Scrubs in love

Guy love in action. Photo: Getty Images.

Scrubs is back on NBC's Thursday night comedy line-up as of tonight at 9 p.m.

In apparent celebration of what will likely be the smarty pants show's last season, you can now watch a hysterically adorable preview of their upcoming musical episode.

Guy Love is a duet between J.D. (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) -- and that's not me beating my usual "aren't those two buddies pretty gay" drum, that's the official love story released by the studio.

It's worth noting that the gayest of the clips aren't specially staged for the revue -- they're culled from the last five years of guy-loving goings-on.

Rob Lowe's straight-to-video sex scandal

Don't call it a comeback. Photo: Getty Images

Proving that even scandals that began and ended pre-Internet will never truly die, Fleshbot unearthed and uploaded these old school, pre-YouTube sex tapes of Rob Lowe getting it on in Betamax.

Egged on by another fully nude guy identified by Wiki as Justin Morris, Rob (aka Sodapop, Billy Hicks or Sam Seaborn) can be blurrily seen enjoying all that a young model named Jennifer has to offer.

Maybe it's because this is the lesser of two infamous sex tape scandals Lowe faced within a matter of months -- the other more headline-ready, what with a 16-year-old participant and the Democratic National Convention as backdrop -- but I'd never caught the fact that this other menage was one-third male two-thirds male (math is hard!).

(If you can't tell by the words "sex tape" that this isn't exactly safe to be watching at work, you probably deserve to get fired.)

Friends, Les Miz, mile high club

> The boys over at Nobody's Watching find a few (male) Friends and take you on a guided tour through 10 years of the hit sitcom in 90 seconds. Their "Rachel" is particularly perfect. [Thanks J]

> Give Me My Remote found the footage of How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel singing Les Miz on the Megan Mullally Show. I feel like NPH and TR Knight are engaged in some undeclared war to turn in the cutest, funniest YouTube footage of the week. I caught NPH playing the narrator in Sondheim's Assassins revival on Broadway a few years back, so at least I'm less surprised by his sudden mad musical skilz.

> And if you'd like to enjoy the scorching safe sex ads other countries see during their sitcom hours, check out this hot, funny and smart mile high action from France. [NSFW]

L Word, hot DJs, poster girls

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> If you swing that way -- and by that way, I don't mean lesbian, I mean drama-inclined -- you might want to check out this mini-preview of the new season of The L Word. There are as many new faces as old, rarely a good sign for any TV show, but it's not like anyone is still watching that for the plot, right?

> Rather kick up your high heels and dance? AOL's Worth Repeating has a good line on the best lesbian DJs across the country.

> Michelle Rodriguez (and Andre 3000) want you to free Tibet! Or at least the 30 Tibetan refugees caught by Chinese border patrol forces after trying to escape into Nepal. Wondering what ever became of the Advocate interview outing her and her presumed girlfriend? Yeah, me too. There weren't any more details in the hard copy of the magazine than online after all.

Previously > Don't go starting a girlfight

The Letterman Experiment

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Check out Kate Winslet on Letterman last night talking about her new movie, The Holiday with Cameron Diaz. When asked by a journalist to come up with something the co-stars learned about each other while shooting the film, Kate apparently only had one good behind-the-scenes story to tell:

"Cameron Diaz could literally eat me under a table."

Apparently realizing that certain Britishisms don't correctly translate across the pond didn't stop her from telling the story again.

Less funny, more frightening: Richard Simmons does Dave tonight. Wearing short-shorts and a tank top bedazzled with his host's name, he attempts to demonstrate his new set-it-and-forget-it food steamer.

The experiment, much like Simmons' career, goes down in flames. The whole thing felt painfully prescient -- I'd lay money on Clay Aiken making a similar stopover 20 years from now.

Light sabers, angry Gandalf, allegedly bi Bond?

Hint: Not Betty Comden. Photo: Getty Images.

