From Me, The Editor: Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka better step it up, because Heather Matarazzo and gal pal Caroline Murphy are moving in their "cutest couple" territory.

The girls gave photogs a show of their love last night at the New York City premiere of my pal Anne Hathaway's new movie, Rachel Getting Married. I was also there, but the paps didn't care too much about him. How rude!

As for the movie - I know I'm biased because Hathaway and I are college chums, but it's really fucking good. Hathaway and the entire cast - even the less central characters - are genius. Director Jonathan Demme has done it again. And by "it," I mean "made a movie that resonates and becomes more endearing with each recollection."

I've included a trailer after the jump. Oh, and some other pictures, like a precious one of Alan Cumming get a bit of a rubdown.

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While we're being New York-centric, some of you may want to head down to Eastern Bloc tonight as they participate in some good old fashioned democratic duties. Their official word:

Eastern Bloc is all about collective action. That's why they've teamed with Alan Cumming and Rock the Vote to prepare New York gays for the 2008 Presidential election. Register to vote at the bar and receive a Cumming gift bag from the man himself and get a free beer from Gabe the most politically minded bartender in the city. Booths open at 9 and close at midnight, but the party continues with DJ Gant Johnson and $3 dollar rolling rock all night long, which is guaranteed to last longer than Cumming's sweet supplies.

What about those of us who are already registered? We get squat, apparently…

Actor Alan Cumming canoodled with Page Six magazine Sunday and begot this soundbyte:

P6: What would you do if you were mayor for one day?

AC: I'd give gays the same rights as straights and make Wi-Fi free all over the city.

Hot damn! That sure would be swell: do you know how long we've waited for citywide Wi-Fi?!

Too long.

The Sci Fi channel's taking a trip down the yellow brick road with their reimagined Wizard of Oz: Tin Man. The mini-series - which stars Neal McDonough, Zooey Deschanel and Alan Cumming - takes the familiar story one step further, offering viewers a new view of Dorothy, the Lion and, of course, the titular Tin Man.

We were skeptical at first, but this look behind the scenes piqued our interest. And made us love Cumming even more…

We were seeing stars at the 11th annual NY Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violent Project Courage Awards.

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• Jared Leto and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance got close at lMTV Europe's music awards last night.

• Why aren't people more pissed off about Hillary Clinton's anti-gay connections?

• Pakistani rent boys playing dangerous game.

• Patti LaBelle talks to Clay Cane.

• Jill Holtzman Vogel's anti-gay senatorial campaign takes on lipstick wearing lesbian opponent, Karen Schultz.

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The New York-centric do gooders over at the Empire State Pride Agenda invited us to their fall dinner last night. Never ones to give up a free meal and a room full of attractive gentlemen - and others! - we accepted their kind invitation. So did our camera man, Zach Golden, who trailed our editor as he talked politics with Alan Cumming, Ted Allen and the ultra-handsome Cheyenne Jackson, who must be 8,000 feet tall.

Christopher Meloni and Mary-Louise Parker were meant to be there, but they weren't. Oh well.

Author and activist David Mixner delivered a rousing, emotional speech in which he described gays as "a magnificent community". The Empire State Pride Agenda dinner proved that.

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Queer creator Alan Cumming's latest project's a bit too hot to handle. Via Page Six:

…Cumming may love his new flick, Suffering Man's Charity - but not too many others did at its premiere at the Core Club. Some scenes in the dark comedy - about a "failed composer turned music teacher with a weakness for impoverished young men" - were too much for the crowd. During a gruesome torture scene involving a scantily clad David Boreanaz and a whip, several people left and a woman fainted.

Oh, Cumming, you're such a lady killer!

Not to mention an angel for giving former Angel-star Boreanaz a break. Who says gays are evil?

If you thought Elton John's party looked fun, you should check out some pictures from this weekend's Independent Spirit Awards. Melissa Etheridge may not have won, but Little Miss Sunshine took home a bunch of honors, including best feature and best supporting actor for Alan Arkin.

We've included some pictures after the jump. They're all Polaroidy and shit. It is, after all, a celebration of independent spirits. When you're done looking them over, you can see more here. They won't be as big, though. Sorry.

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Once in a great while a truly big news story comes along that makes the world stop rotating for a second, gasp and then carry on with its eternal spin. This isn't one of them. It does, however, concern perennial favorite, Anderson Cooper, so we thought we'd pass it on.

It comes to us via New York Daily News:

"I'd like to have kids," [Cooper] tells the March Men's Journal. "I think I'll have a family someday." Cooper was contemplating some other big changes in early December, when he pondered a move from his CNN post to a traditional anchor position at another network. But, he says, "Doing 22 minutes of news from a desk in New York is just not for me."

No way, Jose (the name, we're sure, of at least one of Cooper's Latin flavored boyfriends - we hear he has a fetish of some sort) - Cooper's not about to pull some Katie Couric bullshit. A desk's for pussies! Cooper needs to be in the field, getting down and dirty with the news. Then, once the camera's stop rolling, he can go back to his apartment, strip down and roll around in all that money…

Nominations for the Tony Awards were announced today, celebrating the best of NYC's musical theater and giving the gays across America yet another awards program to discuss snottily as if they've seen any of the nominated shows.

Highlights of the nominations: The Color Purple, co-produced by Oprah Winfrey and based on the book and movie of the same name, was nominated for several awards including Best Musical. Sweeney Todd, the bizarre but brilliantly-written musical about a cannibalistic barber, was nominated for Best Revival Of A Musical, as was Threepenny Opera, starring Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper. If you're wondering why Phantom Of The Opera hasn't been nominated, well…don't bother watching the awards ceremony on June 11. You won't have any idea of what's going on.

Harry Connick, Jr. took a break from Will & Grace to play the lead in The Pajama Game, for which he was nominated for Best Performance By A Leading Actor; Patti Lupone, who once played Corky's mom in Life Goes On, was nominated for her lead role in Sweeney Todd. Besides appearing on feel-good family dramas, Lupone has played some of the biggest roles on Broadway, including the pre-Madonna Evita. We're holding out, however, for all the big wins to go to the musical adaptation of The Wedding Singer, as it sounds too ridiculous to be a legit show and we don't know anyone who went to see it. Or maybe it's good, who knows?

The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards [site]

• Ashlee Simpson wins Best Female Artist at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards. Proof that absolutely no one in Australia cares about MTV. [Courier-Mail]

• We've discussed the inherent perplexities in Alan Cumming's fragrance line, "Cumming," wondering if people are buying the stuff. Apparently they are–specifically, the people who smell bad. [WOW Report]

When Alan Cumming began the marketing campaign last year for his new self-titled fragrance, "Cumming," many people thought it was a joke–a play on the double entendre based on the, shall we say, naughty explicitness of what his name suggests.

But we continue to be only more baffled by the legitimacy of the fragrance, which is now sold in Sephora beauty supply stores nationwide. The advertising campaigns feature Cumming himself, doused in eye-liner and playfully rolling around on a bed of white sheets, seductively touching himself. And while he is a brilliant actor, it's not the same effect as the standard fragrance campains of days gone by, with Marcus Shenkenberg and Christy Turlington glistening with moisture. Is he acting out some sort of fantasy? Good for him, if he is.

Friends of the Queerty staff say they have sampled the Cumming fragrance, and it actually smells rather nice…no word on whether or not anyone has actually purchased it.

To watch the commercial, click here: cummingthefragrance.com

Previously: Interview with Alan Cumming on Queerty