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Episode 5.01 - Because You Left - Press Release for January 21 (Wednesday).

THE REMAINING SURVIVORS START TO FEEL THE EFFECTS CAUSED BY THE ISLAND BEING MOVED, AND JACK AND BEN BEGIN THEIR QUEST TO REUNITE THE OCEANIC 6 - ALONG WITH LOCKE’S BODY - IN ORDER TO RETURN TO THE ISLAND

Hurley and Sayid are on the run from the cops after stumbling into trouble at the safehouse; the island survivors come under attack by unknown forces; and an old friend offers some shocking advice to Kate in order to ensure that “the lie” remain a secret.

Written by Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse

Directed by Stephen Williams

Cast
Naveen Andrews as Sayid
Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond
Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday
Michael Emerson as Ben
Matthew Fox as Jack
Jorge Garcia as Hurley
Josh Holloway as Sawyer
Yunjin Kim as Sun
Ken Leung as Miles
Evangeline Lilly as Kate
Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet
Terry O’Quinn as Locke

Guest Cast
L. Scott Caldwell as Rose
Sam Anderson as Bernard
Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert
William Mapother as Ethan Rom
Francois Chau as Dr. Marvin Candle
Sonya Walger as Penelope “Penny” Widmore
Alan Dale as Charles Widmore
Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis
William Blanchett as Aaron
Sean Whalen as Neil Frogurt
Tom Irwin as Dan Norton
Michael Dempsey as foreman
Stephanie Smart as ticket agent
Leslie Ishii as woman
Cindy Paliracio as TV anchor
Brad Berryhill as anxious guy
Sven Lindstrom as crew member
Chantal Boomla as counter girl
Jeremy Colvin as security guard

Kate (Evangeline Lilly)

Episode 5.02 “The Lie” Press Release

THE REMAINING SURVIVORS START TO FEEL THE EFFECTS CAUSED BY THE ISLAND BEING MOVED, AND JACK AND BEN BEGIN THEIR QUEST TO REUNITE THE OCEANIC 6 - ALONG WITH LOCKE’S BODY

Michelle Rodriguez Guest Stars as Ana Lucia

Hurley and Sayid are on the run from the cops after stumbling into trouble at the safehouse; the island survivors come under attack by unknown forces; and an old friend offers some shocking advice to Kate in order to ensure that “the lie” remain a secret.

Written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
Directed by Jack Bender

I still can’t believe that Jeremy Davies is a featured player! And I love that Jeff Fahey is guesting as our intrepid helicopter pilot. Remember: Not all the pilots have to die! We’ve got Desmond and Penny. Looks to be a great episode.

I will watch this show until the end…unless they kill him off…which would be a very. bad. idea. cos’ let’s face it–they need him!

Cast

Naveen Andrews as Sayid
Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond
Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday
Michael Emerson as Ben
Matthew Fox as Jack
Jorge Garcia as Hurley
Josh Holloway as Sawyer
Yunjin Kim as Sun
Ken Leung as Miles
Evangeline Lilly as Kate
Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet
Terry O’Quinn as Locke

Guest Cast
Michelle Rodriguez as Ana Lucia
L. Scott Caldwell as Rose
Sam Anderson as Bernard
Sonya Walger as Penelope “Penny” Widmore
Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis
Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus
Lillian Hurst as Carmen Reyes
Cheech Marin as David Reyes
William Blanchett as Aaron
Sean Whalen as Neil Frogurt
Tom Connolly as Jones
Mary Mara as Jill
Dana Sorman as Darlene
James Jeremiah as police officer
Stephanie Conching as nurse
Matthew Allan as Cunningham
Todd Bryant as Mattingly

Source: ABC

Thanks to The Watcher (Maureen Ryan)

This sneak peek shows Jack and Ben in a motel room. Jack is shaving off his huge beard and Ben is choosing some dress clothes. They discuss finding the Oceanic 6, who they’ll pursue first. The discussion turns to the now-dead Locke and Jack queries Ben about when Ben last saw him. Ben sort of tells a truth, I’m not sure if it’s actually the truth about last seeing Locke in the Orchid station.

