Morning Meme: Alan Cumming Blasts Obama, Ali Forney's Bold New Campaign, and Things Got Better For Ross Matthews

I know he wrote it in a blog post, but what I wouldn’t give to hear Alan Cumming, in that delightful accent of his, telling President Obama “We keep hearing that Obama is an ally, that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ will end under his watch, but what do we actually get? Diddly squat thus far on a federal level, and in addition to that some very offensive statements that would have made the Republicans look bad."

MTV, I know you sign the paychecks around here, but you make it really hard for me to take you seriously with headlines like ‘Runaway’ Solidifies Kanye West As The Greatest Pop Star Of This Generation. I couldn’t even make it though the piece of self indulgent crap.

CBS, having already mined Twitter for all the show ideas it can come up with has devised a show about celebrity namesakes. For example, going to visit the three “Betty Whites” in Boston.  I just can’t understand why anyone would care – I share a name with a very famous deceased senator from Massachusetts, and all I ever found it interesting for was getting a table at The Palm when I lived in D.C.

Kellan Lutz. Abs. Men’s Health Spain. Unf.

The Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy has confirmed that he will be playing Radagast the Brown in The Hobbit, which means we have some story deviations from the book.

The Winklevoss twins are more than happy with The Social Network, and think it’s an accurate record of the events surrounding the founding of Facebook. Frankly, if I was portrayed by Armie Hammer, I’d be happy.

Wil Wheaton and his wife Anne were watching an 18-year-old Wil in Toy Soldiers. Anne’s first question was why all the guys were sitting around in their underwear. Wil says “Because that's what dudes do.” I’ve seen this situation occur, but “the endless scenes of underwear-clad dudes who were totally not gay” is not how it turned out.

LVHM, the power brand behind Louis Vutton, amassed a €1.45bn stake in Hermés, which is approximately the price of a single Birkin bag from Hermes. If LVMH took over Hermés, it would unite the lion’s share of the luxury brands in the world.

Paranormal Activity 2, the prequel to the microbudget movie I didn’t bother seeing last year, scared up $41.5 million for the largest opening of a horror film in history.

Then We Got Help will close out their Kickstarter funding campaign this week, so if you want to see Nick Rodriguez bickering with his man onscreen, you can still donate. They have a really funny reel that goes with the campaign, but they dropped some language we can’t manage here.

Lady Gaga became the first artist to ever pass 1 billion views on YouTube. Justin Bieber is hot on her heels to do the same in the next week or so.

George Lucas is denying that he’s creating a sequel trilogy to Star Wars, but not centered around the Skywalkers. Granted, that’s what he said about the prequel series before he decided to announce that he was doing it, so none of this means anything.

Bones is plotting a spinoff series, based around a character they haven’t introduced yet. It does sound like he will have as many socialization issues as Brennan.

Nurse Jackie introduced Swoozie Kurtz and Blythe Danner as Peter Facinelli’s moms in season one. They wanted to bring them back, but Danner is busy filming a movie, so they’ve tapped Judith Light for the role.  There’s no word if it’s just a recast, or if it’s a relationship change for Kurtz.

Please stop touching Time Warner’s little penis, you’ve made it all shiny.