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The celebrity death hoax engine kicked into high gear on Sunday after the very real passing of Whitney Houston .

Dressed in black, her short hair wet and tousled, Bullock was shot with her hands on her knees, eyes locked with the camera, legs coltishly askew.

But the friendship they made has obviously aged well, with the pair out at the cinema together in Los Angeles last night.

Now playing within the first-floor theater of Philadelphia's historic Roxy Theater is Stephen Daldry's "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close", a hyper-vigilant, visionary, excellent screen adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's contemporary novel.

At that point, De Bont was mulling a massive Science Fiction adventure called GALILEO'S WAKE.

Jan De Bont had a moment in the sun in the mid '90s when he directed Speed and Twister , and it should never be forgotten that he was a kick-ass cinematographer.

Sandra Bullock stars in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," a movie in which she plays the wife of a 9/11 victim.