The Sandra Bullock-Bradley Cooper film All About Steve got savaged by the critics, most of them taking issue with Sandra. She got called out not only as the star, but as the producer, I guess getting the bulk of the blame for simply green-lighting this “unwatchable, unbearably unfunny” monstrosity (per Rolling Stone). The New York Daily News called Sandra’s character a “freak-show attraction… a strange child-woman…borderline unhinged… barely made tolerable by Bullock’s star power.” Meanwhile, Bradley Cooper’s character got called out for his “nastiness…[and] scruffy dismissiveness.” Radar even has All About Steve as the hands-down front-runner for Worst Movie of the Year. Still, even Sandra Bullock’s worst gets the second place finish as the box office – it could be worse.

While I suspect Sandra Bullock is washing her hands of the film (and perhaps making t-shirts that read “Remember The Proposal”), Bradley Cooper is still out there trying to promote All About Steve. He sat down for an interview with Parade Magazine (story via Us Weekly) to talk about how he’s such an old-fashioned romantic who wants to mate for life. I guess we’re not supposed to remember his four-month marriage to Jennifer Esposito. Also – here’s a note for the eagle-eyed readers: check out how Us Weekly refers to Bradley as “she”. That typo has been up for two days and it’s still hilarious. I think we should all refer to Bradley as “she” from now on:

Bradley Cooper admits he’s a romantic in the newest issue of Parade magazine.

“The truth is, I got it first from my parents, who’ve been married since 1963. I got it from them and from my grandparents, who are still together,” says the actor, 34, who’s dating Renee Zellweger. (The two were spotted kissing in Spain in early August; the next week, he took her to his Philadelphia home town.)

“I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. Now my parents have evolved into completely different creatures, in terms of their marriage and the roles of the man and the woman,” he goes on. “And I think that’s great, but it’s still romantic.”

Movies and TV have also “influenced” the way he acts while in love, Cooper says.

“You sort of figure out that you don’t need to replicate what you see. In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated,” he says. “And, you figure that out after sussing through all these ideas of how love is supposed to be.”

The star of All About Steve (out Friday), also opens up about his scenes with costar Sandra Bullock — who went nude in her last romantic comedy, The Proposal.

“I don’t feel cheated that Sandra Bullock kept most of her clothes on with me. At least we got sort of a love scene…I still made contact. Actually, Sandra was attacking me physically in [one] scene,” she [sic] says. “There’s just something in her eyes when she’s on top of me saying, ‘I’m going to eat you like a lion,’ that’s so funny. But I wouldn’t have minded going a little further.”

[From Us Weekly]

She really is an old-fashioned romantic, isn’t she? Eh… I think she’s laying it on a bit thick. Good thing her box-office cred won’t be hit too hard by the bad reviews. Entertainment Weekly is already declaring Bradley “the summer’s biggest breakout star” and EW says she’s “best poised for a shot at the A-List.” ‘Atta girl.

It’s no secret that Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds are friends. The two have apparently known each other for years – but they also starred together in this year’s hit film The Proposal. I know some people just adore both of them, or just Sandra, or whatever, but I didn’t care for that particular publicity tour. It sometimes seemed like Sandra and Ryan were trying to out-smug each other during joint interviews – and I know Sandra isn’t really like that, so I’ll just blame Ryan. In one particular interview, Ryan and Sandra praised each other’s marriage, with Ryan telling Sandra “I love that your marriage – and forgive the ineloquence here – is not for sale.” To which Sandra replied, “We’re very similar in that way.”

Sandra’s marriage might be in good standing – but there have been quite a few rumors about Ryan and his wife Scarlett Johansson the past few months. They’ve allegedly been fighting about everything from her career (something about how she works too much) to all of the fanboys falling all over themselves for her, to babies, to Ryan’s ex-girlfriend Alanis Morissette’s tell-all book, to all of those rumors that Ryan is really, really unpleasant in person. According to multiple reports, ScarJo and Ryan got into some kind of huge screaming fight just before Comic Con, which “caused such a rift between them that Ryan refused to attend the conference and he told Scarlett she could go alone. She got so angry she threatened to take off her wedding band.” After the drama settled, it seemed Ryan turned to his good friend Sandy for some marriage counseling:

Sandra Bullock has gone from “Miss Congeniality” to marriage counselor.,, she is helping Ryan Reynolds save his rocky marriage to Scarlett Johansson, say sources.

