AfterElton Briefs: "Top Gun 3-D," Tom Hardy Clarifies, Bryan Fuller Takes On Hannibal Lecter, and More!

• Happy 33rd Birthday!? to Ben McKenzie (above), Happy 30th Birthday to Jennifer Hudson, Happy 25th Birthday to Emmy Rossum, and Happy 44th Birthday to Jason Statham.

• AE fave Kris Allen has released a video status report on his upcoming album. I hope he gets back to performing soon, we need more inappropriate Kris GIF's.

• Out Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller will be exec. producing and writing a TV series based on Hannibal Lecter. Wait ... what? Well, if anyone can put a special twist on it, it's Bryan.

• Bucky Larson - Born To Be A Star has officially joined an historic club.

• Below you can see the Third Season finale of web sitcom Jack in the Box, as our hero has to deal with bad news from his spectacularly terrifying agent.

• The still unseen-by-me Top Gun is being converted to 3-D for an early 2012 theatrical re-release. Odds are it will remain unseen-by-me (but I'll pay tribute by listening to the classic soundtrack again).

• Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays will come to the NYC stage this fall, opening on October 24th with a rotating group of actors.

• Good news! Scientists have finally found The Missing Link!

• NBC has been promoting the hell out of the "Rebirth of Days Of Our Lives," and below you can see a teaser, with the return of Marlena, John, Carrie, Austin, and Beardo Jack. I think there's a glimpse of Sonny, with a new 'do.

• Just to clarify, Tom Hardy has never put his penis in a man.

• Green Glowing Cats? Oh please let me tell Ed Kennedy.

• Below you can see a preview of next week's Most Eligible: Dallas, as Tara and Drew commence "Operation Beaver Snatch." Can Drew "crack" the case.

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• Below you can see Thomas Roberts talk to gay Connecticut Congressional candidate Mike Williams about his fight to keep his partner from being deported.

• Finally, one more Kris GIF ... because he takes such obvious pleasure in performing.

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