Paps’ Love for Brit Inspires "Safety Zone" Law

Britney Spears has unintentionally done Lindsay Lohan, and perhaps countless others, a good turn.

With the recent paparazzi scrum around Spears making the days when overeager shutterbugs were bumping into Lohan’s car seem almost quaint by comparison, a Los Angeles City Councilman has proposed a “personal safety zone” law that would make it harder for the media to close in quite so easily.

Councilman Dennis Zine, a former cop, introduced the motion Friday.

‘Love and Other Dilemmas’: Rom-com disaster

Contractual obligation or Corner Gas?

It has to be one of these reasons why the painfully lame Canadian wedding comedy Love and Other Dilemmas is getting a theatrical release today, rather than heading straight to DVD – or landfill.

On second thought, it’s likely a combination of both reasons. It’s not unusual for a bad Canuck film funded by taxpayers’ dough to be dumped on an unsuspecting moviegoing populace in the dead of winter.