Afternoon Meme: Tom Hanks May Again Don a Dress, "True Blood"'s Hot Werewolf, Dances With Smurfs, and We Love Tony Stark

The Nate Berkus Show gets real, Nurse Jackie's hottie husband, Jake Gyllenhaal's changeable accent, and could P Diddy be a fan of Emmerdale?

April 25^th we have the TV Land Awards hosted by Tim Allen for some unknowable reason. But they’re giving the Anniversary Award to the cross-dressing comedy Bosom Buddies, which celebrates 30 years in 2010. Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Donna Dixon, Thelma Hopkins and Holland Taylor will all be present, but we don’t know if Hanks and Scolari still have the legs to pull off a dress.

Some of you may have seen my alma mater, West Virginia University, get their butts kicked by Duke over the weekend. Locally, we’re just thrilled to have made it this far. But this story about this redneck state’s team coach hugging his fallen player is a fairly awesome commentary on masculinity, role models, and sports.

Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive photo of the hunky werewolf Alcide (Joe Mangianiello) on the set of True Blood. And of course, in classic True Blood fashion, Alan Ball says he’s already filmed him naked. Unlike what Twilight claims, werewolves transforming don’t stay dressed.

Things that amuse me vary, but few things have been as entertaining as watching clothing company North Face try and sue comedy clothing company South Butt for trademark infringement. They’ve just dropped the suit, but going back and reading the legal filings make you think South Butt’s attorney could have a future in comedy.

It’s an odd article, with a visual effects designer waxing poetic about dwarves, but in this case they’re talking about The Hobbit, and how this movie really explores that race from Tolkien’s world.

A gay man’s daytime talk show comes closer and closer to reality as Zev Shalev, former producer of the CBS Early Show, and Terry Murphy have been named executive producers of The Nate Berkus Show, coming to television screens this fall with Oprah’s blessing.

Linking to The Sun makes me feel dirty in a way that’s somehow worse than the Daily Mail, but this story that P Diddy is a fan of Emmerdale and Aaron’s coming out story in particular that reader Daniel sent in is too good an idea to not cover.

In honor of Easter and new beginnings, you should take time to read The Pact, about one man’s journey from religious hate to love.

I had worried that Freakonomics was one of those movies that would never leave the festival circuit and I’d have to wait for the DVD to come out. But my favorite nerds deconstructing reality has been picked up for domestic distribution in the fall, including one segment filmed by my old school chum Morgan Spurlock.

It amuses me to no end that someone took a picture of old man Senator John McCain proving he’s not too old to use a camera phone and posted it to Guys With iPhones. But what’s even funnier is the press forcing his staff (and perhaps McCain) to understand what Guys With iPhones is and respond to the photo ending up there.

The bidding war has begun for the syndication rights to your favorite non-gay sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, and it’s expected to be pricey – almost Seinfeld pricey, and is likely to be the biggest syndication deal negotiated until another local favorite, Modern Family, hits syndication in 2013.

Hugh Jackman just became a lot less attractive, as he and Nicole Kidman became godparents to Rupert Murdoch’s hell spawn.

I'm still looking for press photos of the Glee folks at the White House, but we have a few more Twitpics.

Yesterday, Cory Monteith ran into some odd folks at the airport mall.

Some more of "the gang" on the lawn.

I'm not sure how PETA feels about this, but I find it adorable!

I never think of these things. I have a cousin who built a custom house and has matching playrooms for her kids under a dormer. But it never occurred to me to go all The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on the entrances.

Aslan, I'm coming!

Oh, thank heavens! I was wondering.

Yes, online journalism is evolving. And no, not always for the better (hey - they let me into the club, standards can't be that high). But leave it to an infographic to explain it all.

Social media - have you "fanned" our Facebook page yet?

Yet another reason to not have kids. 

I admit I'm not watching Nurse Jackie this year. I'm pouting about MoMo, and didn't know if Jackie herself was enough to make me turn in to watch her screw her way through a drug habit. But I had entirely forgotten about something very, very important: Her husband is smokin' hot.

Over the weekend, WonderCon has been happening. A new trailer for Inception was previewed, and I still don't really understand this Christopher Nolan dreamwalker movie. I read the article that says they have "hamster wheel sets" and that they've been beating the crap out of Joseph Gordan-Levitt in the spinning sets. Does anyone care about this?

What I do care about is Iron Man 2. I don't even care about the suit. I just like Tony Stark, and think if they were smart, they'd go viral with his playboy lifestyle to promote the movie. He's just a big kid - I'm not sure what toy he's after that Pepper won't allow, but I feel for him.

And Tony knows his issues. He'll admit to narcissism, which is actually a sure sign that you suffer from it.

You know what the most fascinating thing about this 30-second TV spot for Prince of Persia is? How often Jake Gyllenhaal's accent changes. Jake, thank heavens you're adorable, because this is just bad.

This clip of the White House Easter Egg Roll still doesn't have the Glee kids in it. Does anyone else think maybe the event has gone a little commercial though? A Smurf? Seriously?