Morning Meme: "Torchwood" Actors Get New Roles, Rufus Wainwright and Chelsea Handler are Naughty, and Prince Poppycock

Plus the Piano Man loves Glee, Iron Fist moves into production, and Bullied is powerful viewing.

SyFy’s pilot with the naughty name Three Inches about a team of superheroes with less than super powers keeps staffing up. Stephanie Jacobson of Melrose Place and Naoko Mori of Torchwood have joined the show. And James Marsters has been announced as the team lead.

Disney/Pixar have abandoned the Annie Awards, the biggest thing going for animation. They couldn’t come to terms with the sponsoring organization’s rules for voting. Anyone could pay a fee and get voting rights for the awards, and 40% of the membership works for Dreamworks Animation.

GLAAD’s Jarett Barios makes $225,000/year, which is a lot, but really doesn’t seem out of line for the class of person you want in that job. But it’s bad news that the organization is basically hemorrhaging money, spending millions more on fund raising than that fund raising is bringing in.

New York Governor David Paterson had a slip of the tongue yesterday. I can’t play the video for you, but I can point to people who can.

Sandra Bullock is going to do an interview with the Today Show, but don’t expect some weepy, cheated-on wife thing – she’s doing it from a New Orleans school she’s working with, and the focus will be on education.

On Labor Day Cartoon Network will debut two new shows, Mad, based on Mad Magazine, and Regular Show, which features an anthropomorphic lollipop, a six-foot tall bluejay, a yeti, and a talking gumball machine. I really never thought I’d type that sentence.

I will never forgive Hollywood for making Human Centipede. And I certainly will never forgive it for Human Centipede 2: The Full Sequence. This time, there will be twelve people involved.

Liam Hemsworth is single again. Maybe Miley shouldn’t have wished he looked more like her gay BFF?

Marvel is going to make a live-action Iron Fist movie, and has the man who gave us xXx to write it. I have to say, on the charts I’ve seen of ways to get superpowers, plunging your hands into the molten heart of a dragon never appeared.

It turns out that when making a movie, you might just need to put a necktie and a hat on a real bear to start with.

Billy Joel says that he was in a chorus in high school and he’s already told Glee that they can use any of his music they want. He is not interested in making a cameo.

Beijing has turned the Olympic Water Cube arena into a water park – with style. Still, it’s pretty pricey for admission at $30, when the average monthly wage is $138.

Katie Holmes will costar in Jack and Jill with Al Pacino. They don’t play Jack and Jill however. Both Jack and Jill will be played by Adam Sandler, who has obviously been possessed by Tyler Perry.

Think it’s not worth your time to stop and pick up that penny on the street? What about a nickel, or a quarter? Somebody did the math.

Kim Catrall and Bernadette Peters are set to star at The Kennedy Center production of Follies May 7^th to June 5^th.  I’m trying to figure out if it could be gayer without there being actual sex on stage.

Michael Cera is developing a slacker comedy for FX called 13^th Grade. There are no plans for him to star, but he will guest on the show.

Congratulations to Oprah Winfrey’s former chef Art Smith on his Washington, D.C. wedding to Jesus Salguiero. The wedding day featured a morning run before a ceremony in front of 485 guests. Smith says “It was this big gay wedding.”

And a final thought about the former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman who came out formally yesterday: Yes, we can all agree that he did some of the most despicable things politically to GLBT people in recent memory. For that, you don’t sleep with him, and you encourage everyone you know to make sure the guy doesn’t get laid. You don’t crucify him when he’s bringing together a bunch of influential conservatives to raise money to fight Prop 8, or we just look like bullies. He demonized us to elect Bush, let’s use him to further our causes. Plus, this, by someone smarter than me.