Morning Meme: John Barrowman's Super, Adam Lambert's a Coverboy, Prequels, Sequels, and Critter Cam!

Plus Mike Manning on his legacy, Mike Huckabee talks puppies, Glee at the grove, plus Emmerdale gets dark with Aaron.

This was just not a good weekend for gay entertainment buffs. Not only did we lose Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), but we lost one of the last surviving Munchkins. Word comes from Florida that Meinhardt Raabe, the Munchkin who pronounced the Wicked Witch of the East “most sincerely dead” has himself been pronounced at the age of 94. A last minute addition is the loss of Eddie Carroll, who had voiced Jiminy Cricket for Disney since 1973. He was 66-years-old.

Snippets of music from The Power of Madonna by the cast of Glee have surfaced online, and I’ve got to say, it sounds just awful. Maybe seeing the kids perform it and the emotional tie-in will sell it, but it’s just so over produced I’m not even sure who’s singing what, especially “Vogue.” Before you crucify me, remember I love the show – I just don’t see me buying the CD.

There’s news out over the weekend that Starz needs to keep our interest in Spartacus: Blood and Sand while their hunky star Andy Whitfield is in New Zealand getting cancer treatments, so they’re developing a prequel. This could get interesting, since they’d likely set it in the ludus so they could reuse sets, which means it could center around the rise of Crixus, or even tell the tale of Barca and Pietros.

I find it vaguely interesting that Twitter (with no discernible income) has purchased Tweetie, my favorite iPhone client and wants to make it free. Two things that would make it very interesting? Giving me the $2.99 I paid for Tweetie back and telling me how you can going around buying companies without an income because I’d like to apply the principle to food and cable.

This week’s Beatweek cover story is Adam Lambert, who admits that without American Idol as a platform, he can’t see a record company taking a chance on him.

You know how I advocate taking movie maker’s toys away from them after a few years, because they always seem to get nostalgic and want to revisit them? Here’s more evidence for making that law: Laura Harring says that David Lynch is planning a sequel to Mullholland Drive.

Gov. Mike Huckabee has done a new interview where he compares gay marriage to illegal drug use, and on the subject of gay parenting sees fit to remind us that children are not puppies. It’s so scary that he’s the most likely alternative to Sarah Palin in 2012.

It looks as though the anti-homophobia campaign for which we so loved the rugby players from the Australian Wallabies for has spread to footballers. Need smaller signs so we can objectify the players more.

The Sun claims that Aaron’s story on Emmerdale is about to take a very dark turn. The story sounds predictable, but the magic of this show has been how well they’ve been able to tell a story that’s been done to death – they’ve really made it impressive.

The GLBT-friendly prom being thrown in Mississippi has taken a major star turn with Lance Bass, Green Day and celebrity chef Cat Cora stepping up to help pay and add a little sparkle to the event for Constance McMillen and the other kids.

For reasons known only to themselves, billboard giant Lamar has started taking Conan O’Brien’s tweets and displaying them across all their electronic billboards nationwide, in real time.

I’ve had things to say about this next item, but it’s been suggested I’m overreacting. Neil Patrick Harris has cast his Beastly co-star Vanessa Hudgens as Mimi the stripper in his Hollywood Bowl production of Rent.

Like all things Apple-related there’s a reason that the time always reads 9:41 or 9:42 on iPhones and iPads in the advertisements.

Former Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby has said he’d swap 10 good judges for a single Ricky Martin coming out openly and honestly to the world.

Carlsberg Beer workers have gone on strike due to new rules that don’t provide them with collers of beer to drink on the job. New regulations say they can only drink in the canteen at lunch, unless they’re delivery drivers. Drivers can take their beer with them in the trucks.

John Barrowman tweeted that he'd done a voice for a Marvel cartoon. No word on which character he might have done the work for, but he did provide proof.

Stan Lee, Eugene, John Barrowman.

I don't know if this is icing or paint, but it's pretty adorable.

Even today, Abbey Road's cover goes on-and-on-and-on.

I'm sure some of you are going to say this is cruel, but I think it's adorable.

Glee held a special screening of the new episode at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles, and most of the cast showed up.

Where's Chris?

I think the cat sat and watched them smooth it out, then struck. This wasn't random.

Best part of the movie.

South Park is epic this week, as every single celebrity they've ever mocked come back to the show to sue it for defamation in a class action lawsuit.

Mike Manning of The Real World: DC spoke to Politico about what he thinks are the redeeming qualities of this season, and why it was a return to form for the series. I do think he's giving too much credit to the whole season, but his specific journey was worth watching.

As you know, I like seeing things be blown up. Over the weekend, Texas Stadium fell to dynamite. Since football is a religion in Texas, it received extensive coverage. For our purposes, it just means they had great angles to watch it fall.

In honor of the fact that she hasn't come unbalanced and killed anyone with her giant chesticles on Dancing With the Stars, I present Pamela Anderson at the show for Richie Rich from NewNowNext Poplab. Plus, as a bonus, you get Amanda Lepore and nearly naked guys.

One of the stranger finds has to be National Geographic's Critter Cam capturing a sea lion attacking and eating a giant octopus. Nature is great show.