“Ryan and Scarlett have been going through a rough patch,” revealed an insider. “Sandra is helping them weather it. She told them that every marriage has its problems – hers included. But she says they can get through it if they’re willing to put the time and effort into making things work, even if it means going to couples counseling.”

Scarlett, 24, was upset because of Ryan’s motorcycle riding, which she considers too risky. Then his former fiancée, singer Alanis Morissette, threatened to write a tell-all book.

The couple, who were married in Vancouver last September, reportedly had a major blowup in San Diego.

Sandra – an old friend of Ryan’s – saw what happening and stepped in to provide some wise relationship advice.

“No one knows better than Sandra how to juggle marriage with a Hollywood career,” said the insider. “Her relationship with Jesse James has been solid since they got hitched more than four years ago.”

“Because Sandra and Jesse seemed so different, no one gave their union much hope for lasting as long as it has. Sandra told Ryan the most important thing is that he and Scarlett need to make time for one another, even though they both have busy schedules.”

“She told him, ‘There is no substitute for togetherness.’ Sandra pointed out that she and Jesse take quick vacations together – just hopping on the back of his bike and hitting the road.”

Ryan listens to Sandra, says the insider, because “he has tremendous respect for her as a person and an actress.”

[From the National Enquirer, print edition, September 14 2009]

I know a lot of people like Scarlett and Ryan as a couple – even my mom likes them, for goodness sake – but I really don’t think it’s going to last. Maybe I’m way off-base, and I totally admit I’ve read some relationships incorrectly in the past. But I just don’t get a happy vibe off Ryan and ScarJo. I think he seems like he would be a massive pain in the ass as a husband, and ScarJo seems like her top priority is her career (which is fine, in my book – she’s 24 years old, if she wants to work, she should work). It won’t really matter if Sandra brings her magic touch – not even The Bullock can save this union.

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds are shown at a photocall for The Proposal in Madrid on 6/26/09 and at the movie’s premiere on 6/1/09. Credit: WENN.com

Sandra Bullock has never been any kind of fashion icon. I think that’s part of the reason women love her – she usually gets something wrong on the red carpet. She’ll put on a beautiful dress, and her hair will be crazy. Or she’ll pair some low-key, romantic dress with rocker-chick, too-heavy makeup. Or she tries to be “high-fashion” and she just looks ridiculous. Which is what happened at last night’s All About Steve premiere in Hollywood. Take a good look at everything that’s going wrong with Sandra. It’s not just a horrible-looking (and what seems to be a horribly-constructed) dress. It’s the ankle booties that cut off the line of her beautiful, toned legs. It’s the screwed up, too-messy-to-be-classy/not-messy-enough-to-be-high-fashion hair. The topping on the cupcake is that in most of the pictures from last night, Sandra Bullock is posing like a truck driver. She’s such a hot mess, I can’t stop giggling. Bless her heart. She’s one of us.

Of course Bradley Cooper was at the premiere too – but he didn’t bring his new (squinty) girlfriend Renee Zellweger. He walked the carpet solo, when he wasn’t posing with his truck-driver-stanced costar Sandy. He looked incredibly dashing in a dark charcoal three-piece suit with no tie, working slicked-back (greasy?) hair and a little stubble on his face. His look is actually doing it for me, even if he looks more “stock broker” than “Hollywood”. Bullock told Radar Online at the premiere that as a producer on the film, she hand-picked Bradley to star with her, saying “It was important for me to get the actor that I wanted, which was Bradley, which was before The Hangover. So I wanted Bradley the actor who I loved from Wedding Crashers.” She also joked that she kept her figure looking so good with “Lipo – lots of it – tons of liposuction!”

I keep seeing the ads for this movie, but Bradley and Sandra haven’t been promoting the hell out it with tons of interviews. The only big one I could find from Bullock was this one from Parade. Here are some of the highlights:

On Stalking: “How else do you get dates? I learned that you have to stalk and then make it look very innocent. Then once you get them you sort of shred receipts and you do things that sort of cover the paper trail of your stalking. I think it’s a necessary evil to sort of lure in your prey.”

