The revival of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour at London’s Comedy Theatre has rounded out its cast. Previously announced lead Keira Knightley will be joined by Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss; they’ll play two women running a girls boarding school in New England in the 1930s (played by Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn in the film version) who find themselves at the center of a lesbian scandal. Of course, at that point in history the fact that lesbians existed at all was all the scandal anyone needed, so the drama runs high in this now-classic play. It’s an impressive supporting cast joining Moss and Knightley, as well, with Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn and Carol Kane taking on roles as the pivotal rumor-mongering student’s grandmother and another teacher, respectively. The play begins previews in January of 2011 and runs through April. Book those London plane tickets now.

Liberace with Damon and Douglas: Still on

If you’ve felt frustrated after reading an announcement about a movie going into production "sometime in the near future," and then never hearing about it again, here’s some great news for you: the Liberace movie is still happening. It just hit a bump in the road when star Michael Douglas became ill. But not only is Douglas on the mend from throat cancer, but he’s also cleared his schedule to begin shooting the long-awaited biopic. His co-star, Matt Damon, is also ready to move and Steven Soderbergh will direct the Richard LaGravenese script, adapted from the book Behind the Candelabra (My Life With Liberace) by his former lover Scott Thorson. Expect a deep look at a beloved yet complicated and conservative man who ­– due to the restrictions of his era – denied his homosexuality as well as his own AIDS diagnosis right up until his death. Start date is looking like early 2011 now. Can’t wait for this one to show up in multiplexes.

Lance Bass has a screenplay, too. So there.

Well, that didn’t take long. Not two hot minutes after A List: New York’s Reichen Lemkuhl announces that a screenplay of his memoir Here’s What We’ll Say had been written and a movie was in the gestation period, his apparently super-competetive arch-ex-boyfriend Lance Bass announces his own screenplay. Coincidence? Weird gay one-upsmanship? Passive media battle? Whatever it is, Bass’s story sounds... odd. Seems he went to Girls Gone Wild porntrapreneur Joe Francis’s wedding in Mexico and drove there with Cheryl Tiegs and they had a wacky time of it. So now that’s a script. Along for the ride were Aaron Sorkin’s ex-wife and two non-famous people. But in the script they should just go ahead and turn the nobodies into the real Tom Brokaw and the real Nene from Real Housewives of Atlanta. Just because famous people are more interesting. That’s why they’re famous, right? And how great is it going to be to see a double feature of both these films? Very great, that’s how great.

Logo brings you two new ‘reality’ shows

RuPaul’s Drag Race and The A-List: New York have finally given gay cable channel Logo what they wanted from the start: hit shows. Now they’re hungry for more. Be on the lookout for not only more A-List locations and the second season of Be Good Johnny Weir, but also for new reality programs like Pretty Hurts and Setup Squad. Coming in February, Hurts follows the staff, gay doctor and not-camera-shy clients of a Beverly Hills medical office that specializes in face augmentation ("Liquid face lifts," says the press release, which probably just means a lot of Botox.) as they save social lives and erase brow lines. Meanwhile, Squad places people who are dating in all the wrong ways with professional coaches who help them turn their game around. The coaches will include one lesbian and one gay man, so everybody will get a turn at finding true hookup...er, love. If Logo doesn’t watch out, all this classy programming is going to turn them into The History Channel.