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The secret of Jeff Davis' youth, American Psycho pulled from off-Broadway, Maze Runner opens strong overseas

A bunch of you have asked me about this piece from The Advocate, in which all the Teen Wolf cast was asked about how they feel about the show's LGBT representation. Here's the thing: you have to give them the points for claiming they created a world without homophobia. Nobody has ever blinked at a gay character, at being in a gay bar, at a same-sex kiss, at drag queens showing up to Lydia's birthday, to Mason eying Brett at a lacrosse game. It is a world completely without Teen Wolfhomophobia. Representation? I think they have a dramatically high sense of what they've accomplished, but on the other hand, what do you expect them to say about their job when The Advocate asks them how they've done? The Advocate asking the question was the laughable part. They should probably stop talking about it because nobody believes they've done a good job based on so much potential. That said: So what? Colton leaving botched Danny. The Carvers got new jobs and had to go. Jeff Davis is building Scott and Stiles 2.0 out of Liam and Mason for when Tyler and Dylan inevitably  leave, and hey, the new Stiles is gay, so he's central. There's potential. But even if there's not realization of that potential, so what? It's a queer creator, but to paraphrase Neil Gaiman talking about George RR Martin, "Jeff Davis is not your bitch." He can write what he wants. Teen Wolf was never inherently a gay show. It had hot guys and gay elements. If you want an inherently queer show on MTV, watch Faking It. It has an out creator, a gay character, played by an out and proud actor, and tackles more sexuality issues that you can count. And as to why we cover Teen Wolf? Because you guys want us too. You eat it up, and we have the server reports to prove it. If you were as enthusiastic Gallo Neroabout a recap of Meet the Press we'd do that too, but when we run a segment from that, nobody reads it.

Gallo Nero, a cafe in New York City a few blocks from the second location of the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck shop has a banner up advertising Big Straight Ice Cream. When Gothamist called them and spoke to the manager, he didn't see the problem. "What's the issue? We can call our ice cream whatever we want." Technically you can. But you're in the West Village, and even as straight as that's gotten over the years, you may not exactly make the neighborhood love you.

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream has joined the amicus brief with the Supreme Court in favor of marriage equality filed by 30 major corporations. Ben & Jerry's is that rare company that has managed to continue their activism after being acquired by a giant like Unilever. “Often, it’s not enough to change the way you do business, or change the practice within your business. Unless you’re willing to stand up and advocate for the rights of others, not just here in our backyard but around the world, it’s often just not good enough.”

Full video of the Kanye West "stand up" incident has surfaced, and depending on the leaning of the website, it's been deemed overblown or extremely upsetting. The reality is that if you force someone who just paid hundreds of dollars for your show to prove, while a crowd angrily chants, that they can't stand and dance on your command from stage, and hold the music for two minutes while you complain that someone in a wheelchair is not standing, you are an asshat.

Danièle Watts, best know for her role in Django Unchained, was handcuffed by L.A.P.D officers for kissing her partner, Brian James Lucas. It seems she was guilty of kissing-while-black, so the cops thought she was a prostitute. Lucas provided ID when asked, but Watts refused, as is her legal right, so she was handcuffed and tossed into a police cruiser while Maze Runnercrying. Lucas took pictures of the whole thing. The LAPD says that it has no record it happened, because it never progressed to a formal arrest.

While overseas box office is never a great predictor of domestic box office (just ask Tom Cruise), Maze Runner has opened bigger in five overseas markets than Divergent did, meaning our little Dylan O'Brien could soon be a movie star of a big YA franchise.

The Imitation Game, the sexless movie about gay war hero Alan Turing, has won the Grolsch People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Iggy Azalea has been fighting a sex tape. Originally she said it wasn't her, then she claimed she was underage and didn't consent to the filming, which was refuted by her partner (who says his laptop was stolen). So Iggy has moved on to a new claim to stop the tape from being sold: "Iggy" is trademarked, so the tape can't be marketed with her stage name, removing a lot of value from the tape.Condi Rice

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is facing a lot of calls to step down following Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, and a list of other issues. That bothers me on a personal level because members of his family are good friends of mine. But the Bush political machine is already pitching his replacement - Condi Rice. Oddly, I'd be OK with Condi in the job. She's passionate about football. She can run a big organization. And it makes her too busy to be secretary of anything if a Republican should capture the White House.

