News: Netflix, Bradley Manning, Vietnam, Sarah Palin

Netflix's increasingly valuable stock has made the company's CEO, Reed Hastings, a very, very rich man.

LGBT activist Michael Petrelis is one of those who is calling for a protest in San Francisco tomorrow over the SF Pride/Bradley Manning controversy: "'Our message to SF Pride is that they should make Manning a grand marshal of this year's Pride march and celebration because of his brave act of whistleblowing against the military industrial complex,' said Petrelis. 'We are fed up with marriage and military concerns sucking the oxygen out of what used to be a queer movement and Pride march and celebration about social justice for queers.'"

Kickstarter pays off for Zack Braff.

Mark Wahlberg's Pain & Gain muscles a box office win.

First gay wedding fair held in France.

Compelling story about a popular gay ex-mayor of a small Texas town who gave up his rising career for love: "He followed a path blazed by hundreds of gay Americans each year, who have found that U.S. immigration law offers no easy way for them to live legally with foreign-born partners."

Vietnamese series My Best Gay Friends is a big hit. Says creator: "I thought it would only interest Vietnam's gay community -- but we're hearing that parents, grandparents, whole families watch and love the shows and long for new episodes."

The Associated Press asks if lesbians are more accepted than gay men.

Unsurprisngly, Sarah Palin finds the time to complain about last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Ashton Kutcher involved in altercation at the Stagecoach music festival.

RIP: Alan Wood, the man who owned the U.S. flag in Joe Rosenthal's photo of the famous flag-rising over Iwo Jima.

  Jake Gyllenhaal and Jude Law hang out together in the East Village.

Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs: PHOTO

Here's the first promo photo from Jobs, Joshua Michael Stern's biopic of the Apple co-founder. The film has been announced as the closer for the Sundance Film Festival.

The movie reportedly focuses on Jobs' early years at Apple from the early 70's to around 2000. It also stars Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Modine, and James Woods.

Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer Kiss on 'Two and a Half Men': VIDEO

Ashton Kutcher's Walden saves sucks face on Two and a Half Men after his hit on a woman who turns out to be a lesbian goes down in flames.

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Ashton Kutcher to Replace Charlie Sheen on 'Two and a Half Men'

Ashton Kutcher will be replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men. Kutcher noted it on Twitter last night (above).

The L.A. Times:

CBS, studio Warner Bros. and Kutcher's reps at Creative Artists Agency declined to comment on the situation but a deal is said to be all but signed. The exact dollar figure he will be paid is not known, but a source says Kutcher is getting a "huge payday" to join the hit sitcom.

The deal came together quickly after Hugh Grant passed on the opportunity to join the show. Now sources say "Men" creator Chuck Lorre has crafted a storyline to introduce Kutcher in a way that satisfies the network and studio. "It's really funny," says one source. "People are going to love it."

Photo: Cheesehead Pyramid at the Super Bowl

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News: Illinois, Hawaii, Uganda, Channing Tatum, Yachts

Illinois county clerks gear up for the legalization of civil unions, which are expected to start taking place in that state on June 1.

In a 19-6 vote, the state Senate in Hawaii has approved the civil unions bill. Next stop: The House of Representatives.

Hope College in Holland, Michigan amends its 16-year-old Statement on Homosexuality. It's really not much of an improvement: "...the board said that the college would continue to not recognize or support on-campus groups aiming to promote a vision of human sexuality contrary to Scriptures, but would invite the entire Hope community to a “renewed encounter” with the biblical witness regarding human sexuality."

NY Times reporter remembers his meeting with LGBT activist David Kato in 2009: "He was a small man with thick glasses and thin wrists. He said police officers had broken his arm and cracked him in the nose after he held Uganda’s first gay rights news conference several years ago. He talked fast, constantly scanning the darkness. He struck me as clearly brave and deeply frightened."

Channing Tatum makes sure to wear layers at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Just because the world's first $ 1 billion yacht has been designed doesn't mean its likely to get built.

You won't have to wait much longer for Britney Spears' new album. It drops on March 15.

Monkeys!

Courtney Love walks into a a Chelsea wind tunnel.

Ashton Kutcher to go back to his modeling roots.

Ugandan woman who fears for her life if she were to return to her home country wins last-minute stay of deportation in Britain: "Her lawyer said she had already boarded the flight when immigration officials were notified of the judge’s ruling and then escorted Ms. Namigadde off the aircraft and returned her to the detention center."

Twin power: American twins win Australian Open doubles title.

Back in 1994, Katie Couric couldn't explain the Internet.