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As for the rumors sparked by Bullock's recent public appearances with Grant, the actress -- who showed up at the Academy Awards with the handsome Brit -- maintains that they're just good friends.

"I couldn't have asked anyone more fun to go," she says. "He is so good at that. He's so smart and witty. And if I get tongue-tied, you know he's going to be great. And I like hanging out with him."

Word is, Bullock's steady beau is sexy Austin-based musician Bob Schneider, with whom she has maintained a quiet courtship for the last few years, and whose career she has championed, resulting in recent films featuring Schneider's rootsy southern songs (including Forty Days and Forty Nights, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Gun Shy).

"As celebrities go, Bob and I have a very low-key relationship," she said when the two began dating. "We live our life together one day at a time."

As she has done in the past, Bullock is threatening to take a year off -- her periods of extreme productivity seem inevitably to signal a necessary time for rest and perhaps reflection. For instance, while the 37-year-old actress admits she needs to get over her well-reported fear of marriage (she has had long-term relationships with actors Tate Donovan and Matthew McConaughy but neither evolved into a trip to the altar), an even bigger hurdle involves exchanging words of love. "My greatest fear is saying 'I love you,'" she admits. "That's why we're making [Two Weeks Notice], and Hugh keeps saying, 'This girl is rather similar to you.' We got as far as looking at each other and saying, 'elephant shoes.' So that's as close as I've got. I have issues. It's something I have to work on."

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