Weekend Meme: Pope Benedict XVI Approves Condoms, Zac Posen the Intern, and Monkeys In 3D!

As the World Turns’ Jake Silbermann is appearing in Dracula at the Little Shubert Theater in New York City. He’ll be playing the role of Jonathan Harker starting December 14^th. h/t Crawfish Po Boy

For those of us in America, SyFy intends to air the remaining five episodes of Caprica in a single block on January 4^th. Last chance for gay gangsters from another planet!

Saturday, November 20 is National Transgender Day of Remembrance. Take a moment to watch the video compilation of all of the transgender friends we’ve lost since last year.

Designer Zac Posen won a six week internship with Martha Stewart by bidding $3,500 in a charity auction. Posen isn’t exactly known for being easygoing, so this could make a good reality show. If nothing else, it would probably get higher ratings than Martha’s current block on Hallmark.

Charges against patrons of the Rainbow Lounge, which was raided violently by police and Texas ABC officials about a year ago, have been dropped. Which is only fitting since they didn’t bother filing charges against the cops.

Lindsay Lohan will not be starring in the Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno. Which party ended ended the contract is somewhat up for debate, with Lindsay saying she quit, and the film’s producer saying they couldn’t wait any longer. Nor was it likely that they could insure Lindsay.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is burning up the box office, scaring up $24 million in midnight screenings, and a total of $61 million on Friday. It is expected to finish up around $140 million for the weekend, a record opening for a Potter film, but well short of The Dark Knight’s record.

As for the movie, Brent’s review over at TheTorchOnline.com doesn’t make me hopeful. He loved it, but says your enjoyment will mirror how you felt about the book. I hated the first half of the book (but loved the second half), so I may be out of luck.

Meanwhile, Vulture has some hilarious ideas on how you create non-Harry Potter focused Harry Potter movies, including a take on Dumbledore’s younger years, shot like Tom Ford’s A Single Man, exploring the gayer side of Hogwarts.

Fox has picked up Breaking In with Christian Slater for midseason, basically guaranteeing that Running Wilde is done. I’d shout “Gay down!” but I never really warmed to the show.

Note: if you are going to take an exercise class with Cher, you must exercise, not show up and socialize, ruining everyone elses’ workout. Barbra Streisand did that, and Cher is still mad.

Black Eyed Peas will be the entertainment at the half time at the Super Bowl. Which means I’m going to have their mediocre (but really ear worm) songs stuck in my head until Glee comes on.

The home that True Blood used for Evan Rachel Wood’s vampire safe pool is for sale. It’s located in Malibu, and will set you back $35 million.

Tyler Clementi’s family has agreed to allow the anti-harassment law currently in front of Congress to be renamed “Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.”

Glee’s cast is going to Europe this summer. Their live tour will feature stops in London, Dublin, and Manchester. But probably not within 500 miles of my place.

Rather than move Glee out of Tuesday and risk a good thing, Fox has decided to move American Idol to Wednesday/Thursday instead. This is likely to wreck NBC's attempt at a Thursday night comedy block.

Italy has opened an investigation into Dolce & Gabbana for failure to pay €1 billion in taxes. That is a lot of skinny suits to sell to pay that bill.

Just like Colin Farrell and Anne Hathaway, True Blood’s hunky Ryan Kwanten has a gay brother that he loves and of whom he is very proud. And if the brother looks anything like Ryan, I bet he turns a lot of heads in the bars.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson says he wants to host the 2011 Tony Awards. He also thinks that thanks to his Modern Family fame, he might be able to draw in a different audience that might not usually watch.

St. Petersburg held the first pride march sanctioned by the government in Russia. Sadly, the event was ended quickly when antigay protesters, mostly “Christian” and skinheads violently attacked the dozen marchers and tossed eggs. Skinheads and Orthodox Christians united?

According to Rod 2.0, Buffalo Bill’s CJ Spiller has apologized for tweeting “Keep my name out ur mouth fag” at his former Clemson teammate (and Philadelphia Eagle) Ricky Sapp. I will never understand public figures that spout off like that on Twitter. It always ends badly.

The big news today seems to be that Pope Benedict XVI has come out with new thoughts on condoms. Benedict said that for male prostitutes — for whom contraception isn't the central issue — condoms are not a moral solution. But he said they could be justified "in the intention of reducing the risk of infection.'' Justified, but immoral? Considering I don't recognize his moral authority, I'll choose to just go with "Condoms are justified."  People like simple slogans, and might even follow them and live.