Morning Meme: Darren Criss Talks Coming Out Straight, Cameron Diaz's Dirty Puppet Movie, and Mr. Peanut's New Commercial

Darren Criss did a phone interview with Brett Berk over at Vanity Fair while the latter was driving an electric car across the country. You can always rely on Berk to get to the heart of the homo in any interview, and asked Criss how he could connect to the gay Blaine.

And those were the people I spent time with early on, so my whole perception of “sexuality” just wasn’t there. It just...was. It even got to the point where, later in life... I had all the components in place. I was, well, not super effeminate, but I was into girly things—I liked musical theater, all the stereotypical things. I had to come out and say, well, I’m sorry, but I think I’m straight. And people were like, say it ain’t so! And I would say, “It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.”

IFC is developing a series about the world of competitive facial hair growth. I guess all the other ideas were taken.

Channing Tatum is set to star in the big screen version of 21 Jump Street, basically playing a cop who goes undercover in high schools. At 30-years-old, he’s awfully young for that role. Maybe they can hire Trevor Donovan?

A neighborhood in Zaragosa, Spain has named a street "Avenida de Super Mario Bros" and have plans for streets named for Sonic the Hedgehog and Space Invaders as well.

You can cast a vote for the October U.S. Olympic Committee Male Athlete of the Month. It’s tough voting though. As speed skater Blake Skjellrup tweeted, 8 of 13 nominees are what he calls “spandex sports.” I’d never really thought about it, but there is something to be said for “spandex sports.” I'm fond of Jonathan Horton, myself.

Vulture got up close and personal with Zachary Quinto at an event honoring Tony Kushner. You should see how personal he let them get.

Jim Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure in Florida 40+ years ago. He was in the process of appealing the conviction when he died. And outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist is considering pardoning him, because that’s what the people of Florida are worried about now.

According to the increasingly irrelevant Parents Television Council, profanity in primetime broadcast programs has increased 69% over the last five years. Fox is the worst, with 269% increase. It could just be their methodology. Instead of crediting networks with self-censorship towards the “seven words,” they have taken to counting *bleeps* as profanity, and the number of "substitute words" they call swearing has grown dramatically.

Cameron Diaz has been offered a role in a dark puppet movie from Brian Henson called The Happytime Murders. This will not be a PG-13 undertaking, according to a source “This is definitely not a PG-13 movie. They’re not fu**ing around with this: It’s 'Go big or go home.'"

Putting a laptop on your lap will cook your sperm in minutes. Why people are concerned I have no idea, because it sounds like the most reliable birth control college students practice on a regular basis.

The BBC iPlayer is going global next year. The international version will either be subscription or advertising based to achieve partiy with the subscriber fees paid by the British public. Does this mean we can get the original British shows and stop with the remakes?

Does the fact that we make sex scary in the United States make our kids more likely to get pregnant and catch STDs compared to European countries that make sex education fun and engaging? What about parents allowing sex under their roofs instead of the traditional backseats of cars?

Steven Moffat seems to think that Amy Pond is the first companion to flirt with the Doctor. And he seems to think that the Doctor is bound on sexuality to women. There’s no evidence of that, and plenty of evidence that he flirts with men, women, and aliens.

Oh, and speaking of Matt Smith, he’d love to move to America and live in New York or Los Angeles. His good friend Andrew Garfield is already Spider-Man, so it would be an easy transition. And we’d be happy to take him off your hands.

Betty White has run out of honors to collect, so now she’s an honorary forest ranger, and got a hug from Smokey the Bear.

Sally Jesse Raphael is eyeing a return to television, and so is going to make a semi-scripted show about wanting to return to television. And she’ll have a gay assistant named Micah. 

Roland Emmerich has decided not to make a low-budget alien movie. Somebody write him a $200 million check so he can get back to destroying the world.

British children’s television star Hamley of Wild At Heart has died at age seven from being hit by lightning.  Hamley was a giraffe.

Gawker has pictures of Dustin Lance Black’s Hollywood hideaway, with plenty of privacy. Except when Gawker runs a photo spread.