Afternoon Meme: Andy Whitfield is Back, NPH Gets Pushed Back, and Chris Colfer's Bathroom Mishap

Plus giant spiderwebs, Mr. T pities the new A-Team, and more!

After a string of disappointments at the box office, CBS Films has postponed the release of Beastly from next month to March of next year. The modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast with hunky Alex Pettyfer as a hunky guy with magical tattoos making him “beastly” stars Neil Patrick Harris as his blind tutor and Vanessa Hudgens as the Beauty. Rumor is they didn’t think Vanessa’s film would fare well against her boyfriend’s Charlie St. Cloud.

Opening earlier than planned is Tom Cruise’s Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz. I still haven’t figured out if the action film is meant to be a comedy, but the trailers do make me laugh. Now I can find out on Wednesday instead of waiting until Friday June 25^th.

A new guide for non-offensive language just now reaching the Scottish police tells them not to say things like gay people “bat for the other side” or “the gays.” I get where they’re going with this, but I might utter those things a dozen times in a day. Their guideliness might be a little too restrictive.

Andy Whitfield of Sparatacus: Blood and Sand has been certified cancer free, and has begun training to get his hot body back. From the sounds of it, they’re reworking the prequel series that Starz announced to allow him to appear in two episodes, which might change the time frame they’re covering and dash my hopes of Barca and Pietros figuring prominently.

Mark Wahlberg says he’s completely focused on making an Entourage movie. The central part of the plot (he may be joking) is having Ari (Jeremy Piven) and Llyod (Rex Lee) waking up in Las Vegas with no memory of how they got there, like The Hangover. That will either be brilliant, or horribly offensive, lay your bets.

Spurf™ says that Jesse Williams, he of the beautiful eyes on Grey’s Anatomy, is moving to series regular next season. I quit watching the show because it’s just so incredibly awful, but he’s a candidate to be a future ex-husband of mine from the looks of it. Anyone know if his character on Grey's is as promiscuous as the rest of the cast?

True Blood’s sexy werewolf Alcide (Joe Manganiello) just can’t stop talking about being naked. This time he’s talking about having his sausage out around his wolf on his first day with the animal. He’s a braver man than I am.

Towleroad brings to our attention a Washington state newspaper under fire for printing a picture of a drag queen performing at a local college event. The bigots are freaking out, and while the paper initially defended printing news in a newspaper, they’re now polling people to see if they should keep covering this “type” of news. You can go vote in the poll.

Mr. T is not happy with the new A-Team movie, though not for the same reasons I’m not happy. He’s mad because they kill people in the film, and he notes that never happened on the television show. I'd like to point out that as far as I can recall they never badmouthed gays while doing press for the show, either.

Now that Oprah has an entire network to program, she realizes she may not be able to do it alone. So she’s teaming with reality king Mark Burnett to find the next "Oprah", who, once found, could also fill a programming slot on her network. See how that works?

From these upcoming episode descriptions for True Blood, it sounds like Lafayette’s new romance doesn’t kick into gear until the fifth episode. Maybe until he says “Hellllllllllllooooo, nurse!” he can spend some time with Pam?

It sounds like the top choice to direct the opening ceremonies for the London Olympics is Danny Boyle. This begs the question on whether he goes more Slumdog Millionaire or Trainspotting. I think the later is the only hope he has of getting the attention the Chinese did.

If you live in a state with an election today, make sure you vote. If you live in California, make sure you vote for crazy lady Orly Taitz for Secretary of State, because I can’t imagine anything more harmful to the Republican ticket than having to campaign for her come November.

Who thinks the most interesting thing that happens tonight on Glee is going to be the performance of the full version of “Bohemian Rhapsody?”

An abandoned stock exchange in Vienna becomes the largest, creepiest spider web I've ever seen. Just how big is the web that you can actually lounge in? It uses 117,000 feet of tape. Does it depress anyone else that Vienna's abandoned buildings are more beautiful than most American museums?

Spider-Man's version of the Fortress of Solitude?

Google does it again with a sneaky Easter egg. Search "World Cup" on the site, and the logo at the bottom of the page changes to a more appropriate "Gooooooooooal!"

I was disappointed it didn't change the top to "Goooooooooooooogle!"

As we all know, I love clever advertising that makes you look a second time. This Fiat ad shows a crashing car, and a "lower impact." But if you read on, and look closely, they're not talking about the strength of their steel.

I love a good bear.

Chris Colfer was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, and he really is delightful. He starts out with a story of clumsiness and vandalism. By the time we get to the second video he's talking about a bathroom mishap and giving away non-spoilery spoilers. He really is the most press friendly actor on the show.

I missed the 20/20 episode last week when Chris Cuomo talks to the children in the Westboro Baptist Church, from the seven-year-old spouting disturbingly graphic gay hate, to a young woman who left the church and her family over their message. I know we value free speech and freedom of worship in the United States above all else, but I have trouble seeing this as anything other than child abuse.