John and Colin are back with yet another star-studded edition of Suck It Up & Dance. This week they've wrangled Hairspray dancer Dwayne (also known as Downtown nightlife diva Milan) to teach them a few dance moves and dish on Jerry Mitchell, Lance Bass, butching it up for auditions, and more. You really haven't seen "the motion of the ocean" until you've seen the Suck It Up boys hit the waves. Trust.

Oh, and of course they discuss the latest episode of Step It Up & Dance, which was thrice upon a mattress and as many times uncomfortable for all involved, including us.

Check it all out after the break!

A special shipment of Cha-Cha heels goes out to the world's greatest living filmmaker, as John Waters turns 62 today. In a recent interview with Details magazine, he was asked who he thinks his fan base is:

"They’re people who have a good sense of humor and who basically, a little bit, wished they were terrorists. They’re interested in deviant behavior; they’re interested in behavior that maybe they’d never do, and that they can’t understand—which is healthy. Everything that interests me is basically what I can’t understand or for which there’s not a fair answer—that's why it remains interesting"

His films have run the gamut from family-friendly (Hairspray) to ... less family-friendly (almost everything else). For me, his best films are the aforementioned Hairspray (the original, NOT the musical remake, thank you!), and my favorite, the truly classic Female Trouble. The first time I saw heroine Dawn Davenport threaten little Taffy with a car arial beating, I knew I had found my film god. After the break, you can see another classic scene from Female Trouble, with an older Taffy playing her favorite game, "car crash aftermath", and Dawn trying to become a model. While you're watching, tell me if you don't think that Amy Winehouse TOTALLY ripped off her look from Dawn!

Top Chef judge Ted Allen (photo by Jason Smith)

In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• A radio personality named Dan Watson has launched the first gay commerclal radio show in Melbourne, called "The Stick Shift". I'm guessing the automotive metaphors stop there.

• As though Tom Cruise didn't hate us enough already: The American Psychoanalytic Association officially supports same-sex marriage.

• Gay Top Chef judge (and AfterElton.com fave) Ted Allen on Hillary Clinton's rumored love of hot peppers: "We don't need Hillary having to run to the can every 20 minutes ... I'd go easy on the Scotch bonnets if I were her."

• Voice gossip Michael Musto chatted up John Waters at the preview of the new Cry-Baby musical, and Waters revealed that his last Daily Show appearance prompted a call from ice-show producers who took his "Hairspray on Ice" joke seriously.

• A reader directed us to this interesting clip that shows what happened when a radio host asked American Idol's Danny Noriega if he is gay: Apparently, the AI people cut off the call. (Warning, the host uses some very NSFW language to make his point) (t/y Outrageous Orator!)

• "I'm lovin' it in a way that dare not speak its name": An officer from McDonald's Corporation joins the Board of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

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So you may have heard by now that the Golden Globes ceremony, easily the most interesting televised major awards show, has been essentially canceled. Yes, the red carpet has been rolled up, the parties have been nixed, and the doling out of the awards has been slashed to a press conference helmed by NBC News. Oh wow, how exciting! Please tell me Ryan Seacrest will be there to ask Brian Williams who he's wearing.

In related news, tonight's People's Choice Awards have similarly been downgraded to the reading of a leaflet at the Beverly Center, or the like. We were actually looking forward to PCA nominee Neil Patrick Harris rocking the red carpet with David Burtka (they do clean up so nicely!) but it looks like there will be none of that.

In fact, there may be none of anything, at this point. Aside from the SAG Awards (which worked out an interim deal with the writers, big surprise!), no other awards shows are a sure thing at this point, including our beloved, bloated Oscars. So like so many of you who are stocking up for a potentially starvation-inducing lean stretch of clumsy acceptance speeches and formal attire misfires, I actually watched the Critics' Choice Awards last night on VH1 and am here to share the highlights.

You can thank me later for taking this one for the team.

