Weekend Meme: Ricky Martin's Big Week, "Glee" Video Overload, and Ryan Reynold's "Green Lantern" Quick Change

Ricky Martin has had a hugely visible week. I’m drawing a blank on any talk shows he’s missed being on, and he just seems incredibly happy on each. He’s also the coverboy for People en Español , with his children in his arms. I have no idea what the article says, but I’m sure it’s great.

SAG/AFTRA signed a new deal with producers that avoided a strike for us, gave them immediate and future raises, and avoided big jumps in their health care costs. In this economy, that sounds like a miracle. But some aren’t happy, because the contract no long specifies first class airline travel on trips under 1,000 miles, or from Hollywood to Vancouver, slightly more than 1,000 miles, but very common. My heart bleeds for them.

Did anyone watch The Office episode about watching Glee? Evidently Oscar was “that guy” during the screening.

Barclays has decided to reimburse their employees the tax penalty on domestic partner benefits, since the federal government doesn’t recognize the relationships in terms of health care.

The big screen adaptation of Big Valley has Lee Majors grooming his beard, but delays may cost them Stephen Moyer, who has to get back to work on True Blood soon.

The Florida Family Council, which was claiming to have bullied Kodak into pulling their advertising from DeGrassi: The Next Generation over the transgender character and Riley’s story? Yeah, they were lying. Feel free to buy Kodak products again. In fact, buy extra to show your support.

Mel Gibson turned over a bunch of guns to the police department as part of their ongoing investigation. Most entertainment sites are making it sound like he had a zombie apocalypse arsenal, but living in West Virginia, I’d be shocked if each and every one of my neighbors didn’t have this many guns in the house. Actually, I think my mom has this many guns in the house.

Angela Lansbury is going to play Katherine Heigl’s daughter in Adaline. No, I didn’t type that wrong. The movie has Heigl getting into an accident and stop aging. This could be interesting.

Disney Channel is creating Madison High, about a school trying to create top-notch musical theater program. The show is centering on 11-to-16-year olds, and will be more High School Musical than Glee, with students breaking spontaneously into song. The question is if Disney will try and create another show about a musical theater program without having a gay teen character.

Cindy McCain stepped out in a powerful video from NOH8 calling for the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and linking it to the institutionalized bullying of society and the teen suicides. Twenty-four hours after it was released, she tweeted that she does not support the repeal of DADT and stands with her bigoted husband on the subject. Some are a lot less than happy with her.

Chris Geidner delves a little deeper into the Supreme Court decision not to remove the Ninth Circuit’s stay on Judge Phillips’ DADT ruling, and what it might mean if Justice Elena Kagan were to recuse herself from a future appeal, and what happens to the ruling depending on where the appeal stops. Hint: Having the Obama administration drop the appeal now is important for more reasons than politics.

Meanwhile, in Texas, Justice Scalia and retired Justice Breyer sparred on the role of the judiciary in the system of laws, and I have to admit, Scalia scares the bejabbers out of me. He finds death by flogging to be “stupid” but not unconstitutional under cruel and unusual punishment. And he’d like to repeal the 17^th Amendment and have the Senate appointed by the legislatures of the states. I suppose he’s not one of the “let the people vote” conservatives.

Demi Lavato is in a treatment center getting some help. But that doesn’t mean the House of Mouse can wait for her, so they’re going to refocus her show Sonny With a Chance on other characters. Lavato plays the “Sonny” in Sonny With a Chance, by the way.

Campion tips us to a high school in Canada where the real-life Glee kids don’t get slushied, and it’s fine if they want to be in glee club and on the football team.

Mormons are softening their official language on gays. They no longer outwardly hate us from the pulpit, as long as we don’t do gay stuff. And as long as we’re totally celibate, we’re free to go serve them for free where they need us.

Meanwhile, the Finnish state church is inventing a new blessing for gay civil unions in that country.

GLAAD’s Allison Palmer talks to our friends at The Bilerico Project about their new digital initiative with Facebook to reduce cyberbulling and anti-gay rhetoric on the service.