I am watching the Grammy show at 8pm on CBS in Oregon but you can have the Grammy Spoiler Alert results. Here’s a list of the winners so far! Rock on.

Song of the Year: “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum
Rap Album: Recovery, Eminem
Country Album: Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
New Artist: Esperanza Spalding Pop Vocal Album: Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
Rock Album: Muse, The Resistance

POP:

Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Train, “Hey, Soul Sister (Live)”
Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Bublé, Crazy Love
Female Pop Vocal Performance: Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance,” The Fame Monster
Male Pop Vocal Performance: Bruno Mars, “Just The Way You Are,” Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Imagine,” Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare, The Imagine Project?
Pop Instrumental Performance: “Nessun Dorma,” Jeff Beck, Emotion & Commotion
Pop Instrumental Album: Take Your Pick, Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto

R&B:

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Fantasia, “Bittersweet,” Back to Me
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Usher, “There Goes My Baby,” Raymond V Raymond
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Sade, “Soldier of Love,” Soldier of Love
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: John Legend & The Roots, “Hang On In There,” Wake Up!
Best R&B Song: John Legend & The Roots, “Shine,” Wake Up!
Best R&B Album: Wake Up!, John Legend & The Roots
Contemporary R&B Album: Raymond V Raymond, Usher

RAP:

Rap Album: Recovery, Eminem
Rap Song: Jay-Z & Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind,” The Blueprint 3
Rap/Sung Collaboration: Jay-Z & Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind,” The Blueprint 3
Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz, “On to the Next One,” The Blueprint 3
Rap Solo Performance: Eminem, “Not Afraid,” Recovery
Urban/Alternative Performance: “F*** You,” Cee Lo Green

ROCK:

Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Paul McCartney, “Helter Skelter,” Good Evening New York City
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: The Black Keys, “Tighten Up,” Brothers
Rock Song: “Angry World,” Neil Young, Le Noise
Hard Rock Performance: New Fang, “Them Crooked Vultures,” Them Crooked Vultures
Metal Performance: “El Dorado,” Iron Maiden, The Final Frontier
Rock Instrumental Performance: Jeff Beck, “Hammerhead,” Emotion & Commotion
Rock Album: Muse, The Resistance

COUNTRY:

Female Country Vocal Performance: Miranda Lambert, ” The House That Built Me,” Revolution
Male Country Vocal Performance: Keith Urban, “‘Til Summer Comes Around”
Country Song: “Need You Now,” Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum) (Need You Now)
Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now”
Country Instrumental Performance: Marty Stuart, “Hummingbyrd” (Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions)
New Age Album: Miho: Journey to the Mountain, Paul Winter Consort
Contemporary Jazz Album: The Stanley Clarke Band, The Stanley Clarke Band
Jazz Vocal Album: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee, Dee Dee Bridgewater

LATIN:

Latin Pop Album: Paraiso Express, Alejandro Sanz
Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album: El Existential, Grupo Fantasma
Tropical Latin Album: Viva La Tradición, Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Tejano Album: Recuerdos, Little Joe & La Familia
Norteño Album: Classic, Intocable
Banda Album: Enamórate De Mí, El Güero Y Su Banda Centenario

DANCE:

Dance Recording: “Only Girl (in the World),” Rihanna
Electronic/Dance Album: La Roux, La Roux

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Warning Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince spoiler, but if you have read the book you know what happens anyway.

This says it all. I was lucky enought to have known him when I was a boy.

Slumdog Millionaire was set and filmed in India in the slums of Mumbai. But ask director Danny Boyle, ‘Is it an Indian film?” The incredible director would come up with the answer that the film is based on Vikas Swarup’s book Q and A, and shot entirely in India, but it is a British film, since the $15 million film was financed in London. But the film’s co-director, as well as casting director Loveleen Tandan, who is an Indian, once declared that ‘It is totally an Indian film.’ 

Interestingly, Boyle, who captured the real picture of Mumbai slums, had never been to India before signing on to direct the screenplay written by Beaufoy. But, Loveleen Tandan had been his moral compass and anchor throughout the project.

“Before I arrived in Mumbai I read Suketu Mehta’s marvelous book ‘The Maximum City’,” Boyle said. “But even then I had to find out a million things about Mumbai. And it was very important that I did not get things wrong.” Loveleen was always there with helpful suggestions and warnings about how some things aren’t looking alright.”
Slumdog was an ultimate experience for its makers. They adopted a rare approach to reach under the skin of Mumbai slums. Tandan says she likes to get as close to reality as possible, and this very intense enthusiasm drove her to the slums of East Bandra, where she found two young children who resembled the protagonists in the story.
 
“I was very keen to get real slum kids, which is why I convinced them (the producers) to do one-third of the scenes in Hindi. I made a scratch tape with real street kids. The team was surprised that Hindi actually made it brighter and more alive,” said Tandan. Two of the child actors were plucked from a desperately poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mubai. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, age 10, and Ruboma Ali, 9, were flown to Los Angeles for the ceremony.

Indeed, Boyle realized that they needed to adapt to the freewheeling working style of the Indian crew. Certainly, Slumdog does not feel like a foreign film. Of course, it has a significant touch of Indian music by maestro A.R. Rahman.

Everything about Slumdog is so alluring, which appeals to everyone. Most parts of the film was shot on small digital cameras by the director himself, so that he could capture the environment’s immediacy while enabling the crew to move through neighborhoods with little disruption.

“You’ve got a script you’re going to shoot, but you try and make the decisions on the day,” Boyle said. “It doesn’t always work, but when it does work, that’s the best bit, when you feel something new that you’d never thought of before.”

Slumdog Millionaire takes the audience on a journey into the heart of Indian port city Mumbai. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and eventually won eight, marking the second most Oscar-winning film in this decade. It also won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards.

 Orange County Fair Cattle Drive Day One for the first part of the story.

Orange County Fair Cattle Drive Day Two for the rest of the story.