Sarah Palin's Greatist HIts

New Shopaholic Trailer

Kevin McKidd on Grey's Anatomy

Swoon. Did you catch the Grey's Anatomy Season Premiere? I finally caught up on my DVR last night. Kevin McKidd's introduction to the show was better than I could have hoped. He was like a knight in camouflage sweeping Sandra Oh off her feet -- literally. I was expecting a build up of sexual tension over time, and instead Shonda Rhimes gave us THIS little treat. OMG. I'm a goner.

"So?" The one word that brought Grey's back to must watch status for me.

New Australia Trailer

Can you say Oscar? Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman were made for these roles!! Can. Not. Wait!!!

Phillip Glass to Compose Walt Disney Opera

From Variety:

New York City Opera has commissioned composer Philip Glass ("Koyaanisqatsi," "The Hours") to pen an opera about Walt Disney.

Opera, planned to kick off City Opera's 2012-13 season, will be based on Peter Stephan Jungk's German-language novel "The Perfect American." Story imagines the last months of Disney as seen through the eyes of a fictional Austrian cartoonist who worked for him.

Preem of "American" is timed to celebrate Glass' 75th birthday.

I've always loved Philip Glass' music, and have been thrilled that he's done so many film scores lately. I remember being blown away when I saw Koyaanisqatsi in college. My husband hates his music, but proved he loves me by going with me to see Philip Glass perform once. Here's a clip from Koyaanisqatsi (which means life out of balance.) There's not one line of dialog in the whole film, and hearing Philip Glass' music for the first time knocked my socks off.

New Spirit Trailer

This could be good like Sin City, or be really bad. This is Frank Miller's directorial debut.

Tina "Sarah Palin" Fey does it again!

Bad Karma

Good Yontiv!

Paul Newman is dead of cancer

So sad, but not completely unexpected since he had been looking so frail of late. He died at age 83. Still too soon for such a great one. My kids asked "Who died?" when they heard me gasp at the NY Times picture. "What movies was he in?" How to explain to kids the likes of Absence of Malice, Road to Perdition, Hud, and Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid. I finally remembered that he was the voice of Hud in the animated Cars which was probably their only exposure. And then I showed them the salad dressing bottle from the fridge! He gave millions to charity. A class act all around.


Read the obit in the NY Times here.

“I’m not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to,” Mr. Newman said last year on the ABC program “Good Morning America.” “You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that’s pretty much a closed book for me.”

But he remained fulfilled by his charitable work, saying it was his greatest legacy, particularly in giving ailing, often dying children a camp at which to play.

“We are such spendthrifts with our lives,” Mr. Newman once told a reporter. “The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”

British Idol Punjabi Style

And now for something completely different. This is bloody brilliant!
Hat tip: My pal Jamie. Thanks for this one!