to use deodorant." ON BODY AND FOOD"About
two years ago, I started eating healthy. I love to run, and I do light weights
and exercises. On the .weekends, I give myself all the leeway in the world. I
love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is
marshmallow fluff. Every time you break up, you lose a good five pounds. Then
you fall in love and you get huge. You start going out again, you get the new
boyfriend, you start going
out
to dinner all the time. You wake up in the middle of the night, gnawing on
chocolate, `I'm so in love."' ON BUILDING A HOUSE IN AUSTIN"I
needed to create my own space to figure out who I was and develop my personality
again, because I really lost it somewhere between Love Potion No. 9 and Gun Shy.
I had a personality that was good on the set, but the minute I stepped off, I
didn't know who I was. I didn't want to become somebody who was so used to being
on the set that I didn't know how to deal when I was at home. There's a way that
everyone takes care of you and you don't realize it until you get into real life
and you're dealing with Con Ed and you're like, `What do you mean it can't be
done?' And that's the nice thing about Austin-you get things done, but you might
have to slow down a little bit." ON BEING A TAD SLOPPY"At
lunchtime, I have a construction team that throws sheets around me or wraps me
in paper towels, because if not, I'll come back with mustard on my shirt. The
wardrobe guy I work with once told me, `Clothes go to you to die."' Either/Or
WHO DO YOU LIKE BETTER, THE SIXMILLION-DOLLAR MAN OR THE BIONIC WOMAN?"That's
like asking me to decide between my mother and my father. I'd pick me, since I
was their offspring on a movie of the week [Bionic Showdown in 1989]. We had a
very high [Nielsen] rating. I had bionic everything-the arms, the legs, the
ears. And I got the bionic music: Dee-dee-dee-dee. When 1 got that part, 1'd
just finished studying the [Sanford] Meisner technique at the Neighborhood
Playhouse, and I remember being on the set, and my character was in a
wheelchair, and 1'd wheel
off to prepare for these great scenes, and then I'd wheel back. And people would
be like, `You're preparing to play a bionic teenager?' But seriously, if those
people hadn't given me a shot, I wouldn't have gotten Working Girl [the 1990 TV
series], and I wouldn't have gotten the next thing and the next thing and the
next thing. My biggest break was being bionic. I know it, and I will never deny
it." THE SOPRANOS OR LIVE OPERA?"I
was raised on opera-my mother's one of the most beautiful lyrical sopranos on
the planet. But if opera is done poorly, it's like Chinese water torture. And
The Sopranos is pretty
good. So I'd choose that unless I know who's singing the opera." THECATINTHEHAT OR THE GRINCH?"The
Grinch-because of that little dog with the antlers in front of the sleigh. It
gave me the idea to get Styrofoam antlers for my dogs and take their picture.
Friends of mine saw it and called it `The Dog in a Hat Syndrome': If you put a
hat on any dog, the dog just freezes and makes this face. [She makes a
humourless, very noble facial expression.] And I subject my dogs to the same
thing every yea r." NIKE OR ADIDAS?"I've
kind of swung towards Pumas, the old-style ones. I run in Nikes, and my
flip-flops are Adidas." TEVAS OR BIRKENSTOCKS?"Birkenstocks."
BIKINI OR A-? "Bikini." SPORTS BRA, WONDER BRA, OR TANK TOP?"At
which time? During the day, I don't need a bra, so I usually run around in these
great DKNY little-strap camisoles. 1 live in them. When I run, I wear a jogging
bra. When I'm on a date, Wonder Bra with those gel fill-in things." COTTON OR FLANNEL SHEETS?"Cotton,
and the highest thread count possible." CHOCOLATE, VANILLA, OR STRAWBERRY?
"Vanilla. No, wait, I always get a mixture of vanilla and chocolate and
then swirl it together." COUNT
CHOCULA, FRANKEN BERRY, OR B00 BERRY? "I
don't know. I love cereal Golden Grahams, Sugar Pops, Fruit Loops. I like the
ones with more sugar, that look like something they're not-like in the shape of
a waffle, or a piece of toast." FAVORITE CUSS WORD?"`Shit.'
I get it from my mom-it's very German." WHO
WOULD BE YOUR LIFELINES ON WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? "My
friend Dan, who knows everything on the planet. I don't think I should mention
his last name, but he knows who he is. And then my [younger] sister, Gesine,
who's so brilliant it kind of makes you sick. And, uh, Howard Stern." © 2000 by Allure
 
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