Pope Francis celebrated "forgiveness" by taking the unusual step of personally performing 20 marriages for couples who were living outside the Catholic doctrine, such as having children out of wedlock or already living together. Of course no gay couples were married, nor divorced couples, but hey, baby steps.

Colton HaynesColton Haynes gets teary for Diesel. That normally only happens to me when I see the price tag. And I really want that police jacket, but don't think my car is worth enough to trade for it.

I'm not really a gamer, so I don't get Minecraft, but I do understand that people devote huge amounts of time to it, and anything online that generates sticky eyeballs is worth a ton of money. But is it worth the $2.5 billion that Microsoft is shelling out for it?

There's been a ton of news about agencies collecting metadata from your cell phone companies, but what does that mean? A German man who had subpenaed his own metadata provided it to researchers to find out. Basically, it tells you everything. It tells his movements, they figured out his job, all his social networks, and by comparing it to password leak files they came up with all his social media and email passwords.Burgess

Second Stage has announced that they will not be opening American Psycho off-Broadway in the spring. Speculation is running wild that this means the rights holders intend to move directly to a Broadway opening rather than scrapping the effort.

In a Fox News appearance to criticize President Obama for his plans on ISIS, Sarah Palin said she owed a "global apology" for screwing up Senator John McCain's bid for the White House. Mostly I think she owes the world an apology for failing to go away after it was all over.

Buzzfeed has finally discovered the Burgess brothers. And they're drooling.

Martha Stewart has tried to be gracious about upstart lifestyle brands like the ones from Blake Lively and Gwyneth Paltrow, but she's finally had enough. Ariana GrandeOf Paltrow, she says “She just needs to be quiet. She’s a movie star. If she were confident in her acting, she wouldn’t be trying to be Martha Stewart."

Mayim Bialik is not a fan of sexy advertising, be it that Levi's commercial that has One Million Moms upset, or billboards for Masters of Sex. And she really doesn't get Ariana Grande's billboard.  "There is one for Ariana Grande, and I will go ahead and admit I have no idea who she is or what she does. Based on the billboard, she sells lingerie. Or stiletto heels. Or plastic surgery because every woman over 22 wishes she has that body, I’m sure. Why is she in her underwear on this billboard though? And if she has a talent (is she a singer?), then why does she have to sell herself in lingerie? I mean, I know that society is patriarchal and women are expected to be sexy and sexually available no matter what we do in society, but I guess now I need to explain that to my sons?" To quote Louis CK on people who don't want to explain gay marriage to their children, "I dunno, it's your shitty kid. You fuckin' tell 'em. Why is it anybody else's problem?"

Chris Evans stars in Playing It Cool, as a screenwriter who hates romantic comedies and doesn't believe in love. In fact, from the first forty seconds of the trailer here we could be soulmates, other than the fact that neither of us believes in that crap. But because this is Hollywood, he undergoes a ridiculous transformation that changes every core belief he has because of a woman he met briefly, and decides to stalk her until she drops everything in her life that she holds dear and dates him. Because all this is a healthy basis for a relationship.

A billion of you have sent me Sesame Street's Star S'Mores, which actually premiered during Comic-Con. I'll just be honest: I don't really love it. We're reaching maximum saturation on Star Wars tie ins and the first new movie isn't due for over a year. And I'm fairly certain we reached Maximum Cookie Monster a couple of years ago. Why are we still trying to teach a monster who is literally built around the idea of having no control how to control himself? Let him eat cookies. If puppets don't have sexuality like they say about Bert & Ernie, they don't have diabetes, either.

I'm a big fan of a Rube Goldberg Machine, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one built around a beam of light causing all the cascades. It's pretty fascinating to watch, but the use of a disco ball and later a prism to create a rainbow makes it inherently gay as well.

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