Afternoon Meme: "Angels In America:The Opera" GaGa Fakes, Liam Neeson For President, plus Matt Smith's "Gay Times"

Scott Pilgrim vs. credibility, Jimmy Fallon destroys my childhood, Emmerdale's Very Special Episode, and was Jerry Seinfeld right about something?

Maybe prayers can be answered: The Hills has been canceled after the remaining 12 episodes air. Maybe now I don’t have to mumble when people ask where I work.

TLC is going to give Sarah Palin $8 million to air her 2012 campaign commercial nature show. Gays: Please start watching your cake decorating shows on another network to send a message, before she decides to hunt us from a helicopter for sweeps week.

Angels In America: The Opera sees a one night performance tomorrow. Ironically the angels in America are performing in London. Tickets are still available.

A fake Lady GaGa tooled around Melbourne with a full security detail, closing up leather shops for private excursions. Turns out it was prank by a local radio station.

Today in misplaced parenting, a campaign to have a cops-and-robbers themed playground set complete with a “jail” remodeled has succeeded in New York City. Parents felt that the playground made kids think jail was fun.

Speaking of strange news involving jails, breaking into one can get you sentenced to 15 years stuck in one. Also: breaking into a jail you were released from because you fear retribution from your victim’s family? Priceless.

I know the Flying Monkey is working on a review of Hot Tub Time Machine for tomorrow, but when a non-gay site adds a line like "But the sexual material, especially the riffs on male sexual panic, is blunt, nasty and unfunny, especially an unusually homophobic bit involving Lou and Nick in a dare gone horrendously wrong." to their review, I'm not holding out a lot of hope for a five-banana review.

On Monday, the Writers Guild of America held a forum called Flipping the Page that was meant to shine a light on the intersection of homophobia and race in Hollywood. You can read the larger piece yourself, but this quote from Paris Barclay saying '“And if being out costs him a job, Barclay said: “I don’t want to help their asses anyway.”'

Out director Lee Daniels is having no problem attracting big name talent to his historical piece Selma. Already onboard were Hugh Jackman and Lenny Kravitz, now he’s signed Liam Neeson to play President Johnson, and Cedric the Entertainer to play Ralph Abernathy.

This infographic answers an important question that I can’t find a graceful way to put forward. It’s mildly NSFW for language.

The Daily Mail has a stunning set of photos on the Soufriere Hills volcano erupting on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Forget those red lava Iceland dribbles, this is nature’s raw power as captured by a 737 in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Disney has canceled the iconic movie review program At The Movies, which hasn’t been the same since Siskel & Ebert where together. Still, considering they could produce it for the cost of a public access program, it must have really been tanking.

New York City readers: There might be an upside to having Time-Warner Cable. They’re inked a deal to enable city-wide WiFi for their customers at no additional cost. 

Diablo Cody has been tapped to write Young Adult, being described as the ‘female anti-hero stalker film’ from Mandate.

It turns out Bee Movie is sort of true. Well, not that bees quit working because they win a landmark case against humans for stealing their honey, but without bees more than 1/3 of the food supply may not happen. And bees continue dying off in huge numbers.

Happy 28th birthday to Sean Faris. I don't know if there's anything particularly gay about him, I just like looking at Sean Faris.

Maybe he played gay on Undressed?

Matt Smith becomes the first Doctor to grace the cover of a gay magazine. Probably because they want to push the fact he's naked in an episode. Or maybe because they're really trying to make sure we don't miss David Tennant.

An underwear model's body? Really? On what planet?

Reader Campion sends us this optical illusion of Albert Einstein. I had to back about six feet from the screen to see the picture change. Probably creepy for straight guys.

Marilyn?

Yesterday in unfortunate headlines

This morning, Defense Secretary Gates announced changes to the implementation of Don't Ask, Don't Tell to make it more humane. No doubt these two soldiers are grateful.

He's an action figure!

I'm really loathe to play into the hype around this new gay social network Fabulis before it launches, but once this picture crossed my desk, it became one of those things you just can't unsee. I went to the website, and it's real.

Really? Someone in marketing thought this was a good look?

It's turtle week here on the Meme. How you doing?

Brit soap Emmerdale is having a Very Special Episode today. And some involved say the storyline is groundbreaking, even though it sounds old and tired to me. I mean really, calling a self-hating gay groundbreaking in 2010?

This new featurette for Predators focuses on Royce, played by Adrain Brody. My question is this: When did Adrian Brody's body get so hot I didn't notice his nose?

Jimmy Fallon last night laid such waste to Schoolhouse Rock, I'm going to be in therapy for the rest of my life.

And we have a new trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender. And we still have not a single joke. I may have to sit this movie out, because the trailers are telling me they ruined the heart of the story in an effort to pack in more special effects and explosions.

I don't know anything about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but I do enjoy watching Michael Cera getting his butt kicked in a Mortal Combat-style. One of the girl's "seven evil exes" appears to be female, so maybe this is more of an AfterEllen.com thing?