Morning Meme: Betty White Goes 'Inside the Actors Studio," Is "True Blood" Still Too Gay, and Joe McElderry's Lad Mag

Plus Jane Lynch does iCarly, Lucas Grabeel is the Dancing Ninja, and Kylie is set to conquer North America.

So Kylie Minogue is going to try to conquer the United States again, with a 2011 North American tour. She’s tried before and never managed to catch the interest of Americans. When I traveled to Australia in the late 90s, Aussies didn’t understand this, since she’s almost a religion there — and most of the world.

Blondie is very much a New York City band, and as AE reader Eric Hegedus discovered when he talked to the band, they remember each New York neighborhood when it was still edgy and cool. Well, except Williamsburg. I’m pretty sure nobody but hipsters ever thought Williamsburg was cool.

And as the headline of the article states, This week in manufactured True Blood controversy we’re still discussing whether True Blood sucked us in with heterosexuality and then sprang all the homo stuff on us. Because we never saw Lafayette or Godric or any other gay characters before Talbott and Eric got it on.

Evidently sensitive to issues of racebending after The Last Airbender, Paramount has updated the casting call for the role of Nico in their Runaways movie to specify an Asian-American actress.

We’re all going to spend the next month listening to people argue about how many people showed up for Glenn Beck’s rally on the steps of Lincoln Memorial. Beck says 500k, while NBC news claims that the Park Service, which doesn’t officially do estimates any more, nonetheless estimates 300k. Meanwhile, CBS News actually commissioned a company to do an aerial survey who says it was only 87k people. Can well all just agree that those who attended are scared, poorly informed old white people?

Betty White continues to dominate the media conversation. She’s been booked on Inside the Actors Studio with James Lipton, so we’ll soon get to hear what her favorite curse word is.

The controversy of the “liberal” dad over at Salon trying to be supportive of his son wanting to dress as Snow White for Halloween while simultaneously discouraging him in the name of protecting the child continues to draw ink. But Brett Berk, who normally reviews cars for Vanity Fair gets to the heart of the matter better than most.

If you ask Scotland Yard, as opposed to the British tabloid press, the MI6 employee found dead in a bag in his bath tub wasn’t gay, wasn’t a cross dresser, didn’t have S&M equipment in his apartment, and is much less interesting to write about than the British press can tolerate.

If you believe Scott Page-Pagter, a producer on 450 episodes of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, David Yost (Billy, nerdy Blue Ranger) was a “pain in the ass” and left over money, not homophobia on set. Because you always believe the people accused of homophobia when they try and play smear the queer.

Christopher Sieber is going to pick up the role of Edna Turnblad in Hairspray September 22-October 24 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.

Before Bill O’Reilly was telling America their morals were inferior, and even before releasing a stream of profanity on the set of a tabloid news program, he was reviewing adult films such as The Devil in Miss Jones for print publications

Even if Desperate Housewives is nearly unwatchable these days, and usually doesn’t make decent use of their myriad of gay characters, one thing they do very well is cast older actresses to play the mothers of their mainstay characters. Next up is Lois Smith to play Tom Scavo’s mom. You most recently remember her as Sookie and Jason’s Gran on True Blood.

To aggravate snicks, here’s the Ultimate Collection of Shirtless Rafa Pictures.

Word on the street is that it takes Paul Brittain, Taran Killam, and Vanessa Bayer to replace Will Forte on Saturday Night Live. But the dudes are both hot, so I’ll go with it.

I really can’t imagine anything more awkward than Margaret Cho on Dancing With the Stars. 

If you recall, the Catholic League, and the incredibly anti-gay Bill Donohue were angry the Empire State building declined to light up blue and white in honor of Mother Theresa’s 100^th birthday. That date came on August 26^th, and the Catholic League lead a protest march against the building, which was instead lit up to celebrate the 90^th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Because you know Bill Donohue is against uppity women wanting a voice in democracy.

Here are the details on The Green, which hunk-a-dunk Cheyenne Jackson has been shooting in Connecticut.

And just for fun, what if John K, the artist behind Ren & Stimpy, drew a version of Justin Beiber?