On the sexism of labeling women “weird”: “I didn’t want [my All About Steve character] Mary to change. I wanted her to continue being who she was and being okay with it. She didn’t think she was flawed. Society made her feel flawed and question how she lived her life. And let’s not ignore sexism. Why is it that men are called ‘unique’ and ‘eccentric’ and ‘mavericks’ when they’re different, but women are labeled as ‘odd’ or just plain ‘weird?’ It’s about being unconventional and being true to who you are. Not fitting in often means you’re really standing out.”

On the message of rom-coms, and reflections on her career: “If I can do anything in this time of my career, it’s to make it easier for girls who are growing up not to feel they have to wind up with someone to complete them. You know, I complete me. I’m just lucky that after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me. I love good romantic comedies, but there’s more to life than just looking for the right guy.”

[From Parade]

There is more to life that looking for the right guy. So why keep making movie after movie about that very thing? Although I will Bullock credit – she infuses many of her romantic comedies with a heavy vein of genuine feminism. Unfortunately, most romantic comedies aren’t produced by Sandy.

Photo credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

Sandra Bullock gave a funny interview to USA Today to promote her new film, The Proposal. Mostly, the interview is about how much Bullock loves her costar Betty White, and how Betty White is pretty much the most awesome person around. A Golden Girls devotee myself, I’m totally with Sandra on this one. Sandra talks about the funny scene (that’s in the previews) of Betty feeling Sandra up and cracking a joke about how she’s flat-chested. But the best part of the interview was when Sandra talks about how she feels a real kinship with Betty because they both chose to be stepmothers but not biological mothers. As Sandra says it, “I may never hear that word ‘mom’. But being a parent is not about breeding. It’s about caring. And it’s easy to say, but it’s harder to do.” Amen to that. Sandra’s comments sort of remind me of what Cameron Diaz said last week, that “we don’t need any more kids, we have plenty of people on this planet.”

Betty White steals every scene she’s in during The Proposal by doing her never-fail mischievous granny routine. And star Sandra Bullock knows it. “You have to play the straight guy. There’s no way you’re going to match her.”

When the elder actress feels around Bullock’s chest for her breasts while altering a baggy wedding dress and declares, “It’s like an Easter egg hunt,” the line gets them every time. “She was one of the most gentle lovers I’ve ever had,” Bullock jokes. “And I was thankful that she found them.”

White has even gone viral, thanks to a mock on-the-set video that has received almost 300,000 views on the humor website Funny or Die. She harasses male lead Ryan Reynolds, calling him an “ab-crunching jackass,” and sneakily flashes him the finger while being syrupy sweet to Bullock.

What did take Bullock aback was how the life of TV’s onetime Happy Homemaker, Golden Girl and game-show queen paralleled hers, a fact she learned while doing publicity with fellow cast members.

“Someone made a comment about your husband and children and all that stuff,” she says about White, 87, who found lasting love in her early 40s with Password host and widower Allen Ludden after two short-lived marriages. “She said, ‘You know what? I never had children biologically. I married someone who had three children. And how blessed I was to have those three stepchildren.’ That’s exactly what happened to me.”

Given how gossip rags are always speculating on whether Bullock is pregnant with her motorcycle mogul husband Jesse James, White’s inspirational words struck home. “I went, ‘Wow.’ When everyone is going ‘You should have a baby now,’ I’m like, ‘I could. Maybe I should. But do I need to?’”

Bullock continues to adjust to life as a stepmom. She and James work closely with his first wife to raise his two older children. “We all parent together,” she says. “It’s beautiful. It’s like synchronized swimming.” Daughter Sunny, 5, has been living with her dad and Bullock while his second wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, serves time for failing to pay taxes.

“I may never hear that word ‘mom,’ ” Bullock says. “But being a parent is not about breeding. It’s about caring. And it’s easy to say, but it’s harder to do. When you don’t have that title, you flounder and it hurts. But this is the best test of being a parent. And I just have to keep reminding myself I don’t care what I get. I care what I give.”

