AfterElton Briefs: Military cadets for "Milk", a handsome pick for J. Edgar Hoover, and more!

Billy Crudup

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• A thousand pardons for not pointing out earlier that in Michael Mann's fancy-shmancy John Dillinger biopic, Public Enemies, J. Edgar Hoover will be played by ... Billy Crudup? Really? Well, as one writer cannily pointed out, "we have seen him cross-dress his ass off in Stage Beauty"...

• Variety was pretty impressed by Humpday, a comedy about two ultra-competitive straight friends who wind up making a porno together. As in, "together" together. (Humpday was one of the gay fest flicks we profiled over here.)

• Hold up: Did Ewan McGregor fire his publicist immediately following the I Now Pronounce You Love You Phillip Morris premiere at Sundance? And if so, why?

• Awesome: Harvey Milk (as portrayed by Sean Penn in Milk) has been nominated for the Cadet Choice Award by cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, alongside other exemplary 2008 movie heroes like Bruce Wayne, James Bond and Indiana Jones. Awesomer: There is something called The Cadet Choice Award.

• By the way, last week Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in prison for kidnaping and beating a hustler. If you can't play nice with your toys, someone will take them away.

• And as we are in no position to forget the lasting message and incredible accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King, we'd like to take a moment to wish you all the best on his day of honor.

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