Sad Day

I never watch the Grammy's anymore, they're almost as irrelevant as the Golden Globes, but I was rather pleasantly surprised when I woke up this morning and heard on the radio that Amy Winehouse had won 5, but then was stunned to hear that she was beaten out for Album of the Year by Herbie Hancock, the least relevant and worst "musician" of the nominees. Of course, I had predicted that he would win based on those traits, but it was still saddening to hear just how right I was. Winehouse would have been the best pick out of all of them, although her CD also wasn't what I would consider the best of the year. Knowing that the Grammy's year doesn't correspond to the calendar so the Xanadu cast recording wouldn't have been considered, I would have thought last year's best CD to be the 110 in the Shade cast recording, with Prince, Kelly Clarkson, and Mika as runners up, as well as the Scissor Sisters, who released Ta-Dah around the same time in 96 that Amy's CD came out (Victoria Clark can be considered next year with Xanadu since her fabulous CD came out in November). Still, Spring Awakening got Best Soundtrack which it highly deserved. I was then further saddened to read on msnbc.com this morning that Roy Scheider died. I know I mentioned this earlier, but given his performances in French Connection, Marathon Man, and All That Jazz, it is criminal that he didn't have a more high profile career. The film community is definitely the worse off for his passing. Lastly, a bit of kind of good news. As I predicted last week, Sarah Brightman did chart last week, although she came in at number 13 in her first week. Given the empty shelf space at Target, I had hoped she would break the top 10, which I don't think she's done since La Luna. Still, it's been quite a while since Harem came out, so she may need to remind her audience that she's around. We'll see how future week's sales stack up. Idina was nowhere to be found on the chart (although it only went to 20), hopefully she'll continue to grow her audience and be making an appearance soon. Oh, one other thing, as I was looking through the A&E section of the Trib yesterday, I saw a listing for The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Pheasant Run starting next month. It seems they've finally realized that the Fox Valley is not Wicker Park and booted Noble Fool and brought back their theatre productions. I'll definitely have to make a trip out there to catch it. One more thing to add to the list with Drury Lane's Goodbye Girl (the actual musical, not the play!), Les Miz, Little Dog Laughed, and Shining City. I'm going to have to get on these, time's awastin' and we're only getting more shows as the year goes on.