Morning Meme: Chris Colfer Hated "Candles," Teddy's "90210" Wedding, and "Arrested Development" Returns To Screens Big and Small

Chris Colfer appeared at the New Yorker Festival on Saturday, and the report is fairly exciting. He all but confirmed the spoiler about episode five. He said he and Blaine were like Lucy and Ricky (Kurt is Lucy). He admitted he didn't like singing "Candles" on the show. When asked about what Broadway roles he'd love to play, he said "I haven't written them yet." The whole article is great, and the video is cute.

Dolphin Tale ruled the weekend box office, edging out Moneyball for the crown. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 50/50 debuted at 4th with $9 million, though the blame for that one seems to be landing on writer/costar Seth Rogen.

During his HRC speech over the weekend, President Obama joked "Thank you so much. It is great to be back. I see a lot of friends in the house. I appreciate the chance to join you tonight. I also took a trip out to California last week, where I held some productive bilateral talks with your leader, Lady Gaga. She was wearing 16-inch heels. She was eight feet tall. It was a little intimidating."

The Washington Post comes out in favor of lifting the ban on gay men giving blood. Sadly, I veered down into the comments. WaPo moderates their comment section, so all you see is "This comment has been deleted by a moderator for violating the site's discussion policy." Things must have gotten nasty.

DARPA, the land of big dreams and basically unlimited money, has a project out for some fancy underwear for soldiers providing projectile protection, and even harvesting energy from movement to charge accessories. But do they offer wedgie protection?

Country singer Toby Keith has again reiterated his support for marriage equality, saying "First of all, we're going to stop somebody from getting a marriage license because they're gay? You won't stop them from living together, so what have you accomplished? ... Wasting a lot of money here and a lot of time that could be spent working on this deficit that we're under ... I never saw the reasoning behind getting in people's personal lives." He loses a few points with his thoughts on Don't Ask, Don't Tell and women in combat, but at least he's consistent, if a bit sexist.

Michael Musto has something to say to the haters out there, and it's NSFW.

Hallmark is doing big business in a new card line – for unemployment cards. That's right – so many people are losing their jobs that it's now profitable to have a sympathy card line about it.

Has Glee lost its musical mojo by focusing on show tunes? The latest releases are peaking at the middle of the chart instead of the top, down 50% or more.

Star Trek is going to have a comic book that explores the Star Trek: ToS episodes, but in the universe altered by the latest big screen film, with Vulcan destroyed and a younger Kirk. As the new movie approaches, it will start to foreshadow the plotline and introduce characters for the movie.

Belgrade Pride was canceled because the police are evidently incompetent.

TV Guide has a first look image from 90210's episode in which Teddy gets "married" in a tacky Las Vegas chapel by an Elvis impersonator.

Hey, look, I went to a thing.

Thomas Jane talks about the gay thing a lot in this interview. And he says we took his "penis in mouth" comment too seriously. Then he drops the bombshell that "Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I was 18. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?" h/t  cufflinksandtie

And the big news is that it appears that Arrested Development is going to do another season, then release the movie, probably in 2013, according to co-creator Mitch Hurwitz, and confirmed by Will Arnett via Twitter from the bathroom, where he was peeing next to Jason Bateman. Early articles indicated no network was attached to air the new episodes, but Deadline reports that Netflix is probably the outlet for the new season.

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