Weekend Meme: Max Adler Talks Bullies, A Carolina Panther Says" NOH8," and Gwyneth Paltrow Is "Straight Outta Compton"

Alec Baldwin is not going to pull out of Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages movie. I can’t decide if that’s a good or bad thing.

Despite earlier reports, Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new pilot Ringer is not going to be picked up by The CW, because they can’t afford it. Turns out CBS felt the series didn’t fit their demographic.

Rep. Tammy Baldwin is “very likely” to run for an upcoming vacancy in the Senate. If she wins, she would become the first openly gay U.S. Senator. True story: When she was running for her first term, I was on a sales call in Minneapolis, and the customer I was dealing with was driving us to lunch when he started talking about how that “dumb dyke” would never get elected. My coworker had to physically restrain me from climbing over the back of the car.

There’s a better-than-average chance that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back in a Terminator movie, because Megan Ellison (daughter of Oracle founder Larry) has bought the rights to the Terminator franchise for just that purpose.

Showtime has set July 19^th as the premiere date for Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy series. At least one multi-part episode features Meryl Streep as a sex therapist, with a serious gay angle.

ABC canceled Better With You. Yes, our long national nightmare is over. Plus, since I had taken to muting the television during the show, I often missed the first few minutes of Modern Family. Besides, Happy Endings deserved that slot.

NBC did pick up Chelsea Handler’s autobiographical pilot to series. On the one hand, I love Laura Prepon, and I love the concept that Handler will play the recurring role of “mother” on the show, effectively becoming her own parent. On the other hand, I expect a lot of questionable gay jokes.

The Promise Keepers, that ridiculously preachy religious group for men, is staying firm in their support of Mel Gibson. But they still hate those dirty queers.

Students at Wasilla High School spent most of the school year working on a choral version of “Bohemian Rhapsody” only to be told by the principal that they couldn’t perform it at the school because it was written by a gay man, the late Freddie Mercury. The principal has since backed down rather than tussle with the ACLU. But the lyrics will be edited. And the principal is, well, nevermind...

Zac Efron, Tobey Maguire, Matthew McConaughey and Sofia Vergara are set to star in the sexual thriller The Paperboy. Beyond the beautiful cast, out director Lee Daniels is directing.

Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are set to star in Very Good Girls, about two high school graduates who set out to lose their virginity. Which is interesting, since I’ve never known beautiful girls to have any trouble with that task.

Despite rumors of a settlement, it looks like the sexual coercion trials involving anti-gay megachurch Bishop Eddie Long are going to end up going to trial, which could be very interesting from a  spectator perspective.

Forget Dragon Age, because it seems that you can play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic naked if you want, with your light saber out for all to see.

If you’re not lucky enough to see Judas Kiss at a film festival (I think Boston and Hawaii are happening this weekend, with Sean Paul Lockhart in Hawaii), you’ll be able to buy it from Wolfe in the fall.

In perhaps the tackiest thing I’ve ever heard, Disney filed for a trademark covering “SEAL Team 6” two days after that Seal unit took out Osama Bin Laden. The trademark is set to cover pretty much all entertainment uses, as well as derivative merchandising.

Guess who’s backing the marriage equality push in New York? Rich, conservative Republicans!

TVLine has been running a tournament bracket of memorable American Idol contestants, trying to come up with an ultimate Idol. Today’s matchup is Adam Lambert vs. David Archuleta. This is going to be a bloodbath.

In a news item that is more than a little confusing, it seems that Duke Nukem Forever had a gay robot with an explosive ass, but he got cut from the storyline.