Morning Meme: "American Idiot" To Big Screen, "Drop Dead Diva" Goes Gay For Prom, and Sir Ian Goes To School

Universal is prepping for a big screen version of American Idiot, adapted from the Broadway show. Dustin Lance Black is being courted to write the treatment, and buzz says they’ll attempt to get Billie Joe Armstrong to play St. Jimmy.

The winner of the E! Alpha Male Madness contest was Jensen Ackles, and I blame Darren Criss’ loss on all you turncoats who not only voted against him, but bragged in the comments last week that you were doing so. But seriously, Jensen is a total crush of mine, so I can live with the result.

Dot Marie Jones is going to play a lesbian in the pilot of Are You There Vodka, Its’s Me, Chelsea. I really have to wonder who thought this show was a good idea.

Drop Dead Diva is planning an episode loosely based around Constance McMillen’s story last year about taking her girlfriend to prom. And they’re pulling out the stops with openly gay celebrities for the show, with Lance Bass, Clay Aiken, Amanda Bearse, and Wanda Sykes all appearing, along with a cameo by Constance herself.

Oprah is making big bucks for her final episode. While it’s not quite Super Bowl money, a 30-second commercial will cost $1 million. I wonder if the day job will give me the day off to watch it – it’s a national holiday of sorts, isn’t it?

Don’t get me wrong, I like looking at Bradley Cooper. But I don’t see him as the lead in The Crow. Actually, I’d be fine if they didn’t reboot The Crow, but if they feel the need, Cooper hardly seems the obvious choice.

The unpaid bloggers at Huffington Post are joining a class action suit alleging, well, basically alleging they want money. Granted, writing is work, and I don’t do it for free, but they did, by choice. It doesn’t seem that they can win this. Cue FakeName telling me I’m wrong on a legal issue (I normally am, that’s not a dig).

Tom Hanks has signed on to the Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas. This is relevant to our interests because it means they managed to fund Cloud Atlas before Cobalt Neural 9, the controversial gay soldier/Iraqi citizen project with explicit gay sex they’re been working on. Hopefully it doesn’t get dropped completely.

Just go read this account of Sir Ian McKellen’s visit to a school combating homophobia. The first paragraph, the “Do you know any gay people?” one floored me when I read it.

Ashley Tisdale may be appearing in the High School Musical spinoff Sharpay’s  Fabulous Adventure, but she’s no innocent Disney tween anymore as these naked pictures she did for Allure attest to. Granted, she’s 25, but it sort of caught me off guard, all in the same week.

I’m curious how Sarah Palin will react to this single Chicago school banning packed lunches, requiring students to eat healthier meals prepared by the school. She threw a fit when Michelle Obama advocated for healthier standards for school lunches and said it should be a local decision. Now it’s local. How does she like them apples (that they’re serving for lunch)?

It’s good to know that officially, no one cares if Kate Middleton is still a virgin before she marries Prince William.

That slightly improved Wonder Woman costume we saw? Well, it’s not a replacement for the vinyl look, it’s just a different look for when she’s feeling less stripper. Evidently she has aa third costume much like the 1970s look as well.

Nicki Minaj, the not-bisexual, is the official touring partner for Britney Spears. Not that I would have gone to the concert anyway, but this just seals the deal.

Alan Cummings was mostly being interviewed for his role on The Good Wife, but he did talk about his role in Martina Cole’s The Runaway in the UK, in which he plays a transvestite. He says keeping the voice in the right register, keeping the ingrown hairs at bay, and the heels are tough, but it’s also amazingly vulnerable to dress as a woman.

Over at Gay Times, this editorial shows that many of the same arguments being thrown about against gays in the United States are also popping up in the U.K., especially in the Daily Mail. It seems we’re bullies, out to silence Christians. For the record, this is how “bully” is defined:

–noun 

     1. a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.

Note the “smaller or weaker” qualifier. If you’re the dominant group, odds are you’re not being bullied. Stop saying you are.