[From USA Today]

I didn’t know that about Betty White, so I found her romantic history very interesting. Most people have probably already seen the video that the article referenced from Funny or Die featuring Sandra, Ryan Reynolds and Betty White, but here’s the link to it anyway. Even though I think The Proposal looks horrible, I hope Betty gets a solid career resurgence out of it. Betty needs to be in more movies and television shows. Cast her on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, they always get great old-school stars to play perverts.

Sandra, Sunny and Jesse James are shown at LAX on 7/27/08. Credit: Bauergriffin

I wasn’t even going to report on any of the press Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds are doing for their film The Proposal. The film looks terrible, it will probably crash and burn, and Ryan and Sandra are out there saying whatever they can to get press for it. But this interview they did with People Magazine was just annoying.

Apparently, Sandra and her husband Jesse James are very close to Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson. Which is fine. I now know this because Sandra and Ryan talked about their marriages and how close they are… to People Magazine. But then there was this little piece of cognitive dissonance. Ryan is trying to praise Sandra for keeping stuff about her marriage out of the press, and he says “I love that your marriage – and forgive the ineloquence here – is not for sale.” And then Sandra replies, “We’re very similar in that way.” They say to People Magazine. If it’s not for sale, why are you talking about your marriage to promote your film?

You’ve known each other for a while. How has fame changed Ryan?
Bullock: The person I met years ago [through a friend] is the same person sitting next to me now. No change in the humility, talent, kindness. He could’ve become an ass—-. But not a damn thing has changed, other than that his bikes get more expensive.
Reynolds: I think you have to start that way. Fame only amplifies a certain disposition.
Bullock: I agree. Unless you’re a child in the industry and that’s all you know. That’s a sad, sad thing.
Reynolds: There’s nothing worse than hearing a 6-year-old demand Voss water. I’ve seen it.

You and Jesse and Scarlett are all close. Why do you get along so well?
Reynolds: [To Bullock] I love that your marriage – and forgive the ineloquence here – is not for sale.
Bullock: We’re very similar in that way. There’s an honor and a level of integrity that exists in their home that I really admire … [To Reynolds] I’m just happy you found a good human being. They both take excellent care of each other and they’re honorable, beautiful people.

Speaking of beauty, you two are quite naked in that one scene. How was it to film?
Bullock: I’d never done one before. [To Reynolds] You?
Reynolds: I’ve done a couple where I’ve … yeah, a little bit.
Bullock: Were they like sex scenes?
Reynolds: I don’t think I’ve ever done one that wasn’t supposed to be funny.

It’s not just a nude scene. You’re literally smushed up against each other.
Reynolds: Yeah – nudity and stunts. Not usually synonymous.

Comfort level aside, you’d cover up between takes, right?
Reynolds: I wasn’t grazing at the snack bar without pants.
Bullock: Next to [costar] Betty White.
Reynolds: Yeah, I didn’t go have lunch with Betty.

[From People]

Personally, I don’t really care who talks about their marriage or their kids in the press. There’s a “too much information” line that can be crossed, for sure, but most of the time I get more enjoyment out of hearing about someone’s marriage or their family than whatever boring story about making the film. Here’s what I can’t stand – when someone smugly proclaims that they won’t talk about their marriage or family when there’s a mountain of evidence of the celebrity doing just that. Remember Sandra Bullock’s 2006 Vanity Fair interview where she talked about Jesse? Or how about every time she’s promoted a film since she’s been married? Once again, that’s fine. It’s the smug “my marriage is not for sale” line that annoys me.

Here are Sandra and Ryan at the premiere of ‘The Proposal’ at The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on June 1st. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Sandra Bullock, 44, is gearing up for her promotional tour of that horrible-looking romantic-comedy The Proposal, costarring Ryan Reynolds. The Proposal is out in June, so obviously Sandra is the June cover girl for Harper’s Bazaar (story via US Weekly). The cover is actually lovely – Sandra looks about fifteen years younger, and her hair is styled beautifully.

