Morning Meme: Cher Comes Out Swinging For Chaz, Auditioning For the "Wonder Twins" Movie, and NPH Gets Animated - Again

Cher is in full Mama Grizzly mode over the haters who are trashing Chaz on the message boards for Dancing With the Stars. She's taken to Twitter to rally her followers and to talk about how brave it was for Chaz to put himself out there like that. Incidentally, here are the pairings for the celebrities and the professional dancers.

Speaking of hateful things, Rep. Michele Bachmann will publish a memoir about "her roles as a tax attorney, a wife, a mother of five and a foster mother of 23." Just in time for the Christmas shopping season we get an alternative to the lump of coal for kids who have been naughty!

Wall Street trader Scott Redler is making news after hiring a helicopter for $7,000 to bring him and his family out of a damaged area of Vermont back to New Jersey, and then telling the media he did it because "I wasn’t going to wait for the state or federal government. I can’t trust them, because I know I’m not a priority.”

In a bold move, President Barack Obama petitioned Congress for a joint session to address his jobs plan on September 7th, which coincided with a Republican debate. It would have had him looking presidential on every channel while his opponents sniped each other on MSNBC. But Speaker Boehner told the leader of the free world September 7th didn't work for him, so Obama caved and moved to the 8th – opposite the NFL season opener.

Which leads us to Barack, can we talk?

Canada has issued a warning that "fresh sperm" purchased over the internet may not be safe from STDs. Ya think?

Unless he was exchanging sex for letting a criminal off, can someone tell me why a cop getting caught on surveillance cameras having sex outside is news? Beyond out Puritan issues with sex, that is.

David Weston has written a book called Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale, and Sir Ian is endorsing it with a full throat.

Bryan Fischer, the public face of the American Family Association, fresh off calling for the criminalization of homosexuality last week on his radio program, is upping the ante. He now wants a fine for anyone who has unprotected homosexual sex. I can just imagine the enforcement.

In order to get his virally marketed film Red State eligible for Oscar consideration, Kevin Smith reveals he not only had to book a one-week run at a theater, he also had to take out $10,000 in newspaper advertising, because those are the Academy rules.

Atlanta's Out On Film Festival is being held over the next 10 days, and features locally disputed films such as Judas Kiss and From Hollywood to Dollywood.

Neil Patrick Harris is not only getting animated on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, he's also reprising his role on The Penguins of Madagascar for Nick, playing the evil Dr. Blowhole, a cybernetic dolphin.

Michael Eisner's Vuguru company will release their Don't Ask, Don't Tell film on September 20th, the day the policy is officially repealed. It's based on Marc Wolf's award winning play Another American Asking and Telling.

Meanwhile, Google will let service members overseas have free Google Voice calls to their loved ones. All it takes is registering a .mil email address.

Tom Hardy is aware of the criticism of casting the 5'9" actor to play the hulking Bane in Dark Knight Rises. But he appreciates the passion and is ready to rise to the challenge of the role, even if he can never meet diehard fan expectations.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust lawsuit to stop the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.

Just to keep the "no homo" factor going in Magic Mike, Olivia Munn is in negotiations to star as Channing Tatum's love interest in the film.

Starz is most likely picking up Da Vinci's Demons, about the early years of the Renaissance genius. The show will likely skip pilot and go straight to series. The big question is that Da Vinci is widely believe to have had same sex lovers, so will they show that?