Afternoon Meme: A New James Bond, Nick and Cheyenne Sittin' In a Tree, and Bebe Is a Babe Not a Diva

Plus, Kellan Lutz shirtless in bed, Lin Yu Chung's full performance, another edition of Gaywatch, and Archie Comics' gay character in color.

The news about MGM’s cash woes keeps getting worse. We heard that Bond 23 was shelved indefinitely, and now comes a rumor that a recast is likely. Top odds with London bookies is Sam Worthington at five to two, followed by Christian Bale. Frankly I don’t think either can fill out Daniel Craig’s swimsuit.

If it will bring me a beer, then yes, this is the droid I am looking for.

Here's a quick and dirty interview with Nick Adams, who reveals his Broadway crush is the hunky Cheyenne Jackson. Now that would be a power couple. Also, we’re aware that Regis Philbin spent some time with Nick getting done up as a Cagelle, but Regis didn’t mention when it would air.

It seems that what people are talking about most from Idol Gives Back is the “HIV Positive” t-shirt that Annie Lennox was wearing. People panicked. People are stupid, since she’s been wearing that as part of her “Sing” campaign for years.

A man was surfing in Hawaii when his board tipped him backwards and he found himself on the back of a tiger shark like some sort of Sea World show. He calmly unhooked his board leash, slid off the shark, swam back to his board and surfed for another 45 minutes. I’m guessing the Matthew McConaughey school of surfing may have been involved.

Newsweek points out that when the United States reworks their paper currency to make them tougher to copy, it also reworks the presidents on them, who get younger with each iteration. Soon we won’t be featuring the founding fathers so much as the founding adolescents.

Before they disappear you can watch the Top Ten Hitler Parodies of All Time.

Well, this is a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan. A Pennsylvania state house rep accused her opponent of being secretly straight as a way to help win the election.

Mireille Enos, recently of the HBO smash Big Love playing twin sisters Kathy and Jodean Marquart, has been cast as the lead in AMC’s new crime drama The Killing. She's a lot prettier once you get her out of that Juniper Creek drag.

It turns out that if you’re experiencing “upward physical movement” during a task, you’ll have fond memories of that task. Possible punchlines include: 1) Excuse me while I order a bouncy house to write all future Memes from; 2) All dentist offices are require to include a “random” setting on those fancy power chairs they put you in; 3) CENSORED.

Hulu is looking to start a subscription plan for $9.95/month for access to older episodes. They plan on keeping clips and five recent episodes available for free. I may be in the minority, but I think I could skip the subscription. I don’t have time to watch all the my new episodes of the TV shows I follow, so there's no way I'm going back to look at the old ones.

Bebe Neuwirth tries to dispel rumors that she’s a diva on the set of The Addams Family. Poor woman is in a horrible spot, because there’s nothing that screams diva like screaming that you’re not a diva.

Three words: Bacon Peanut Brittles.

Oscilloscope has picked up James Franco's Howl for distribution and set September 24th as the release date. Video On Demand will follow shortly after.

This is someone who has entirely too much time on their hands. And someone who needs to drop by my house later.

Probably not 100 calories.

I agree with what this ad is trying to do - kids should read. And I'm always disappointed when a movie gets cast based on a book and the lead doesn't look like what he did in my head. But wouldn't it make more sense to pick less established characters?

Is basketball the right sport for a Hobbit?

I know we're on Archie overload today, but shortly after the other piece went live, I came across these color drawings of Kevin Keller.

He's kind of hot.

Artwork via Archiecomics.com.

NASA has a new spacecraft taking pictures and video of our sun, and it's mesmerizing to watch.

I'm assuming the color isn't natural. / Photo credit: NASA

Did disco kill the dinosaurs?

Isn't little fennec fox cute impersonating a tiny kitty cute with his whiskers?

I hope he doesn't grow up to look like this...

So hunky Kellan Lutz has a new movie called Meskada coming out. He's not a superhero, he's not a vampire. He really just seems to lie in bed without a shirt and talk. Talking isn't his strong suit.

Mashups are a reality of internet life. Somehow I never saw a mashup of Clash of the Titans and an Apple iPad commercial coming. Yet it looks like it might be better than the movie, and more than a little true about Apple.

O.K., I ranted earlier to anyone that would listen about this trailer from MTV Studios. This "documentary" takes place about 30 minutes from my house in theory. But I've lived here off and on for 38 years, and my family much longer, and we've never, ever heard of this family. Please don't judge me by them.

This Argentinian Andes Beer commercial came to me by way of New Zealand, and it's pretty epic if they actually built the Teletransporters and put them in bars.

Last night on American Idol, pretty boy was sent home. They also raised a mountain of money for poor children around the country and around the world. The results show went on for 2.5 hours, and that was after 1.5 hours of performances the night before. Here we have it all summarized in 60 seconds. Still too long.

On the Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart gave us another edition of "Gaywatch." This time he focused on hecklers. Hecklers of President Obama and hecklers of Lindsey Graham. Can we move to Gaysylvania if we want to? Do they have decent health care?

I teased the performance of Lin Yu Chun with William Shatner this morning. Here it is, and it's epic. I've now heard Lin yu Chun sing Whitney Houston and Bonnie Tyler, and it's less that he's a stunning singer (he is) than the fact that he mimicks the original perfectly in tone and pitch, even switching artist. He can do Bonnie's gravelly tone and even hit Whitney's big notes (which she can't even hit these days). It's scary.

We can now have the banking crisis explained to us in my favorite learning format: cartoons.