Weekend Meme: Ralph Fiennes Reads "Harry Potter" Slashfic, Becki Newton Romances NPH, and Jason Segel Is "Jeff, Who Lives At Home"

The big news this weekend isn't out of Sundance. It's that joining Mark Ruffalo as Ned Weeks in Ryan Murphy's The Normal Heart movie are Matt Bomer as Felix Turner, Julia Roberts as Dr. Emma Brookner, Alec Baldwin as Week's brother, and Jim Parsons will reprise his Broadway role. Did I mention that Brad Pitt is producing? I'd say that Larry Kramer has to be thrilled with this cast, but as I was reminded this morning, Kramer doesn't do thrilled.

Hazel Jones, the woman with two fully formed vaginas, has rejected Vivid Entertainment's $1 million offer. How'd you like that transition?

It turns out that Swizz Beats was never the CEO of MegaUpload, despite what his people had said. Probably for the best, really.

Contributing to Newt Gingrich's victory in the South Carolina primary this weekend was the endorsement of increasingly cranky Chuck Norris. But it was probably mostly the not-Romney victory.

But for something more cheerful, Becki Newton is hitting up How I Met Your Mother as a love interest for Neil Patrick Harris' Barney. She just can't stay away from playing opposite gay men, can she?

Remember Fox News psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, who thought having Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars was going to cause an outbreak of transgender children? Now he says that the fact that three women found Newt Gingrich attractive enough to ruin the previous woman's life means he's just what this country needs in a leader.

Comics Alliance has a great article up about the lack of parity between the sexiness of male and female comic book characters, along with some jaw dropping illustrations of just what equality for female and gay readers would look like.

Uh-oh. More than filing divorce papers, this truly means it's over. Katy Perry has unfollowed Russell Brand on Twitter. In related news, people actually pay attention to this stuff and report it as news.

Mythbusters stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are headlining a new series called Unchained Reactions, which will essentially pit teams against each other to build Rube Goldberg machines to spec. It's like they're reading my journal.

Neil Gaiman's American Gods has been on sale for $1.99 for the Kindle edition for a few days, and Neil seems perplexed that the anti-gay crowd has just discovered the book and started giving it homophobic negative reviews.

Fox has announced a long list of judges for their diverse writers program, aimed at getting more minority writers, including GLBT folks into television.

A judge has ordered News Corp to search laptops related to the phone hacking scandal. It seems to be centered around calls that Jude Law's assistant made to the actor shortly after he landed at JFK. If Law's phone was on a U.S. network, it would open the door to a criminal investigation of the scandal in the United States.

Many years ago, before Andy Cohen was famous, the producers of The Bachelor saw his photo in W magazine and offered him a spot on the show. “I said, ‘You are barking up the wrong tree. ‘Unless The Bachelor is going in a different direction …’"

For all their touted conservatism leading up to their primary this weekend, South Carolina just became the third state to offer a pro-equality license plate.

TMZ is reporting that Heidi Klum is about to file for divorce from Seal. The couple typically renews their wedding vows every year on their anniversary, so this comes as a surprise if true.

Abelardo Araya, the leading GLBT activist in Costa Rica has passed away at the age of 42. He'd been suffering from complications of high blood pressure and diabetes.

The three UK Muslim men convicted of distributing flyers advocating the death penalty for homosexuality have been sentenced to seven years in prison.

For the record, David Beckham prefers briefs, with a pouch, not a y-front.