AfterElton Briefs: Wall-to-Wall Adam Lambert, Lady GaGa, Alan Cumming and more

Mariah Carey wins for Precious

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

• Above, you can see a decidely de-glammed Mariah Carey, who's going to be honored with the "Breakthrough Performance Award" at the Palm Springs Film Festival for her role in out director Lee Daniel's Precious.

• There's a mountain of Adam Lambert news, so I'm going to try and condense it:

• ABC is claiming 1500 complaints about Adam's performance. Compare that to 500,000 for Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. Most even-handed reporting on the subject? The BBC wins by a mile.

• Despite characterizing the complaints as"moderate" ABC has chosen to cancel Adam's Good Morning America performance on Wednesday morning.

Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning.

• But his trip to New York City is hardly wasted, as the old people's network snapped him up to perform on the Early Show. No, CBS, GLAAD isn't going to credit you a gay on their annual report for this. Sorry.

• Adam called into to Ryan Seacrest's radio show to talk about the whole thing, and sees it as a "mountain out of a mole hill." But Seacrest had the best line of the interview, trying to describe the performance, "Some guy snorkeled in your crotch."

• The Associated Press had a reporter in the Nokia Theater for rehearsals, and seems to paint a story that the "snokeling" was in the rehearsal, but maybe got a bit more enthusiastic live, which fits with how I saw it watching the show. The shot was set, it was only by the 4th thrust that they cut away.

• Adam also just released the official video for "For Your Entertainment" and yes, it's full of sexy people in an underground club, but compared to his AMA performance, it's downright tame.

• If MTV is the mothership, VH1 must be that crazy aunt who's so much fun after a few glasses of wine, because they're having a contest to win tickets to see Lady GaGa in concert in New York City, complete with airfare.

• The crazies at the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), have decided to protest at the Philadelphia concert of pop-punk band All Time Low. In honor of that, enjoy All Time Low on MTV Unplugged, and if you're so inclined, buy their music out of spite to WBC. Maybe one of their heads will explode!

How do you know how far gone a society is? You look at their social icons. When you look at these gender-confused, haphazard freakazoids then you can plainly see that america is DOOMED, for real!

• Randy Harrison, of Queer as Folk fame, is starring in a musical called Pop! based loosely on an incident from the life of Andy Warhol. The show opens Friday night in New Haven, Connecticut, but you can view some pictures from the dress rehearsals over at the show's page, where you can see Randy still looks like the hot jail bait he was on QaF.

• Lady GaGa was on Jay Leno last night, and the interview ranged from her upcoming royal performace to the least favorite rumor about her. It's not what you think.

• Oh, and she also performed "Bad Romance" on the show as well, proving an alternative sexuality performance artist can be trusted on television.

• The trailer for Family Guy: Something, Something Something Dark Side, their Empire Strikes Back parody is out, and the only thing gay-ish in it is a stormtrooper wear a mesh shirt. Let's hope it stays that way.

• It's nearly time for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is the only day it's acceptable for adults to eat sugary cereal in their pajamas, watching TV until noon (unless you're an AfterElton.com blogger, we call that "Tuesday"). But tomorrow, if you're in New York City, you can go watch them inflate the balloons. New this year are Ronald McDonald, Pillsbury Doughboy, Spiderman, and Sailor Mickey.

• I have a birthday this week, which means I'm way too old for Muppets, but I don't care as long as Muppets are this fabulous. Brand new clip of the entire cast doing "Bohemian Rhapsody," originally sung by the late, great, gay Freddie Mercury. Via Chris Hardwick, known for his stints on Chelsea Lately, Attack of the Show, and voicing Otis the Cow in Back to the Barnyard.

Animal has always been my hero. Kermit who?

• Via the syndicated advice column "Ask Amy" we have a gay best man backing out of a straight wedding because he can't get married. While this has been a popular protest model for celebrities, Amy has a decent point in the other direction.

• Alan Cumming received his Order of the British Empire from Her Madgesty, the Queen. A quick check of Wikipedia says that it doesn't mean you have to call him "Sir" - unless you're into that sort of thing.

• I hate to say it, but based upon the Wall Street Journal interview of Tom Ford about A Single Man, I frankly don't care if the film itself is poetry writ large, and gayer than Glambert's AMA performance - Tom Ford is ticking me off enough to boycott.

I wasn’t trying to make Terminator 12. But this is not a gay film. I don’t even think about that. There are so many gay characters on TV that it’s almost become a cliché.

• Window Media's collapse was the result of a huge debt load that resulted largely from a decision that everyone hailed as brilliant at the time, says Matt Hennie, who ought to know, since he was there.

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