Morning Meme: John Barrowman Needs a Manny, Richard Chamberlain Advises Actors To Stay Closeted, and Ricky Martin "Shine"s

This interview with John Barrowman is just a sea of quick quotes worth reading, from his feelings on critics, the fact that he’s expecting seven more years of Torchwood and living six months a year in Hollywood, to his wealth and the fact that he’s still trying to convince Scott to adopt. Well worth the read.

I’ve been curious about Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Broadway production of The Book of Mormon. Vogue calls it “hands down, the filthiest, most offensive, and—surprise—sweetest thing you’ll see on Broadway this year, and quite possibly the funniest musical ever.”

I really don’t know what to say about the Skinimax-style video for Enrique Inglesias’ “Tonight.” Boobs, lesbian sex, bondage, but somehow almost no beefcake. The video is definitely NSFW.

Good news about the upcoming Muppet movie: Michael Cera is not playing Walter, the new Muppet. Lady Gaga is sadly not yet confirmed for the film, either. Jason Segel also says he has 15 puppets sitting in his living room right now, but he still hasn’t bought a baby gift for his HIMYM costar Neil Patrick Harris.

Nate Berkus has some last minute holiday decorating tips, which mostly amount to “don’t overdo it.” Maybe I shouldn’t invite Nate over for tea until after the holidays.

The alien designer for Green Lantern talks about the challenges of creating the Lantern Corps, which has aliens that range from humanoid to questionably vertebrate. I have to admit this intrigues me, because I always hated science fiction that only had oxygen-carbon humanoid aliens.

Like many gay men, Clay Aiken’s new boyfriend Jeff Walters has spent some time online. And it now appears that some pictures he reportedly used are making the rounds on the blogs. Let me just say, Clay is a lucky, lucky man.

The anti-gay Baldwin brother Stephen is suing Kevin Costner for talking him into selling stock in the company that made the oil separation devices used in the Gulf oil spill. As I recall, Stephen Baldwin was broke and had fundies begging for donations for him over the summer, so he didn’t sell his stock for much.

I ran the green band trailer for Your Highness this week, which removed much of the language and humor that fascinated me. But the trailer had added something as well, namely a bikini bottom on Natalie Portman where before there had only been a thong. Her buttocks were ruled too racy for green band. Note that the green band trailer approved by the MPAA for The Dilemma had the gay joke in it. So we know what their standards are.

People rag on me for not forgiving Dr. Laura for her anti-gay history now that she’s said a couple of nice things. But you know who else isn’t over it? Producer/director Adam Shankman.

The BBC has commissioned a new series of the lesbian drama Lip Service.

The Vatican has issued yet more guidance on condoms. It’s only allowed for disease prevention, but if you use it to prevent pregnancy, you’re still evil in the eyes of the Pope. I don’t know, I was at the mall this week, and I saw some mean kids that could be defined as a social disease.

Richard Chamberlain is advising leading men to stay in the closet if they’re gay. And that’s the end of me watching anything he ever does again. He can say it’s because the business is homophobic (it isn’t, but it is terrified of not making stacks of money), but he’s not helping by saying this. He’s making it worse.