Jake Gyllenhaal took some time out of his bizzy paparazzi kicking schedule to attend the Santa Barbara International Film Festival last night to appear at the Director in Residence presentation to director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven). Here are a few photos of Jakey poo on the red carpet last night:

While I have to admit that watching the video footage of Jake kicking a photographer really made him look extremely unattractive to me (irregardless of whether or not one agrees with what he did, I personally was not impressed), it is a big relief to see him smiling on the red carpet again. Jake has been out of the spotlight for so long … and his relationship (whatever the hell it may be) with Reese Witherspoon has, in my estimation, changed him. It pains me that it is becoming more normal to see Jake lookin’ pissy rather than happy. Blame it on the paparazzi, blame it on Reese, blame it on the rain … the result is the same. I just hope that in the coming promo tour for his new movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time the Jake Gyllenhaal that we all know and love will come back to us. I’m looking forward to having the image of Jake kicking another human being erased from my mind.

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Earlier this week we saw photos of Josh Duhamel jetting off and away from his new bride Fergie Ferg mere moments after the couple returned from their honeymoon overseas. While I thought it was interesting (telling?) that he could be torn away from his wife so soon after marrying her, I suppose my interest was not a big deal after all. The couple have already been reunited here in SoCal and were seen enjoying a little hike together yesterday:

Now, I love me some Joshie … but is the ‘do rag really necessary? I mean, really? Unless that thing on his head was a wedding gift from Eminem, I don’t think he really needs to wear such a thing … ever. Fergie, bless her heart, is lookin’ a right mess. While I don’t necessarily think she needs to put on her face just to do a work-out, the least she could do is keep in mind that the folks she might run into in public could use a little consideration. At least the happy newlyweds are together again … and they sure do look happy, don’t they?!

[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin]

Praise the Heavens above … Britney Spears has finally taken a positive step forward in her rehabilitation to sanity that has been long overdue. A legal team, on behalf of Britney and Jamie Spears (as her conservator) filed suit against Osama Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib (in my opinion, lecherous and unsavory men who did everything they could to exploit Britney Spears when she was at her weakest for their own personal gain) asking the court that they be barred from getting near her … fearing that these men might do her harm, Britney’s legal team is hoping that the men might be locked up in jail, never to be seen or heard from again:

[TMZ has] learned [that] Britney Spears conservators have just obtained a restraining order against Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib. Britney’s lawyers went to court this morning to obtain the injunction. A source close to the conservatorship tells TMZ Britney asked her conservators to “protect her from Sam and Adnan.” We’ve also learned Britney told her conservators she was afraid of them both and hoped they could be locked up in jail. A source tells TMZ the conservators believe Lutfi and Ghalib conspired to try and undermine Britney’s conservatorship in a way that would have been extremely harmful to her. We’re also told attorney Jon Eardley — the dude Lutfi used early last year to mount a bizarre, baseless attack on the conservatorship — was allegedly also in on the conspiracy and the TRO is against him as well.

From the sounds of it, it appears that Lutfi, Ghalib and this Eardley fellow have joined forces to try and usurp Papa Jamie Spears’s conservatorship over Britney in an effort to gain control of her themselves. It would seem to me that their alleged attempts to get Britney free from her father’s guidance is an elaborate ploy to get her away from his watchful eye long enough for them to try and swoop in and exert their own control over her. If true, these men truly sicken me. Thankfully, Papa Spears and his legal team took the offensive to try and keep this travesty from happening. After the jump, check out some of the legal paperwork that was filed in court yesterday against Lutfi and Ghalib …

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