AfterElton Briefs: Rebooting "The Bodyguard," Mike Tyson's Oscar Picks, Will Phillips on the "Dam of Hate," and More!

Russell Tovey in Rolla Coaster Magazine

• Our Hero of the Year Will Phillips has posted a video to Faceplace about DOMA and Maggie Gallgher. I love when he says, "The waters of progress are wearing away at the ever-withering dam of hate," and I love it when his dad cracks up at it..

• Below you can see an interview with Clay Aiken in which he again asserts that he was "not in the closet." We've already examined this, so I'll go off on another tangent. Does Clay have a stylist? I'm asking because every time I see him the first thing that pops into my mind is the classic AbFab scene where Edina tells Saffy, "Why does everything you wear look like it's bearing a grudge?"

• The Spurf has a spoiler about the upcoming season of True Blood that had me "Squee!" so loudly my cat got startled and fell of the DVR.

• The Stranger has an article about a gay rights blogger who wrote under a pseudonym until her real identity was exposed ... by other gay bloggers. If you read it, make sure you read the comments ... that's when things really get interesting.

• Yesterday I told you about the reboot of the early 90's Soapdish, and now the 1992 crapfest The Bodyguard is getting a makeover. Actually, I'm not as outraged about this one, since the original was terrible, and a remake may improve it. But who should star as the pop star and her bodyguard? My choice: Lady Gaga and Rahm Emanuel.

• One more Gaga tidbit (hey, I'm down to two a day, so give me a break). She stopped by The Gayle King Show to talk about "Born This Way," and announced that there would be two videos for the song.

• Below you can see Mike Tyson give his Oscar picks to Leonard Maltin, and premiere a clip from his Academy-worthy The Pigeon Whisperer. WARNING - The video has a couple of shits in it. No, not Leonard and Mike, I mean the audible kind.

• This article about the public outing of gay men by an Indian TV station is sad and infuriating. The first thing I thought was, "Does FOX have a news station in India?"

• Below you can see Rachel talk to law guy Tobias Wolff about DOMA, but I was distracted trying to see more of the two hot guys snogging in the background.

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