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22 May 2013 For their 100th birthday, the American Cancer Society has asked us to get loud and help Finish the Fight against cancer! By taking action together we can make sure this gets handled! Pledging our time or money, participating in research studies for the next breakthrough, making healthy choices for ourselves and our families, or simply spreading the word can make a huge difference. Cancer thrives on silence. Progress comes from speaking out. Let's make a ruckus! Pledge at www.cancer.org/fight. Or check them out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AmericanCancerSociety.

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27 September 2012
22 May 2013 For their 100th birthday, the American Cancer Society has asked us to get loud and help Finish the Fight against cancer! By taking action together we can make sure this gets handled! Pledging our time or money, participating in research studies for the next breakthrough, making healthy choices for ourselves and our families, or simply spreading the word can make a huge difference. Cancer thrives on silence. Progress comes from speaking out. Let's make a ruckus! Pledge at www.cancer.org/fight. Or check them out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AmericanCancerSociety.
05 October 2012 FIVE THINGS I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ARIZONA’S MISSING LEG: 1. It felt real to me that Arizona would lose her leg. That someone we love so much would go from being ambulatory to WORKING on being ambulatory, that we would begin to understand what it is like to be differently abled from watching a person we love BECOME differently abled. 2. To all those of you who posited that Arizona lost a leg because she’s a lesbian, I say: WHA….???!!! Or maybe I should say: “There was a second shooter on a grassy knoll, Area 51 isn’t just a myth and AIDS was created by the government.” Or you know, “THAT IS INSANE!” We don’t punish people for their sexual preferences. That is so 1985. We allow people, no matter what their sexual preference, to have complex storylines. Arizona is a lesbian who also happens to lose her leg in a plane crash. Why? Because a) Jessica Capshaw is an AWESOME KICKASS actor who deserves a chance to showcase what she has to bring to the table (fyi, as does Arizona’s wife -- Sara Ramirez) and b) I felt it important to develop a storyline that detailed what happens when an able-bodied person loses a limb and then how that person resumes their life. It’s upsetting to me that “disabled” is a word that never enters into a conversation about how we live our lives. So, y’know, if you think she lost a leg because she is a lesbian, I say “GET A LIFE.” Or maybe “LOSE A LEG.” And then see how you feel about a sexy adorable person who happens to have a residual stump. Think about it. And then GET WITH THE PROGRAM. Please. Thank you. 3. Callie is no hero. And I mean that. I think it must be terribly difficult to be Callie right now. To have your partner hate you. To have your sex life taken away. To have your BEST FRIEND taken away. Arizona has been taken from her and Callie is doing her best to survive that. Callie is our “good man in a storm” (FYI: that’s a phrase I have to describe people who are awesome in the face of danger – thank you, LEVEL 42 for making my junior and senior years of high school complex!) and she is doing the best she can. And we love her for it. 4. Callie and Arizona are going to have a fun romance-y, sexy love life again. And you are going to see it this season. That’s important to me. I stated in the Writers Room that Arizona could not lose a leg unless we were going to see how a person missing a leg could be sexy and fun and romance-y. So get ready for it – Arizona is gonna get her mojo back in a BIG WAY. And (spoiler alert!) it’s gonna happen before Valentine’s Day. 5. I want to say a word about Jessica Capshaw. And how fearless she is. Because she is. FEARLESS. OUT OF CONTROL FEARLESS. I tell her, “Let’s show the world an adorable lesbian doctor” and she says “okay.” I say, “I’m gonna cut off Arizona’s leg” and she says “Bring it.” It’s a pleasure to get to work with someone so game for the story. So game for representing things rarely seen on network TV. I love my job. I love getting to write for her. Okay. This season is BIG. I’m in a happy place, y’all. Which means Happy THINGS are happening. I’m freaking the Writers out with all the Happy Things that are happening. But it feels right and it feels real. So I’m going with it. Thank you for watching. Thank you for believing in Arizona and Callie. Thank you for loving a lady –loving woman and her lady-loving-wife. I wish that we could all be so lucky as to find true love like this. Xo Shonda
27 September 2012
11 January 2013 This awesome image was created by the husband of Scandal writer Heather Mitchell and it makes me happy so I'm sharing. That's all. Happy Friday, Gladiators!
19 November 2012 We're so excited to be at the top of Entertainment Weekly's MUST LIST!
18 January 2013 By REQUEST and for your viewing pleasure... The Grey-Shepherd Family!
05 December 2012 I GET SCARY TWEETS SOMETIMES. Now, most of y'all are super reasonable sane AWESOME people. Almost all of you are super reasonable sane awesome people. But...sometimes... I know everyone's excited about the possibility of McBaby but (in answer to some tweets I am getting) I actually feel the need to say the following: Grey's Anatomy is a TV show. So you realize that the baby will not ACTUALLY be the spawn of Mer/Der, right? Because they are not real. Mer and Der are characters. Who are not real. Who are played by actors. So the baby? It will be an actor-baby. Who can not possibly come out looking like a cross between Meredith and Derek. It can not have Mer's eyes and Der's hair. Because those eyes are ELLEN's eyes and that hair is PATRICK's hair -- and Ellen's kids look like her and Patrick's kids look like him. But TV kids can not look like them. Mer/Der's baby will come out looking like whomever it's ACTUAL parents are. He/she will be cute because I will cast a cute baby. But that's all I can promise. Cuteness. Not potential hair. Not potential eyes like Mer's. Get ready for that. Because y'all, Patrick and Ellen aren't actually making a baby. Their characters are. It's a TV show. And I love that you love it. I truly do and I'm grateful. But, you know...if you are one of the people sending me scary tweets that suggest you think this is reality...I'm worrying about you right now. Maybe call an actual friend and leave the house? xoxo Shonda PS: Callie/Arizona start trying to get their groove back at Bailey's wedding and it's adorable and sweet and the start of something good. That's your Calzona spoiler-ish statement that I promised...
24 April 2013 One of the highlights of my evening last night at the TIME100: Got to hang out with Bassem Youssef. Huge admirer of his work. He's jailed in his country for doing what Jon Stewart does every night in ours.
14 January 2013 I FOUND IT! It took me a moment. We had to hunt it down. But FINALLY, per your request, I present to you here the coveted photo of Callie, Arizona and Sofia that resides in the Torres/Robbins bedroom!
01 February 2013 EXCLUSIVE FOR GLADIATORS: And once again, EVERYTHING CHANGES. #AmericasBaby #Scandal #GameChanger @ScandalABC
09 October 2012 Behold the new Grey's Anatomy cast photo!

