Morning Meme: Justin Timerblake's Best Day, Clint Eastwood For Marriage Equality, and "Workaholics" Relax At the Office

Justin Timberlake says that one of the most memorable days of his life was walking around Comic-Con with Esquire's Chris Jones, dressed as Bert and Ernie. "I keep forgetting, when people ask to take our picture it's because I'm Ernie. It's not because I'm me."

Glee is casting around for a super hot 18-year-old male to play a major arc. While I'd love to think it was for another gay guy to shake up Klaine, I have a feeling this is the new Quinn love interest.

Has Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign jumped the shark over her HPV vaccine remarks at the Tea Party debate? Rush Limbaugh seems to think so.

Can I just take a moment to apologize to the world at large for the politics the United States is inflicting on your newscasts? Because I'm truly ashamed when the audience of a political debate chants "Let him die!" about a 30-year-old without health insurance.

JJ Abrams has officially signed on to direct Star Trek 2 (or Star Trek 237, depending on how you number them).

Is naked rugby the best sport ever? h/t Crawfish Po Boy

While we talked earlier about J. Edgar star Armie Hammer's defense of his chest hair, we now have his director, Clint Eastwood, defending gay marriage. You should first know that Clint is considered one of Hollywood's last Republicans. "I don’t give a f*ck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of ... Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want."

Speaking of, I'm less thrilled with Clint and Leo DiCaprio's take on the relationship between Hoover and Clyde Tolson. According to Clint, "Well, they were inseparable pals. Now, whether he was gay or not is gonna be for the audience to interpret. It could have been just a great love story between two guys. Or it could have been a great love story that was also a sexual story." Leo says "If I were a betting man, I actually don't know what I would bet [regarding his sexuality]."

Johnny Depp on the set of Dark Shadows, in makeup, is going to give me nightmares, and not the kind of nightmares that Dark Shadows is supposed to give you.

The lawyers trying to keep Prop 8 the law of the land are also planning a push to force the IRS to remove restrictions on religious leaders speaking out directly on politics from the pulpit and keeping their tax exempt status.

Gloria Estefan angered a lot of people in the GLBT community by her big new deal with Target. When questioned, she says gays haven't done their homework and she's "very comfortable" Target is supportive of the GLBT community.

Can Perez Hilton's children's book rehabilitate his nasty image? Is his kinder, gentler website good enough to forgive and forget? According to Queerty, not really.

Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons has left his agency abruptly and is currently without representation.

The North Carolina marriage discrimination amendment has passed the NC senate, with basically no public debate. It will appear on a special ballot in May 2012, which is expected to draw primarily Republican voters.

Victims of child abuse at the hands of Catholic priests have filed a formal accusation at the International Criminal Court at the Hague directly against Pope Benedict. Naturally, Bill Donohue is livid and blaming gay men again.

Best headline this week. But still sad.

Institutional stockholders have filed a lawsuit against News Corp in relation to the hacking scandal, claiming officers approved huge settlements with victims, and thus knew the problem was widespread. James and Rupert Murdoch have been summoned before Parliament again to answer charges that they lied in earlier testimony.

Hugh Grant has signed up for the Wachowski siblings' Cloud Atlas. He will likely join the gender-bending cast in multiple roles.

Christina Hendricks is up for playing Wonder Woman with either Nicolas Winding Refn or Joss Whedon if they want her. And she's completely up for the BDSM origin version of the character. And she has nothing but praise for Chris Colfer's Struck By Lightning. "Chris is doing some really great stuff, so I was honored to be in his first movie. He can do anything. He's amazing."