Hot Sheet: Laughter Through Tears Is Our Favorite Emotion

The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Ryan Murphy’s surrogate baby sitcom delivers big laughs, Perez Hilton goes legit, a long-lost interview with Rock Hudson surfaces, and more.

BY Jeremy Kinser

September 07 2012 7:14 PM ET

7. PERFORMANCE: Steel Magnolias
If laughter through tears is your favorite emotion and you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, buy a ticket for Robert Harling’s cherished tearjerker. Frances Conroy, Jennifer Coolidge, Elizabeth Perkins, and Annie Potts headline director Judith Ivey’s 25^th anniversary staged reading at L.A.’s Broad Stage as a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Sunday. For more information go to SteelMagnolias-25Years.org.