Sandra Bullock: The Best of Times, and the Worst of Tijmes

For Sandra Bullock, it has been the best of times; and it has been the worst of times (to paraphrase the opening of "A Tale of Two Cities").


Forget the first woman director winning an Oscar. After all, women--especially feminist women--saw no value in having the first woman Vice President (Sarah Palin), and little value in having the first woman President (Hillary Clinton being in position to accomplish that if the left had not abandoned her for Obama). Obviously not important.


However, Sandra Bullock accomplished a truly significant "first"--evidently for either a man or a woman (although I am not sure about whether a male actor has done it in the "actor" category). Yes, it was an amazing feat.


Sandra Bullock, as you probably know, won the "best actress" Oscar for best performance by an Oscar. What you may not know is that Sandra Bullock also won the WORST ACTRESS "Razzie" for WORST performance by an actress in a leading role last year (for "All About Steve"). This was an unprecedented "double win" for an actress. Meryl Streep has never done it. Katerine Hepburn never did it.


What RANGE for an actress. It can't be easy to give two such widely different performances in one year.


Yes, "All About Steve" was yet more proof that Hollywood no longer knows how to make a good "romantic comedy". I recently saw "When in Rome", which was BETTER than most Hollywood romantic comedies in recent years, and it was not very good (63 out of 100--barely worth seeing). "When in Rome" was only as mildly good as it was because it was a throwback to the past--without most of the gross crudity of modern Hollywood "humor". Unfortunately, Hollywood has pretty much lost the knack for great comedy. Look at "The Lady Eve" and see how far Hollywood has fallen, or look at almost any Cary Grant romantic comedy. Hollywood no longer even knows how to make "While You Were Sleeping".


Still, Sandra Bullock showed class. She not only showed up in person to accept her Oscar. She showed up in person to accept her Razzie. You have to admire a woman like that, even if my daughter says she seemed pretty out of sorts with her husband (Jesse James) when my daughter was a waitress/hostes at an Hawaiian restaurant where Bullock had dinner some five years ago.


We all know that ALL wives habitually get irritated with their husbands. They are (the husbands) MALES, after all.