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Byline: Terry Lawson
Sandra Bullock says she had just about decided to join Meg Ryan's support group _ stop me before I make another romantic comedy _ but was determined to have one more binge.
"The problem with these so-called romantic comedies is that they're incredibly hard to put together, they're harder to make, they're very rarely romantic and they're hardly ever funny," says Bullock, confirming that shoot-from-the-lip reputation less than 15 seconds into the conversation. "So you go through all this misery, all this work, and then the movie's bad on top of it.
"So instead of writing it off and moving on, you think, I can beat this monkey, I can do this right, and then I'll go cold turkey."
Bullock's monkey-beater is "Two Weeks Notice," opening nationwide on Friday, and her codependent is Hugh Grant, such an obvious match that everyone Bullock knows has asked her "how it was working with Hugh again."
"No, that was Julia; no, that was Renee; nope, not me, sorry," says Bullock. "But the fact that everybody thought that sort of made it inevitable, and we have the same agency, so 2-{ years ago they got us together, just to see if we liked each other as people. We did, and then that long …