Ben wants to know why Jack is such a strong “believer” now and Jack answers that it’s because of what  Locke said about the ones left behind–he specifically mentions Sawyer and Juliet and recounts how Locke told him (Jack) that everyone on the Island would die if the Oceanic 6 did not return to the Island.

Unless there were some hidden clues in this I didn’t see much or learn much (anything?) that has not been presented already.  Still, it’s very enjoyable to see scenes form the upcoming season even if they are not ( yet) mind-blowing.

While I was checking around for LOST updates I found at what is quickly becoming my favourite LOST spoiler site, Spoiler TV some new studio photos stills of the characters, a few of which I’ll show here. The Watcher (Maureen Ryan) is also responsible for me knowing where to look for these. It is much appreciated!

Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday

Evangeline Lilly (Kate)

Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis

Said now to no longer being a full-time cast member. Too bad. I think they underutilized her, which has been one of the most frustrating aspects of LOST–pulling in good actors and letting them…do nothing much. Juliet’s role seemed to be going that way last season. Hopefully, she’ll “pop” a bit more in Season 5.

Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume

Source: Season 5 set photos

Lost Spoilers Source
Behind the scenes from Episodes 5×09 and 5x10

Sawyer: LOST in the 1970's

I lived through the 1970’s and I can say without a doubt Sawyer is wearing ’70’s hair as is every actor in these scenes:

ELIZABETH MITCHELL

Here are some new upcoming episode titles. For a full list (so far) click Episodes

Episode 5.08 - LeFleur (Airs: 11th March 2009)
Episode 5.09 - Namaste (Airs: 18th March 2009)
Episode 5.10 - He’s Our You (Airs: 25th March 2009)

Jorge Garcia, Dominic Monaghan, LOST S401 (ABC photo)

Lots more LOST posts

This scene was nicely done and these two worked well together in pretty much all their scenes, I think.

Would love it if before the series ends that Dom comes back one more time–maybe as the last “dead person” Hurley will ever see before he’s free of well, seeing ghosts. That would totally work for me if they could write it. It would have to be an extreme situation, on the island of course, and Dom somehow again shows what a great heart Charlie had. I miss the character though I still really enjoy Jorge Garcia’s “Hurley.”

When I’ve gotten fed up with this show he and a handful of other actors on the show keep me watching. Them and the scenery.

I’m officially moving what I put together for LOST, the ABC television show back here from the original blog of mine,  Cyn City.  I’m amping up coverage on a couple of shows that I favour as I wind down with a few others. You can always click the link to my sister blog, Cyn City to get a lot more previous LOST coverage or click and bookmark here: Cyn City. Then you can use the “Ligit” box in the left column at Cyn City at to search by typing in “LOST” or search on this site as well here for LOST posts. Enjoy!

It should be fun season.

As I was mentioning to my spouse last night as we traipsed about in our snow and ice-covered neighborhood walking our pooch, the LOST media machine is releasing something new almost every day. Some of it is official–the majority of it comes from visitors and residents of Hawaii where filming on LOST continues post-Thanksgiving, as well as “insiders” whose identities remain cloaked in order to protect the “guilty.”

Today’s treat includes a link to one of the best sources for LOST images–including high-resolution– on  the Internet. They’ve given their site a great face lift and with the  run-up to LOST’s Jan 21 premiere have got the goods that I know you’ll want get a good look at: LOST-Media.com.

From the intrepid reporters at http://www.hawaiiweblog.com/2008/12/02/lost-in-dharma comes a first-hand account of some lucky Canadian visitors who happened by a LOST set and got very, very lucky as well as picked up some tidbits of info about the current filming of LOST in Hawaii, this time a scene between Kate and Hurley, a very clean-looking VW van and our LOSTIES wearing Dharma jumpsuits (!?)

