Weekend Meme: Tracy Morgan Twitter Storms, Tom Hanks Makes "American Gods" on HBO, and "From the Front Porch" with David Mixner

I’ve decided to push all the Tracy Morgan news into a special edition section of Weekend Meme on page two. Feel free to catch up there.

As I write this, we’re less than 24 hours from the start of the Tony Awards, and our man Neil Patrick Harris has been making the interview circuit. He’s promising the “edgiest Tony’s yet” but much of that seems to depend on whether the 14-time nominated The Book of Mormon can get a song past the censors. As for NPH, he’s not going to make himself the center of the show, and you won’t see him in Spider-Man spandex. Spoilsport. Obviously, I’ll be tweet-snarking the whole thing live.

The Seattle Mariners have become the 4,785,987^th baseball team to announce an It Gets Better video. Actually, I’m really happy to see them jump into the project, but I find it funny they’re all playing catchup instantly after the San Francisco Giants put theirs out.

For those of you who hate American directors remaking foreign films, prepare to be outraged: Chris Columbus is going to remake Troll Hunter.

Edward McNally, who is long rumored to have been the inspiration for Ferris Beuller’s Day Off (one of my all time favorite films), looks back on the film, and special scenes, as the movie turns 25. In other news, I'm really freaking old.

As we battle for marriage equality, I continue to marvel at the weirdness into which heterosexual marriage can devolve. A woman wanting dirt on the man she was divorcing created an underage fake Facebook persona and exchanged messages with her husband, and turned it over to the FBI. The FBI investigated, but then found the man had suspected his wife all along, and had created a notarized document of his intent to engage the persona that was dated before the actual interaction took place. Are we all clear on that?

Get assigned to review Glee Live!? Take your kids to the concert, have them get sick, and fake the song set based on past shows? Lose your job. Kids are nothing but trouble.

Need something to watch? There’s an app for that! Roger Ebert’s Great Movies has all you need to know about his top 300 films of all time. Honestly, I always prefer reading his reviews of films he hates. The man understands how to use a poison pen.

John Cleese is adapting A Fish Called Wanda into a musical. Oddly, this sounds like it’s just screwy enough to work. He did have to change the ending though. How he intends to fit a helicopter into the theater I have no idea.

The National Archives has hired (at least for the summer) a “Wikipedian In Residence” to foster greater information exchange between the two archives.

After news of Rep. Anthony Weiner exchanging DMs on Twitter with a 17-year-old girl hit the news, Rep. Weiner has taken a leave of absence from Congress to seek treatment. However, there’s no evidence he exchanged anything inappropriate with the girl.

Silvio Horta, after taking some time off following the end of Ugly Betty, has signed a rich new two-year deal with Sony TV. With any luck, he can create magic again.

Across the pond, some honors have been announced. Colin Firth is being made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and out NBA star and activist John Amaechi is being given the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Murder music king Buju Banton is petitioning the court to not go with the mandatory 15-year minimum sentence for his drug conviction.

Hang on to your hats, Tom Hanks’ because Playtone Productions has announced a slew of new projects. From Major Matt Mason based on the Mattel toy to American Idiot starring Billie Joe Armstrong. But in between those two is the most exciting project: a six season, 10-12 episode per season series of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Gaiman will executive producing as well as write, and all on HBO, with a budget of about $40 million per season. It should premiere in 2013 at the earliest.

Over on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher sat down to read the digital exchanges Rep. Weiner had with a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas. Filling in for the blackjack dealer was Jane Lynch. Totally NSFW.

Last week we posted a rather pompous, rude and entitled piece "A Dawn of the New Gay" that’s been polarizing the internet. Now the publisher has seen the need to explain why they gave it ink while people who understand just how privileged and entitled the people profiled seemed to be continue to have their say.