AfterElton Briefs: "La Cage" Tickets On Sale, Bruce LaBruce on Karl Lagerfeld, and Gus Van Sant to Direct Twilight?

Tickets on sale now.

• Tickets for La Cage Aux Folles starring Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge went on sale today. It also features the fabulous Cagelles including hottie Nick Adams and Sean Patrick Doyle, who has a blog about being a Cagelle for the show.

• Vice sent Bruce LaBruce to Paris to interview Karl Lagerfeld, fashion legend and head of Chanel for an extensive interview that's sure to raise eyebrows. Karl is against gay marriage but for high priced escorts and is grateful for his mother's attitude.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said—and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded—“It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.” This was a very healthy attitude.

• Playwright Paul Rudnick has a hysterical Don't Ask, Don't Tell essay in The New Yorker challenging former Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak. It's shockingly timely as it discusses who has the definitive version of Mama Rose, Tyne Daly or Ethel Merman. Bette Midler isn't even mentioned.

• Apropos of nothing, other than I enjoyed it, and it won't be relevant tomorrow, I present CollegeHumor.com's The Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day.

• If you're in Los Angeles, there's a scavenger hunt April 18 benefiting the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School to disseminate information on marriage equality, sexual orientation law, and public policy. The hunt is themed around defeating a fictional ballot initiative, Prop 8A and has video clues by Neil Patrick Harris, Kristin Chenoweth, and Steven Weber.

• Bryan Batt has a long talk with The Huffington Post about Sal, Mad Men, and his life in New Orleans. He does remind us Sal isn't dead - so he could come back. And he seems to have a sense of humor about the conditions of his exit.

Sal could have prevented that by taking one for the team but I don't think Sal was ready for that. The guy was kind of creepy and drunk and it was seedy how it happened. What it boils down to is he's not going to do anything that jeopardizes his position at Sterling Cooper, but when he tried to do the right thing, he was screwed. In one way.

• Guitarist Slash is sorry for calling the opening to Michael Jackson's "Black or White" "gay" - he swears he meant "happy." That's what they all say, especially in 1922.

• Here's a fun list of Top 10 Anti-Gay Activists Caught Being Gay. It's even up to date through this week - it's so hard to keep up!

• It had been rumored, but Entertainment Weekly has confirmed with Gus Van Sant that he's been approached to direct Twilight: Breaking Dawn, meaning we'd have to hire someone here willing to watch the movies. Editor's Note: Um, over my dead werewolf body.

Maybe Gus will give us more of this?

• I had missed this positive review of The People I've Slept With from the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. From out write-director Quentin Lee and starring hottie Wilson Cruz, the "edgy youth comedy" was described as the festival's best. Now I want to see it. And go to San Francisco.

• EW has a gallery of 14 Kisses That Made You Cringe. Refreshingly, only one is guy-guy, and since it was Michael and Oscar on The Office, I admit it made me cringe too. Also of gay interest, Liza and David Gest. Most shocking? Two girl-girl kisses made the list of cringeworthy spit swaps.

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