AfterElton Briefs: "Glee" Overload, Rufus Is Outrageous, "Kick-Ass" Goes for Cheap Joke, and "Showgirls" for Little Girls?

Lady Gaga vs. KISS, wimping out Chris Evans, Carrie's shoes are in E!'s closet, and how did we get dragged into Jesse James' mess?

Chris Colfer's face says...

• Playbill talked to everyone on Broadway that's ever seen a commercial for Glee, and most couldn't help but gush about the show, and express their desire for a guest spot. But my favorite had to be Harvey Fierstein, who can't help but remind us he's from a different era:

When the black girl had the crush on the fairy — 'Bust Your Windows '— I really enjoyed that. I thought [Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes] did a great job with that song.

• Catching up with Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet is fun, as he takes us from his track and field days to him moving to Los Angeles. But what I don't remember is ever seeing him on Malcolm In the Middle or the other guest spots he did on shows like NCIS or the Mentalist where he played a murderer and a rapist. When asked how his family felt about him playing gay, he said, "My mom was more upset that I killed three people on TV last year!"

• How do you gay up the financial crisis? How about write a showtune about it for NPR? That's how you get "Bet Against the American Dream."

• Rufus Wainwright is prone to saying outrageous things, and his Details interview is no exception. He says women don't try to convert him to the straight side often since he got his boyfriend, but when he was younger it came up a lot.

There's one where a high-end, Fifth Avenue society woman started hitting on me. She was in her thirties, and I was, like, 20. She got really trashed and said, "You know, girls like it up the wazoo, too!"

• h/t to reader MD alerts us to cheap gay jokes in Kick-Ass, which surprises me for some reason. I saw a clip where Kick-Ass tells the girl of his dreams that he's not gay, and it was handled well. What I didn't know was he did it because his friend has said "She likes lame ducks… She thinks you’re gay!"

• Matthew Morrison and Cyndi Lauper were both on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today. The Matthew Morrison clip is available, because Cyndi's hair was too big to fit on the Internet. Ellen gave Matthew underwear after showing pictures of him at Broadway Bares.

• Elizabeth Berkley, best known for Saved By the Bell and Showgirls, has authored a self-help book for girls.

• In still more Glee news, we find that in the Lady Gaga episode, not only were the costumes made by Lady Gaga's costumer, but that Kurt chooses to go with the girls to perform Lady Gaga while the boys go do KISS. And here's the original Glee Drinking Game. And here's the season summarized in one minute.

• TBS may have signed Conan, but they lost Carrie. Comcast bought the basic cable rights to Sex and the City for E! and Style, wrenching them away from the Superstation's grasp.

• It's not a scandal until you drag the gays into it. Emails have popped up purporting to show Jesse James used homophobic slurs with former employees.

• Massachusettes is easily the gayest state in the country. You can get gay married, have Barney Frank represent you, visit P-Town and now they've got an app for that. The state has released an official gay tourism iPhone app.

• I forgot that Captain America is supposed to be an origin story, which means that somehow, Chris Evans has to portray the 98-pound-weakling Steve Rogers before he can become hunky Captain America. I'm not sure how you can make Chris Evans scrawny.

• In semi-related news, Deadline.com is reporting that Joss Whedon is in final negotiations to direct Marvel's The Avengers, which should be ... odd.

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