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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Forget the tattooed home wrecker, the headlines and the heartbreak: It's not too late for Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock to save her five-year marriage, experts say.
The ugly public revelations that husband Jesse James cheated on Bullock are painful but not fatal for the couple's reeling relationship.
"Sandra would have to get to a place where she could give her husband the gift of trust," said Dr. Flo Rosoff, a marriage counselor.
"That can only happen if she is based in a relationship where they have a high regard for each other as people, not as simply an attractive man and attractive woman."
Rosoff is a contributor to Ladies Home Journal's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" column, as is fellow Long Island counselor Dr. Robin Newman.
Newman echoes her colleague's prognosis that the celebrity couple can salvage their relationship, despite James' reported affair with ink-stained wench Michelle (Bombshell) McGee.
"Fight for your marriage, fight for it," Newman advised. "And look at what your part in it was. I'm not saying Sandra was all at fault, but there's something going on there that she needs to address herself."
The Oscar-winning star of "The Blind Side" remained out of the public eye Friday, offering no response to her husband's apology after garish tattoo model McGee claimed the two had an affair.
Bullock has canceled an appearance at the London premiere of her hit film and reportedly moved out of the couple's Southern California home.
Beleaguered husband James surfaced to walk his kids to school Friday morning, his wedding ring still visible on his left hand.
His inked-up inamorata surfaced, too, in a far-less flattering series of Nazi-themed photos.
The raven-haired McGee sported a black officer's cap, bra, panties and a Nazi armband in the shots unearthed by TMZ.com.
In one picture, McGee suggestively licks the tip of a knife.
McGee was also denounced by her ex-husband, who hopes to regain custody of their 5-year-old son.
Ronald Modica charged in court papers that McGee was an unfit mom who exposed little Avery to X-rated antics, Us Magazine reported.
"I need protection for my son," Modica said. "I will not continue to expose him to the kind of life Michelle desires and seeks: full on, pornographic, party all the time."
According to McGee, the affair started while Bullock was filming her Academy Award-winning role in "The Blind Side."
James had been married twice, including a two-year union with porn star Janine Lindemulder, before landing America's sweetheart in 2005.
Save your money.
The actors may be pretty, but the film is about as dull as a doorknob. That's the consensus from critics regarding The Bounty Hunter, starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, which opens this weekend.
The new romantic comedy has been blasted by 9 out of ten film critics, with most agreeing the script is at best unfunny and at worst cringe-inducing.
As the story goes, Milo Boyd (Butler) is having a rough go of things as a bounty hunter. But his luck appears to change when his next job places him on the trail of his ex-wife, the bail-jumping reporter Nicole Hurly (Aniston).
The old flames play a game of cat-and-mouse, only to find themselves back together and running for their lives.
Of course, critics could care less.
Roger Ebert said he "stared with glazed eyes at The Bounty Hunter. Here is a film with no need to exist."
Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe said the movie's title was similar to A&E's show Dog The Bounty Hunter. "Is it wrong to find that show funnier and more romantic?" he asked.
And the film's two stars, Butler and Aniston, who have been deflecting rumors of off-screen romance for months now, can't seem to muster enough on-screen romance to satisfy critics.
Claudia Puig from USA Today said they don't "muster any believable chemistry. A lot of mugging happens, but no magic."
Still, regardless of what the critics say, if you're a fan of Aniston and/or Butler you should probably run out and see The Bounty Hunter. Just don't say we didn't warn you.