> I'm sure this isn't how Betty Comden expected to be memorialized -- one of the songwriters behind Auntie Mame, On the Town and other musical hits -- but I bet she'd still find it funny. The guys who brought you Brokeback to the Future combine footage from Gene Kelly's classic Singin' in the Rain with pompous interviews with George Lucas. Also they add light sabers.

> In other geeky fan news, Ian McKellan joins the chorus of pissed off Lord of the Rings fans ready to throw New Line executives to the nearest Orc. After director Peter Jackson posted a letter to a fansite saying he'd no longer be trying to make The Hobbit due to ongoing legal warfare with the studio, the great gay Gandalf jumped into the fray, too: "I am very sad as I should have relished re-visiting Middle Earth with Peter again as team-leader," he wrote on his website. "It's hard to imagine any other director matching  his achievement in Tolkien country."

> ContactMusic is the super reliable news source that printed an invented quote from Neil Patrick Harris' publicist saying he wasn't gay (leading to his clarification-cum-coming out). This quip from Daniel Craig saying he hopes James Bond also gets some guy-on-guy action in the follow-up to Casino Royale is slightly more believable, even if unlikely to see the light of day: "Why not? I think in this day and age, fans would have accepted it," Craig allegedly said. "I mean, look at (British TV series) Doctor Who - that has had gay scenes in it and no one blinks an eye." (Speaking of the good doctor, I hear Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies is making good on his promise to give every character in Who spinoff Torchwood a same-sex kiss.)

Previously > Bond is the new Bond girl > Breaking: Many, many actors are gay > They just play gay for the cameras > C'mon baby light my Torchwood

Inquiring minds: Britney+Paris 4eva!?!

Today I got an e-mail from my step-dad -- my 59-year-old, Mormon-raised, middle-school teacher step-dad -- asking me when I was ever going to get around to blogging about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. 

"Have you seen the pics of these two on the town? Could there be something there? Or is Paris just the sister type?"

Clearly I have been slacking on the job.

Us Weekly, on the other hand, is all over that action:

"I love her," Hilton gushed to Us while shopping in Malibu, California, November 27. "She is the sweetest girl I know. She's so down-to-earth. I just want her to smile and be happy."

And Hilton, 25, is doing her best to make that happen, taking Spears, 24, shopping and agreeing to give her a complete makeover.

In fact, as the pair party all over L.A. (they've hit Hyde, Les Deux, and Teddy's) they have been locking themselves in bathrooms all over town to make sure that they’re camera ready.

After a meal at the Venetian's Tao Asian Bistro in Las Vegas, Spears and Hilton retreated to the ladies’ room, where they locked themselves in a bathroom stall to primp for 20 minutes (In the process, Spears lost her black tie).

For all the stalkerazzi footage you could want (minus scribbled-on "commentary"), the motherlode can always be found at X17online.com.

But despite all the "Sean Preston has two mommies!" pics of the last week, I think we all know exactly what's going on here -- some good old-fashioned PR. Going a little lesbo (with free crotch shots available at any gossip site near you!) has yet to seriously hurt this teen queen's career.

Try thinking of Paris like a high-end mouthwash designed to help us all get the taste of K-Fed out of our mouths. Eventually Brit's gonna have to learn how to brush her own teeth again.

Maybe that's what's going on in those bathroom stalls...

Previously > Till your ex-wife takes the T-bird away

Tube time: Big Day, Boston Legal, Friday Night Lights

Also on the tube tonight:

> The new real-time wedding comedy Big Day, which includes a blink-and-you'll-miss-him buddy who's all crushed out on the groom. (ABC, 9 p.m.)

> Boston Legal's hetero life partners Alan and Denny will defend a dyke accused of offing her ex-girlfriend. Let's just be glad this isn't on Law & Order. (ABC, 10 p.m.)

> Friday Night Lights is all new with more locker room drama. Will Riggins finally admit he's only sleeping with Lyla because Jason's no longer around for post-game action? Oh wait, that's my summary. NBC says this episode is about steroids and the replacement QB's first date with the coach's daughter. (NBC, 8 p.m.)