Tomorrow (November 98)

Angel in the net

No crowned head is so much honored with passion like Sandra Bullock, the "Queen of the Web". And of no one there are so many copies, imitations, fakes.

"You are the queen of my heart / We will never meet in real world / only in the cyberspace I follow your trail", composed Howard V. Barton. And who clicks with love, will find another loveful and honest story on the american actress Sandra Bullock. And so on. Howard is one of more than 100 000 fans, who made her hollywood-god an unusual shrine: a website. Who use a various search engine, like "Yahoo", and enter "Bullock", gets 140 686 hits. No other star is represented at so many places in the internet. Sandra Bullock, born on July the 26th 1966 in Arlington/Virginia, is called "Queen of the Web". Royal highness has an american father, the voice coach John Bullock, and a german mother, the opera singer Helga Bullock. She speaks, "when I am forced to do it", she says, almost without an accent german. And she is also able to read german - what takes many fans the inhibition to write her.
The royal title Sandra Bullock ows to Angela Bennet, a computer specialist, who find out a conspiracy in the internet. With smartness, bits and courage she prevents the desaster and defeats the villains: In the Cyber-Thriller "The Net" (1995) Sandra Bullock take her role as the profi-hacker Angela so seriously, that this role glues at her since then. Like John Wayne is the cowboy forever, Sandra Bullock will be the Space-Girl forever. And this, although she was very succesful as bus driver in "Speed" (1994), as loveful girl in "Whily you were sleeping" (1995) or as ravishing mother in "Hope Floats", which will start at the beginning of 1999 in german cinemas. Her mainly laptop-free movies, with the biggest technical challenge how to operate with an answering machine, are definetely ignored by hackers all over the world. They think it is nice, to have the bewitched "Sandy" in their own world.
Sandra Bullocks Cyber-Image will be still there, because she is actually a enthusiastically user: "It happens regularly, when I surf in the Internet, that I forget the time. I am lucky to have good friends, who pull me away from the screen. So my life in the Internet is within sensible limits", she says. She think that e-Mails are the best invention since there are "Gummibärchen" (this word does not exist in english, sorry), her favorite food: "I hate phone calls. Letters are too slow and faxes are too public. I finish almost my hole business and private correspondence via the Internet." Todd Marks, an information scientist, who made the graphic-software for "The Net" (1995), praises Sandra Bullocks computer-smartness: "She take part in a course for three month for the movie. She wanted to feel her native in the programs. She learned really fast."
And now fans hope, like Howard whose sick of love, that Sandra visits one of their sites on one of her "net-hikings", she ckicks on it, read enthusiastically - and maybe leave a poetry. There are countless Cyberfans, who got petries of her. Or they got her secret e-Mail address. Or a sexy photo with a sign of her. Others met her "Sandy" in chat-rooms, where she talked openly about her private live - "I am so alone!". She even accepted invitations to private chat-rooms and with keyboard and mouse she turned on the one or another hard-disk: "Talk dirty to me, Sandra."
Who think that's true is crazy. Who thinks just a little bit, discovers that almost every Cyber-Sandra is are lies. Faked net identities. Sandra Bullock is also calle "Most faked woman" in the Internet. The e-Mail address "Sbu@compuServe.com" or the online-nick "Sabu" can take who wants: harmless jokers, lonely gardeners, bad dentists, silly teenager.
"I am not Sandra Bullock! I don't have her e-Mail address. I cannot forward e-Mail to her!!!!" This is the cry for help of a desperated net-user totally red posted on many websites, which give away Sandra Bullocks alleged e-Mail address.
The websites are mainly not very good. Exceptions are for example "The Queen of the Web Page", with photos, interviews, biography and filmography. Or the "Sandra Bullock Monthly", published by fans all over the world, who write factually about Sandra Bullocks work, reprint criticism and look with respect at her life of love. Miss Bullock is Hollywoods lifetime-single against her willing. If you believe in the Cyber-Magazine, then she has finally found a friend, "however, whose identy she does not reveal."
Sandra Bullock shares out her private life, and also her private Internet-life only with good friends and the family. She neither visits AOL-Chat-Rooms, nore she searches for herself through the Web: "I am a very private person", she explains. When she surfs, her primary interest are the themes us real estates and architecture. "I really like it to renovate houses and I look around, what is on the market", she says. And how about her love-story? Is Matthew McConaughey the lucky, like Cyberfans suspect? "He is it not. But there is a special person in my life. All the other things you will hear not until our wedding." Keywords: "Sandra Bullock husband".

-- typed out and translated into English by the webmaster of this site

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