Morning Meme: "Glee" Roundup Frenzy, Keanu Talks "Bill & Ted," and "Catch Me If You Can" Announces Preview Dates

Plus Greg Louganis swims for equality, is Nikki Minaj using the gay community, and watch Anderson Cooper set a world record on a mattress.

Was E! just using a rhetorical flourish when they said that Chord Overstreet’s “Sam and Quinn (Diana Agron) are going to make gorgeous blond babies together!” Or do they know something?

You may have seen some of the audition videos for Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star on her new Oprah Winfrey Network. She’s now named hosts for the reality show to pick her new star, and it’s Carson Kressley and Nancy O’Dell.

I’m hoping there’s more to this story, but Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the UK lobby group Stonewall just became the only man at a meeting to speak out in opposition of marriage equality in the UK.  His reasoning is that it would be too expensive, costing nearly £5 billion. Geez, have the queen sell her weekend rubies or something. She can always wear the sapphires instead.

Tim Burton has cast the voice actors for his stop action Frankenweenie. He’s being razzed for using familiar faces, but I don’t see Johnny Depp’s name, just Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short, and Catherine O’Hara.

Here’s a piece of advice: If you’re going to write an unfavorable review about a hotel, wait until you check out. Otherwise the manager may kick you out without a refund.

Focus Features has announced it intends to seek Best Actress nominations for both Annette Bening and Julianne Moore for playing lesbian parents in The Kids Are All Right. Like in Highlander, there can be only one.

It may be counterproductive to keep pointing and laughing at Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell for her statements 20 years ago about masturbation, or about her dates on a Satanic altar. But her statements a mere four years ago that “People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.” That should scare the crap out of us.

Later this month Greg Louganis will be one of about 50 swimmers off the coast of Malibu doing the backstroke to raise $100,000 for Equality California.

Disney is looking to build a new theme park with their newly acquired Marvel super heroes at EuroDisney. They just signed a new land option with the French government making it possible.

Meet Adam Anders, the Swedish-born music producer that does all the arrangements for the music on Glee once Ryan Murphy picks the songs out. The disturbing part is how they pick out music and pay for it, because listen to how he defines “classic songs.” “They see a resurgence of sales when we do their songs, especially for classic artists, who see their songs get a whole new life. I was talking to Max Martin, who’s written, like, every Britney song ever. He’s all about it because he wants people to hear his old music, not just what he’s doing now. He has “California Gurls” now — he wrote that, but he has all these great songs from ten years ago that he’s excited for this generation to hear.” I am so old.

I can’t decide whether to be horrified or excited that Community is doing a stop-motion homage to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for their Christmas episode. I adore those old Christmas specials, and if they mess up my memories, I’m gonna be pissed.

The untitled religious drama about Scientology starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner has mysteriously ground to a total stop. Now Renner won’t have any awkward moments with Tom Cruise on the set of Mission Impossible IV.

Two gay favs have been renewed for new seasons, The Big C and Weeds will each be back next year.

The new musical Catch Me If You Can will open for previews March 7^th at a Nederlander theater to be announced. The team behind the new production are out partners Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, along with the out Terrance McNally, and they’ve got a stack of Tony Awards between them.

We told you recently that Christopher Plummer was playing gay for the first time in Beginners. Now that it’s been picked up by Focus Features, they’re prepping it for release to qualify Plummer for a Best Supporting Actor nomination come Oscar season.

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to play a love interest for Matthew Morrison on two episodes of Glee. Paltrow sings in her upcoming country music film Country Strong, and she’s friends with Ryan Murphy, who is writing the part specifically for her.

It seems to be a rite of passage for any show, particularly with anything that has a musical bent, that they have to do a Wizard of Oz episode. There are now previews for the Phineas and Ferb cartoon version.

Fears are growing that if Rupert Murdoch buys the rest of Sky that he doesn’t already own, he’s going to turn it into to Fox News UK. And nobody seems willing to stand up to Murdoch, so get ready London!

Sadly, Keanu Reeves says the live action Cowboy Bebop is dead.

And I love the pictures for the sexy, violent sport of Kabbadi that the New York Times says is catching on in Queens. Look out rugby, these guys are gorgeous, shirtless, and rugged.

When I saw Nikki Minaj on the Video Music Awards, I didn’t know what to think, since she didn’t appear to be singing on her own song. Now people are questioning, legitimately, whether she feels any affinity to the gay community, or if she’s just using us.