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BUFFY SUMMERS

NAME Buffy Anne Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) A.K.A. Little Miss Likes-to-Fight, Rebecca of Sunnyhell Farm, The Duchess of Buffonia ADDRESS 1630 Revello Drive BIO Prior to becoming The Chosen One, our redoubtable and resourceful heroine was a blissfully oblivious Valley Girl (Prom Queen, Fiesta Queen, cheerleader at L.A.'s Hemery High). Literally born Oct. 24, 1980, Buffy's secret slayer life began in '96, and her resulting behavior (including burning down Hemery's gym) got her kicked out of school. Her parents soon divorced, and Joyce Summers (clueless as anyone to Buffy's darkness-battling duties) moved her ''troubled'' daughter to the bucolic promise of Sunnydale in hopes of starting fresh. Ha! ''The obvious connection between Buffy and me is the little girl torn between two worlds,'' says Gellar. ''I was on All My Children while trying to graduate from high school. Do you go to sleep-overs or to auditions?'' Or, in Buffy's case, ''Do you save the world or go to the prom?'' SPECIAL POWERS As long as there have been vampires, there have been slayers, though details on the selection process are sketchy. We do know every generation has a Chosen One -- though, this being a high-risk occupation, there are always slayers-in-waiting. With the job comes increased strength (can bend a rifle; can't bust through heavy steel), heightened agility (leaping tall buildings), and the occasional psychic dreams (providing vital clues, warnings, or visions of Angel naked). Not to be underestimated: Buffy's facility with a killer pun. TURN-ONS Boinking the undead (specifically, Angel); ice skating (her childhood bedroom was a shrine to Dorothy Hamill, ''thereby securing a place for [herself] in the geek hall of fame''); Mr. Gordo (her stuffed pig). TURNOFFS Studying (see her 2.8 GPA); movies with dogs or Chevy Chase; bad Angel -- for Buffy and Gellar: ''When Angel first went evil, I had to separate myself from David [Boreanaz] because our scenes together hurt that much more. David was my most trusted person on set. When I would cry on camera, he was the only one who could calm me down -- when Angel broke up with Buffy [''The Prom''], I couldn't stop crying for 25 minutes!'' FEARS Ventriloquist dummies, hospitals. FANTASY DATE Spike -- though, ''When I mentioned the possibility of Spike and Buffy to Joss,'' says Gellar, ''he was like, 'No more vampires!''' GELLAR'S FAVORITE EPISODES '''Earshot' had a universal theme of how everybody feels lost -- the popular kids and the nerds. It's hard for people to imagine beautiful people having problems.'' LEAST FAVORITE ''There was a point in season 3 when Buffy lost her spunk, and it was depressing. Faith was duping her too much. Buffy's supposed to have amazing intuition and I was disappointed in her. I mentioned it to Joss, and as soon as he could arc it, Buffy stood up to Faith'' (in ''Enemies''). THE GOOD NEWS With Angel gone next season, Buffy's ''getting to be the funny one. Angel tended to bring Buffy down; now she has vibrancy and life. She's starting clean, in college, without a boyfriend. And Buffy's gonna get some!'' THE BAD NEWS Vampires attend college, too.


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