Looks like the sudden-increase in shutterbugs due to America’s obsession with celebrity culture has finally crossed a line in the eyes of California lawmakers, who plan to meet to discuss new ordinances to keep everyone safe and avoid a mass-exodus of entertainers from the LA area.

AP reports:

Officials from celeb enclaves in and around Los Angeles such as Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Malibu and Calabasas are convening Thursday for the first time to discuss ways to combat shutterbugs, whose tactics have grown more aggressive and confrontational in the past few years.

Their goal is for each city to adopt its own ordinances to punish aggressive paparazzi, while keeping the rules uniform in the places where celebrities live, work and play.

“This is a response to their lack of responsible behavior,” said Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine, an outspoken paparazzi critic and organizer of the task force.

Zine proposed a “personal safety zone” around celebs earlier this year that police officials said would be virtually unenforceable. He’s also floated the idea of legitimizing the paparazzi - who are freelancers by definition - by giving them credentials, and in turn, clear rules.

This meeting comes after Halle Berry announced she was pursuing criminal charges against photogs who snuck into her backyard to get shots of her with her 4-month-old. Also, the bodyguards protecting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins-from-heaven got in a tussle with some paps dressed in full on camouflage.

A fight broke out between X17 paps and surfers in June that could have lead to arrests, except neither group has submitted unedited footage to police that could result in punishment.

Some pap groups, like JFX Direct are in support of licensing photographers and issuing them guidelines, so if altercations occur and laws are broken, the cops can sort out the “professionals” from the hacks trying to score big on one shot.

The B&U always tries to obtain shots from legit organizations, because the last thing we need is Britney, Lindsay or Miley getting caught in a Princess Diana situation.

You can read more about the summit HERE.

This weekend, Amy Winehouse collapsed and was hospitalized, which we neglected to tell you because it was Comic Con Weekend and because Amy Winehouse goes to the hospital like twice a month. She was hospitalized, kept overnight for observation, the quietly released through the back entrance and allowed to return to her Camden home.

No one is really sure what caused the collapse. A hospital employee said something about “medication” and there is a rumor that Amy’s dad Mitch thinks her drink was spiked with ecstacy.

What we do know is that Amy got a blood delivery this morning.

Who knows if this is related or not, it’s just really weird and minorly disconcerting.

Our new theory is that Amy collapsed because her body was dying and the only way the UK could keep their most-popular junkie alive was to turn her into a vampire.

What’s that? Crack addiction getting boring? WINEHOUSE WILL NOT BE SWEPT ASIDE!

Amy was in some sort of bizarre new form at this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival in…um… Glastonbury. It’s a weird new mix of high-horse pissed-offness, which would make sense for any best-selling artist who DOESN’T have a very public addiction to crack and budding emphysema.

First, she bitch-talked Kanye West by singing in one of her songs “At least I’m not opening for a cunt like Kanye,” then she punched a fan during a “Rehab” crowd mingle, then right before Jay-Z came onstage to close out the festival she once again took a swipe at the college dropout, telling the crowd to “be grateful they weren’t getting Kanye West as he is a cunt.”

And, Kanye didn’t take our advice to stop blogging, apparently:

We have sweet, sweet video below the cut of Amy’s improv Kanye/cut verse and her smacking a fan for god knows what reason. She just wants to keep us riveted, we guess…

Mitch Winehouse, the father of perpetual drug bucket that is actually making Pete Doherty look like the “male Amy Winehouse,” has announced that his daughter is suffering from the early stages of emphysema. She does not HAVE Emphysema, but if she doesn’t stop smoking and hitting the crack rock, she’s gonna die.

Yes, we have finally got to that point, where doctors are point-blank telling Amy Winehouse that “this is it.” Not “you really shouldn’t,” but “you really can’t if you ever want to see 45.”

“With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up,” Mitch Winehouse tells Britain’s Sunday Mirror. “There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 percent lung capacity.”

But have no fear! She knows now (because all the run-ins with the law and leaked videos of her doing crack and heroin weren’t wake-up-calls enough): “She’s smothered in nicotine patches. She’s responding brilliantly to treatment. She’s actually flourishing,” says Dad.

Um…flourishing? Let’s just hope she lives long enough to jones her way through Crackmas.

Yeah, it’s another week, that means Amy Winehouse is up to something stupid again. It has gotten to the point that if we were ever in the same room with Wino, we’d have to pinch ourselves and try to touch her. She might evaporate before we ever made contact, she’s just too much of a trainwreck to be real.

Says Amy’s rep, who is probably as sick of making these statements as we are of reading them:

“Amy was at home [Monday] afternoon when she briefly fainted. Fortunately, her manager’s assistant was there to stop her falling.”
“She quickly recovered and her father Mitch took her to hospital as a precaution. Doctors are unsure of the cause of the incident and Amy is currently undergoing tests.”
The 24-year-old Grammy winner “may be kept in [the hospital] overnight for observation,” the rep added.

Unsure of the causes, huh?

We have a few guesses, and our upbringing reminds us that the first one rhymes with whack

Bad news for Amy Winehouse and her estate. Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, plead guilty in the UK and is facing jail time. This would be a good time to remind our readers that Amy and Blake were sooooooooo “in love” when they were married, Amy just up and forgot the pre-nup.
The full story, from the Associate Press, inside…

It’s been awhile since we swung by the old Winehouse abode to see what’s going on…