Morning Meme: Jesse Tyler and Justin Mikita Celebrate SAG, Betty White Hangs With "Modern Family," and Superman Is British?

Henry Cavill, best known to American audiences from The Tudors, has been cast as Superman in the Zach Snyder reboot of the series. He’s certainly hot, and his body these days is just ridiculous, but he just doesn’t strike me as Superman. Plus he’s British. Can you image the uproar if an American was cast as James Bond?

Speaking of James Bond, will Javier Bardem be playing the villain in Bond 23?

In perhaps an interesting preview of just how many regulations have to be tweaked in order to put Don’t Ask, Don't Tell away permanently, we now are seeing a class action lawsuit concerning separation pay for soldiers discharged under DADT.. It seems the Pentagon cut the payout to soldiers discharged for being openly gay.

It wasn’t much of a weekend at the box office. Frankly, here we saw the sun for the first time in weeks, and it got up to the mid-40s. No way was I going to go sit in a dark theater.  The Rite managed to scare up about $15 million for first place.

Without getting too deep into the right or wrong of something, this just goes to show how one group’s anthem is another group’s hate speech. The gay community generally celebrated the lyrics to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” as did most minorities, seeing it as celebrating differences. But Chicanos Unidos Arizona and MEChA are taking issue with her use of “chola” and “orient” in the song, calling them racist.

I completely missed Neil Patrick Harris tweeting that his babies had started laughing already.  “The tots both started laughing. On the same day. I'm now obsessed with getting them to do it. Babies laughing is like opium.”

The New York Times has latched on to the Chick-fil-A corporate support of anti-gay groups, and is not letting go. The chain is already releasing additional statements saying they don’t have any political agenda, but that’s not supported by the facts. The day job has me in a spot where the only two places to eat are a Chick-fil-A and a Steak Escape. I still haven’t given Chick-fil-A one thin dime after three months.

The folks at Gold Derby have released their Grammy predictions for Best Female Pop Vocal. Everyone seems to think that Lady Gaga is a lock for “Bad Romance” but list Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” as the possible spoiler. I submit that Perry’s version of “Teenager Dream” isn’t even the definitive version, much less the Best Vocal.

I have never been so disappointed in a pair of screenwriters before. J.J. Abrams go-to writers, Star Trek/Fringe/Wolverine’s Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are shopping the treatment for anti-gay nutjob Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.  I admit that back before I was aware of Card’s personal views, I loved that book with a passion. That these guys would help give him any more money to advocate that homosexuality be criminalized means I’ll never see anything they write, produce or direct again.