John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76. If you haven’t read Rabbit, Run yet, you should.

Original score: James Newton Howard (“Defiance”), Alexandre Desplat (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), Winner – A. R. Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”), Hans Zimmer (“Frost/Nixon”) and Clint Eastwood (“Changeling”).

From Roja to Slumdog, it was one helluva trip. Thanks for all the music.