The interview is pretty much the same interview Sandra has given for the past three years. A little about how surprised she is to find herself settled down with husband Jesse James, stuff about how she’s not sure if she’ll ever have children, blah, blah. She doesn’t talk about her stepchildren (Jesse has two daughters and a son from previous relationships), which I totally understand. But still, I feel like I’ve read this stuff a million times from her. I think that Sandra is trying to be boring, a.k.a. “pull a Jennifer Garner”. Like, Sandra doesn’t want publicity for anything other her films, so when she has to put herself out there on promotional duties, she just says the same stuff over and over:

Sandra Bullock isn’t sure she and husband Jesse James will have kids.

“You don’t have to give birth to someone to have a family. I’m not going to spend two seconds of my life wishing I had something I don’t,” The Proposal (out June 19) actress, 44, tells the June issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

“It’s hard to do it your way when you hear everyone else telling you to do it their way,” she continues. “I just want people to admit that there’s no one way to live your life.

But that doesn’t mean she won’t change her mind later.

“Of course, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” she says.

Bullock married James, the CEO of West Coast Choppers and host of Motorcycle Mania, in July 2005. She’s had to adjust to letting him take care of her.

“I’ve had to learn a hard lesson in that I’m not allowed to open car doors anymore,” she says. “It was so hard for me to allow someone to take care of me. It’s not because I can’t take care of myself. But Jesse was like, ‘Just let me do this.’”

Ever since entering her 40s, she’s let go of a lot of hangups.

“I didn’t have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase,” she says. “I was worried that if I didn’t stay on track and work, work, work, I was never going to accomplish anything.

“Now I’m trying to have fun and have the freedom to do nothing,” she goes on.

[From US Weekly]

I used to be a huge Sandra Bullock fan, back in the day. She just seemed so funny and real, truly like someone who could be your funny, crazy neighbor. Not so much any more, at least to me. Part of it is probably that Sandra has grown up a lot over the past few years, after losing her mother and marrying Jesse James. I totally understand that – she’s not so “girlish” any more, she’s a woman. But why is this new Sandra Bullock still making the same crappy romantic comedies? And don’t say that she’s an actress and she’s just going where the work is… Sandra is a powerful producer who can greenlight a film. She can pick and choose her projects, and it just seems like she’s chosen to do the same old crap that got me disliking her in the first place.

Here’s Sandra filming ‘The Proposal’ in New York City on June 6th. Images thanks to WENN.com .

As we reported in December, Jesse James’ ex-wife, pornstar Janine Lindemulder, has been sentenced to six months in prison for tax evasion. She has to report for incarceration on March 10, and on that date Sandra Bullock will become a full-time mom to Jesse’s daughter, Sunny.

Already close to Sunny — the two are often seen at the playground — Sandra takes on this new responsibility under difficult circumstances: On March 10, Sunny’s mother, former adult film star Janine Lindemulder, 40, will head for federal prison to serve a six-month sentence for income tax evasion. While Janine is behind bars, an Orange County, Calif., court awarded temporary full custody of Sunny to Jesse.

“Sandra will be fantastic as a full-time mom,” says actor Denis O’Hare, her co-star in her upcoming film The Proposal. “Jesse’s daughter is lucky to have Sandra in her life.”

The role of stepmom is not new to Sandra: She’s also close to Jesse’s two older children, daughter Chandler, 13, and son Jesse Jr., 10, from his marriage to Karla James.

“If the court gave Jesse James custody of Sunny, well… that’s her daddy. He should take care of her,” Janine’s aunt, Marjorie Lindemulder, tells OK!. “I just hope and pray for everyone involved.”

As for Sandra, the challenge appears to be a blessing. “I don’t see the difference in having blood-related kids or children who come with your husband,” she said last spring. “I am very blessed.”

[from OK!]

Janine has also been accused by Jesse of abusing their daughter Sunny, and she will have to spend another six months in a federal-run facility after she is released from prison. It will be interesting to see if she regains full custody of her daughter Sunny after she comes back, or if there will be a custody battle.

It’s very sweet that Sandra is quoted in the article as saying that it doesn’t matter whether her kids are biological or not. Children are children, and they need to be taken care of in a good home. Although there were rumors that Jesse left Janine for Sandra, Jesse and Sandra’s marriage always seemed stable and in photographs they always seem so happy. Hopefully that will translate to a loving full-time home for Sunny.

