Morning Meme: Ewan McGregor Joins "Jack The Giant Killer," Anne Hathaway Sings, and NOM Lies

The big entertainment news of the day yesterday was Charlie Sheen. He went on multiple radio shows and trashed Chuck Lorre, who created his show, and used some language some are calling anti-Semitic. CBS and Warner responded by cancelling the rest of the season of Two and a Half Men, and deciding they aren’t paying him the $1.8 million/episode for the eight episodes left to film.

The animals in Rango smoke, as did most characters in westerns. This has people upset. I can only assume they’re worried about their pets picking up the habit.

Corbin Fisher is suing a bunch of file sharers for torrenting its … films. While we’re against piracy here, there is legitimate concern that some teenagers may get outed unsafely by the mass lawsuits. To which Corbin Fisher responds  “Liberty Media produces straight content too. So any thieving little shit who gets caught can very easily lie to his parents that he was looking at straight porn.” Maybe it’s time for the gay community to cancel their accounts with Liberty Media?

Sir Ian McKellen was vacationing off the grid when Sir Peter Jackson had emergency surgery, so he showed up in New Zealand five weeks early with nothing to do.

The Maryland Senate has approved marriage equality. The bill now moves to the heavily Democratic House, which is expected to pass the measure easily.

Rosie O’Donnell and Ashley Fink have made up with each other over Rosie’s comments about the Glee actress. They made a karaoke date over Twitter. I wish I was kidding.

GayBC will keep the Oscar broadcast until 2020.

Manu Bennett, who plays Crixus on Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, says that just because we know the events of season one, we can’t predict what will happen in the finale. And he also calls Liam McIntyre, the new Spartacus, “a very honest and truthful person.” But how does he look naked?

In a really revealing interview, Boy George talks Culture Club, his friends, his enemies, and Adam Lambert. About Lambert being open about being gay and whether Boy George wishes he could have been that open, “I think you do things in your own time. My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain. A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.”

Alan Turing, the gay genius that changed the course of World War II will be celebrated with a year of events for what would have been his 100^th birthday.

A Florida teenager says that not only did his peers taunt and bully him for being openly gay, so did his teacher. And I couldn’t be happier that he decided to sue the school district for not taking action instead of taking his own life.

The Emmy Awards have decided to merge the miniseries and TV movie category. Everyone except HBO is thrilled.

PayPal has decided to cut off the account that people used to donate money to the defense of Bradley Manning. There’s no legal reason to do it, they just decided to cut off funding. Just like I decided to cut off my PayPal account.

Pat Robertson has a statement on DOMA, “Some of these radical gay groups are willing to do anything in the world to have their way of doing sex legitimized by this country.”

Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer. This movie is being completely cast out of gay-adjacent actors like McGregor, Nicholas Hoult, and Stanley Tucci. 

Chelsea Handler is going to play the older sister to Laura Prepon’s version of Chelsea Handler on the sitcom based on Are You There God, It’s Me Chelsea.

Big Gay Sketch Show alum Stephen Guarino has entered into a talent deal with CBS. Guardino will next be seen in two episodes of ABC’s Happy Endings.

Did David Furnish just almost confirm plans to have Lady Gaga be the godmother to his son with Sir Elton John?

This weekend is Oscar weekend, so we'll be providing live coverage Sunday of the red carpet and the ceremony. I'll be on Twitter with the #GayOscars hashtag, dragging the entire gay rights movement down. And snicks will be on Facebook, most likely viewing the whole ceremony through 1980s colored glasses. Won't you join us?