Morning Meme: Melissa Etheridge Dreams, Britney Battles Ashton, and Could "MacGruber" Be Good?

Plus we check in with the gay boys of Sex and the City 2, Modern Family picks up a Peabody, and I crush on Johnny Galecki.

Don’t take this wrong, but at times I think Melissa Etheridge just asks to be quoted out of context withher views on gay lives, sexuality and politics. I saw elements of this interview a dozen places before I found the unedited quotes. Her heart is in the right place – but she’s also talking about a theoretically perfect world.

Jonathan Gold, Quincy Jones and Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) have been named as the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Artists In Residence. Paul Reuben has chosen 1938’s You Can’t Take It With You as his film choice, though Pee-wee’s Big Adventure will get a 25^th Anniversary screening.

Miley Cyrus continues to do age inappropriate things with gay men. She’s booked a gig to play London megaclub G-A-Y June 5^th. I bet her boyfriend would go over big.

Linda Hamilton is joining Weeds, and she’s going to love the ladies and Mother Earth while she’s there. She’s going to play an eco-conscious pot grower, who with her life partner Fiona helps Nancy out in Seattle.

By all accounts, the Glee Live tour is made of pure awesome, and if you don’t live in one of the very few cities they’re gracing with their presence, you life will be poorer for it.

Britney Spears is threatening to topple Ashton Kutcher as the ruler of Twitter. Can the pop princess, who doesn’t seem to engage with her fans like Ashton has, crown herself Queen of the social media scene?

It turns out the universe isn’t mathematically perfect. This is a good thing, since if it was, it wouldn’t exist. Also, Einstein made a mistake, but since he didn’t have a multi-billion dollar particle accelerator to play with, we’ll forgive him.

I had always assumed that the Heart Attack Grill was a myth, like unicorns or jeans in my size. But it’s real, and it’s in Arizona, where they want to kill everything anyhow. I’m all for a restaurant that like flipping the bird to health, and I’ll go anywhere that has Jolt Cola. But the unfiltered Lucky Strikes? No.

If you buy a live action script of Cinderella from the author of The Devil Wears Prada, what role do you cast Meryl Streep in?

Regis Philbin is hosting the Daytime Emmy Awards. Between snubbing all the gays and now this, CBS can forget about me tuning in.

People (and by that I mostly mean Pink Satan) have been cherry picking extremely brief quotes to try and start a fight between Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, Christina can speak directly and say what she means. 

At last look, MacGruber had seven reviews, and they were mostly positive. This concerns me greatly, but the fact that there’s concern about “some nudity” means that situation is normal, since it’s male nudity. Critics don't enjoy male nudity, so it must be really awesome to overcome that.

NY Mag tries to guess Glee plotlines based on who is singing what on the upcoming soundtrack. That’s their first mistake, because I’ve completely given up on believing there is a plot and just go on the emotional ride the music provides. And I really enjoy the show.

Ewan McGregor is set to star as an advertising executive who gets sent back in time to 17^th century Europe in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Originally the role was to be played by Johnny Depp. Upgrade?

The Modern Family cast got together to accept a Peabody Award in New York City. I know that a Peabody Award is very prestigious thing, but the award itself is kind of ... ugly. Even Jesse Tyler Ferguson noted it had a resemblance to a coin.

He sent this picture with "Don't try and buy a cup of coffee with this." 

Frankly, something is going on in this household. There's a five-year-old girl or a gay guy involved in this.

I guess he could belong to Cinderella. 

This works on so many levels.

With Sex and the City 2 coming out we've focused a lot on the ladies of the series (and the extreme amount of Photoshop involved), but it's important to remember the gays are featured big and bold in this film. Willie Garson reflects on getting to call this his job for fifteen years.

Mario Cantone takes a moment to be serious about the movie, and the character, and the honor of having Michael Patrick King create a character just for him.

I'm not thrilled with the quality of this clip from The View yesterday, but it's what I have available. Johnny Galecki of The Big Bang Theory (and Rosanne, and The Opposite of Sex) gets asked about those pesky gay rumors that swirl up every so often about him, and I really love his response.