The long, hard slog through the work week reaches its terrifying zenith this morning, as the computer screen in front of you begins to melt like Dali's clocks and you occasionally skip time and begin to think it's Friday, only to be bleakly reminded of old Woden's day. But chin up, you'll prevail. After the jump we've got yet another gay actor, a British pop band, and a sad tale of a heroic film director to help you putter along toward the inexorable drunken weekend.

1) "Which A-list actor, who yells from the rooftops that he is straight, approached a male Off-Broadway star in a bar and offered to pay him big bucks to watch him and another dude get it on in the rest room?" [NYDN]

2) "Which McFly boy has a penchant for giving the ladies a boob rub as he says his goodbyes?" [Mirror] (Sadly, I can clarify this a little bit. McFly is a British pop "punk" band that was featured in the disastrously bad Lindsay Lohan movie Just My Luck. Which I have seen twice. So, yeah, this really might not mean anything to anybody. Sigh.)

3) "This one is a little hard to disguise because honestly there are not that many directors names that would just pop in your head. Yes, I know you can name a million, but think of the average person. How many directors can they name? This is one of them. Oh, and he always writes his own stuff as well.

So, this director bought a farm/estate about 4 years ago. It has been in existence for awhile and so had a number of employees already there when he bought it. Even though it isn't really related to the kindness, our director has treated the employees who remained much better in the past four years then they ever were treated by the past employers.

One of the guys who worked on the estate was given some new jobs when the director took over. The director hired him to work on his films as an electrician, handyman, and bartender for parties on the sets. He even gave the guy some bit parts in his films. Well about a year ago, the worker was diagnosed with liver cancer. Over the course of the year our worker had his ups and downs but finally died last week. From the time he was initially diagnosed, our director made sure that the worker received the best care in the world wherever in the world it could be found. He made sure the worker's girlfriend could travel with the worker.

The director made phone calls, called in favors, consulted with the best doctors in the world all for his employee. No matter what he did though, it just was never enough. The director now feels he could have even done more to help, and has been in terrible shape over the past week since the worker's death." [CDaN]