Michael Urie, High School Musical 2, the BAFTA's and more

Michael Urie just gave a short, but...interesting mini-interview to Greg Hernandez over at Out in Hollywood. Greg was at an Ugly Betty event at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as was Urie. The two had a brief unscheduled chat (which seems to be the only way to interview Urie, as we've been trying forever) and Greg got to ask Michael a few questions about Urie's character Marc St. James, working with Patti LuPone, and Marc's coming out episode. Then there was this little item:

Then we have an exchange that threatened to leave me red-faced but Urie handled it with grace:
Greg: "You're out..."
Urie: Nods his head no.
Greg: "Are you out?"
Urie: Nods his head no.
Greg: "Do you not really discuss your personal life?"
Urie: "Not really, no. You read that magazine that was like...you know..."
Greg: "Really, I don't care. i just thought you might have something to say about it.
Urie: "I think it's important to be completely honest with the ones around you and yourself. Mark, by not being honest with his mother was not being honest with himself."

Like I said, interesting. Tomorrow Greg chats with Mark Indelicato who plays Justin on the show.

Speaking of Ugly Betty, the show is planning an all musical episode ala Scrubs and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Here is praying it's more Scrubs than than the Buffster. And speaking of musicals, the very gay seeming, but strangely not gay at all High School Musical is set to hit on August 17th.

Tongues are wagging about tabloid rag The Globe's latest "news" concerning Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio. There is precious little reason to suspect this is anymore true than the homophobic garbage they recently printed about the VTU killer being gay. This is one nasty paper.

Isaiah Washington's gay publicist says the actor will be doing two public service announcements for GLAAD and that they are broadening the message a little bit. Hmm, I wonder what that means exactly? Speaking of Isaiah, Michael Ausiello over at TVGuide.com confirms that there will be be some big reveals in the season finale of Grey's Anatomy. He lists a number of possibilities including both T.R. Knight and Washington leaving the show, but won't give any hints as to which are most likely.

Now here is a surprise: Torchwood, a show set in Cardiff, Wales, produced by BBC Wales, and created by Welshman Russell T. Davies swept the BAFTA Wales Awards. I'm just speechless! One point of contention--how did David Tennant, who just joined Doctor Who beat out Torchwood's John Barrowman?

And as long as we're talking superhero types, my recent post on creating your own superhero resulted in two very cool heroes that I thought everyone should see. Meet Crimson Canuck:

Of course, a Canadian would choose such a modest name. Not exactly the case for our next hero: