Patti LaBelle thought Hedwig was an ugly woman, Schrödinger's Cat is not happy with her master, marriage equality comes to Luxembourg

Martin Sheen has joined Netflix’s Grace & Frankie, the Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin comedy about two friends whose lives are upended when their husbands announce they’re in love and getting married. Sheen will play Fonda’s husband.

A new poll commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign, but conducted by a Republican polling firm for legitimacy finds that yes, the vast majority of Americans support marriage equality, but even among those who don’t, most of them truly don’t care that much. Of the 38% or so that don’t support marriage, 58% of those wouldn’t do anything if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of equality nationwide, and 95% disagree strongly with Tony Perkins that there would be a revolt against the ruling.

J. August Richards is going from playing Deathlok to playing Patrick Heusinger’s husband on the Bravo pilot Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce.

I guess the Wet Hot American Summer prequel is really happening, with the original cast playing teenagers. Sometimes I think people pitch ideas that are crazy just to see if someone will throw money at them to try it, not because they’re good ideas.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackely has filed a motion to dismiss the marriage equality lawsuit in the state, saying the plaintiffs haven’t presented "any plausible claim" that they have been discriminated against. This seems to be the best the other side can muster at this point.

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a county clerk attempted to intervene to appeal the marriage equality decision, but got slapped down hard by Judge Jones. "There is nothing remotely ambiguous about how Santai-Gaffney must perform her duties relative to issuing marriage licenses. At bottom, we have before us a contrived legal argument by a private citizen who seeks to accomplish what the chief executive of the commonwealth, in his wisdom, has declined to do." This also marks the first time anyone has attributed wisdom to Governor Corbett.

Five Yoga Poses To Make You a Better Bottom. I think they teach Yoga at my gym on Mondays and Wednesdays. I need to check on that.

Luxembourg has approved marriage equality, including full adoption rights, in a vote of 56-4. This will now allow the Prime Minister to marry has longtime partner. I wonder what a state wedding in Luxembourg looks like?

A new study says that TV violence doesn’t really make people more violent, but it does make viewers more afraid of violent crime, which may be what skews other studies. But what about murder porn? Was South Park wrong?

Love that Into the Woods is being made into a movie? What if it’s not the movie you were expecting? Stephen Sondheim says that Disney needed some changes. Like not killing Rapunzel. And the prince doesn’t bone the baker’s wife. Oh – and that song you’re so fond of, “Any Moment?” That’s gone too. Disney also wasn’t too fond of the relationship between Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.

It seems the National Organization for Marriage was serious about not giving up. They’ve had secret meetings with San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and major anti-gay funders to form The Princeton Group for the next stage in the battle against equality. I suspect we’ll be hearing all about it at their fake march on Washington today.

The U.S. Patent Office has canceled six trademarks for “Redskins” as it relates to the football team, saying they never should have been granted in the first place because the mark is disparaging. Pressure has been mounting for years for Dan Snyder to change the name of the team, and unless he can reverse the decision on appeal, this may be the most effective way to force the issue. The team can keep using the name if they want, but they couldn’t stop unlicensed merchandise from being produced, which would be a major hit to the bottom line.

Patti LaBelle was a little confused when Hedwig took the stage at the Tony Awards. “When the Inch came on. I said, ‘Gladys, that better have been a man, right?’ She said, ‘Patti, no you didn’t!’ I didn’t ­realize it was a boy. I thought it was an ugly woman!”

Soldiers endure all sorts of hardships when they deploy overseas, but some truly suck in unexpected ways. You can brace yourself to be shot at, camp in the middle of nowhere and have to dig your own toilet, but when you find out that your now ex-girlfriend sold your dog while you were deployed in Afghanistan, that blows. He appealed on social media to find the beloved pooch, promising to pay any price to get his dog back, and eventually the new owners were found, but they don’t want to part with the dog, as their children have grown attached. I’m not sure what kind of happy ending is possible here.

The Republican National Committee has had a guy in a squirrel suit following Hillary Clinton around at book signings to say “Another Clinton In the White House Is Nuts” (like a second Bush wasn’t). But Hillary managed to win the PR by autographing a copy of her book and presenting it to the squirrel.

Mark Ruffalo says that Marvel is warming up to the idea of another Hulk solo film, but until then, he’s pretty happy with his role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and we probably will be as well. "There's some very cool Science Bros stuff.”

We've got a new extended trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy, which is pretty similar to the UK trailer from a few days ago. But it is very character driven rather than just being some jokes. Rocket seems real, and not a ridiculous idea anymore, and Groot honestly is understandable when he talks. I'm not denying that this is the weirdest idea Marvel has had for a movie, but this might be good. Except Glenn Close' hair. That's unforgivable.

Sure it made an abstract concept remarkably understandable, but just how does Schrödinger's Cat feel about the box with cyanide? Does having a place in history excuse being both dead and alive? And for a cat with nine lives, perhaps it's all a moot point in any case.

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