Morning Meme: "God of Carnage" Casting, "Rocky Horror" Movie Remake, and What's Up With Josh Horowitz

When something makes the purple section of USA Today, does that mean it’s arrived, or that it’s so hopelessly uncool that a teenager will never look at it again? Because that’s what’s happened to It Gets Better.

I would like to make it known that when I saw how good Nickelodeon’s Robbie Amell looked shirtless on Cartoon Network’s Scooby Doo and the Lake Monster Saturday night, I immediately checked to make sure he was legal. And he’s 22-years-old, so feel free to give him the once over.

This interview with Degrassi: The Next Generation’s Shannon Kook-Chun (Zane) touches on the fact that he knew Agris Karras (Riley) before he was cast, but had no problems making out with his friend. Who would?

Osama bin-Laden is living in relative comfort in Northwest Pakistan. So ends the world’s least intense game of Where’s Waldo?

I suppose that if any board game was going to be dipped in gold and be encrusted with diamonds, it should be Monopoly. You’ll need $2 million of real money to buy this.

Tentatively, Judge Virginia Phillips has declined to stay her order halting Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The government has asked for an administrative stay so it can appeal to the 9^th Circuit. In declining the stay, she said “The arguments by the government are vague … and belied by the evidence produced at trial.” Ouch.

With the Olympics hitting London in 2012, the Glastonbury Music Festival is being canceled. It’s not that they think people wouldn’t flock to both, but there just aren’t enough porta-potties in all the land to support both events.

Fox 2000 is trying to tempt Ryan Murphy into remaking Rocky Horror Picture Show – the actual movie. I hope that he has enough integrity to not just say no, but convince them that it should never, ever be attempted.

John C. Reilly is joining Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz in the God of Carnage big screen adaption of the award winning play.

Hollywood can’t help itself, it just wants everyone to forgive Mel Gibson. So he’s getting a cameo in Hangover 2.

I’m not surprised that Law & Order: Los Angeles got a full season order, but color me impressed that Outsourced got one. The Event was a tossup for me.

I hope that Justin Bieber does speak out against anti-gay bullying following the incident at the laser tag center over the weekend. If he needs any more encouragement about how bad things are for gay kids, he only has to read the comments in posts about the incident.

Disney is trying to pull the Marvel properties back into the fold. They’ve put up $115 million to Paramount to get Iron Man 3 (2013) and The Avengers back, but they left Captain America with Paramount.

The Lion King had several deaths, fire and violence, but still got a G rating. So why can’t any modern animated films like Tangled do the same? PG used to be the kiss of death for animation.

That official Vatican newspaper is claiming Homer Simpson is a Catholic. This brings up a couple thoughts: 1) Reverend Lovejoy might disagree; 2) Are they so low on modern role models that Homer Simpson sounds like an upgrade?

The Pleo robotic dinosaur has been reborn, and I so want one for Christmas.

The New York Times is turning up the Gray Lady’s nose at Deadspin and the media reporting Brett Favre’s peen pictures. As it ticks off the examples of pocketbook journalism, there’s just a hint of sour grapes. 

Are the Real Housewives really flesh eating zombies? No, because that I would watch.

Kanye West’s banned album cover is NSFA (Not Safe for Anyone, but definitely not work).

My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee is going to guest on Raising Hope.