Weekend Meme: John Barrowman Plays With Toys, Cher Explodes on the Bachmanns and Tina Turner Shot Randy Jackson.

In strange things that pop up in life, Randy Jackson mentioned in an interview that Tina Turner shot him. "Yes, Tina Turner shot me. I have the scar to prove it. I went to Tina’s house to see my girlfriend. I guess I caught them off guard. I don’t hold a grudge against Tina, she’s a great artist an asset to our industry.”

Prompted by the extremely tacky Newsweek cover, Ann Coulter spoke up about Princess Diana, saying "I find it a little baffling when Americans get so gaga-eyed over a princess. In particular Lady Di, who was just this anorexic, bulimic narcissist."  

If you missed the sneezing baby panda viral video a couple of years back, you truly need to stay in and stare mindlessly at the Internet more. But if you did miss it, it's actually being turned into a feature mockumentary.

Snow White and the Huntsman, the one with Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, is meant to be the first of a trilogy if the box office works out.

Perhaps the most shocking news of the weeks is the brief that the Department of Justice filed in a DOMA case that the House is now defending. They not only didn't defend the law, but spent pages outlining why the law is unconstitutional, and how heightened scrutiny applies as the government has been systematically discriminating against the GLBT community for decades. No wonder if got dumped to news on a Friday before a holiday weekend.

Maria Shriver has filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since there's no prenup, California law will evenly divide the assets, estimated at $400 million, $300 million of it Arnold's.

In other devastating blows to the sanctity of marriage committed by heterosexuals, George Lopez is now officially divorced from the wife who gave him a kidney, and Patricia Arquette is officially divorced from Hung star Thomas Jane.

Is Google thinking of buying Hulu? I hope they take it more seriously than they did the auction for Nortel's patents, which they lost by making bids of Brun's constant, Meissel-Merten's constant, and even bidding pi  when they got to $3 billion.

Congratulations to Illinois, which is officially out of the death penalty business.

Singing penis of the day.

Francois-Henri Penault has two four-year-old children, each from one of the world's most beautiful women. One child is with his wife, Salma Hayek, the other with Linda Evangelista, who he had a fling with while he and Salma were on a break. What's his secret? He's worth several billion dollars and controls most of the world's luxury brands.

Congratulations to my friend Bil Browning on winning the National Gay & Lesbian Journalist Association's award for Online Journalism for his reporting on Betsie Gallardo.

This snail is coming out of more than his shell.

Lady Gaga will be a guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance on a date to be announced.

Adrianne Palecki didn't make Wonder Woman's hot pants work, but now she's going to squeeze into a body suit as Lady Jane in the new G.I. Joe movie.

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