Love Lessons From Sandra Bullock's Movies

The news that Jesse James cheated on his lovely, funny, Academy Award–winning wife with a tattoo model who might be a Nazi has absolutely devastated us, and even though Jesse's apologized, that might not be enough to bring Sandra back to him. But she can take solace in lessons from some of her past films. Is There Really A Best Actress Oscar Curse?

First, we'd recommend Sandra re-watch our favorite Bullock film, Miss Congeniality. In particular, the scene in which her FBI agent Grace Hart beats the ever-living snot out of Benjamin Bratt onstage at the Miss United States pageant. It's a talent? Right? Of course, violence is never the answer, even when someone has destroyed you, but at the very least we'd be inclined to work out some rage on a punching bag if we were in Sandra's shoes. When A Woman Hits Her Husband

Second, Speed. The answer to pain, in our opinion, is driving fast over wide-open roads. Probably with something angry blasting on the radio. Just don't Crash, sweetheart. (Yeah. Sorry about that.) High-Speed, High-Priced Highway Sex

Sandra's played a couple of good wives in her career, notably opposite Harry Connick Jr. in 1998's Hope Floats. There the lesson was to lean on your family and move on from the cheating douchebag with a sexy, singin' man in a cowboy hat. Well, she does live in Texas...come to think of it, that was also the point of 1995's Something To Talk About, which didn't star Sandra, but is a great movie. Just Got Dumped? Read These Books.

Then comes the moving on. We suggest a dreamboat like Aidan Quinn (Practical Magic), a sexy lawyer like Matthew McConaughey (A Time to Kill), a tortured writer like Chris O'Donnell (In Love and War) or Ryan Gosling himself (Murder by Numbers, and Sandra's real-life ex-boyfriend).

This whole disgusting Jesse James nonsense makes us incredibly sad, especially in light of how supportive and delightful he seemed during Sandra's awards run for The Blind Side, and her public comments about how great he is. Ugh. It's depressing enough to make a lady Gun Shy. Heartbreak-Related Depression: Does It Exist?

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