Let's Dance was a huge musical departure for Bowie – is Gaga the shock choice for a Bowie tribute at the Grammys?
Then again, this is Bowie: whatever was done by whomever, I suppose there'd always be some Bowie fan whingeing… PR She's not a shock choice, but she feels like a bold choice.
Christoph Waltz, an Austrian actor who has toiled away for years on soap operas in Germany (doctors a speciality) was a shock choice for best actor as sadistic SS "Jew hunter" Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
3.51pm GMT MPs are continuing to debate the shock choice - with one telling Osborne that this is "a rare chance for all sides of parliament to support one of his decisions".
I picked Goldmund from Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund, who is essentially a free spirit who goes around shagging women, doing fabulous carvings and worshipping the earth mother figure," he says, before lowering his voice to mimic Frostrup's response: "I think that's probably the shock choice of the series".
Last year Corbyn, a long-time back-bench lawmaker, was the shock choice of party members to head Labor, which has lost two successive general elections to the Conservatives. .
Ginsberg's work shocked people for its frankness and the film is, at times, shocking in its choice of imagery.
The choices shocked and fascinated Gaiman, who had offered up the 40 or so short stories not already under option.
Ms. Binoche's character, Anne, is at first dismissive and shocked by their choices, but over the course of the film, which screens at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday afternoon and opens in select theaters on Friday, finds they have fears, and desires, in common.
Jolie and the casting director's choices shocked and outraged many ― especially with the "game" the directors played with orphans and disadvantaged children.
"To not have that process, that ability to make a choice, has been shocking for him".
