Morning Meme: "X-Women" Goes Gay, Ben Hoffman Destroys "Mad Men," and "Modern Family's" Dads Split Up

Plus Javier Bardeem crushes on Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga is rich, and It Takes a Village moves forward.

Out writer-director-producer Bryan Singer confirmed all the casting announcements for X-Men: First Class. He also confirmed that he asked his friend Taylor Lautner about doing a young Wolverine, but they couldn’t work out the schedule.

You know that fall television season you’re so looking forward to? Might not happen thanks to a strike. But this time it’s not the writers, the actors, the directors, or anyone you’d normally think of shutting down Hollywood. It’s the transportation union, who wants a 3% raise instead of 2%.

18-year-old Charice had Botox ahead of starting filming Glee. Her people claim it was medical, for a lockjaw-like issue, but video has surfaced that make it look more extensive. Is eighteen  really the starting point for Botox in Hollywood?

I’ve run this email exchange between a school chaplain and a parent past several friends, and some think it’s bust-a-gut funny, while others think it’s just mean. But I seriously doubt the school will push a field trip to an Easter pageant again.

Hollywood just greenlit It Takes a Village, but sadly it’s not the TV version with Cheyenne Jackson. This is a movie from Keenen Ivory Wayans about a Caucasian women who goes to a South Pacific Island to adopt a baby, but the village elders come home with her until they’re satisfied that she’s giving a good home to the baby.

Lady Gaga dropped into #7 on the Forbes 2010 Music Earners list, with $62 million net from music, endorsements, and concerts. It put her above Madonna’s $58 million, but pales in comparison to U2, who netted $130 million.

Javier Bardem is no slouch in the looks department, but seeing Brad Pitt left him dumbstruck, “He is beautiful and his physicality is so amazing to see. But the beauty really comes from different places – the way he talks, the way he’s interested in what you’re saying. And that body is like – wow! It’s amazing, no? He really made me feel very, like… I don’t know, like, I could fall in love with him!”

True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten may win the prize for nutty fan request. He’s revealed a fan sent him a small glass vial with a request for sperm, because she literally wanted to have his babies. Isn’t making the babies with a hottie like Ryan the bigger part of the equation?

Damages has been saved from cancellation using the Friday Night Lights model with DirectTV. They’ll get first airings of two more 10-episode seasons of the Glenn Close show that critics love but serves as a sleep aid for me.

In the U.K., MSN made a list of the hottest TV couples, and several same-sex couples made they scrapbook, including Eastenders Syed and Christian, Oz’s Beecher and Keller, and Hollyoaks John Paul and Craig. h/t Tanwen

Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are considering roles in the same movie, My Mother’s Curse. I’ll take my cave on the mountaintop with no media now please.

Cathy In Canada brings us the disturbing news that Canada is casting Lake Shore, to be their equivalent of Jersey Shore debauchery. Can you get a show concept neutered?

There’s a Top Ten Celebrities Written Into Fanfic. It’s not necessarily slashfic on this list of guys and gals. Top of the list is werepup Taylor Lautner, and the other guys are Chace Crawford, Ian Somerhalder, Logan Lerman and Zac Efron.

Michael Bay’s production company is bringing Hansel and Gretel 3D to the big screen. Think about that and weep.

The issue with Bill Murray and interviews is that you never know when he’s joking. But he’s telling people that the reason he agreed to voice Garfield in that awful live action/CGI movie was because he thought it was by Joel Coen (of the brilliant Coen brothers), not Joel Cohen.

Sarah Palin. The English language. They. Do. Not. Mix.

In what was one of the most misleading (and terrifying headlines) I read yesterday, Modern Family’s Two Dads Split Up has to take the cake. It’s really about the two creators dissolving their production company so they can negotiate better deals separately, but they’re both staying with the show.

I really want you all to take a few moments and read A Queer Beginning over at The Good Men Project.  It’s an honest, frank search for an identity in the GLBT world, and I found it extremely well written and reasoned, even if I don’t agree with all his interim conclusions. But they’re his truths, and I like that.