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Meme: Lending Jaret Leto An Ear, Gloria Steinem Hates "Real Housewives," and The Doctor Speaks To A Wise Little Girl

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Join us today, Tuesday, and Wednesday for a Days of Our Lives liveblog Jared Letowith snicks providing all the commentary on all things WilSon.

Jared Leto was asked what the weirdest thing a fan has ever sent him, and he had a heck of an answer– an ear. A fan “cut their ear off once and sent it to me… A whole ear. The Van Gogh move.” If you think that's weird, it's nothing compared to the fact that Leto poked a hole in it and wore it as a necklace.

GLAAD has announced that they are officially changing their name– sort of. GLAAD will simply be known as "GLAAD," dropping the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation expansion as part of their affirmation towards advocating more for the rights of transgender person and bisexuals.

The Croods had a better box office than expected with $44 million, as did Olympus Has Fallen with $30.5 million. Despite big buzz, Spring Breakers earned a modest $4.5 million.

Tea Party darling Senator Rand Paul says he's a supporter of "traditional marriage" but wouldn't mind if the federal government was neutral on marriage and left it entirely to the states. His idea of "neutral" is fairly radical, including a complete overhaul of the tax code to a flat tax, regardless of marital status.

Nearly 300,000 showed up to protest marriage equality in Paris on Sunday, with the end of the march turning violent as protesters attempted to break onto the Champs Elysées, where they Gloria Steinemhad been banned from marching, leading police to deploy tear gas.

I'm guessing Gloria Steinem isn't a fan of Andy Cohen, because she says the worst portrayal of women on television is the Real Housewives series. As for Girls, she thinks the sex is overdone, but finds it a real portrayal, which scares the crap out of me.

After a lot of pressure, the FAA may loosen rules on reading devices during takeoff and landing, but not cell phones. I recently took a series of short flights, and by the time they cleared me to turn my iPad back on, it was almost time to turn it off again to land.

Failed has-been Ralph Reed is still proclaiming that biological parents are the best solution for children, which evidence just doesn't back up. "The verdict of social science is overwhelming and irrefutable, and that is without regards to straight or gay. This applies to one-parent households, this applies to foster homes, it applies to the whole panoply, they've looked at them all. The enduring, loving intact biological mother and father is best for children and it's not even a close call."

Despite intense interest in including Twitter buzz in ratings for shows, experts say that tweeting during a show hurts advertisers, Joe Weiderrather than help them, because your attention is split and you're less likely to remember the ads.

Joe Weider, bodybuilder and fitness mogul, has passed away at the age of 93. Weider was a controversial figure, advocating that his bodybuilders remain in the closet so that the public didn't think all of them were gay.

There's a rumor that Tom Hiddleston is the latest star to be making a cameo in The Muppets…Again!, but the role is unknown.

Truman CapoteYou can download the first episode of Neil Gaiman'sNeverwhere radio play, but hurry, it's only available until Friday, when episode two goes up.

For reasons that I can't possibly understand, Tilda Swintonis sleeping inside a glass box at MoMA on random days, in full display of the public. People are convinced this is art.

Joanne Carson looked into the possibility of taking Truman Capote's ashes (of which she is custodian of part of) to the opening ofBreakfast At Tiffany's on Broadway, but had to decline because of security concerns, as there have been attempts to steal the ashes in the past.

 

 Justin Mikita is cuddling with someone other than his fiance Jesse Tyler Ferguson

 Neil Patrick Harris got slimed with Sandra Bullock at the Kid's Choice Awards. I hope David helped scrub his back

 Wilson Cruz and Dan Savage hanging out at MSNBC

 John Barrowman and Scott Gill are ready for spring

 Drake Bell seems to be getting more comfortable with the Spandex on the surprise hit Splash

 Blake Skjellerup said he'd been "tramping" for three days, which means something different to him than it does to me

 Ben Cohen makes being lazy sexy

We're just a week away from the premiere of Doctor Who, and they've released a prequel for "The Bells of St. John," which has a very sad Doctor getting some wisdom from a very smart you girl about how to find what he's looking for. But The Doctor needs to be paying closer attention if he wants to succeed.

 

On the morning shows Sunday, we got to hear something I never expected - Karl Rove, architect of the anti-gay election victories of 2000 and 2004, saying that he can see a Republican presidential candidate expressing support for marriage equality in 2016.

 

A livlier debate happened over on CBS, with Evan Wolfson squaring off against Tony Perkins, with conservative columnist and equality convert David Frum providing perspective, and Brendon Ayanbedejo explaining why this was a natural evolution of the civil rights movement. It's a long clip, but it's worth sticking around to Wolfson's bit around 13 minutes in, when he explains the consequences of equality.

 

Blackmeal is a fan tribute to everything that's been great about Marvel in the last few years, and if Marvel was smart, they'd buy the clip, because it's kind of adorable, and would fit really well with their block on Disney XD.

 

World War Z is Brad Pitt's much-delayed zombie film. I'm pretty much over zombie films (and if I'm honest, I've been over pretty much all of Brad Pitt's film choices for about five years), and this one seems to try and distinguish itself by making the zombie problem epic and global, with fast moving, coordinated zombies as opposed to shambling zombies chasing a small group of people. It just seems terribly generic to me, even if it was based on popular graphic novel.

 

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