James Franco's favorite things are soap operas, queer film roles, performance art, drag queens, and sleeping in class. He talks about his new project combining four of those five in this new interview from (where else?) L.A.'s Gay Pride festival.

Oh, you know, she's always been around, but she coulda been a contender! But she isn't, for some reason. Also today: a new HBO show about theater finds its potential cast, plus a new Wizard of Oz movie.

On Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, Kourtney got angry over Khloe having a hangover during the photo shoot. Footage of Khloe getting wasted implies she was acting pretty annoying, but she did get her job done at the photo shoot.

When people complain about technology ruining our culture (TV making us illiterate, the internet shortening attention spans) their fears are generally misplaced. Until now. MTV is hunting for its new version of the VJ, the TJ or Twitter Jockey.

MTV launches a search for a "Twitter Jockey," Teen Choice Award nominees are out (and awful), The Situation raps, Obama shares in America's soccer-related joy, and Breaking Bad is renewed for another season after a finale was apparently nuts.

[Barack Obama and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour enjoy a delicious "snowball" treat in Gulfport, Mississippi today, after looking at the horrible oil spill wreckage everywhere. Doesn't Haley Barbour look tickled! Image via AP.]

Congressman Bob Etheridge (Democrat, North Carolina) gets physically violent with two students asking him a question on camera. It's hard to say whether or not they provoked him more than they show in this film.

Congratulations, Africa: you are "advertising's last frontier." Keep it that way, if possible.

Inspired by his role in "Waterworld" and 1989's Exxon Valdez disaster, Kevin Costner's company Costner Industries has developed a machine that separates the water from the oil at high speeds. Though initial tests proved unsuccessful, Costner Industries remain optimistic.

Danny McBride will once again pick up the mantle of big league has-been Kenny Powers when Eastbound and Down returns for a second HBO season on September 26. Here's a teaser trailer for the new season.

Apple has proclaimed an iPad "revolution," and has already picked the winners and losers. Banned in its cultural shift are literary illustrations of gay couples making, and of Ulysses. Allowed are heterosexual couples making out and swimsuit editions.

These days we use celebrities for everything, so why not get one to clean up one of our greatest natural disasters? Kevin Costner's gizmo that separates oil from water might be just what BP needs to save Louisiana's shores.

Congratulations to Every Rose Has Its Bernard for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, Betty White doesn't like reality television, the best moments of the new season of The Bachelorette, a 1999 New York Lotto commercial becomes controversial, and Kathie Lee Gifford's Freudian slip reveals a love of fornication.

Kathy Myers, a 41-year-old woman from the broke-ass wasteland known commonly as Michigan, recently shot herself in the shoulder hoping that emergency doctors would also have to fix a different shoulder injury while they were working on her. They didn't.

Watch this awesome stop-motion video, which, in the creator's words, took "a lot of fire, a lot of smoke, a lot of heat, and a whole lot of frustration." But it paid off, because this is pretty impressive.

The Way We Live Now: Rejoicing, for we are saved. Untold riches have been deposited under our very feet by god Himself! Now if god can just fix up every other fucking thing that's shot to hell, we'll be...better.

Congressman Bob Etheridge has apologized for awkwardly grabbing that "college student" in this morning's hot political YouTube video, after watching it on blogs. Meanwhile, the Democrats have come up with some talking points about the issue, which don't really help.

Say it with us now: Bwunnnnnnnnnnk! The South African noisemaker of choice, a plastic horn thing that makes a loud, obnoxious drone, will not be banned at International Soccer Christmas, at least for the time being. Sorry, millionaire ball-kickers. [NYT]

Queens Republican John Haggerty, "One of Mayor Bloomberg's most trusted campaign aides," has been indicted for stealing $1.1 million from Bloomberg's Election Day fund. A million bucks to Bloomberg is like a nickel to you. He's a flinty bastard. [NYDN]