“SPOILER ALERT! The “LOST” filming tip line had been silent for some time, and in years past the Thanksgiving holiday marked the start of a six-week hiatus for local production. I was beginning to think we’d seen the last of the location shoots of 2008.  But visiting fan Grant from Edmonton and his wife were able to catch them hard at work yesterday at Camp Erdman — otherwise known as Othersville — on the North Shore.

Lucky fan on set 2009 Season 5

Polite and discreet Canadians that they were, they just quietly watched from afar as the cast and crew broke for lunch. But their good nature must’ve been evident, as Evangeline Lilly — a Canadian herself — spotted them and walked over to talk to them.

They weren’t able to get close to the set, but the close encounter with the cast definitely made their day. Grant did, however, take note of a few curious facts during his visit:

There were six main characters present. In addition to Kate, they saw Jack (Matthew Fox), Hurley (Jorge Garcia), Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Jin (Daniel Dae Kim). Those last two names are particularly interesting to see.

Sayid appeared to be wearing civilian clothes. Kate appeared to be wearing a dark blue jumpsuit. The rest — Jack, Hurley, Sawyer and Jin — were all wearing what appeared to be the DHARMA Intiative’s familiar tan jumpsuits.

There were also more than a dozen other actors, including a few children in DHARMA tan jumpsuits, skirts and shorts.

At least four new looking DHARMA Volkswagen vans, one Jeep, and a few blue bicycles scattered among the cabins.

The left edge of a banner that began with the word “NEW.”

The original source is: DarkUFO - The No.1 Fan Site for the TV Show LOST

Big news day here in Illinois.

Senator Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey

Our corrupt governor who I’m secretly giggling about thinking of the many ways his name–Blagojevich (Bla goi a vitch) is being mangled by the national news media, was arrested at 6 a.m. at his home for conspiring to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat!

If it were not so outrageous it would be funny. Oh hell. It is funny. But also troubling when the FBI calls Illinois the “most corrupt state” in the union.

How soon they forget. Hello? Where does the president-elect hale from? I’ll give you a hint. He is currently resting his weary head 35 miles from here in his home in Hyde Park. So chill out FBI guys. One of our “corrupt” politicians will very soon be your boss.

Don’t damn the whole state. Illinois goes from the sophistication, diversity, beauty and yes, the corruption of Chicago to mile after seemingly endless mile of corn growing on downstate farms. The state is not corrupt.

And no fair pretending we did not know that most Illinois governors are corrupt. I don’t know why. Supposedly the “machine” politics of Chicago spills over to Springfield (the state capital).

In other local news, Oprah Winfrey admitted to being “fat.”* I guess even she could not bear to view the extreme Photoshop portraits of Miss Thing staring out from the cover of “O” magazine each month looking lithe and lovely instead of fat and sassy.

Of course she’s going to start a new regimen which she’ll announce on her television show.
Ratings whore, much?
Sorry Oprah fans. You have to have lived with her for 20 years to truly get Oprah or maybe you don’t–she’s been shoved down your throats too, so maybe you’ve see her mask slip once or twice.

However with all the problems of the world Oprah’s “true confession” that it wasn’t until she went to pick her Inaugural ball gown that she admitted to herself that she is big strikes me as just a teeny bit shallow, no?
You may be wondering why I seem to have a hate on for the big O but I don’t, not really. I just wish she’d shut up about her weight. The obsession is a big part of the issue. Issuing press releases about it is a tiny obsessed, isn’t it?

That’s about it for me. I’m in deep denial that the holidays are more or less here and I’m less prepared than I wish I were. We’ve had tonnes of snow and ice and my feet are cold right now because I’m only wearing socks and the true winter chill has set in. It will remain constant until about April.
I’m not at all a fan of winter. I would be like the bears and sleep right through it if I could.

