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Posts: 10154 (04/22/08 1:40 PM) Registered User |
You forgot to add the throat clearing *hack* in there, pussycow!
Surprisingly, the con man turns all Big Brother on the single mum I don't find that very surprising, they've always shown Sawyer as having a bit of a soft spot when it comes to her. |
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Posts: 5555 (04/22/08 6:04 PM) Registered User |
Here's something of interest (cough) from Kristin:
Max in Rome: Lost! Remember when the monster ate the pilot? Well, the show hasn't forgotten either: Greg Grunberg, aka Oceanic pilot Seth Norris, was in Hawaii last week filming scenes for the show...Whoo-hoo! Francie in Pasadena, Calif.: Can you share Lost info, s'il vous plaît? According to my sources, the Orchid Station, which we should finally see soon, may be a major set going into next season as well. I've personally decided that's because it is totally a time machine, but I've been known to talk crazy. |
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Posts: 13019 (04/23/08 5:46 AM) Registered user |
TV Guide:
Jimmy Kimmel Grills the Lost Bosses (Part 1 of 2) 
Jimmy Kimmel by Mitch Haddad/ABC
On a Monday morning earlier this month, the late-night talk-show host arrived on the Disney Studio lot in Burbank tasked with a mission: Grill Lost's executive producers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, about their massively dissected drama, which returns April 24 to round out its critically hailed fourth season. (We were lucky enough to tag along!) Kimmel, a diehard fan since the pilot, has frequently championed the series on The Jimmy Kimmel Show - interviewing cast members, trekking to Hawaii for a set visit and coining a catchphrase for Hurley ("Hey, ladies, it's Hurley time!"). He's even given the world "Lost: The Musical," a parody skit featuring a Riverdancing polar bear. (And you thought you were obsessed.) As Kimmel greeted Lindelof and Cuse - there were initially few signs of the funnyman who recently fired up YouTube with his A-list viral video "I'm F--king Ben Affleck" (a retaliation to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's "I'm F--king Matt Damon"). He not only arrived 10 minutes early with a writer from his show in tow, but also came armed with a two-inch-thick stack of research, which he'd diligently printed out the night before after roasting Simon Cowell at Idol Gives Back. As Cuse would later note, Kimmel had "the laser-sharp focus of Mike Wallace." After a tour of the writers' room - which, sadly, had been stripped of any visible top-secret scribblings -- the producers settled onto a sofa in Cuse's sunlit office and noshed on a breakfast of fruit and pastries. Kimmel, meanwhile, took a seat across from them and painstakingly laid out his research on a table in front of him. "Don't be alarmed," he said, "but I want answers." - Shawna Malcom Kimmel: The island heals some people and doesn't heal others. For instance, Ben needed an operation from Jack to beat cancer, but it seems like Sawyer gets injured every sixth episode and by the next, he's fine. Is that just a TV thing? Carlton Cuse: Wow. [Laughs] Where are the softball questions, Jimmy? What about the warm-up? Damon Lindelof: The short answer is, it's not arbitrary. Yes, there is a certain degree of compressing story. The idea that everything you've seen has really happened in 110 days of real time feels fantastical, but that's the convention of the show. However, who gets sick and how fast they heal is something we talk about. In the second episode back [airing May 1], that becomes a major issue in the story. One character gets sick and another who has had experience being healed voices exactly that question: Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Cuse: The healing is related to the degree to which you are in communion with the island at any given moment. Perhaps Ben getting sick and needing surgery had to do with the fact that he had fallen out of favor, that his connection with the island was maybe not what it had been in the past. Kimmel: How do cast members find out they're getting killed off? Cuse: We call them ahead of the publishing of the script. So whenever we actually call a cast member, they're always panicked. Even if it's like, "No, we're just calling to say you were great in this episode." Kimmel: Did you call Mr. Friendly beforehand to tell him he was gay? Lindelof: [Laughs] No. Kimmel: Do all the show's writers know Lost's overarching secret, if there is one? Lindelof: They all know what the island is and what the history of the island is. But if Carlton and I were kidnapped, and the kidnappers said, "We will not release them until you divulge the last episode of Lost," I don't know if the writers would be able to provide that. Kimmel: I see. So you don't