AfterElton Briefs: Another "Sherlock Holmes" Brings the Ho-Yay Tease, Mike O'Malley Get Props, The Cher Store, and More!

Plus Dan Choi talks to Rachel, Sir Elton is heading down to the farm, and you may want, really really want a new Spice Girls movie, but it ain't happening.

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear. Yes, we're serious. Each Friday Briefs will also feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. We'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun! Drop your caption ideas in the comments, and check out last week's winner at the bottom of the page!

• Keeping in the spirit of this week's caption pic (The Situation's Awkward Family Photo), this weekend's birthday congrats go out to John Partridge (39), Kristin Chenoweth (42), and Lynda Carter (59). We hope they and their phenomenal chests have great birthdays!

• Sir Elton and screenwriter Lee Hall teamed up to bring Billy Elliot to the stage, and now they're teaming up again for a musical version of Animal Farm. Maybe he can get Rush Limbaugh to play the pig Napoleon.

• Below you can see Dan Choi talk with Rachel Maddow about his official dismissal from the military. It was on Rachel's show 18 months ago that Dan first made the public declaration that he was a gay man serving in the Army

• Remember the ho-yay tease last year right before Sherlock Holmes was released to theaters? Of course it turned out that the ho-yay was a big no-yay, but there's a new BBC adaptation that may bring the ho-yay back. Or maybe not. The new version (which brings Holmes and Watson into this century) will include scenes of "gay misunderstandings" for comedic effect. Well, I won't judge the show before I see it, but right now, I'd rather watch Holmes & Yo-Yo. (h/t to Aiden).

• Ed mentioned in the Meme that we might see another Spice Girls movie. Well, I hate to break it you, but ...

• It's probably for the best, though. After all, Emma could never top her greatest performance, in which she delivers the classic line "If you think I'm gonna take that kind of sh*t off a sweaty overeater the color of an old man's scrotum, then you've got another thing coming!"

• Boston.com has a great write-up of Glee Emmy nominee Mike O'Malley. Anyone else remember him from Nickelodeon kids competition Guts?

• Joe.My.God snapped the above pic of the Cher store at Caesar's Palace in Vegas. Is that what heaven looks like? (If your response is "no, that's what hell looks like," then Shame.On.You!) But what do you think would be in the Cher store?

• Below you can see a clip from The Kids Are All Right, which already holds the crown so far as the Big Gay Movie of the year. In this clip, moms Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) believe their son Laser (Josh Hutcherson) to be gay after they find him watching gay male adult entertainment. Their gay male adult entertainment. As it turns out, Josh has a different announcement to make to them.

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

Drop your caption ideas in the comments (And please remember to keep the captions PG-13!), and check out last week's winner below!

Thanks to everyone for participating! Unsurprisingly, last week's provocative pic brought out tons of hilarious captions, but the winner is ...

Must...[pant pant]...get earrings...[pant pant]...to Lady Gaga!

Thanks to CthulhuKid for this week's winning caption.