Of all the movers and shakers in Hollywood, no one likes to keep more projects in development than Bryan Singer. Barely a month goes by without his name getting attached to something new. So here’s the next one: a return to the X-Men universe for the man who directed the first (and best) installment. Singer is currently in talks to take on X-Men: First Class for Fox. The “first class” thing isn’t about how fancy they are; it’s an origin story about the first class of X-ers to make it through the “Xavier Institute for Higher Learning,” aka mutant high school. New characters are being planned to mingle with the older (but younger) characters and the prequel will also explore the first meeting of Charles Xavier and Magneto. When’s it scheduled to graduate from idea to green light and then production schedule? Not even Magneto knows.

Every lesbian (and lesbian-loving gay guy) remembers the scruffy 1990s indie hit Go Fish, the film that launched actor Guinevere Turner and “L Word” collaborator Rose Troche onto the scene. It was a blast of fresh, hip lesbian energy into the world of queer-themed media and paved the way for a cooler brand of girl-on-girl entertainment. And now two of its stars, Turner and her crunchier companion V.S. Brodie, are set to appear in the new film from lesbian director Cheryl Dunye called The Owls. It’s a thriller about older lesbians accidentally (?) killing a younger one, then trying to hide the body of evidence and running into the usual movie complications that arise when that sort of thing takes place. Sounds like the perfect way to rehab Dunye’s directing career after that unfortunate My Baby’s Daddy situation. It should be swooping into theaters sometime in 2010.

When you’re more famous for your abs, pectorals and personal training saga than your acting, you’ve already reached gay icon status. And so it is that Taylor Lautner (Team Jacob, in case you’ve been living on a different planet this year) will make sure that his next non-“Twilight” project will allow for plenty of attention on his body. The young star will appear in an action thriller titled Cancun, in which he’ll star as a misfit college student who has to save his girlfriend from a Mexican drug cartel. How will he do this? With martial arts, of course. The actor showed off some skill on a recent episode of “Saturday Night Live,” backflipping and chopping fake would-be threats to his girlfriend Taylor Swift. And that’s all you need to inspire a film in Hollywood, really: youth, a willingness to get semi-nude and the threat of righteous violence. Congratulations, Mr. Lautner, keep striking while it’s still hot.

In the most recent flurry of Hugh Jackman, Inc. activity (not counting his fictional appearance on “Inside the Actor’s Studio” for “30 Rock,” the moment that inspired the now-legendary line, “I’m not gay, I’m BI-LARIOUS!”) something monumentally odd almost slipped through the cracks. In all the hoopla over the next Wolverine movie and the planned remake of Carousel, a smaller entertainment seedling sprouted. It’s called Avon Man. It’s about a down-on-his-luck guy who winds up selling Avon cosmetics, recruiting other men in his town to join him on his lipstick and moisturizer-based journey. Because men doing things ladies do is automatically funny somehow. The comedy is still on Jackman’s back burner, but expect major Skin So Soft synergy to take place when it gets closer to a release date.

Maybe you swooned over Joseph Gordon-Levitt in last year’s (500) Days of Summer or fell for adorable roller-derbying Ellen Page in Whip It. Maybe you felt strangely turned on when Brit bruiser Tom Hardy got naked and violent in Bronson (which was pretty much the entire film). Well, then you’re in luck because all three of them are in the new Christopher Nolan film, Inception. The sci-fi thriller, on track for a summer release (they’re saying July, at least for now), has something to do with blackmail and, well, who knows what else, really, but also co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Ken Watanabe. And if nothing else, the large ensemble nature of the cast list (PS, with Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine and Lukas Haas) makes Romeo think of those old all-star 1970s sci-fi/disaster movies with everyone from Fred Astaire to O.J. Simpson trying to escape a burning skyscraper, thereby increasing its must-see quotient by about a thousand percent.

If you failed to watch the first season of Showtime’s brilliantly funny, nervy Nurse Jackie, what the heck is wrong with you? You can catch up on reruns or with the DVD, but do so before the new season debuts early this year. Meanwhile, the gays on this show are leaving and arriving at a breakneck pace lately. Haaz Sleimann (The Vistor), who played the sardonic nurse Mo-Mo, is gone without a trace, with nothing but terse “his storyline played itself out” commentary from the creators. (They won’t even say that guy’s name, instead they just call him “the actor.” Weird. Meanwhile, they ran out of ideas for TV’s one gay Muslim? Huh?) But big bearish Thor remains, a gay love triangle is on deck for the upcoming season, and Harvey Fierstein will have a guest spot in Nurse Jackie’s domain as a man whose husband is dying. And one of these days we’re going to hear the real deal from Sleimann. Can’t wait for that one.

Look, there’s nothing wrong with Romeo’s ongoing “L Word” fixation. Who cares if the show is long gone? Those lesbians will live in his heart forever. Also on his TV, it turns out, tragically pool-dead Jenny Schecter (OK, her actual name is Mia Kirshner), who’s hopped on over to the CW for a stint on “Vampire Diaries,” airing any second now. Kirshner will have a recurring role as history teacher Alaric’s (Matt Davis) wife. And that’s all that’s known at the moment, which is as it should be. Part of the fun of being a big fan of a silly TV show is obsessing over the possibilities. Will this series (one that, just to remind you, has gay Kevin Williamson in charge) finally move in a more homophilic direction? Will some sexy lady vampire bite Mia and turn her blood-sucky? Will this well-written show finally get the CW a little respect? And will Jenny (sorry, yes, Mia) stick around forever? The waiting to find out part is almost as good as watching the show itself.

His new movie Cop Out (previously titled A Couple of Dicks, but changed when no one went to see Zack and Miri Make a Porno) is set to hit theaters in the next couple of weeks. He’s rumored to be co-starring with old pal Jason Mewes and Twilight girl-of-the-moment Kristen Stewart in the upcoming K-11 (which would be a nice way to make up for Catch and Release). And it looks like his horror film, Red State, is gaining get-made momentum. But director Kevin Smith’s most promising project on the horizon looks like his planned hockey movie, Hit Somebody. So far only one actor, Wil Wheaton (Stand by Me), is attached to the film, but if it’s about hockey and tough guys and blood on the ice, and if Kevin Smith has anything to do with it, there will be just as much gayness as the guy can squeeze into that locker room. Without a doubt, Romeo’s rooting for this one already.