AfterElton Briefs: NPH visits the "Top Chef Masters", wedding rumors for "Housewives" and more!

Apropos of nothing, Chris "NuKirk" Pine tries desperately and unsuccessfully to look attractive at the Star Trek preem in Australia. (Photo: GETTY)

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.

• Neil Patrick Harris and Ellen talk about how they crank called Mehki Pfifer during a telethon. Much funnier than it probably should be.

• Increasingly ubiquitous out superstar Neil Patrick Harris (see above) will be a guest judge on the first episode of Top Chef Masters, a new Bravo reality show about people who cook things that I would never eat and then burp it safely in Glad storage containers.
  
  
• NBC's Kings is in trouble as it is moved to Saturday nights.
  

• Michael Ausiello says that there are two weddings coming on Desperate Housewives and hints that one of them might be of the gay-type variety (Andrew and his post-pornstar beau?).

Toxic Avenger: The Musical

• I have no idea if there's anything gay about The Toxic Avenger: The Musical (now running Off-Broadway) but it's got guys in sparkly dresses singing like the Supremes and it's about the fricking Toxic Avenger, which is enough for me.

• File under What, Me Ironic?: Tom Cruise and John Travolta reportedly looking to remake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a movie about two straight guys who secretly love each other and end up voluntarily sacrificing their own lives in exchange for fame.

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