Morning Meme: "Scott Pilgrim" For Dummies, "Tron"'s Pixar Magic, and When Dumbledore Met The Doctor

Plus the real Mario Lopez, Julia Roberts makes Ryan Murphy richer, and No Ordinary Family gets sexier.

The Young & the Restless wouldn’t let Thom Bierdz have a boyfriend, but they have let Lauren have a designer. I don’t know if the version of Jeremy Scott on the show is real or fictional, but it sure is flashy. A green sequined matador jacket for a business meeting? What is he going to wear for evening wear?

Maple Bacon Coffee.

True Blood has been spotted filming with panthers. This fits the books, but Alan Ball has said in the past he intends to deviate from the books on the matter of panthers, so I’m not sure where he’s going with it.

Six Reasons to Ride a Polar Bear to Work.

George Steinbrenner, the man who turned building a baseball team into an exercise in conspicuous consumption, has passed away at the age of 80.

Filming has begun on this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special. It sounds insane, with Rory and Amelia’s honeymoon, Christmas monsters, opera singers, and Michael Gambon from Harry Potter.

A federal appeals court has struck down the FCC’s indecency rule, specifically against the “fleeting expletives” that permeate live broadcasts. This means next year, MTV won’t have to pretend they’re trying to bleep out 200+ f-bombs during the MTV Movie Awards.

All the Hollywood trade pubs are fighting for credit about Peter Jackson allegedly being in Los Angeles meeting with actors for The Hobbit. Even if he is, it doesn’t change the fact that MGM doesn’t have the cash to finance a public access television show, much less a tent pole movie.

Sony thinks so highly of the Ryan Murphy/Julia Roberts collaboration Eat, Pray, Love that hasn’t opened that they’ve cut Murphy a check for $5 million to write and direct another Julia Roberts movie about a career woman with a house husband who gets laid off and has to adjust to life as a mom.

Here’s what caffeine really does to your brain, and it looks suspiciously similar to what Prozac does to prevent damage from taking E. Or so I’ve heard. In any case, as ugly as it is, if you get between me and my venti caramel macchiato triple shot, you’re not going to survive the morning.

Tron: Legacy is going to be the dominant movie at Comic-Con, so it’s probably a good thing that back in March they brought in the brain trust from Pixar to rewrite certain scenes because the movie was cold and heartless. Since it looks like a father-son film, I’m thinking that would be bad.

As many of you point out regularly, I don’t know a lot about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, even though I’m trying really hard to come up to speed. So I don’t know how significant it is that fans have taken pages from the graphic novel and found real-life versions of the scenes. But they have done so, and I’m bring that fact to your attention. 

Mario Lopez has been given a reality show about getting ready to become a father. Somehow I doubt VH1 is going to film a lot of shirtless or pantless scenes, so this is likely to be pretty brutal to watch.

I don’t know a lot about the live-action version of The Incredibles hitting television this fall with Michael Chiklis. But No Ordinary Family has added a sexy Watcher to keep an eye on the super family in Josh Stewart from Criminal Minds. I’m suddenly interested.