*fat is not a bad word. It is a descriptive word, though not a great one. I am quoting Oprah.

President-elect Barack Obama on the cover of Ebony

This picture needs no words.

Full Episode Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Episode 12: ” Alpine Fields”

Episode 2.12- Alpine Fields - airing 12.08.08 on FOX

Derek (Brian Austin Green) helps a family in need in the “Alpine Fields” episode of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES airing Monday, Dec. 8 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

The Fields’ family name was written in blood on the basement wall and so Sarah without explaining much at all tells the family to “come with me if you want to live,” (that’s the gist). The family is comprised of a mother, father, and teen daughter, none of whom wish to be helpful and clue Sarah in to why the Terminators would want them exterminated. Sarah assumes first that it must be a father as the mother stays home. She’s wrong it turns out, the mother is carrying a baby in the tradition of Sarah herself–a child that will save many lives in the future. We get this through Derek’s flash forwards/backs, mostly 6 months later when he gets a call from the family who’ve been in hiding, saying the Terminators have found them. It turns out the wife has cheated and the baby she’s carrying in that of the man she telephones, disclosing their location and getting her husband and probably her lover killed. Not only that the mother is a nasty b-word. However, her daughter is quite sweet and 6 months into running from the future is quite self-sufficient and tough. Derek tends to the mother who has been shot through the shoulder while daughter Lauren helps with the birth of her sister. Derek continues to flash forward/back and we see when he first met Jesse on a mission to save a survivor of the plague–the child about to be born. In the future her antibodies save both Derek and Jesse and many others. Her older sister survives as well. The mother dies shortly after giving birth and after Derek invites them to stay with the Connors. He then walks away to take a cellphone call and is surprised when he returns to see that the teenage girl and newborn have disappeared.

This episode had no less than three schedule changes and is most definitely a stand alone eppy. There were some nice performances by Samantha Krutzfeldt as Lauren and Brian Austin Green as Derek Reese. Other than that is was not at all crucial to the series.

Cast: Lena Headey as Sarah Connor; Thomas Dekker as John Connor; Summer Glau as Cameron; Brian Austin Green as Derek Reese; Richard T. Jones as James Ellison; Garret Dillahunt as Cromartie; Shirley Manson as Catherine Weaver; Leven Rambin as Riley, Stephanie Jacobsen as Jesse, Rebecca Creskoff as Anne, Oren Dayan as Mike, Haley Hudson as Sydney, Samantha Krutzfeldt as Lauren, Peter Mensah as General Perry, Johnny Sneed as Roger

Next week is the Mid-Season Finale and frankly, it looks a lot more appealing. Have a look at the preview and some of the stills I pulled from it and see if you agree.
Next Week:

TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES: Sarah (Lena Headey) attends a UFO Convention looking for answers in the “Earthlings Welcome Here” fall finale episode of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES airing Monday, Dec. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. © CR: Michael Roberts/FOX Sarah’s got a gun and the three dots haven’t been forgotten. Sarah is trying to figure out how her dreams are related to Skynet and Judgment Day at a UFO convention.

Am I God's creation?

I think this is Jesse. She has a HUGE gun.

John (I think) opening weapons locker? It's empty.

I need you.

We can be together (I believe she referring to JC.)

Riley in the shower

Reward -" Loved Ones" - Jamie and Matty

This was the “loved ones” episode. We had all the remaining players reunite with their loved ones after Jeff tried to fob an expensive video-streaming phone off on them (and us).

We saw Matty propose marriage to “Jamie.”‘

Sugar and her sis sprinkled their dad’s ashes into the river. Sugar spilled a bit of her dad on her legs but she rinsed him off in the river while remembering him fondly.

Jeff Probst compares anyone who doesn’t “love” the Loved Ones” eppy as (like) “Dexter” at

Jeff Probst Blogs Survivor.

He also reveals that (his) “nickname on location is “Jeff loves love.” That’s so sweet.

