Sandra Bullock gives Jesse James a Second Chance

It's been no secret that Jesse James has been working overtime to win
back ex-wife Sandra Bullock, and now sources tell me all his efforts
have -- woh! -- actually paid off.

"Sandra has made it clear that Jesse is the love of her life," a
friend of the actress tells me. "She's not the sort of lady that just
stops loving someone, no matter what he did behind her back. Sandra
misses him and their life together every single day. You have to
remember Sandra raised Sunny [Jesse's 6-year-old daughter] as her own
for the past five years. Packing her school lunches, brushing her
hair, reading her bedtime stories. Sandra even took care of Sunny
while Jesse was getting help in rehab."
Sandra and Jesse have been in constant contact since the day in March
that Sandra left, however, sources tell me that recently their
conversations have been less and less about the children and more
about the two of them and everyday stuff.

"Jesse has made her smile again. She can finally have a normal
conversation with him again without focusing on the pain and anger," a
friend of Sandra's tells me. "She really is the most amazing person
you will ever meet. Her heart is big and open; holding onto anger
makes you bitter and twisted and that's not and never will be who she
is."

FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Sandra Bullock and Jesse
James arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif.
Sandra Bullock won the best actress award for her role in "The Blind
Side." (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James Pics

In this publicity image released by ABC, correspondent Vicky Mabrey,
left, is shown with Jesse James, husband of actress Sandra Bullock
during an interview for "Nightline," on Wednesday May 12, 2010 in Long
Beach, Calif. The interview will air on Tuesday, May 25, at 11:35 p.m.
EST on ABC. (AP Photo/ABC, Patrick Wymore)

Sandra's friend says Jesse has been charming the actress with stories
of mundane tasks he's been undertaking at his new home in Austin,
which happens to be just 16 miles from her Texas digs.

"She thinks its hilarious listening to him talking about what towels
he needs to buy or that Sunny wants to paint the entire house pink!
She would always be in charge of looking after the home in the past
and knows interior decorating and Jesse is not a good fit."

In her first interview after the split, Sandra made it clear how
important Jesse's children were to her, saying, "I don't want to know
what life is like without those kids." And now that the court has
approved Jesse's petition to let him take Sunny away from her
biological mother, Janine Lindemulder, Sandra wont have to.

Jesse and Sunny, as well as his other children, Chandler, 15, and
Jesse Jr., 12, will all relocate to Austin, just minutes away from the
place Sandra calls home. And with Jesse's new workplace, a motorcycle
shop just steps away from Walton's Fancy & Staple, a deli and grocery
that Sandra owns, they will be seeing even more of each other.

However, its not just the children that have brought the couple back
together. Famed M.D. Keith Ablow explains, "Infidelity is almost never
a reason why educated, introspective and forgiving people stay
separated or divorced. If other facets of the relationship are present
-- including commitment to one's children and an overriding sense that
life is more meaningful together than apart -- then marriages can not
only survive infidelity, but end up stronger, despite it."

Jesse ex-wife agrees, telling this week's issue of Life & Style
magazine, "They want to exclude me. He will do anything to get back in
her good graces."

And whatever he's doing seems to be working.

LINDSAY LOHAN FACES PARIS HILTON TREATMENT IN JAIL

Inside a nondescript two-story building next to a busy freeway in an industrial neighborhood far removed from Hollywood is where Lindsay Lohan will likely spend several weeks as part of her punishment for violating her DUI probation.

Lohan is slated to begin her sentence Tuesday at the bleak, 16-year-old Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., just south of downtown Los Angeles. The actress would be housed in the 2,200-bed facility's special needs unit, where she would live in isolation for her own safety.

Thanks to jail overcrowding and a state program that credits inmates for good behavior, nonviolent female misdemeanor offenders such as Lohan typically serve only about 25 percent of their sentences, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore.

That means Lohan's 90-day sentence could be reduced to about three weeks and she could be out of jail in time for the premiere of "Machete," the action-thriller opening Sept. 3 that stars Lohan as a nun.

It won't be Lohan's first time inside the lockup, which has served as Los Angeles County's only all-female jail since 2006. The actress spent about 84 minutes there in 2007 for a drunken driving offense, reduced from her already trimmed daylong sentence because of the overpopulation issue. She was searched, fingerprinted and placed in a holding cell but allowed to keep wearing her street clothes.

This time, with a much longer sentence, the 24-year-old "Mean Girls" and "Georgia Rule" star will most certainly have to trade her sparkly Pamella Roland jumpsuit — or whatever ensemble she decides to wear going in — for a jail-issued orange one. Lohan will also be asked to arrive empty-handed and must surrender any jewelry.
Besides the jumpsuit, Lohan will also be given a set of simple toiletries that all inmates receive: toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, comb, deodorant, shampoo and shaving implements. Paris Hilton received one for her own secluded 23-day stay in 2007 for reckless driving charges, according to Whitmore.

Like other inmates in the special-needs area, Lohan will be served her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-foot-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day. With only a public pay phone at her disposal, the frequent micro-blogger will likely be silent on Twitter during her incarceration. Cell phones and computers aren't allowed inside.
Alexis Neiers, the reality TV starlet from E!'s "Pretty Wild," is currently serving a six-month sentence in
Lynwood after being implicated in a break-in at Orlando Bloom's home. Neiers' mother, Andrea Arlington, has criticized the jail's conditions on Twitter, suggesting the water made her daughter sick and that Neiers wasn't receiving items ordered from the commissary.

Neiers' lawyer, Jeffrey Rubenstein, said the 19-year-old aspiring model had a difficult time at first adjusting to her solitary life, from eating "really bad food" like noodles and apples to being woken up throughout the night. Rubenstein, who visited Neiers last Tuesday, said the folks inside the facility are buzzing about the potential arrival of Lohan.
Other celebs who have been housed at the jail include Daryl Hannah, who spent a few hours there in 2006 after being picked up for trespassing during a tree-sitting demonstration. Nicole Richie and Khloe Kardashian both spent less than a day there in 2007 and 2008 for their respective drunken driving charges.

Michelle Rodriguez has served time in Lynwood twice. The "Lost" actress showed up in 2006 to complete a 60-day sentence for violating her probation following a drunken driving arrest but was released after a few hours because the jail was overcrowded. She returned in 2007 for a 180-day sentence after another probation violation. She erved 18 days.

For more comfortable accommodations, Lohan could petition the court to "pay to stay" in one of about a dozen smaller jails, such as those located in nearby Beverly Hills, Burbank or Glendale, home of the 5-year-old jail where a judge allowed Kiefer Sutherland to serve 48 days in 2007 and 2008 for his drunken driving charge because of county jail overcrowding.

But there would be trade-offs: If approved by her sentencing judge, Lohan's stay at one of these suburban jails could cost her between $75 and $120 a day. And she would probably serve more of her 90-day sentence at these facilities because they aren't as overcrowded as Lynwood.