We're so glad trouble doesn't last always.

It might come for a season, and those seasons can be so very long and so very painful. But, in time, the pain subsides. It doesn't leave, it just makes room for other things.

The sun comes out and we even smile again when we thought we never would.

We don't know how long this season will last, but we know it won't be forever.

And now on with this edition of the GBB.

	Mark Humphrey, Associated Press Carrie Underwood performs the song "Before He Cheats" at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville. Click photo for larger image.

"American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood just cleaned up at the CMT Music Awards Monday night.

Her video "Before He Cheats" won video of the year, female video and best video director.

Go ahead, girl.

We heard that song a couple of times but didn't know it was her singing it.

It's about her jacking up her boyfriend's car when she finds out he's cheating.

Kenny Chesney won male video for "You Save Me" and Rascal Flatts got the group video for "What Hurts the Most."

CMT also honored our man, Kris Kristofferson, with the Johnny Cash Visionary Award.

You know Kris wrote classics "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night."

The man is 70 now, but we remember him when he was a sexy beast in films like "A Star Is Born" with Barbra Streisand.

Apparently, Richard Gere should have kept his lips to himself.

Some folks in India are mad as hornets after Mr. Gere took Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in his arms and kissed her on the cheek. Both actors were attending an HIV/AIDS awareness event in New Delhi, reports MSNBC.com

Monday, a Hindu group beat and burned Richard in effigy and set fire to photos of Shilpa.

"I understand this is his culture, not ours," she said about the kiss. "But this was not such a big thing or so obscene for people to overreact in such manner."

Joey Fatone's ample backside may be troublesome for the judges of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," but the former boy bander extolled the qualities of his derriere to People.

"It's big. It's a little juicy. There's nothing wrong with it," he said.

Hey, that's what we say, too.

Ain't nothing wrong with a little junk in the trunk.

Regis Philbin is set to be back by co-host Kelly Ripa's side next Monday on "Live With Regis and Kelly."

Reege, 75, has been home recovering after undergoing a triple heart bypass about six weeks ago.

But you know nothing can keep Regis down.

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas says it's time to face the mess the world is in, and one of the ways to do that is for the United States to apologize for slavery.

You know he played a slave who leads a rebellion against oppression in "Spartacus."

In a statement on his MySpace page for his new book, "Let's Face It," the 90-year-old actor says, "What causes suicide bombers, corruption in our top business officials, inefficient bureaucrats that can't deal with Katrina, deficits, schools, border patrols?

"Lots of problems. I don't have any easy solutions to offer, but I can suggest the goal that we must strive to reach -- a strong nation filled with caring citizens. Let's not try to spread democracy by military might, but by a good example. Let's start by apologizing for slavery.

"Recently, the Jews celebrated the holiday, Passover. That commemorates the time when we were slaves in Egypt -- over 3,000 years ago. It was a much shorter time ago that human beings were wrenched from their families, their lands, put into the hold of a ship and carried to a far off country to become slaves.

"Thousands of young Americans were killed in a war to end slavery, but did the Civil War end it? Cruelty and discrimination existed long after the war. The examples are too numerous to mention. It is less now, but it still exists."

Disney is holding a star-studded, swashbuckling premiere for "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" that's sure to shiver your timbers.

See, they are trying to raise $3 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, so for the first time they're inviting the public to attend the May 19 premiere at Disneyland in Anaheim.

Everybody's supposed to be there -- Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightly and third-installment co-star Chow Yun-Fat.

Tickets are $1,500 and available at www.piratespremiere.com.

Wonder if we can put them on layaway?