The Emmys sort of sucked all of the other (minor) news and photos out of the water for several days, so I’m trying to get back to normal. These are photos of Jake Gyllenhaal and his girlfriend Alyssa Miller in Tribeca over the weekend. Jake and Alyssa have been together for months now – I’m thinking it’s probably been about five months, maybe? They got “serious” pretty quickly, and one of their first public outings was with Jake’s mom. Because Jake is That Guy Who Introduces His Girlfriends To His Family On The Second Date.

So, is this true love? Has Jake finally found the underwear model who will be the mother of his babies? I don’t know. If I had to put money on it, I would say they’ll probably break up in the next six months, but you can never really tell with Jake. In last week’s Us Weekly (print edition), there was a longish story about Jake and Alyssa’s true love and how they are the “real deal” and all of that. Some highlights:

Since meeting Alyssa Miller, 24, at a Manhattan gym this spring, Jake has been “smitten,” says a source. In fact, Jake has told friends his serial-dating days are over.

Jake “is different with her than he’s been with other girls,” says another pal. “He wants to see where this goes. They’re very serious.”

After Jake spotted Alyssa, “he knew he wanted to be with her,” says the pal. Initially, his advances fell flat – she had a live-in boyfriend – but Gyllenhaal proved hard to resist. When Miller split with her man, she and Jake started dating “immediately,” says a pal.

And quite seriously. Gyllenhaal wooed her with home-cooked meals and within weeks, Alyssa was “head over heels.” Jake also introduced her to his friends AND to screenwriter mom Naomi Foner. Says the pal, “That was a big step.”

Now he’s showing her off to the world. After a taping of Inside the Actors Studio, Miller leaped from the audience to greet her guy and “he looked at her like she was the only person in the room.” And at a September 8 bash for his movie Enemy at TIFF, Gyllenhaal was seen nibbling a piece of raw seafood off her bottom lip.

Says the pal, “He’s in love like I’ve never seen him before.”

[From Us Weekly, print edition]

Maybe this shows my cynicism or my strong gag reflex, but this story made me a little bit sick. You know who tries this hard? Tom Cruise. Seriously. If and when Tom Cruise begins auditions for his new wife, we’re going to be reading stories just like this. In fact, Alyssa is probably a contender for Tom Cruise’s next wife. But if you believe that Jake and Alyssa are all hearts and flower-bombs, then God bless. Maybe it IS true and the rest of us are just terrible cynics.

PS… How many different leather colors can this girl put into one outfit? Black leather boots, brown leather jacket, white leather purse. TOO MUCH LEATHER.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.