Morning Meme: Big Screen "Baywatch," NPH and David Burtka's Night Out, and Political Sex Scandals Through the Ages,

Next Magazine gives a shoutout to their "Hebrew Hotties" just before the high holidays. Who made the list? Jayson Littman, Ari Gold, and Logo's own Jonathan Lovitz.

Peter Tolan's follow up to Rescue Me is set to be a big screen movie inspired by Baywatch. It will center on two young guys who take life changing jobs at the beach. Sadly, he's supposedly made it non-campy.

The Lion King roared to box office victory with an astounding $29.3 million opening. Not bad for a 17-year-old film. Contagion slotted second, with Drive hitting the low end of expectations at $11 million, and getting horrible scores from viewers, in contrast to critics, who loved it.

ABC is writing a comedy about a married couple who draw cartoons for the New Yorker. Because New Yorker cartoons are funny.

Rep. Michele Bachmann says that gay bullying in schools isn't a federal issue. But a federal Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is.

We'd like to bring your attention to the Kickstarter page for the short film Gone, which will star Tom Lenk (Andrew from Buffy!) opposite a yet-to-be-cast actress both grieving the same man they loved.

AIDS cases dropped 25% in New York City. HIV cases didn't drop, just AIDS cases. Medicine keeps people alive, but it doesn't make them smarter.

Courteney Cox and David Arquette are developing a comedy about a group of friends, largely like old Friends, with two characters based loosely on their current relationship.

I'm not entirely sure why last night's Emmy Awards felt somewhat flat, but it could have been corporate meddling. Fox forced the show to cut a phone-tapping joke with Alec Baldwin in the opening, leading to a last minute addition of Leonard Nimoy. And Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros. fought unsuccessfully to keep Charlie Sheen off the show, but they neutered his performance.

Bravo has not renewed the contracts of some Housewives in some city.

A bed and breakfast in Illinois has refused to host a civil union ceremony, and put the rejection in writing, so there's now a lawsuit. I know these things are necessary, but every time I read them, I squirm, because it just seems to lead to deeper exemptions in the next state we battle for equality in.

Actress France Bay, best known for playing the grandmother in Happy Gilmore, has passed away at age 92.

Edie Windsor, currently doing battle with Speaker Boehner's Bi-Partisan Legal Group over the Defense of Marriage Act, has fired back on the filing that the fact that she was briefly married to a man makes being gay a choice. "What my marriage to Saul Weiner shows is that although I tried to make a ‘choice’ about my sexual orientation by getting married to a man, I was simply unable to do so.”

Prospect Park, the production company currently in process of taking over All My Children and One Life To Live has announced a ton of new development projects, but what caught my eye was Built In a Day, currently at ABC, about a PR firm in ancient Rome. Atticus is who you call if you're caught with your tunic down.

Rick Welts, the outgoing president at the Phoenix Suns, says he's overwhelmed by the number of job offers flowing in as he prepares to move to Northern California to be with his boyfriend. "I have a strong feeling that I’m going to be back in the [sports] industry with an opportunity that is equal to the platform that I have as the president of the Suns. One thing that prevented me from taking this step until this point in my career was the uncertainty of how announcing I was gay would affect my future job prospects."

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