AfterElton Briefs: The Gossip, Kristin Chenoweth, German Power Couples, and Adam Lambert Tops the Charts

Adam Lambert tops The Beatles.

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.

• Above you can see that Adam Lambert's debut album has jumped to #2 on Amazon.com - quite a feat, since it doesn't release until November 24th, and the record label hadn't announced pre-order. According to the New York Post, it's entirely driven by word-of-mouth.

• Harkening back to yesterday's Barbra-themed Briefs, Mattel announces a Barbra Barbie.

• Check out this clip of Kristin Chenoweth rehearsing for tomorrow night's episode of Glee. 

• In a truly astounding statement of "I'm rubber, you're glue" regarding sex-scandal abuse within the priesthood, the Catholic church says other churches should clean their our problems up before pointing fingers at Catholics, where only 1.5-5% of their priests are molesting children. Only.

• To cleanse the indignation from your eyeballs, we offer The Gossip's special gay promo for their new album "Music for Men"

• Rufus Wainwright is back in New York City after months in Europe and his summer in the Hamptons, and is back to being, well, Rufus. Plus he's doing some great charity work for the Ali Forney Center for homeless gay youth.

• Urlesque has published their definitive list of the weirdest album covers of all time. For our younger readers, album covers were used in the olden days, before CDs and iPods.

No one explained how the left was as weird as the right.

• The 2014 Gay Games are going to be held in Cleveland, OH. I should start training in ...1984.

• The 2008-2009 season may have been the year of the vampire, but based on this New Moon poster, I predict big things for werewolves in 2009-2010.

• Speaking of werewolves, Alan Ball is not only casting for the vampire King of Mississippi's trophy husband, he's also casting for Alcide, the imposing, sexy werewolf from the third book that sweeps Sookie off her feet. Fantasy casting ideas for Mr. Ball?

• Our German readers just had an election, and while Chancellor Angela Merkel keeps her job, the big news is that she's going to likely have an openly gay Foreign Minister. Did I mention I totally have a crush on his hottie husband?

Michael Mronz and big wig government husband

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