Morning Meme: Christopher Meloni Headed To Krypton, Lady Gaga Sued, and George Michael and Sir Elton Make Up

Chris Meloni is going to be playing a general in the new Superman movie, not Lex Luthor as many have speculated. But in some incarnations, wasn't Zod a General? "Kneel before Zod!" Is this Superman or Oz?

The Alaska Pride parade was canceled after a fatal crash left a pedestrian dead minutes before it was to step out.

Meanwhile, in Chicago 30 Pride floats were found with slashed tires the morning of the parade. Organizers say that it's hard to imagine that it's not a hate crime, and were scrambling to find open tire shops to fix the floats.

Shortly after the lackluster opening for Green Lantern, R.I.P.D. with Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges got a release date for June 2013. Now we just have to hope Reynolds finds time for Deadpool.

As we've already established, my music knowledge is lacking, I was taken aback to find Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü was gay, long out and had a new book. And oddly, spent some time in pro wrestling! But they do acknowledge that he seems almost invisible to gay culture:

The beauty of invisibility is that you gain a much wider palette for observation. If nobody’s looking at you, you can look at everything. Then there are times where you’re the focal point, so there are all these different perspectives that I sort of walked through. With sexuality and identification — in the book I explain my ignorance of gay culture. I’m an uncomfortable spokesperson because I blurt, and I’m not always politically correct. And the gay community, more so than other communities, are very quick to reparse your thoughts, and if a couple words come out askew, they will tear you apart, so I don’t step up much. Also, I didn’t embrace the more flamboyant side of gay culture — the effeminate, the drag, the transgender — since I didn’t identify or understand it, when I would see the conservative media in the 80s covering ACT UP, who were doing all the heavy lifting. I just didn’t appreciate it at the time. They weren’t lifting for me, they were lifting for people with AIDS, and I just didn’t get it. That is one of my two enormous laments about my sexuality. The other is, if I’d been out in ‘86, what things would be like."

On Tuesday, author Sarah Dessen woke up to 1,060 emails, most calling her depraved. What was her crime? Her publisher bought time on DeGrassi for her new book and she became a target of the Florida Family Association's ineffective but tasteless boycott of the show.

When Spy Kids 4 hits theaters, it's not making do with just 3D, it's going 4D. Robert Rodriguez is adding smell by handing out a card loaded with eight scents.

Paul Reubens says that he turned in a draft script for the new Pee-Wee Herman movie to Judd Apatow last week. I find that both terrifying and exciting.

The Coen brothers are setting their sights on the New York folk scene with their next movie, centering it around Dave van Ronk. The gay angle is that the always political van Ronk was arrested in the Stonewall Riots.

I think the claim that some are making that Google doesn't do enough for gay causes is ridiculous. They give money, time, have a great employee group and are backing the It Gets Better Project. And folks are complaining about their rainbow on search?

Lady Gaga is being sued by, I kid you not, 1-800-Law-Firm over her charity drive for Japan earthquake relief. The claim argues that Gaga implied she'd be giving "all proceeds" vs. "all profits" to charity.

Michael Bay is taking the extraordinary step of writing to theater CEOs, projectionists, and now fans, demanding they see Transformers 3 in 3D, and that theaters show it under perfect conditions. For me, the only perfect condition to see Transformers 3 is if they load another movie instead.

If you hate political advertising do I have bad news for you. Buys on broadcast stations are expected to skyrocket for 2012, perhaps as much as 18% over the 2008 elections when you saw a tiny bit of television in between negative ads. I guess I'll be making good use of my DVR.

Of course that DVR is breaking the bank, as the New York Times reveals what I've known for years: DVRs are power hogs, and use more electricity each year than your refrigerator.

George Michael surprised the crowd at Sir Elton John's White Tie and Tiara fundraiser, joining Sir Elton onstage for "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me," ending their long running feud. Or as The Sun put it, "Elton and George end 7-year bitch.'

Tracy Morgan took the stage for his first comedy show since Nashville, and managed a stream of jokes about masturbation, ejaculation and the female anatomy. But as the controversy, "I know you’re waiting for me to address the controversy. I ain’t sayin’ s—, f——. What do I care? What do I get out of the deal?" When he got to the end of his set, he finished with "“Gay, straight… I don’t care. As long as you’re happy.”

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