Aside from boasting possibly the worst host in the history of awards shows (D.L. Hughley) and the worst written jokes to go along with him (please settle with the writers, studios!! We can't take much more of this!), the affair was a complete trainwreck start to finish. They turned the lights off on Marisa Tomei, Feist and Snoop Dogg had no microphones, and the presenters all looked like the teleprompters were making fun of them. What, are the stagehands on strike again, too?

The highlights of the evening were thus:

Today the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards. While there were very few legitimately gay films to choose from in the first place, some films with gay pedigrees (Hairspray, Sweeney Todd) racked up the nods.

Here's a rundown of the gay-related noms. They're trickling out gradually (and there are a lot to get through, between movies and television), so I'm updating as they hit the wire. Refresh for updates!

Best Picture (Drama)

• Eastern Promises (Read our review)

Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

• Hairspray
• Sweeney Todd 

Best Actress (Drama)

• Jodie Foster, The Brave One

Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

• Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
• Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

•  Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd

Best Animated Film

•  The Simpsons Movie

Best Actress, Television (Musical or Comedy)

•  America Ferrera, Ugly Betty

Best Supporting Actress, Television

• Katherine Heigl, Grey's Anatomy
• Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters

Best Television Miniseries or Movie

•  The State Within

The Globes will be presented live on NBC on Sunday, January 13th. The full list of nominees (courtesy of Variety) is after the jump!

Today is the birthday of Divine (a.k.a Harris Glenn Milstead).

John Waters' greatest muse would have been 62 today. He died in 1988 of respiratory failure caused by sleep apnea. Though he left us too soon, the performer made an indelible mark on American cult cinema.

We thought we'd commemorate the occasion of his birthday with a Divine movie quote quiz. See if you can match the quotes below with the following characters:

a. Babs Johnson from Pink Flamingos (1972)
b. Dawn Davenport from Female Trouble (1974)
c. Francine Fishpaw from Polyester (1981)
d. Rosie Velez from Lust in the Dust (1985)
e. Edna Turnblad from Hairspray (1988)

Quote 1: Oh Elmer, that dog stinks to high heaven. You'll be permeated by his odor.

Quote 2: I've DONE everything a mother can do: I've locked her in her room, I've beat her with the car aerial. Nothing changes her. It's HARD being a loving mother!

Quote 3: It's the times. They are a-changin'. Something's blowing in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you?

Quote 4: Oh my God Almighty! Someone has sent me a bowel movement!

Quote 5: Yeah, I was a dance hall girl, but what makes you so high and mighty? You own a whorehouse! A whorehouse!... and with only three whores in it. One of them is just a senile old cow. [aside to Big Ed] No offense, honey.


Answers appear below.....

• Latest Luke and Noah video clips up over on our ATWT resource page. (You can also watch it after the break.)

• Why not start off the weekend with a little BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! first?
  

• Amsterdam singing-sensations Bear Force One may be representing the Netherlands for next year's Eurovision song contest. Here's their disco-inspired single. You'll never confuse them with n'Sync or the Backstreet Boys (The Backhair Boys maybe?) but their song is pretty catchy in a retro-Village People sort of way. I still can't figure out if their macho posturing in the video is a joke or they take themselves seriously. Either way, it's pretty funny.

• "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" Maureen McCormick’s forthcoming biography spells out some backstage Brady hijinks between her and Eve Plumb.

• Openly gay Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has been cautioned by London police concerning an allegedly racist attack last month against a waiter at a Thai restaurant. The timing is unfortunate, (or perhaps fortunate?) since the singer's debut solo album This Delicate Thing We’ve Made, hit stores August 21.

• Out in Hollywood has an interview with actor James Marsden. Is it me or did he just kill as Corny Collins in Hairspray? Seems strange that everybody is talking about John Travolta’s performance when they should be buzzing about Marsden. If you haven’t already, check out Heights, an interesting film a few years back in which Marsden plays gay.