AfterElton Briefs: Don Cheadle is Captain Planet, Kevin McHale for The Trevor Project, Lady Gaga Was Packing Heat, and More!

• Happy 41st Birthday to Deborah Gibson (we did a top five a few months ago), Happy 62nd Birthday to Richard Gere, and Happy 57th Birthday to Julie Brown.

• NBC has bought a TV series adaptation of 1984's Romancing The Stone, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The new version "will follow a successful but unfulfilled woman who teams with a risk-taking adventurer to take on weekly missions while on a larger quest to find her missing brother." No word on who will remake Eddy Grant's classic theme song.

• Lady Gaga wore a prosthetic penis at the VMA's.

• Below you can see Kevin McHale help to launch The Trevor Project's Talk To Me awareness campaign for National Suicide Prevention Week.

• Erasure's new album Tomorrow's World will be out October 4th, and below you can listen to new single “When I Start To (Break It All Down).”

• Why is James Franco all bloody on the set of General Hospital?

• Below you can see our interview with The Challenge winner Tyler Duckworth.

• Celebrities Picking Up Their Dogs' Poop

• Oh Dear. Below you can see a clip from Toddlers & Tiaras. You know this can't be good.

• Finally, below you can see Don Cheadle in the NSFW! (LANGUAGE) live-action Captain Planet. The "heart" kid is spot-on.

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