Robert Balkovich here! I'd like to take a moment today to wish a happy solar return to the Queen of Rom Coms, Grand Dame of '90s Action Movies Marketed Toward Women, Empress of Perfect Foils for Melissa McCarthy: the one and only Sandra Bullock. In an effort to encourage everyone to take their own personal journey and reflect on what Sandra Bullock means to them, after the jump I'm going to share some of my favorite moments that I've spent with Sandra.
Join me, won't you?
• Most recently I had the best time ever watching Our Brand Is Crisis on a flight from Mexico City to New York. The movie is extremely not good, and yet I enjoyed pretty much every minute of Sandra having altitude sickness, reckless bus driving, bowl clutching, inappropriately partying with teens, and realizations that the monster she helped elect was, in fact, a monster as everyone had previously told her. The plane's entertainment system had no less than fifty movies available to watch, and yet I could see three other people watching it along with me.
• I have almost never laughed so hard as I did when I saw The Heat, a movie for which my expectations were basically in the sewer, in theaters on a blazing summer day.
• Similarly The Proposal is the perfect Netflix movie, which I watched one Saturday night after four glasses of wine hiding in my tiny bedroom from my awful Craigslist roommates.
• I have a friend from Nashville who is very sensitive to Southern stereotyping and was particularly aghast after The Blindside came out. I used the opportunity to tease her mercilessly, which was not a necessarily a nice thing to do, but it was funny.
• When I was a kid there was a HUGE to-do when Sandra went to a pizza parlor in my hometown of Springfield, Oregon (s/o to Roaring Rapids Pizza) because she was there with her former husband, notable Celebrity Apprentice loser Jesse James, whose ex lived in the next town over.
• When I was in elementary school my next door neighbors had a huge chest full of VHS tapes and I would always look at the one for Speed because it looked like the most thrilling thing I'd ever seen in my young life. I still have not seen the movie Speed.
• Oh and also one time I showed up to a baby-sitting gig and when I arrived it was onto the set of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which was filming in the apartment using the kids as extras. After a few minutes of being there Sandra (or "Sandy" as everyone calls her) showed up to film her scene. I chatted with her briefly between takes and she was as nice as you can imagine.
What are your favorite Sandra Bullock related memories? Fill us in in the comments!