Sandra, Sunny and Jesse James are shown at LAX on 7/27/08. Credit: Bauergriffin

Popular porn star Janine Lindemulder has been sentenced to six months in federal prison on tax evasion charges. She pled guilty in August to not paying nearly $300,000 in taxes she owed the US government on her earnings. Lindemulder failed to make any federal tax payments for six consecutive years – from 2000 to 2006. She was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison and must report by March 10 to serve her term. She will also have to pay back all the money she owes to the government and once she’s released from prison she’ll have to spend up to six more months at a “federally operated residential community corrections center.”

Lindemulder specializes in on-screen scenes with women and has recently appeared in adult films with Jenna Jameson. You may known her as the naughty nurse with the glove on Blink 182’s album cover for “Enema of the State.” She is also an ex wife of Jesse James, actress Sandra Bullock’s current husband, and has a nearly five year-old daughter, Sunny, with James. James and Lindemulder broke up when she was seven months pregnant, with some reports claiming that James left Lindemulder for Bullock.

Last year James filed court papers seeking 50% custody of Sunny and alleging that Lindemulder was abusing the girl based on circumstantial evidence. Sunny was said to have cried out in her sleep “don’t touch me” and to have had minor scratches and bruises that she blamed on “mommy’s chair.” The rumor at the time that James sought increased custody was that Bullock was behind it because she wanted to spend more time with Sunny.

Now that Sunny’s mom has to spend six months in prison and up to six more months in another facility someone has to care for the girl and it may be James and Bullock.

Bullock is a step mother to James’ two other children from his first marriage, Jesse James, Jr., 8, and Chandler James, 10. They live nearby with their mother, Karla. Bullock has previously said of James’ children that she sees them as no different from biological children:

“I have children, amazing children. My love and my hopes for their future and their happiness, for their homework to be done and for them to know how smart and beautiful they are is no less than if they were my own biological children.”

[From Fametastic]

Maybe she’ll have Sunny around now too. It’s sad for Sunny that her mom is going to have to go away for up to a year, but at least she has more family who will be there for her. If only Lindemulder had the sense to have paid her taxes she wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.

[thanks to Fark for the heads up on this story]

Lindemulder is shown on 1/13/07 at the AVN Awards. Credit: PRPhotos. James is shown at the Spike TV Scream Awards on 10/18/07. Credit: WENN. James and Bullock are shown below at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on 3/5/06. Credit: Bauergriffin.

Sandra Bullock and her husband, Monster Garage host Jesse James, were in a head-on collision in Gloucester, Massachusetts on Friday. A member of Bullock’s security team was driving a rented SUV near the East Gloucester Square Laundry when 64-year-old Lucille Gatchell – who was drunk of her ass – crossed lanes in her a Subaru wagon and veered into oncoming traffic. She slammed her car head first into Bullock and James’ SUV. Luckily they were only doing about 15-20 mph at the time, and walked away unhurt.

Gloucester – The alleged drunken driver involved in a head-on collision with an SUV carrying actress Sandra Bullock failed four field sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit, police said. The accident brought gawkers with flash cameras into the streets of Gloucester and prompted global headlines. Many expressed relief that the sweetheart actress avoided injury in the ugly episode.

“Her eyes were bloodshot and glassy. Her speech was extremely slurred as she spoke.” Hussey [Bullock’s driver] “was trying to avoid her car, but it was in his lane,” Mackey said yesterday. During sobriety tests, Gatchell nearly fell over three times while trying to walk nine steps and turn, the report states. A Breathalyzer test recorded Gatchell’s blood-alcohol level as .20, more than twice the legal limit of .08, the report states.

“After I arrested her, I had her in the cruiser,” said Mackey. “I said, ‘Do you realize who you hit? She asked, ‘Who?’ I said, ‘Sandra Bullock.’ She was almost giggling and laughing. She said, ‘My first drunk driving and I hit Sandra Bullock.’

[From the Boston Herald]

What a jackass thing to say. And do. Unfortunately Ms. Gatchell was released on her own recognizance from jail. The police officer interviewed by the Herald noted that Sandra seemed very concerned for the drunken woman who could have killed her – even though Ms. Gatchell seemed to find the whole situation pretty damn funny.