The outcome:

“TRIBAL COUNCIL At Tribal Council, paranoia sets in for Corinne and Bob as they admit to being on the outs. When asked if she is paranoid, Sugar smugly claims that her only hope is that her alliance does not get duped by believing lies. Ken reveals that the vote tonight is very important, and that several people are going to be shocked, asking who voted for whom. In the end, Corinne does not play the fake idol as Ken expected, sending Corinne home instead of Matty. With four out of the seven votes cast against her, Corinne Kaplan, the 29 year-old sales rep from Los Angeles, California, became the twelfth person voted out and fourth member of the jury of SURVIVOR: GABON: EARTH’S LAST EDEN.”

Source: CBS

Full Episode 12

Corinne joins her friends in Ponderosa

Next time Thursday, December 11 - 8 p.m. EST on Survivor:

“One castaway finds himself scrambling to secure an alliance, having attempted unsuccessfully to blindside one of his allies.
A stunning reward allows some castaways a rare glimpse of Gabon and its most majestic inhabitants.
A power-hungry castaway uses guilt to gain to control of an ally, but his pushy demands may land him in hot water.
A simple plan is hatched to put the hidden immunity idol into play, resulting in a shocking turn of events at Tribal Council.”

Want to know who the Final Five will be?

Make a guess!

The Final Five: Survivor Gabon

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Found at and thanks to:

Survivor Phoenix

And yet one more preview.

Aired at the end of the Thanksgiving show, there are new scenes including the one that strongly suggests that Kenny is the next boot.

Some shots of next week, Episode 13 of Survivor: Gabon’s promo/preview after the jump:
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Jeff Probst Blogs Episode 10

AN EVIL GENIUS ( Source)
“… Sugar and Bob sneak into the jungle for a chat. Sugar pleads with Bob to send Randy home next…  Bob confesses that he does not have the hidden immunity idol, and reveals that he… looked for it …but was unsuccessful.  Sugar is in possession of the hidden immunity idol, but has kept her discovery a secret from Corinne, Randy and Bob. As Bob’s story progresses, he reveals to Sugar that he has constructed a fake idol and shows it to Sugar. Sugar comments on Bob’s devious plans: “I guess Bob might have some kind of strategy in showing me the fake immunity idol. Maybe he’s an evil genius, I don’t know.”

After the auction-

Sugar, enjoying her PNB and chocolate

After returning to camp, Matty thanks Sugar for the cookie. Randy snaps at Matty… expresses his resentment for Sugar: “I left the auction broke, full, half-drunk and pissed off. So I am going to burn this house down in the next day or so.”

Sugar laughs at Randy’s childlike fit over the cookie…the only reason I took his damn cookie is because he didn’t want to give me a cookie…because Sugar’s evil.”

Tribal Council-

At Tribal Council, Randy bickers about the cookie incident … Susie insults Randy… and says that she feels sorry for him…the rest of the tribe point out that Randy has been rude to Susie and the others… Before the votes are read, Randy plays Bob’s fake immunity idol, thinking that he has just blindsided Susie. Jeff reveals that it is not a true immunity idol, and Randy is humiliated as the rest of the tribe laugh at him. In the end, Randy was voted out with five of the eight votes cast against him. Randy Bailey, the 49 year-old wedding videographer from Eagle Rock, Missouri, became the 11th person voted out and third member of the Survivor: Gabon jury.

In Two Weeks:

Next Week:

Not a regular episode on Turkey Day. Instead well, you can read below for a description.

My guess is that it’s a lot of “extra” video that  is shown on the CBS website because a number of topics in the preview blurb are done at the CBS site.

It’s been my experience, with a couple of notable exceptions, that most of the Survivors, once they are out of the game are exceedingly ordinary–that is they are just average people though some of them granted, have accomplished much in life. But I don’t know them and I don’t really care about them other than within the context of Survivor.

