Weekend Meme: Nick Adams Is "Fab," David Geffen Does Politics, and Sam Witwer Talks "Being Human"

Everyone’s favorite mom, Barbara Billingsley, has passed away at 94. On Leave It To Beaver she made pancakes and vacuumed in pearls, with never a hair out of place.Then in Airplane! she spoke jive.  Mostly, in my mind, she was the woman who spurned the advances of Eddie Haskell.

Generating all sorts of chatter on the Internet today is an unsigned letter from someone who is sick of the proliferation of letters from GL to GLB to GLBT to GLBTQIAOP. Fortunately, I don’t have to pick this apart, because Alex Blaze did it for me at The Bilerico Project. Side note: Gay.com still exists?

Ever wonder what I do when I’m not writing for AfterElton.com? Probably not, but I did go to Bridge Day today, and that’s always fun.

I’m running out of ways to write “the Catholic Church has said something offensive.” This time it’s Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Belgium, blaming AIDS on gay sex. Did I mention he’s doing this just weeks after the Catholic Church in Belgium was the subject of a report on decades of sexual abuse against hundreds of children?

There are all sorts of gay tie ins over in the Entertainment Weekly "Reunions" issue. From Pretty In Pink, everyone is sure that Duckie (Jon Cryer) would be out by now. Plus, he and Andie (Molly Ringwald) would be lifelong friends. And Kermit and Miss Piggy reminisce about working with Elton John, and list their current relationship status as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Further details on the removal of the regeneration limit on the Doctor proves that 1) Russell T. Davies is responsible for changing everything and 2) while it’s been cannon since 1979, before that Time Lords were immortal, now who knows what’s right.

Benoit Mandelbrot, the mathematician responsible for the math that spawned a million screensavers, has passed away at the age of 85.

Jackass 3D, the movie that gets gay humor right, is off to a gangbusters beginning, bringing in $20 million on Friday alone. Red, the movie about old spies, is doing surprisingly well, headed for a $25 million weekend.

Dustin Lance Black is interviewed by Oliver Stone for Interview. There’s a lot of great stuff in the article from Black's take on Hoover to how he got Olsen and Bois on the Prop 8 case to his directorial debut.

Lamborghini now makes tractors.

Ole Miss has officially rolled out their new mascot, and sadly it is not Admiral Akbar. I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up, obviously “It’s a trap!”

Josh Hutcherson is everywhere these days including starring In Journey to the Center of the Earth 2 where he’s going to romance Vanessa Hudgens. Hopefully it will set off an off-screen romance between the two freeing up Zac Efron for me! No? It doesn’t work like that?

Sadly, we have to pay attention to Celebrity Apprentice in January because Richard Hatch is a contestant. Do you think he’ll try and win with nudity on this show too?

GLAAD is not any happier with Vince Vaughan’s desire to keep his gay joke in The Dilemma than we are. But nobody took him down quite like Gawker did, which was a thing to behold.

Ricky Martin is offering a signed Harley-Davidson he owns for a charity auction.

The Department of Justice is declining to appeal … a ruling allowing people to dispense religious materials inside federal parks. DOMA and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, those they’re still appealing.

Stephen Spielberg, Jeffery Katzenberg and ubber-rich gay David Geffen hosted a fundraiser for Jerry Brown’s campaign to be governor of California. He needs the money since Meg Whitman has spent $139 million of her own money trying to buy/win the election.

I’d skipped reporting the last “greelight” for The Hobbit because it was “sources” and not a press release. Now we have a press release. So paging Gandalf, you’re needed in the Shire.

In a new low in the wars between networks and cable companies, Fox has not only pulled their programming from Cablevision, they’ve also pulled it from Hulu if you have Cablevision as your Internet provider. No Glee for you!

As American highways crumble and we blow up our mountains to get the coal out of them the cheap and environmentally horrible way, the Swiss are celebrating the completion of the world’s longest tunnel, 35.4 miles through the Alps in an effort to remove half the truck freight from mountain roads and move it to rail. It’s a 20-year, $10 billion project voters approved with extra taxes.

Good news if you had tickets to Promises, Promises next week: Kristen Chenoweth will be in the show. Bad news for the rest of us, she’s there because she’s not taping an episode of Glee next week as planned due to a Glee scheduling change. Good news for everyone: She’s probably coming back for a multiple-episode arc in the spring instead.