“She was very concerned about the lady in the other car. She said, ‘Is she OK? Is she OK?’ ” said Mackey. “After I arrested (Gatchell), I walked past Miss Bullock. She felt bad. You could tell by the look on her face.”

[From the Boston Herald]

I’m so disgusted by that woman’s response I can’t even come up with anything decent to say. It’s probably due to the state of massive inebriation, but since Lucille Gatchell chose to drink she’s responsible for everything she does and says thereafter. Obviously the accident could have been much worse, and it’s very lucky that everyone in Sandra Bullock’s vehicle came out unscathed. Hopefully Ms. Gatchell will choose to make better decisions in the future.

Here’s Lucile Gatchell, who was charged with operating under the influence and marked lane violations. Header of Sandra between scenes while filming ‘The Proposal’ in Rockport, MA on April 10th. Images thanks to Splash.

Sandra Bullock and her husband of nearly two years, Jesse James, are fighting for partial custody of James’ third child, three year old Sunny. James left Sunny’s mom, his second wife porn star Janine Lindemulder, while she was seven months pregnant. Lindemulder claims that until this January James only saw his daughter on the day she was born for half an hour.

James has filed court papers claiming that he suspects his ex of abusing toddler Sunny, and says the girl has suspicious bruises and seems to be troubled. If his ex-wife grants him 50 percent custody, he’s willing to drop the abuse charges:

[Sandra Bullock] is rallying behind hubby Jesse James in his fight to win custody of his 3-year-old daughter Sunny from his ex-wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, say sources.

But Janine is not giving up easily – and insiders say she blames the 42-year-old “Miss Congeniality” beauty for pushing Jesse to snatch Sunny away from her.

Jesse, host of TV’s “Monster Garage,” filed an emergency child custody order against Janine on March 15. He asked the court to award him temporary custody of Sunny pending a child welfare investigation.

In court documents, 37-year-old Jesse claimed that Sunny was scratched and bruised when she visited him and Sandra recently – and the child blamed “mommy’s chair” for her injuries.

“Sunny had small scratches and what appeared to be broken blood vessels and a bruise on her left cheek and a few bruises around her left and right eye,” Jesse said in papers filed in California’s Orange County Superior Court.

“When my wife gently asked her if it hurt she said: ‘Yes, but the bleeding stopped.’ She just said ‘mommy’s chair’ when we asked how it happened.”

The papers also state Janine “was to pick her up on Saturday afternoon when she arrived (an hour late), Sunny screamed and cried she didn’t want to go.

“My wife and I let Sunny stay with us in bed Saturday night. We didn’t think she should be alone. During the night she was very restless and seemed to be angry and crying off and on, but clearly cried out: ‘don’t touch me’ and ‘don’t do that.’”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, April 9, 2007]

It could be true that he suspects his wife of hurting the girl, but you never know with toddlers. They get into a lot of scrapes and often cry when they have to leave a place they’re comfortable with, even if they’ve only been there an hour. The article goes on to quote a source that says that Janine is a good mother and that it’s not fair to judge her because she’s earned a living in the adult film business.

Janine is said to think that Bullock is behind James’ custody and abuse claims, and the source says she doesn’t have an issue with Sandra, but believes that it was her idea to get Jesse more involved in his youngest child’s life.

Bullock’s recent statements about being a step-mother to James’ three children seem to support that. She told People Magazine “I have children, amazing children. My love and my hopes for their future and their happiness, for their homework to be done and for them to know how smart and beautiful they are is no less than if they were my own biological children.” She said she does want a biological child but only if it happens naturally for her. If not, that’s ok too.

James has two other children with his first wife Karla James, Jesse James, Jr., 7, and Chandler James, 9.

Sunny’s mom Janine was the naughty nurse on Blink 182′s album cover for Enema of the State. She’s a well known porn star and adult movie producer and is next appearing in “Janine loves Jenna [Jameson],” which will be released on DVD on April 13th.

Here are pictures of Janine Lindemulder. She was in a Pirates of the Caribbean porn spoof, and there are two images from that. Header picture from Bastardly.