Mike Sorrentino (better known to my fans as The Situation) wrote a memoir.  That’s not even the news, although it’s news to me.  His memoir is being adapted into a documentary – perhaps a multi-part documentary.  I suppose it could be worse – it could become a musical!

In a recent interview, sexy Austin Butler was asked if he would bring Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan or Saoirse Ronan to a pub.  Austin said, “Barry would be a great time, but I wouldn’t subject him to that.”  He added he previously partied with Mescal.  “We once went to a bar and they shut it down and then they played show tunes.  And Paul and I danced and had a great time.”  One might even call it a gay ol’ time.  Not necessarily me, but one.

A reunion of the cast of Dawson’s Creek is taking place as a charity benefit on Broadway on September 22^nd.  The evening will benefit F Cancer – the brainchild of James Van Der Beek, who has been diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer.  Joining the Beek will be my bon ami John Wesley Shipp alongside Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes, Mary-Margaret Humes, Mary Beth Peil, Kerr Smith, Busy Philipps and more.  The plan is to do a live reading of the pilot to the series.  But would people come?  Uh, yes, they would.  Tickets for the one-night-only event sold out in 12 minutes!

Elsewhere on Broadway, the producers of Maybe Happy Ending have made the startling announcement that Darren Criss hasn’t actually left the show – despite the statements and press releases to the contrary.  He’s simply taking an “extended vacation”.  He plans to return on November 5^th.  I do hope that all of the crap Andrew Barth Feldman received for not being of Korean descent continues towards Criss, who likewise has not a drop of Korean blood in his DNA.  I hesitate from saying he has no Korean in him – because, you know, a gig’s a gig!

If the politically correct folks out there want to find someone to hate, look no further than Dame Helen Mirren.  The esteemed actress was asked how she felt about there one day being a female James Bond.  “I wish them well.  I’m excited for the next man to come on the stage.  I’m such a feminist, but you can’t have a woman playing James Bond.  It just doesn’t work.  James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else”.