Morning Meme: Tim McGraw Helps Teens, Tim Gunn Loves Pee Wee, and to David Archuleta, Dude Looks Like a Lady

At the request of his 11-year-old nephew, Tim McGraw crashed Grassland Middle School’s assembly to tell the kids to be kind to each other and to stand up when someone else gets bullied. He mentioned the sad suicide of Asher Brown by name, and said he had been bullied to death. I think it’s pretty great to see another country star stepping forward like this.

If you press play on this video at Deadspin, it will be NSFW. And what will you see? Allegedly it’s the peen of Brett Favre. It’s remarkably unimpressive.

Lookout Oprah, Ryan Seacrest is in negotiations for his own network, just like the big O. Seacrest already controls half the shows on E!, including being responsible for unleashing the Kardashians on the world.

If you look at the Seventeen Films that Influenced Tim Gunn, you’ll see all the gay classics, Mommie Dearest, Funny Face, The Women, Funny Girl. But the one that surprised me was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Just a touch of whimsy.

NBC has purchased a comedy pilot from Ben Silverman that sounds like it will either be awesome, or extremely terrible. Called Party People, it’s about a bunch of entertainers that are forced to do kids parties to make ends meet, with a group setting like Taxi.

Close to home, the National Republican Senate Committee has been running an ad to elect evil businessman John Raese. It features three old coots sitting in a diner talking about West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and how he can’t be trusted around President Obama. As a West Virginian, I immediately noticed the accents didn’t work. Turns out, they’re actors from Philadelphia who were cast to be “hicky.” Did they not think it would get out?

Dan Akroyd is rewriting the Ghostbusters 3 script. This could be awesome, or, well, it could be Yogi Bear.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is joining Good Morning America as a contributor. I’m officially no longer a viewer, GMA. Treating her as a journalist is a travesty. 

Gay activists were denied communion by Twin Cities Roman Catholic Archbishop John C. Nienstedt. How’s that “hate the sin, love the sinner” thing working out?

You know the Park 51 Islamic Community Center controversy? It turns out it’s happened before, 225 years ago. But last time it was St. Peter’s Catholic Church, the oldest Catholic Church in New York. And they ended up not building the church where they wanted to. Bigots just shift targets, they never stop.

Oxygen has officially renewed Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (and by extension, the guncles we love), they’ve also given them Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings, for them to make people’s dreams come true.

Parade asked Josh Duhamel about getting to kiss Katie Holmes and Katherine Heigl in the movies. "It's just one of the perks of the job. Katherine was like, 'You were making out with Katie Holmes in your last movie?' Excuse me, I'm already jealous.' Personally, I'm a big fan of Katherine's husband, Josh Kelly, so kissing her in Life As We Know It was like indirectly getting to make out with him.”

The Suds Report has assembled messages of support for teens in crisis from a number of soap actors and actresses, from Michael Muhney, Martha Byrne to the out Thom Bierdz.

MTV has picked up an adaptation of Patito Feo (Ugly Duckling). It’s a comedy with a strong music element that centers around a Mexican teenage girl who moves to Florida with her mom and runs into trouble with the popular girl at school. It’s evidently been a powerhouse hit in Argentina for years.

Mike Myers is going to voice Pepé Le Pew in a new live action/CGI movie. Because Mike Myers is what everyone thinks of for the perfect French lover. 

Up and coming male model Florian Van Bael was fired from a Bruce Weber Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot for taking a bite of a croissant. His manager supports the firing, saying such disrespect for the rules can’t be allowed.