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Morning Meme: Ask Matthew Morrison, "Fabulous High" Needs Your Help, Psychoanalyzing Almodovar, and More!

Ed is traveling back home after giving his speech last night (I hope he took my advice and pictured everyone in jockstraps), so I'll be handling the Meme. Every time i give you one of these 80's puzzles, you impress me with your knowledge, so this one is a bit tougher. A few months ago I presented ten of my favorite 80's singers, and here are ten more. How many can you name?Will Swenson

Broadway hottie (and one of the stars of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) Will Swenson will direct a feature film version of Carol Lynn Pearson’s play Facing East, about a Mormon couple who grapple with their faith after the suicide of their gay son. A portion of the film's profits will benefit The Trevor Project.

Food goddess Ina Garten is trying to recover from that sick kid PR disaster. She's changed her mind and will invite him to watch her cook, but kids are only allowed one wish with the Make-A-Wish foundation, and he's already moved on to his alternate wish - swimming with dolphins. So if she meets him, it will be an "unofficial" wish.

The ACLU sent letters yesterday to schools in Missouri and Michigan telling them to stop blocking students' access to educational websites about GLBT issues.

On April 16th, UCLA's New Center for Psychoanalysis will host "Mirrors of the Heart: The Films of Pedro Almodovar," a symposium on "farce, human relatedness and psychoanalysis." And "the nakedness of Antonio Banderas," hopefully.

If you want to help out the "It Gets Better" book, a $25 dollar contribution will enable them to send a copy of the book to a school library of your choosing this spring. Jennifer garner

Disney is reviving Agatha Christie's iconic sleuth Miss Marple. So who will be playing the elderly crime-solving spinster? Jennifer Garner. Don't get me started.

In disappointing news, Universal has dropped plans to turn the Tony-winning musical In The Heights into a feature film. Hopefully another studio will step in, and they'll ask out actor Robin de Jesús to reprise his Tony-nominated performance

In a surprise move, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that they will allow gay Americans with spouses from abroad to apply for green cards while courts weigh constitutional challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

A New Jersey woman who assumed that her gym’s massage therapist was gay found out that he actually ... wasn't, and is pressing charges for alleged sexual misconduct, claiming that she wouldn’t have consented to the massage had she known he was straight..Farley Granger

Farley Granger died on Sunday, and the actor best known for the Alfred Hitchcock films Rope and Strangers on a Train resented being labeled gay, even though he spent 45 years with partner Robert Calhoun.

The Daily Mail has some very "AWWW!" pics of Coronation Street characters Sean and Marcus and their son Dylan.

The Daily Beast wonders if Britney Spears is mentally and emotionally capable of going on another new album promotional juggernaut. Um ... I really could have done without the Stevie Nicks comparison, especially since he got the decade wrong.

Out Kids in the Hall actor Scott Thompson has a podcast which has been called the "world's cattiest." Well, If you can't say anything nice about anybody ... come sit by me.


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