Morning Meme: Tim Gunn Continues NY Offensive, Ten Minutes of "Easy A" and "Glee" Spoiler Pictures.

Plus Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Book of Mormon gets a date, Neil Gaiman gets animated, and Ryan Reynolds' "shame spiral."

Tim Gunn isn’t getting any more mellow, on Anna Wintour or anyone else. He’s been shooting an episode of Gossip Girl, and he’s so over Little J (Taylor Momsen). “What a diva. She was pathetic, she couldn't remember her lines, and she didn't even have that many. I thought to myself 'why are we all being held hostage by this brat?"

If you recall, the anti-gay bigots in California were trying to get conservative Lt. Gov. Abel Maldono to appeal the Prop 8 case on behalf of the state while Gov. Schwarzenegger was out of the country. They're still mad he didn’t do it. Want to know his excuse? A gas pipeline exploded and killed people, and he prioritized it over Prop 8. The Prop 8 folks are vowing revenge at the ballot box.

When Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t in court requesting restraining orders against our own Morgan, he’s busy promoting his hitRECord creative collaborations. His Fall Formal fundraiser October 28^th in New York City promises special celebrity guests in addition to hitRECord’s creative community. Other than Ticketmaster’s cut, it’s all going back to the small artists at hitRECord.

Neil Gaiman is a master of the fantastical, but I thought that was just in his writing. It turns out he has fur and purrs. Or at least he will when he gets animated in the children’s show Arthur. The evil kittehs have gotten to him.

NY Mag continues the peek into how The Daily Show works. Now it’s a transcript of how a gag gets built in the writer’s room: from original concept for a gay monster (Liberace’s head on a Where the Wild Things Are body) to how the finished bit actually aired.

Susan Sarandon says the only way she’d use Twitter is “I think if I announced I was gay I would use it. But to maintain it? It’s like those little Japanese pet things.”

Laughter pays well. The three main stars of your favorite non-gay comedy, Big Bang Theory have gotten a major pay raise. Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, and Jim Parsons have new deals that give them $200,000/episode, up from last year’s $60,000/episode. They also get some serious backend money from the syndication deal. I wonder if Cuoco has to forfeit her rate for the episode taping this week she’s missing because she fell off a horse? Because giving up $60,000 sounds easier than giving up $200,000.

Radley Metzger’s 1972 “bull’s-eye of bisexual chic” classic Score is being released on Blu-Ray on October 12 with the seven minutes of explicit scenes restored, including the gay sex scene that was never before seen.

Billie Mae Richards provided the voice for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964 has passed away at the age of 88. My condolences to her friends and family, and to my childhood.

A long time ago, I posted a video from Cory Monteith in which he filmed a New York Times photographer photographing the cast on set and behind the scenes. Now you can look at the 21 best photos from Todd Heisler’s visit to the set, including during the Britney/Brittany episode. This is mildly spoilery.

The 1,000 liter, bring-your-own jug wine dispensers that have been popping up in French supermarkets are likely headed to America. Kathy Griffin is trying to get one installed in her mom’s home.

Ryan Reynolds certainly sounds committed to finding time to make Deadpool. And he understands the character, “It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person.  I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.”

Since Beauty and the Beast 3D has been delayed until 2012, Disney is making it up to fans with dual sing-a-long screening of the 2D film September 29^th and October 2^nd.

Yesterday’s Pearls Before Swine perfectly encapsulated my feelings on “I’m sorry you were offended” apologies, even if they phrased it differently.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s musical comedy Book of Mormon will open March 24^th at the Eugene O’Neill Theater. Previews begin February 24^th.

Locally for me, WV Episcopalians have taken the first steps toward passing a resolution to consider blessing same-sex unions. They’ve also called on the state to pass its own version of ENDA.

Discovery is bragging about being one of the 10 Best Places To Work only a month after a lone gunman held employees at their headquarters hostage. As a bonus prize, four of those hostage employees will appear on today’s Oprah (one of the hostages is gay).