AfterElton Briefs: "Valley Of The Dolls" Revamps, "Pan Am" Soars, Justin Timberlake's Next Role, and More!

"Don't start with me, concrete!"

• Happy 27th Birthday to Thore Schölermann, and Happy 63rd Birthday to Olivia Newton-John. Time to name your top five Olivia songs! Here are mine (which was tough, because she's my fourth all-time favorite singer): 5. "Tied Up," 4. "A Little More Love," 3. "Twist of Fate," 2. "Suddenly," and my #1 is a song that I will forever champion in the face of universal derision, "Soul Kiss".

• Out Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels has been tasked to bring Valley of the Dolls back to TV. I'm going to need some time to absorb this.

• Justin Timberlake will portray late Casablanca Records co-founder Neil Bogart (who helped launch Donna Summer and The Village People) in the big-screen bio-pic Spinning Gold. I'm going to need some time to absorb this.

• Oxygen has officially announced that they have started the casting process for Season Two of The Glee Project, beginning with a multi-city casting call tour starting in November.

• HBO calls this a Game Of Thrones Season Two "tease," and they're not kidding. Blink and you'll miss it.

• Last night's ratings are in, and the better-than-I-expected Pan Am did very well, and actually added over a million viewers from lead-in Desperate Housewives, which scored its lowest season premiere ever.

• Meanwhile, over on CBS, The Amazing Race was down 20% from last year, while The Good Wife was down 12%, but still beat Housewives.

• Out mega-writer-producer-director Kevin Williamson has received a pilot commitment from Fox for a new drama "described as an edge-of-the-seat thriller about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and the FBI agent who finds himself in the middle of it."

• Towleroad has a series of tweets fromThe L Word star Leisha Hailey about being kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because kissing her partner wasn't allowed on a "family" airline."

• Some scary moments for Ellen, but apparently she's fine.

• Ed had Elijah Wood's prep video in the Meme this morning, but below you can see the actual sort-of-boxing-match between him and Dominic Monaghan at Fantastic Fest.

• Below you can see Taylor Lautner at a very bad angle at the UK premiere of that movie he just did.