trust your writers. [Laughs] But you do actually know the final specific scene? Lindelof: We absolutely, 100 percent know what the last scene of the show is and could put [the pages] in a safe deposit box. But there is an asterisk next to that, which is that we're slaves to fluctuations in reality. If one of the actors in that scene decided to stop being in Lost… Cuse: Or, perchance, got a DUI, the entire ending of the show could change. Basically, the show is in the hands of Hawaii law enforcement. [Laughs] Kimmel: People come up to you all the time with theories. Has anyone come close to cracking the code? Cuse: I think there are two assumptions that people make that are incorrect. One is that the whole answer to Lost reduces down to a sentence. It's not like searching for Einstein's Unified Field Theory. And the second is that you have enough information to "crack the code." The flash-forwards completely changed your notion of the show. So how could you do some accurate theorizing before you even knew those existed? Kimmel: Has anyone made a really lucky guess? Lindelof: In certain areas. Last season, when we showed what happened when Desmond turned the key in the hatch and he went on this little jaunt back in England, people started saying, "Maybe the electromagnetism on the island is related to space and time." But that's just one road on the map that is ultimately gonna be the entire show. The longer it goes on, the harder it is to construct a theory that basically answers everything you've seen so far. Cuse: Even though we get asked a lot of questions about the mythology, Jimmy, we're really trying to write a character show. We spend about 80-90 percent of our time talking about how the characters are lost in their own lives as people. The mythology is kind of the frosting on the cake. Kimmel: Do you have one jerk on staff whose job it is to come up with all of Sawyer's nicknames? Cuse: I wouldn't call him a jerk. [Laughs] I'd call him one of our most valued writers, and his name is Eddy Kitsis. Lindelof: And Adam [Horowitz], too. They both come up with a whole cavalcade of them. Kimmel: What happened to the smoke monster? High winds? Cuse: We'll see the smoke monster in the April 24 episode. Kimmel: [Laughs] Do people find clues that surprise you guys? Lindelof: In the pilot, there's a still frame of Walt, and behind him, burnt into the fuselage wreckage, is what looks like a Dharma symbol. We'd talked about the idea that there had been a group of hippies on the island, but the phrase "The Dharma Initiative" or the design for the logo didn't come along until much later. But it's there and it's not Photoshopped. Suddenly, you understand how hundreds of people can show up and see… Cuse: The Virgin Mary in a piece of toast. It's a mystery that's even greater than our understanding. Lindelof: We would love in moments like that to go, "Yes. We knew we'd be introducing the idea of the Dharma Initiative in the second season premiere and we wanted people to go back to the pilot and see that the symbol had been burned into the fuselage." But if we had known, we wouldn't have done it in such an oblique way. Sawyer would've went [adopts Southern twang], "Hey, what's this?" We want people to see our Easter eggs. Kimmel: Something I noticed early on is that many of the characters have issues with their lousy fathers. Cuse: Is this the part where we have to cry? Kimmel: Jack obviously. Locke. Sun's father is a killer. Kate killed hers. Cuse: You'd be better off just listing the people who have healthy relationships with their fathers. Kimmel: Is that a coincidence? Cuse: No. We're sort of working out our own psychological traumas in front of 15 million people. Lindelof: Look, there's a certain aspect of the hero's journey, whether it's Luke Skywalker or Hercules or Harry Potter, where they're either orphans or have incredibly dysfunctional relationships with their fathers. They haven't been told what to do. They have to find a mentor character outside of their own family. The show's called Lostand we always imagined it from the beginning as a show about characters trying to be better people and evolve past their own petty insecurities and problems. And if you're gonna do flashbacks, some of them are gonna be about stuff that was put on them by their parents. Kimmel: Is the person in the coffin someone who's not from the island? Lindelof: [To Cuse] Tread lightly. Cuse: You will know who's in the coffin before the season is over, and it will not be like, "Who's that person?" Lindelof: The only people you can rule out, based on what you saw in last year's finale, are Kate and Jack. Kimmel: And the baby, just based on the size. Cuse: Yeah, it's too big a coffin for a baby. |
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Posts: 2696 (04/23/08 7:50 AM) Registered User |
Great stuff, CP. Thanks.
