Morning Meme: Grant Gustin's Death Threats, Zachary Quinto Hates Spock's Hair, and When Gromit Met Batman

Grant Gustin is thrilled to be a troublemaker on Glee, but he was completely unprepared for the backlash from Klaine fans on Twitter, who offered death threats almost immediately. But how he found out he got the part may be the best part of the story.

IFC has purchased How To Survive a Plague, the AIDS documentary screening at Sundance. I'm glad it's going to get distribution.

Terry Jones is set to direct John Cleese and Michael Palin (and possibly Eric Idle) in Absolutely Anything, in which aliens come to earth and give one person the power to do absolutely anything just to see what chaos ensues.

Fox has greenlit Prodigy Bully with Mike O'Malley, based on the one minute shorts. It centers on a guy who uses his brains and his brawn to get anything he wants. I'm fine with O'Malley getting a new show – as long as it's on Fox. I'm not done crying with Bert Hummel.

Farewell to Welcome Back, Kotter's Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on the classic sitcom. He passed away of an apparent heart attack at age 60.

Bebe Nuewirth is headed to The Good Wife to play a judge in a recurring role. I really should watch this show, it gets all the best actors.

The Hawkeye toy from Avengers is all kinds of sexy. Maybe a bit too sexy for a toy. Plus all that articulation.

Activists in Maine collected 100,000 signatures, almost double the amount needed to put marriage equality on the ballot again, this time to bring it into being rather than take it out. I'd like to think all the battles this year will stretch NOM so thin they can't fight effectively, but their backers have very deep pockets, likely lined with ermine.

Rep. Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry have so damaged their brands by their ridiculous runs for the presidency that they're polling so low they have no chance of winning reelection.

With all the stars rumored to be joining Madonna on stage at the Super Bowl, the game is going to have more musical acts than the Grammy Awards. But honestly, I like the idea of LMFAO on stage with Madonna, competing for attention – there will be blood.

I watched the first episode of Spartacus: Vengeance last night, and they don't skimp on the blood, or the sex, or the full frontal nudity. And possibly improbable sex toys. Nor do they intend to, according to Steven DeKnight. And people who don't like the gay sex? "As far as I'm concerned, it's barely in there to start with. And it was part and parcel of this world and it's part and parcel of our world now. If people want to stop watching the show because two guys kiss, well, I shrug my shoulders. You know, that that will always be in there,"

Jack Plotnick and Seth Rudetsky have written an original musical themed around the disaster movies of the 1970s, and it's playing every Sunday night through the end of February. Finally – someone combines my love of SyFy original movies with show tunes!

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still pushing putting marriage equality on the ballot in the state, but his rhetoric isn't going to win him a lot of fans. "The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South. It was our political institutions that were holding things back."

How to Talk To Your Children About Gay Parents, By a Gay Parent

According to Zachary Quinto, the worst part of Star Trek is dealing with Spock's hair. Well, that and the fact that the script is constantly evolving.