TO BE MY SUNSHINE AFTER THE RAIN (AND THE WINTER, WHICH IS COMING): For their Comic-Con panel today, the Game of Thrones team produced perhaps the greatest Necrology video ever.

IS THIS BECAUSE I'M A LESBIAN?  Former Senator, Presidential Candidate, and Law & Order DA Fred Thompson will make his Broadway debut as the judge in the Broadway straight play adaptation of John Grisham's A Time To Kill.  (Adaptation is by Rupert Holmes, who is both the man behind "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" and a much-honored theatre playwright and composer.)

GIVE ME AUDRA OR GIVE ME DEATH: So, allegedly, Grace in the upcoming hip-hop version of Annie will be played by Rose Byrne.  Byrne's done solid work both dramatic (Damages) and comedic (Bridesmaids), and seems like a solid enough choice.

HEY HEY HEY HEY: How powerful is "Blurred Lines?"  Powerful enough that it can get even Rahm Emanuel to dance.  No comment yet from @MayorEmanuel, though. 

PRECEDENT IS NOT DEAD, BUT IT CERTAINLY STILL IS PAST: Following up on Matt's story from October, a federal district court judge in Mississippi has tossed on fair use grounds the William Faulkner estate's copyright suit over the borrowing of a nine-word aphorism in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris: "The copyrighted work is a serious piece of literature lifted for use in a speaking part in a movie comedy, as opposed to a printed portion of a novel printed in a newspaper, or a song’s melody sampled in another song. This transmogrification in medium tips this factor in favor of transformative, and thus, fair use."

ETA, by Matt:  Please also note that the full opinion thanks the parties that they "did not ask the court to compare The Sound and the Fury to Sharknado," thus guaranteeing that "Sharknado" will have at least one hit in ALLFEDS searches.

ALOTT5MA STYLE GUIDE UPDATE: Jay-Z is now Jay Z.

AND I SWEAR TO YOU THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT VOTE FOR ME WILL DIE SCREAMING:  Emmy nominations are out, and there's much to say. I'm going to focus more on the quirks than the top categories, and supplement this as needed:

• First-time nominees include Kerry Washington, Emilia Clarke, Carrie Preston, and Harry Hamlin.
• Eric Stonestreet becomes the first Modern Family actor to fail to be Emmy-nominated since Ed O'Neill was skipped in the first season. The other three get to go up against Stefon, Tony Hale, and Adam Driver. (Third straight year they passed on NPH.)
• No Kingslayer. No Tatiana Maslany. No Corey Stoll. And no Rob Lowe love for Behind the Candelabra, or David Lynch for Guest Actor on Louie? Really?
• Eight different individual nominations for Louis C.K., five for Tina Fey (including lyrics to "The Rural Juror"), and three for Anthony Bourdain.
• Christine Baranski yes, Archie Panjabi no.  This is correct.
• Much love for 30 Rock's final season, including Best Comedy, Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, Will Forte (!!) in guest, writing noms for each half of the finale ...
• Survivor gets no love other than in the tech categories. Amazing Race, however, again, yeah.
• Jonathan Banks' first nomination since 1989, when he was supporting on Wiseguy and lost to Larry Drake ("Benny") from L.A. Law.
• Parks and Rec was only nominated for Amy Poehler and Sound Mixing.

Sepinwall: "[T]hese aren't the exact nominees I'd have chosen, but it's a far less egregious list than we've had in some other years."

MZS: "If Jonathan Banks doesn't win Best Supporting Actor for playing Mike on Breaking Bad, the award means nothing, and the word acting means nothing, and maybe everything means nothing, and we should all just go die in the tall grass."