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Posts: 2018 (04/23/08 7:55 AM) |
Great article...and hysterical! I think I laughed more reading that than at the last episode of The Office
 I would love to just hang out with Darlton
sometime, even if it didn't involve talking about Lost
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Posts: 13020 (04/23/08 10:14 AM) Registered user |
I love Darlton too :) The podcasts are great.
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Posts: 3252 (04/23/08 4:46 PM) Registered user |
CP, do you check spoilerfix? They posted a whole bunch of stuff today that is pretty teaser-heavy. I think it's all appropriate to be posted here.
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Posts: 2699 (04/23/08 6:16 PM) Registered User |
GodIsAnAtheist wrote: Well then, someone needs to post that shit and post that shit immediately....
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Posts: 1510 (04/23/08 7:00 PM) MWV Champ
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Posts: 13023 (04/23/08 7:19 PM) Registered user |
Ooh Good stuff!!
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Posts: 5559 (04/23/08 11:15 PM) Registered User |
You guys should just read the dang Hardcore thread. Everything here is there. I haven't been posting stuff like someone dies this episode because I thought
that wasn't a teaser. But anyways.. no scripts or episode synopses so far this season. There is hope we'll get ALL the shit in the next few episodes
though. Woohoo.
Anyway:  I've just learnt that Funeral Director from the Season 3 Finale, who was played by Nigel Gibbs, will be back for the Season 4 Finale.
Will we finally see who was in the coffin? Source: DarkUFO |
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Posts: 5561 (04/23/08 11:39 PM) Registered User |
Question: Lost scoop, pretty please? - Darren
Ausiello: An elaborate ******* scene was shot last week. And I hear all of the Ocean Six were present and accounted for. (any guesses?) Question: More Lost, please! - Tim Ausiello: Guess who RSVP'd "Yes" to Locke's flashback episode on May 1? Nestor Carbonell! Meanwhile, my frenemy at E! Online is reporting that Greg Grunberg will reprise his role as Oceanic pilot Seth Norris in the two-hour season finale. (say what? Another 815 plane montage maybe.. those make me cry.. and a fitting scene to have in the finale as six Losties are going home) Coincidentally, that same episode will feature the introduction of another pilot, a "young Top Gun type" who, per the casting sheet, doesn't like it when his copilot brings Lucky Charms onboard. Or was it a lucky charm? Eh, it was one of those two. Source: TV Guide |
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Posts: 13033 (04/24/08 3:01 PM) Registered user |
Yunjin Kim on Lost's Return: Prepare to Be 'Amazed'
Yunjin Kim by Mario Perez/ABC
TVGuide.com: Was it any special thrill, if only because of the job security, to learn you were among the Oceanic Six? Yunjin Kim: Initially I thought it would mean job security, but it doesn't really look that way. It doesn't really mean anything. If you're not one of the Oceanic Six, that doesn't mean you're going to be killed off the show. TVGuide.com: When you were reading the script for "Ji Yeon," were you led to believe that Jin was on his way to see Sun? Kim: Yes and no. The Year of the Dragon was a pretty significant sign that we weren't talking about in 2005. I got a sense we were in two different time zones. TVGuide.com: Were you touched to see that Sun and Hurley are still friends? Kim: I thought that of all the characters, Hurley would be the one coming to see the baby. The question is, why was he so glad none of the other Oceanic Six members would be there? While we were shooting it, we discussed how far Jorge [Garcia] should go with that. Should he be really glad no one else was coming, or half glad...? We did a couple of different variations, and they made it very ambiguous. TVGuide.com: From where you sit, is the energy on the set at all different this season? Does the show feel tighter, more exciting? Kim: Because of the huge [strike] break, we were all happy to come back to work and find all the crew members returning with us. I was afraid