How do stars know which events are compulsory? Like, how do they hear about an "Evening of Cocktails and Shopping to Benefit the Children's Defense Fund" and know everyone will be there, looking fabulous? Maybe there's some secret cabal of mind-melding managers...

You've seen the Source Code poster, in which Jake Gyllenhaal has to strike all kinds of uncomfy action poses. Luckily, the premiere was more restrained. Some of it, anyway.

The world premiere of Iron Man 2, at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre, was so chock-a-block with strange shoes and sexyface and shiny, unhappy dresses and short-shorts that we're as exhausted as if we'd been clomping around in an iron suit.

The Calvin Klein Collection & Los Angeles Nomadic Division 1st Annual Celebration For L.A. Arts Monthly and Art Los Angeles Contemporary - yes that's the name - was star-studded and typically understated...except when it wasn't. Like when Jared Leto appeared.

It's going to be okay. After the train-wreck that was the Golden Globes, the stars all showed, chastened and sheepish and back in form for Saturday's SAGs. Christina, Marion, Penelope...it's so nice to have you back!

• Lindsay Lohan, finally addressing her disastrously received first Ungaro collection, says, "I am learning." But she will be back in Paris for the next show! "It's already in January. I thought it was in March." January? January means couture.

The Cinema Society & Hugo Boss screening of Inglourious Basterds in NYC was star-studded, full of win, and had a gratifying dollop of awful. In short, it's a good one, kids. And supersized!

• The good news: Runway is safe. The bad news: yup, it's on Lifetime. [AdAge]
• Britney Spears cuts a revealing figure in her new Candie's ad. Candie's: the last refuge of a scoundrel. [NYDN]