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-ONSBoinking 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 NEWSVampires attend college, too.
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