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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Actress Sandra Bullock and her husband Jesse James were hit by a drunk driver in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Bullock's publicist just released the following statement to X17: "Sandra Bullock and Jesse James were in a car accident on Friday night. They are fine."

According to the Boston Herald, at 11 PM on April 18, the couple was being driven to their hotel in Eastern Point when a gray Subaru station wagon crossed lanes on East Main Street and smashed into the front of their vehicle, according to police. Bullock, 43, and James, who turned 39 on Saturday, were in a black SUV driven by Mark Hussey, 54, of Londonderry, New Hampshire.

The driver of the Subaru, identified as Lucille P. Gatchell, 64, from Gloucester, was given a field sobriety test and blew an alcohol level two and a half times over the legal limit. She was arrested on the scene for operating under the influence of alcohol and for a marked lanes violation, and she is due in Gloucester District Court on Tuesday morning.

When Gloucester police officer Kevin Mackey told Gatchell that she had hit the actress, “She was almost giggling and laughing. She said, 'My first drunk driving and I hit Sandra Bullock.’ ”

Immediately after the accident Mackey said the couple was "sort of hugging each other on the sidewalk,” said Mackey. “Ms. Bullock was consoling him.” Bullock “was very concerned about the lady in the other car," and asked several times if Gatchell was ok.

Bullock is currently shooting The Proposal in Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who recently starred on screen together in The Proposal, may be co-stars once again in the romantic comedy tentatively titled, Most Wanted.

Although Bullock has not yet signed the deal, Proposal writer Peter Chiarelli has already pitched the project with the two stars in mind and Universal Pictures has decided to jump on board.

Chiarelli is hoping to bring Proposal director Anne Fletcher on board, as well.

The storyline is based on a criminal, played by Bullock, who is being escorted to court by a U.S. Marshall, played by Reynolds. The two end up forced to go on the run.

Next year Reynolds' next film, The Green Lantern, will be hitting theaters.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Sandra Bullock has successfully obtained a temporary restraining order against Thomas James Weldon, 41, whom the actress says has been stalking her since 2003.

This isn't the first time Weldon has been ordered to stay away from Bullock. Back in 2003, the actress took out a restraining order .... that expired in 2009. On August 6, a hearing will take place to address the current three-year restraining order.

According to court papers, Weldon showed up at an E.R. in Wyoming last month where he complained of sleeplessness and anxiety. He then told staff at the hospital that he had driven from Tennessee to meet up with Bullock at her home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Ed McPherson, Bullock's attorney, has evidence of the emails and faxes that Weldon has sent to Bullock in recent years. Bullock says she's never met the man.

The restraining order also seeks to protect Bullock's 7-month-old son Louis Bardo Bullock.

MANHATTAN, New York (X17online) - Sandra Bullock will possibly join Tom Hanks in a drama that focuses on a family coping with life after the 9/11 attacks in New York City.

The flick would be based on a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young boy loses his dad at Ground Zero and searches for answers. Warner Bros. and Paramount execs are seeking Bullock, according to People.

Reports claim that with so much personal trauma in Bullock's life, she'd be able to channel her life struggles into this role ... which could possibly give her another Oscar-worthy performance.

Bullock has yet to confirm that she's seeking a part in the movie.

MANHATTAN, California (X17online) - Sandra Bullock has decided to give her first interview to Matt Lauer and The Today Show. Miss Bullock is expected to talk about her recent adoption, as well as the cheating scandal with her ex-husband Jesse James.

The interview will take place at Warren Easton Charter High School in New Orleans ... a school that Bullock has supported for quite a while.

Also joining the interview, school board member Arthur Hardy who will be discussing the school's new health clinic ... funded by Bullock.

MANHATTAN, New York (X17online) - Actress Sandra Bullock will star in an untitled project that will be directed by The Proposal director, Anne Fletcher.

46-year-old Bullock will also serve as executive producer of the project.

According to reports, the movie will be "in the vein of the 1978 Paul Mazursky film An Unmarried Woman and Saturday Night Fever."

Bullock is currently in negotiations to star in a story about surviving in outer space called Gravity ...which will also reportedly star Robert Downey Jr.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - While it was announced back in June Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock have both signed on for the upcoming action-comedy Most Wanted, it may be many years until it actually hits theaters.

Bullock recently said of Most Wanted: "Who knows. That could be eight years down the line. I have no idea. It's something in development. Don't you want it to be good? Let's find something good and then we'll do it."

Most Wanted centers on a criminal suspect (Bullock) on the run with an FBI agent (Reynolds) assigned to escort her to court.