to walk in and find a new crew. But yeah, I agree that the episodes have been great. [Sun and Jin's] episode had the right combination of the story going forward with Sayid and Desmond on the freighter, and also dealing with the A-story. And, of course, the huge surprise at the end raised so many questions. That's what Lost is all about. TVGuide.com: What is Sun's involvement in this week's new episode? Kim: Well, usually when you do your "own" episode, you take it easy for the next one or two. But the story continues: Are we actually going to leave the island? Right now we're going crazy trying to shoot three episodes all at once. [Laughs] We have three different units working, we're working every single day.... I think the finale is going to be amazing. I'm a huge fan of the show, and as soon as I get a script, I plow through it to see what happens next. People will be very amazed by how we end this season and set up the next one. TVGuide.com: What has been your favorite episode of this season? Kim: I really loved our episode, but I also loved Desmond's. With the love story between Desmond and Penelope and those last few seconds on the phone, as they were trying to get their words out, and the music.... It was so emotional and so satisfying. You really are rooting for those two to get back together. I hope people will do the same at the end of the season finale for Sun and Jin! People could have the same reaction. TVGuide.com: Do you know anything about the "Frozen Donkey Wheel," aka the finale's big twist? Kim: Hmm. They've omitted, I think, two scenes from the finale, which was not even a script, it was a book it was so thick! It's amazing. We go out with another huge "What?!" reaction at the end. TVGuide.com: You're one of TV Guide's Sexiest Stars [to be detailed in the May 5 issue]. How does that honor rank compared to being on Maxim's Hot 100 and a Stuff pinup calendar? Kim: Now all my dreams have come true. [Laughs] I was very flattered. I feel like we have a very good-looking cast, so we'll each take our turn. TVGuide.com: It must feel good to be called "sexy" when you spend every episode covered in grit or sand or are in a lot of the same clothes week after week. Kim: Right! I guess they find dirty sexy nowadays! [Laughs] |
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Posts: 10211 (04/24/08 4:47 PM) Registered User |
Can I request that maybe we could get a little warning when death stuff is posted? Pretty please? That's the kind of stuff I don't want to know.
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Posts: 3277 (04/24/08 6:35 PM) Registered user |
cindidindi76 wrote: Yeah, but that's why this is spoilers-lite and not SPOILERS. Anything posted on sites like EW and TV Guide, and DEFINITELY anything from the mouths of
Darlton is kosher here.
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CoconutPhone |
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Posts: 13038 (04/25/08 5:39 AM) Registered user |
immy Kimmel Grills the Lost Bosses (Part 2)
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Posts: 2713 (04/25/08 7:46 AM) Registered User |
Thanks again CP. Great info.
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Posts: 13670 (04/25/08 7:57 AM) Registered user |
"Or maybe fall off the helicopter. But if that's the case, I'm not shooting that scene. Stunt double, please!" Heh, sounds like Emilie was reading the fake spoilers that came out earlier regarding Claire. |
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Posts: 1516 (04/25/08 7:59 AM) MWV Champ
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Sorry but I was just posting what was requested by some other posters in this thread. That's why I stick to the hardcore thread.
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Posts: 21934 (04/25/08 8:18 AM) Gadabout |
I only read those bits (from spoilerfix?) after the episode, but it looks like some of it may be a little spoilerish.
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04/23 - In the April 24 episode, Ben leads the resistance against
the freighter fiends working for cranky billionaire Charles Widmore, while in his flash-forward adventure, he does battle in the Tunisian desert and spies on
a funeral in Iraq. 
