Morning Meme: Could NPH Play Tommy Smothers, New "RuPaul's Drag Race," and "GI Joe: Retaliation" Against Good Movies

We had mentioned over the weekend that George Clooney was producing a movie about the Smothers Brothers. It's based on the book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by Dave Bianculli. According to Bianculli, his dream casting has Neil Patrick Harris as Tommy Smothers.

Speaking of George Clooney, he tops the list for who women would most like to kiss at midnight on New Year's Eve, with Jennifer Aniston topping the list for men. Obviously, they don't talk to the same men I talk to.

Just go read this family's story. Do it. Go on.

Conservative talk show host Michael Savage has offered Newt Gingrich $1 million to drop out of the Republican presidential race. He feels that Newt has no chance of beating President Obama. Shh! Don't tell him!

Considering that Russell Brand is almost like a living, breathing cartoon character to start with, I'm not at all surprised that he's developing a primetime animated show.

A conference committee has reportedly reached a compromise on the National Defense Authorization Act. The joint bill removes the anti-gay amendments from the House version related to DOMA, but also loses the repeal of Article 125 of the UCMJ criminalizing sodomy.

Russell Simmons has put his money where his values are. He's purchased all remaining advertising time in this week's episode of All-American Muslim on TLC, filling the void left when Lowes caved to the Florida Family Association objecting to the show as propaganda.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol's Paula Patton has done many things in a car to make a man happy. Who hasn't!

Who do I want my son to be? I want him to be himself. "Having a child isn't like buying a new car. No one goes to the kid dealership and says, "I want the male heterosexual model with blue eyes and brown hair. I also want to add the athletic and musical options. Can I get the math and computer skills option without the teen social awkwardness, or do those always come together in this model?"

Lisa Rinna is returning to Days of Our Lives for an extended arc. I'm not familiar with the show – would she fit in with our gay storyline someway, in the right family?

Disney is unveiling their first child princess with Sofia the First with a movie and television series next year. Modern Family's Ariel Winter will voice Sofia, who becomes a princess when her mother marries the king and she moves into the castle. Greys Anatomy's Sara Ramirez will voice her mother, Queen Miranda, with Tim Gunn voicing Baileywick, the Royal Steward.

I watched a few episodes of the BBC's Mongrels and found it uneven, but generally funny. Now Hulu is bringing the puppets to the United States.

Does an off-leash cat park make sense? Are there on-leash cat parks? How do you contain the cats?

The flight attendants union didn't find "Steve Rogers" apologizing to Alec Baldwin all that funny. They've now asked American Airlines to remove 30 Rock from the inflight entertainment, which is something I wish we'd thought of during the height of the Tracy Morgan uproar.

Why do news networks (even "liberal" MSNBC) regularly invite anti-gay bigots associated with known hate groups on air to present an "opposing opinion" on gay issues?

AE Member and Supernatural recapper VB pointed out that the Indian government is considering a bill for censorship on Facebook and other social networking sites. India would be asking the online companies to pre-screen content from that country's citizens for "objectionable material." If this concerns you (and if you care about free speech it probably should), there's a petition asking the Indian Government not to censor Facebook.

Could Austin Powers become a Broadway musical? Yeah, baby!

According to the financials that the National Organization for Marriage had to publish, 92% of the donations they received came from just 22 sources of over $5000. $6 million came from just two donations. Hardly a grassroots effort on behalf of middle America, is it?

Chord Overstreet has finally acknowledged that he's regularly planting those lips on Emma Roberts. With the size of them, probably all over Emma Roberts. At once.