Morning Meme: Kirk Cameron Lashes Out, Sir Ian and "The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet" and Wax On, Wax Off

I don’t know what’s better, the fact that there’s going to be a zombie movie starring Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen and Gillian Anderson, or that it’s going to be called The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet.

Speaking of Sir Ian, he just got a new costar in The Hobbit, and it’s a gay costar. Stephen Fry is going to play The Master of Laketown.

U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridgewater penned an editorial in the Jamaica Observer on IDAHO denouncing the homophobia and anti-gay violence in that country. She also brought up a little bit of the Bible I think folks should pay more attention to: Matthew 7:12. That’s pretty much all you need in life.

China is getting a Hello Kitty theme park in 2014. I just don’t understand Hello Kitty. I spent a considerable amount of time in Asia, and was once two weeks from moving to Hong Kong for work, and I never understood why everyone, young, old, male, female, loved Hello Kitty and these other cutesy characters that didn’t seem to actually do anything but appear on merchandise.

Speaking of appearing on merchandise, Disney raked in $28.6 billion last year from merchandise. For a little perspective, global box office for all films released through the MPAA last year was $31.6 billion. So do they only make movies to make toys?

First off, when did Topher Grace get hot? And second, he’s got a plum new role in Gently Down the Stream opposite Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, and Amanda Seyfried.

You love Zachary Knighton on Happy Endings (even if he is the dullest character), but he managed the Full Monty in a movie called La Vie Nouvelle. Obviously NSFW.

Kirk Cameron, crazy former child star, is lashing out against one the greatest minds in the world, Stephen Hawking, who recently called heaven a fairy tale. He doesn’t think you can argue with Hawking, not because he’s a world class mind, but because he has ALS. “To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.”

Newt Gingrich said something really smart over the weekend about Paul Ryan’s budget plan, calling it “right-wing social engineering.” It was a fair assessment. But he’s under fire for that, and is trying to disavow what he said. “So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.” Remember, quoting a Republican, with video, in context, is lying.

We mentioned in Briefs that MTV was looking for kids raised by GLBT parents for a new show, but I wanted to make sure that you all saw it. It sounds like a great thing for the community.

Neither Jenna Ushkowitz nor Harry Shum, Jr. submitted themselves for an Emmy. Shum’s abs alone deserve an Emmy, but his representation said that it was a waste of money because the same people always win.

In a new study from John Jay College for Criminal Justice it was determined that “[T]he researchers found no statistical evidence that gay priests were more likely than straight priests to abuse minors—a finding that undermines a favorite talking point of many conservative Catholics. The disproportionate number of adolescent male victims was about opportunity, not preference or pathology, the report states. What’s more, researchers note that the rise in the number of gay priests from the late 1970s onward actually corresponded with “a decreased incidence of abuse—not an increased incidence of abuse.”

Old and busted: vajazzaling. Hot and fresh: Peejazzle for Men. From The Only Way Is Essex's Mark Wright. The most popular pattern is the Iron Cross, but oddly for a gay man, I like the red lips.