AfterElton Briefs: "Southland" Casting, Darren Criss Will Get Busy With Kristen Wiig, Gaga on "The View," and More!

• Well, after the dust has settled, it turns out that Cowboys & Aliens has narrowly edged out The Smurfs for #1 at the box office.

• Adorkable Chris Hayes will anchor a new weekend show on MSNBC starting September 17th. It will air live on Saturdays from 7 - 9 AM ET, and Sunday 8 - 10 AM ET, amidst shows about brawls caught on camera and psycho stalkers.

Dave Koz performs at the Grammy Block Party

• Production is going forward on Die Hard 5: Keep Your Damn Hands Off My Medicaid!, with Bruce Willis reprising his role as that guy from all the other Die Hard movies.

• Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey stopped by Watch What Happens Live last night, and in the clip below, you can see a surprising tidbit about John and Andy Cohen revealed.

• Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever star Lucy Liu is is joining the cast of Southland. She'll "guest star" throughout the season as a member of the LAPD.

• Jeri Ryan guest stars on Warehouse 13 tonight, and starting on August 29th, her Star Trek: Voyager co-star Kate Mulgrew will join the cast in a four-episode arc. That SQUEE! you heard was mine.

• Darren Criss will play the love interest of Kristin Wiig in the movie Imogene. Wait ... what?

• Below you can see No More Down Low's coverage of the historic NAACP town hall discussion of GLBT issues, which features speakers Don Lemon and Wanda Sykes.

• Finally, Lady Gaga co-hosted part of The View this morning, and below you can see her talk about how exhilarating it was to learn that marriage-equality had become legal in New York.

• At the end of the show she performed her new single, and one of my favorite tracks from Born This Way, "You and I."

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