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Sandra Bullock: One woman news generator

Tory Maguire

by Tory Maguire

29 Apr 01:49pm

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Filed under: Adoption, Entertainment, Media, Sandra Bullock, Society

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First she won the Oscar, then her husband got caught playing away, then she adopted a baby, and now we find out she’s had him circumcised... Sandra Bullock has turned into the answer to every news editors prayers.

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    • shame says:

      02:29pm | 29/04/10

      isnt it amazing that someone so reserved and seemingly Hollywood pedestal mounted has been hauled down due to a grubby husband and his infidelity with another cartoon covered moron
      Sandra unfortunately will now have the high and mighty media monitor her every move and every comment and every action…

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    • JJJ says:

      07:16am | 30/04/10

      I don’t think she was reserved and I definitely disagree that she has been “hauled down”. I watched her on shows like ‘Ellen’ (yes, it’s sad) and she seemed friendly, funny, and open, but with an elegance and dignity unusual for ‘hollywood’ types. She hasn’t done anything wrong through the whole process and I think she can keep her head held high despite the actions of her husband. You cannot control other people - just yourself. I think she is an excellent role-model. Still.

    • angus says:

      03:13pm | 29/04/10

      why is it that hollywood stars think that by stealing some kid from africa the media and public will love them again. watch bruno to see how much of a total farce the whole celebrity charity/adoption thing is. it’s appalling really

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    • Emma says:

      05:01pm | 29/04/10

      Um you get that movies are fictional right? Although I agree with the essence of the statement and would like to add I hate the celebrities that get a nanny for their adopted children. That is like a fancy orphanage in my opinion.

    • Anne says:

      08:19pm | 29/04/10

      Sandra’s child is actually from New Orleans.

    • Liz says:

      03:22pm | 30/04/10

      The child maybe from New Orleans but he’s still lost his families and who he might have been, to become a celebrity kid, not a suitable lifestyle for any kid particularly an adopted one who has already suffered trauma, now the trauma of circumcision!! What’s next?

    • Eric says:

      03:32pm | 29/04/10

      Let’s not forget that Sandra Bullock advocates domestic violencve.

      http://bit.ly/aQcwQU

      ‘Two months before the Oscar-winner learned that her own husband was philandering, she said she would have unleashed a golf club-swinging, baseball bat-hacking frenzy on serial-cheater Woods if she were married to him.

      “If I were [Tiger’s wife] Elin [Nordegren], man, I would have hit a lot more than she did,” Bullock said. “I would have kept hitting”.’

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    • K from W says:

      10:46am | 30/04/10

      I can’t even count the amount of times I’ve said “I’d love to smack him upside the head”, or “he deserves a good kick to the balls”....but would I ever actually do those things? No. Do I advocate violence? No. Do you literally mean every single thing you’ve ever said Eric? Has Sandra gone and punched her husband up? No. So I would hardly call her an advocate of domestic violence.

    • Eric says:

      09:26am | 01/05/10

      Sandra Bullock was commenting on an actual instance of alleged domestic violence, not just making an abstract comment. She approved of this incident and expressed a desire for more violence.

      If a male celebrity had said the same thing about a man who bashed his wife, he would have been hounded from society. This is a clear double standard.

    • anonamous says:

      07:10pm | 19/05/10

      it was a joke big fulla…

    • S.L says:

      05:24pm | 29/04/10

      The long term trend among the elite of la la land is to adopt a child from an underpriveledged background. The fortunate part is the child gets a break they would not have had in their normal existance. Through her movies and well documented philanthropy Ms Bullock appears to have the means and ability to raise any number of children so good luck to her.

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    • Appalled in Melbourne says:

      10:42am | 30/04/10

      In most cases children adopted from underdeveloped countries have no family and virtually no access to opportunity. Even if Hollywood stars adopt babies then hire nannies to raise them, those children are a 100 times better off than living in the appalling conditions of orphanages in most Third World countries. One of the biggest arguments against cross-cultural adoption is the psychological affects on the child. Firstly, stars have the financial capacity to help these children through and secondly what about the psychological affects of living in abject poverty? Who are we to judge the reasons why someone adopts a child? I think people need to wake up and realise that there are serious problems in the world, and if a Hollywood star can better one child’s life than so be it. Would you really deny that child a better quality of life because you don’t like ‘the idea’ of Hollywood adoptions?

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    • Jen says:

      11:47am | 30/04/10

      I think Sandra Bullock is lovely - she can adopt me any time she likes smile

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    • Brett L says:

      04:33pm | 02/05/10

      If I was adopted from a poor family to a rich celeb family I would feel so guilty to my siblings and parents. I’d rather be poor and living with my loved blood relatives than in a rich fake family.

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    • Julie says:

      09:35am | 03/05/10

      What fake family? The children are unwanted or orphans. If stars only adopted white kids the criticizers would screech racism, if they didn’t adopt at all they would screech the stars are ‘selfish’. BTW I read in an earlier interview that it was a 4yr process that Sandra and Jesse went through to adopt a baby and that they have had the baby since January. She didn’t ‘buy’ him or jump any queues.

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    • anonomous says:

      07:07pm | 19/05/10

      yea i will have to agree with ‘julie’, they have been through an adopting process for 4yrs… leave her alone shes AWESOME!! and hey baby of hers ‘Louis’ is absolutly gorgeous!!! love him.. keep up ya awesome work sandy.. ya fans are behind you 100%

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