Morning Meme: Eddie McClintock's Abs are Awesome, Lance Bass for PETA, and Will NPH Play Julian Assange?

Ruby Rose first made my radar when she hogged all the screentime in a special about coming out with Matthew Mitcham. But I can’t deny the MTV Australia VJ is a charismatic lady. And as an out and proud lesbian, she’s a heck of a role model for gay youth. Now she’s on the cover of FHM, the first out lesbian to do so.

The U.S. Mint has had some misprints on their fancy new $100 bills. So now they’ve had to quarantine 1.1 billion of them until they can be sorted. That’s a cool $1 trillion just sitting there.

Vanity Fair caught up with PJ Bloom, the musical mastermind behind Glee. A lot of interesting things there, but one quote stands out. Bloom may have been responding to a question about the Christmas album, but his answer is fairly universal, “I’d respond by suggesting subtlety has never been part of Glee’s architecture.”

Depending on who you ask, the script for Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd is either brilliant, or the worst thing since Ishtar.

There’s an anti-homophobia campaign whose name I can’t even print on this PG-13 blog. They have two new videos at this NSFW link. I highly recommend the behind-the-scenes, but remember I said it was NSFW.

How does Heather Morris handle playing a bisexual temptress that still believes in Santa Claus? “I've figured out I'm like Tinker Bell — playful and quirky, but with this womanly body. It's weird.” Now Disney is all messed up for me.

Tom Brokaw thinks that networks should keep bringing on anti-gay bigots as opposing viewpoints on gay rights. I find his logic to be an intellectual exercise completely disconnected from reality. I shall never trust him again.

Gossip Cop has decided that a movie about the life of Julian Assange is inevitable, and has a poll about who should play him. As of this writing, Neil Patrick Harris is winning the poll. Do you agree? Does it change your opinion if Assange is convicted of sexual assault?

Logo has a lot of marathons planned for holiday programming. Sadly, I think their names for the marathons sound more interesting than the shows that populate them. “Logo’s Tighty Whitey Weekend” featuring Jackass and Nip/Tuck is somewhat disappointing. But kudos on the marketing!

Color me intrigued by Bob the Musical, where Bob can hear the inner songs of everyone’s hearts, and his life becomes a musical that only he can hear.

Despite reports last week that Hans Zimmer was the new Superman composer, Zimmer says that it’s not true, even if it was supposedly based on a quote from him that he doesn’t remember.

I’m trying not to focus on bad word choices from Ron Perlman, and just trying to imagine what the big guy looks like in a dress. According to Perlman, for his new movie Frankie Goes Boom, “They offered me two different roles and I went for the transsexual because I felt like when the door opens and you see that it's me, it should get a 'Yuck!”

Oprah’s set to star in Ruined for HBO. She’ll be playing a a character named Mama Cadi who runs a brothel in the Congo.

Alan Cumming, you need to hire a new stylist.

I'm really trying to get excited about John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole, but failing miserably. First it was Nichole Kidman, and now articles like this that make it sounds so depressing.

Cate Blanchett is set to return to Middle Earth. Still no word on Sir Ian McKellen, who many are speculating is holding out for a wad of cash to play Gandalf after being toyed with for so many years. He’s worth every last cent.

Last night if your DVR had room, you saw Dane Dehaan on the finale of In Treatment. And this interview just goes to show how an interview could have beeen chopped up to give the wrong impression.  The way DeHaan responds about differences he has with his character, and tosses out “I am not gay.” Could be negative if it wasn’t done like Vulture did it. But he goes on to say for his last gay role, he went to a lot of gay bars for research, and “dabbled” and he sounds reasonable and thoughtful.

Thom Bierdz gives way too much information for my needs on his recent liposuction, but he also drops this reason as to why he did it, “I so want Y&R to give my character a love interest. I want to be a fit actor if that happens, but I have no idea if they will come through with a gay romance for Phillip.” I hope he finds other ways to justify that work he had done, because I don’t see a gay romance in this show’s future.

SyFy has picked up Alphas to series. It’s about a group of investigators with special mental powers. I read the sides, and I don’t see any of the characters as gay. Of the six main characters, two are definitely heterosexual, and another seems to have autism spectrum disorder that likely precludes a love interest. There is a great deal of talk about how hot some of the men are as actual script points, so maybe the beefcake is good.

Danny Boyle says that he is going to make a sequel to Trainspotting happen. I’m really not sure that’s necessary.

O.K., I want to know who has been picking on Warehouse 13 hunk Eddie McClintock. As long time readers know, the heterosexual McClintock and our own snicks manage a bit of online flirting over Eddie’s sexy body. But:

The fun never seems to stop for Eddie on Warehouse 13, especially when there are cookies around. We asked him whether he enjoyed the treats as much as his character, Pete. "I do like cookies a lot, to the detriment of my waistline." But he did not appreciate one's fan "compliment" who said "It's nice to see an average guy and not some guy who looks like he works out 24/7 at the gym" about Eddie taking off his shirt on W13.

 "I was like, wait a second, pal," Eddie told us indignantly. "First of all, I do work out 24/7 at the gym. [Second], wow—um, thank you? [My trainer tells me] those lovehandles are not sexy. Being sexy is not easy. I'm working out really hard. Next year I'm going to kick ass.”