Morning Meme: Sean Hayes Heads West, Anderson Cooper's New Friend, and Live-Action "Toy Story" Is Awesome

Sean Hayes has sold a Western to NBC.  It's going to center around a doctor who moves to the Rockies and stands out because he doesn't fight with guns, but rather new theories that are being practiced in the East. So it's largely Doctor Quinn, Medicine Women with a male lead. Someone get Chad Allen on the phone.

PETA is upset. What, you need me to be more specific? Well, this time it's about the New York Times picture of the "sexy chicken" which has been drawing raves. But according to PETA, "It's necrophilia. It's not amusing. It's just ghastly and sickly. It's not fitting for The New York Times." After watching Mitchell and Cam go nuts on a juice fast last night, I can't help but think PETA would be less angry if they'd just eat a steak.

Another judge has ruled that Illinois is perfectly within their rights to cancel $30 million in contracts with four Catholic dioceses because they refuse to place children with unmarried and same-sex couples in defiance of the law. But again, these churches are demanding special rights.

Remember how everyone was talking about Nancy Grace having a nip slip on Dancing With the Stars? And how Nancy was denying it? Well, she was probably right. Contestants wear "petals" over their nipples for just such an emergency. Of course, "stars" on a network dancing program call them "petals" which dancers in strip clubs call them pasties.

This is a fairly logical opinion article on why broadcast television's ban of the f-word is completely ridiculous, and often leads to even more vulgar substitutes being used. Can't we all just agree to be grownups?

I could be wrong (probably not the first time in this column alone), but I think Vulture is jumping the gun by claiming that Glee's auditions for West Side Story prove the Ramin Setoodeh was right about gay actors. This is an arc, and needs to play out. Let them tell a coherent story since they've decided to try it out.

Is it possible that those neutrinos didn't move faster-than-light, but instead hopped beyond our puny four-dimensional understanding of the universe and took a shortcut to Italy?

I have to say, Bryan Safi's takedown of Millionaire Matchmaker's Patti Stanger is pitch perfect. Someone should really give this guy his own television show.

In what is sure to become a chicken-and-egg argument between the Parents Television Council and well, everyone else, they've calling on The Playboy Club's immediate cancellation, saying their boycott is the reason the show is tanking, and not because Eddie Cibrian can only be considered an interesting actor if he's nearly naked and you're distracted.

You really need to take a listen to Michaelangelo Signorile destroying North Carolina senator James Forrestor, sponsor of the bill that put a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot in the state. Signorile destroys the man just on facts alone, even without arguing humanity.

To scrub your brain out, Rod 2.0 has amazing images of British gymnast Louis Smith in flight.

Or if you want smarter men, there's a beefcake calendar of male librarians that's super hot.

President Obama feels that the courts are likely to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act in the near future, and that the courts are the best way forward on this issue with Congress in its current useless state.

Tony Bennett has become the first 80-something to top the Billboard charts.

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