Bullock breaks silence about alleged sex tape

(Courtesy:  Warner Bros.)

It's not often that I feel sorry for wealthy, talented, gorgeous movie stars.

The rumor of a sex tape involving Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock and doghouse-residing husband Jesse James, however, was especially hurtful and distasteful, even for a grizzled cynic like yours truly.

The World Wide Web, a hungry mosh pit of information and misinformation constantly in need of a juicy tidbit to hoist above the crowd and pass around the digital blogosphere, began buzzing about "the tape" a few days ago.

I won't get into the grisly details here.  Just know that there were Nazi references and the mention of, shall we say, less conventional love-making.

It was nasty enough, in fact, to force a Best Actress-in-hiding to break her silence.

"There is no sex tape," Bullock told People magazine yesterday, according to an item posted on the People Web site.

"There never has been one and there never will be one," Bullock added.