The Sandra Bullock-Bradley Cooper film All About Steve got savaged by the critics, most of them taking issue with Sandra. She got called out not only as the star, but as the producer, I guess getting the bulk of the blame for simply green-lighting this “unwatchable, unbearably unfunny” monstrosity (per Rolling Stone). The New York Daily News called Sandra’s character a “freak-show attraction… a strange child-woman…borderline unhinged… barely made tolerable by Bullock’s star power.” Meanwhile, Bradley Cooper’s character got called out for his “nastiness…[and] scruffy dismissiveness.” Radar even has All About Steve as the hands-down front-runner for Worst Movie of the Year. Still, even Sandra Bullock’s worst gets the second place finish as the box office – it could be worse.

While I suspect Sandra Bullock is washing her hands of the film (and perhaps making t-shirts that read “Remember The Proposal”), Bradley Cooper is still out there trying to promote All About Steve. He sat down for an interview with Parade Magazine (story via Us Weekly) to talk about how he’s such an old-fashioned romantic who wants to mate for life. I guess we’re not supposed to remember his four-month marriage to Jennifer Esposito. Also – here’s a note for the eagle-eyed readers: check out how Us Weekly refers to Bradley as “she”. That typo has been up for two days and it’s still hilarious. I think we should all refer to Bradley as “she” from now on:

Bradley Cooper admits he’s a romantic in the newest issue of Parade magazine.

“The truth is, I got it first from my parents, who’ve been married since 1963. I got it from them and from my grandparents, who are still together,” says the actor, 34, who’s dating Renee Zellweger. (The two were spotted kissing in Spain in early August; the next week, he took her to his Philadelphia home town.)

“I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. Now my parents have evolved into completely different creatures, in terms of their marriage and the roles of the man and the woman,” he goes on. “And I think that’s great, but it’s still romantic.”

Movies and TV have also “influenced” the way he acts while in love, Cooper says.

“You sort of figure out that you don’t need to replicate what you see. In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated,” he says. “And, you figure that out after sussing through all these ideas of how love is supposed to be.”

The star of All About Steve (out Friday), also opens up about his scenes with costar Sandra Bullock — who went nude in her last romantic comedy, The Proposal.

“I don’t feel cheated that Sandra Bullock kept most of her clothes on with me. At least we got sort of a love scene…I still made contact. Actually, Sandra was attacking me physically in [one] scene,” she [sic] says. “There’s just something in her eyes when she’s on top of me saying, ‘I’m going to eat you like a lion,’ that’s so funny. But I wouldn’t have minded going a little further.”

[From Us Weekly]

She really is an old-fashioned romantic, isn’t she? Eh… I think she’s laying it on a bit thick. Good thing her box-office cred won’t be hit too hard by the bad reviews. Entertainment Weekly is already declaring Bradley “the summer’s biggest breakout star” and EW says she’s “best poised for a shot at the A-List.” ‘Atta girl.