Honestly, the only contestant out of  the previous 16 Seasons of Survivor that I think about is that horrible Elizabeth from Survivor 2 who is now–for what reason I cannot fathom on Barbara Walter’s show, The View.

THANKSGIVING SHOW
I Was Put on the Planet for This Show
Thursday, November 27 - 8 p.m. EDT

In a very special Survivor, never before seen footage reveals who the castaways are and how they came to be entrenched in the adventure of a lifetime together.
When the power shifted out of Kota’s hands, it landed in the unlikeliest hands as Sugar, Susie, Ken and Crystal took control of the merged tribe. New scenes shed light on their rise to the top.
Audition tapes and secret scenes reveal the deepest secrets, motivations, hopes and dreams of each castaway.

Angelina Jolie is not only promoting her film, “The Changeling,” the Clint Eastwood-directed film which she made over the period she got pregnant with the twins but she’s plunged back into charity travel and other good works.

Her next film may be Jolie’s last for a while though, as the actress said last week that she plans to “fade away” from acting in the years ahead.

In the meantime, Angelina has confirmed reports that she will replace Tom Cruise in the upcoming espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt.

“I’m working on a film called Salt,” Jolie said when asked about her next project during an interview on BBC Radio. “It’s with [Bone Collector director] Phillip Noyce. And that’s it.”

Source

Yesterday Angelina Jolie, 33, attended a press conference in London to speak about her Clint Eastwood-directed film, Changeling. In describing the Chritines Collins character she portryas in the film she brought up her own mother who died  prior to the filming.

My mom….there was something about her, Jolie said. Her name was Marcheline and everybody called her Marshmallow as a joke, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world.

Bertrand passed away in January 2007, at age 56, after a battle with cancer. Jolie’s father is Midnight Cowboy actor Jon Voight, 70.

As the interview went on, Jolie began to choke up.

“Um…F*ck,” the Oscar winner cursed, attempting to hold back her tears. “[My mother] is very much… She is very much Christine Collins. She was really, really sweet, and, um, she would never get angry. She couldn’t swear to save her life. But when it came to her kids she was just really, really fierce.”

Jolie added that she related to her mother while playing Collins, and that her own mother “had that elegance and strength through just knowing what was right.”Jolie named one of her twins born in July—Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt—partially after her mother. Source

Watch the video of the interview:

Aired: 11.17.2008

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and
Bear Mccreary who scored the ambitious but ultimately soaring “retiring” sequence of Cromartie in the church in the little Mexican village. Fitting that the image that the Terminator replicated was in was that of a B-movie actor. He got a spaghetti western shootout as a sendoff. Hope to see him again soon. Wish they had used “Cromartie” more.

Love, love, love the actor, Garret Dillahunt.

Episode 2.09 - Complications
Emmy Award winner Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”) makes a special guest appearance in an all-new episode. Sarah’s mystifying nightmares creep into her real life – but what do they mean for her and John? Meanwhile, Derek and Jesse investigate a possible Skynet conspirator. (scroll down for more below)

Richard Schiff

The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Episode 2.11 - Self Made Man -

So- gotta wonder what happened here to Cameron that she’s so banged up? Was it a fight with a Terminator? Cromartie couldn’t be back on his feet already, could he?

Cameron (Summer Glau, L) confronts John (Thomas Dekker, R) for being out all night

Riley and John

Cameron (Summer Glau, L) does some research after-hours at a library with her friend Eric (Billy Lush, R)

The photos above are promo photos from FOX. They have put out some nice ones this week. :)  I think the Hulu video has an awesome visuals including Sarah’s trippy dream with John and a Teminator cactus with evil intentions towards him!

EDIT/ Also in “Self Made Man” that airs in December a Terminator sent back to a wrong point in time results in a drastic alteration of the timeline.  ZeiraCorp is also developing a new computer program called “Babylon”. Meanwhile, John and Riley’s relationship is beginning to blossom. Source: Aceshowbiz