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Creator and Executive Producer of “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice” and “Scandal”

Shonda Rhimes is the creator of the hit ABC series "Grey's Anatomy," which chronicles the personal and professional lives of surgical residents in Seattle, "Private Practice," which follows Addison Montgomery and her friends at Oceanside Wellness Group and "Scandal," which revolves around the life and work of a professional crisis manager and her dysfunctional staff.

In its ninth season, "Grey's Anatomy" continues to be hailed by audiences and critics. For her work on the series, Rhimes received the 2007 Television Producer of the Year by the Producers Guild of America, the 2007 Golden Globe for Outstanding Television Drama, the 2007 Lucy Award for Excellence in Television from Women in Film, the 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series, the 2006 Writers Guild Award for Best New Series, in addition to Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series and Writing for a Drama Series. Rhimes was also the recipient of the 2012 GLAAD Golden Gate Award, 2010 RAINN Hope Award and a 2009 GLSEN Respect Awards Honoree.

Aside from her success with network television, Rhimes wrote the feature film "Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement," released in August 2004 by Disney. Additionally, her original script, "Crossroads," was released in 2002 by Paramount. She also co-wrote "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge," produced by HBO and nominated for numerous awards, and for which Halle Berry won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for Best Actress in a miniseries for her portrayal of Dandridge. In 2004, Rhimes created her production company Shondaland.

Rhimes worked as research director on the Tollin-Robbins/Mundy Lane documentary "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream." It was nominated for an Emmy Award, an Academy Award and won the Peabody, as well as the NAACP Image Award. She has been a guest speaker at the USC School of Cinema-Television, where she taught a course in scene writing.

Rhimes holds a BA from Dartmouth College in English Literature with Creative Writing. As director of Dartmouth's Black Underground Theatre and Arts Association, her work earned her numerous awards for excellence. She received her MFA from the USC School of Cinema-Television, where she was awarded the prestigious Gary Rosenberg Writing Fellowship.

The child of educators, Rhimes blames her parents for her rampant addiction to books. The youngest of six, she was born and raised outside of Chicago, IL, and now resides in Los Angeles with her two daughters.