Morning Meme: "Oz The Great and Powerful," Ding-Dong the Witch Is Gone, and When Goofy Met Marc Jacobs

Plus, Adam Lambert's Glam Nation Tour, Leslie Jordan exhausts me, Neil Patrick Harris doesn't get nervous, and Lily Tomlin's limo should have taken Derrick Martin to prom.

Now that Sam Mendes has been freed from Bond 23 by the money problems at MGM, he’s the likely person to bring The Wizard of Ozprequel Oz The Great and Powerful to the big screen. Earlier reports had mentioned the very busy Robert Downey, Jr. playing the title role, but his people have denied he has the time to think about it.

That creepy school district in Pennsylvania that activated the webcams on the school laptops? Remember how bad it sounded? It keeps getting worse. They captured over 56,000 images, and those included at least one child sleeping in his bed.

The Spurf does a little video blog called Ausiello TV every couple weeks. This week is fairly cute, because it has Michael Urie acting as the Spurf’s assistant.

Did you know Joy Behar met her spousal equivalent Steve at a clothing optional resort? Neither did I until I read this interview with Out.

Maggie Gallagher has quit the National Organization for (Straights-Only) Marriage so she can concentrate on writing her book about how (you guessed it) only straight people can marry. So the wicked witch isn’t dead, she’s just on sabbatical.

Per Fox News, a radical Islamic web site has warned the creators of South Park they face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit in the 200^th episode. Specifically mentioned was the fate of Theo Van Gogh.

Law Dork has a great piece up on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell protest today in Washington, D.C. including the conflicting report on why the media was forced out from the park by Secret Service and Park Police. I lived in D.C. for years, and a fun fact about our nation’s capital is that there are at least six separate law enforcement agencies that can pass the buck around in an endless fashion so that no one is ever responsible.

I’m just going to go ahead and say it: I agree with Queerty. I have no idea what snide commentary Thaddeus Russell was trying to make about Ryan Seacrest. I can tell you they’ve already changed the wording once to make it less offensive, but that’s really window dressing, and I suspect this is a really disgusting hit piece that’s so dressed up in jewels and silks that we think they’re being nice.

The government has approved another stock exchange based around movie releases, even as Hollywood fights it. The Senate intends to ban the exchanges (which sound like a horrible idea) with financial reform. But if you want weirdness, it’s the casual mention that the financial reform legislation is currently in the Senate Agriculture Committee, which begs the question: Why?

Scientists are saying to expect a decade or more of activity from Icelandic volcanoes, noting that they’re overdue for a fairly regular active cycle. All of this is according to a volcanologist named Thorvaldur Thordason, which is a name I feel I can trust on volcanoes.

Remember the advertising with Shrek and the sexy twinks? Elle Spain did Disney-style layouts for various designers like Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld’s collections that don’t come off nearly as pervy.

NBC has renewed middling hit Parenthood for a second season. It's not a bad show, and in general the eye candy is pretty good, but I just saw Craig T. Nelson in an extended shirtless scene with his son Peter Krause, who was fully dressed. They need to get that fixed.

Cirque du Soleil has announced plans to construct an entire experience around Michael Jackson including shows, nightclubs, and of course, merchandising.

This could take season three of RuPaul's Drag Race to a whole new level.

Always makes me smile.

It makes them smile too.

I wasted a bottle of Windex.

I don't know if this is just animated, or an illusion, but you are now under my power so it doesn't matter.

And today in advertising, we have this ad for a company that makes soundproof windows.

This athlete has a future on Fox News.

Outside the Los Angeles GLAAD Awards, MTV News got to catch up with Adam Lambert about equality, his performance, and his upcoming Glam Nation tour.