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Congratulations, Michael Emerson, on your well-deserved Emmy win!

Posted on September 20, 2009 | 2 comments
Michael Emerson giving a short, but sweet acceptance speech

Michael Emerson giving a short, but sweet acceptance speech

Carrie Preston, beaming

Carrie Preston, beaming

Darlton

Darlton, clasping their hands

The acceptance speech:

The backstage interview:

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Pre-Emmy interview of Michael Emerson

Posted on September 19, 2009 | Leave a comment

TV Guide did a video interview of Michael Emerson and his wife, Carrie Preston, in their Los Angeles home.

Michael showed some of his drawings (it’s not fair that one person can have so many talents!):

Self-portrait by Michael Emerson

Self-portrait by Michael Emerson

He’s not making any predictions about whether he will win the Emmy this year, the third time he’s been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for a Drama Series for his brilliant work on LOST. He said he’ll just be happy to dress up and go to the party.

Here’s the interview:

The Emmys are tomorrow night, Sunday, September 20, 2009 on CBS at 8:00 PM (7:00 PM Central). Tune in and root for Emerson; for the show itself, which is nominated for Outstanding Drama Series; and for the writers (Darlton), editors, and sound mixers who are all nominated for their work on the season finale, The Incident.

Video by TV Guide

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Oceanic Airlines billboard shows up in “FlashForward”!

Posted on September 18, 2009 | 24 comments

Sl-LOST has posted a screenshot from the pilot episode of “FlashForward” which shows a billboard, in the background, advertising LOST’s own Oceanic Airlines!

Oceanic Airlines billboard in the pilot episode of FlashForward

Oceanic Airlines billboard in the pilot episode of FlashForward

Weird!

FlashForward, which stars LOST actors Sonya Walger (Penny) and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie), will start on Thursday, September 24, at 8:00 (7:00 Central).

In other FlashForward news, the pilot episode has been leaked and is now available online on “several file-sharing websites.”

ABC also released the first 18 minutes of the pilot. The network is claiming that had always been their plan, but who knows.

Photo Credit: Detail from a screenshot posted on Sl-LOST.

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The Writers of Lost (parody)

Posted on September 17, 2009 | 2 comments

When in doubt, go with the magic turtle.


The Writers Of LOST – Parody – More free videos are here

I love this. So funny!

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Bumbershoot part 2: ‘Fortunately, Damon loves time travel’

Posted on September 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Carlton Cuse (at an earlier event)

Carlton Cuse (at an earlier event)

In this segment of the LOST panel at Bumbershoot (the Seattle arts festival named after an old slang term for umbrella), producer/writers Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis, and Adam Horowitz talked about what it’s been like to write the show.

Host Jeff Jensen asked them what was the most difficult thing to write, and they all agreed that it was time travel. They had to put detailed charts and graphs on the writers’ room walls so that they could keep track of where they were.

Carlton said, “Fortunately, Damon really loves time travel.” They spent, he said, a great deal of time trying to figure out the mechanics of it.  Maintaining their concept of non-paradoxical time travel was tricky, and when they opened a time loop, they had to put a lot of thought into making sure they could figure out a way to close it.

The panelists then talked about how getting an end date changed what they were able to do with the show.

They also said some fascinating things about how they write. It’s a collaborative process. Nine of them sit around a conference room table. They start writing each episode by deciding which character it’s going to be about.  Each episode has three stories — an Island story, an off-Island story (which may be a flashback or a flashforward — or, Carlton said, “whatever that might possibly be in Season 6” … hmmm), and a little C-story. Then they fit it all into a six-act structure.

They wrote the show like fans of the show.  “What would be cool?” they asked themselves.  “Wouldn’t it be cool if we actually showed the statue?” And so they did.

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Bumbershoot part 1: Sawyer’s hair versus Jin’s abs

Posted on September 12, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Damon and Carlton may not be conjoined twins after all!

Damon and Carlton may not be conjoined twins after all!

Last week, three LOST executive producers gave a talk at Bumbershoot, a large annual music and arts festival in Seattle. Jeff Jensen, of Entertainment Weekly, hosted the talk with producer/writers Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. (Was this the first time Carlton Cuse was ever seen in public without Damon Lindelof by his side? Perhaps they are not conjoined twins after all.)

A fan shot a 3-part 2-part video. In this first part, you can’t see much, but you can hear what they are saying. The LOST folks answered questions such as: Why isn’t there more sex? Why does Jack remind us of that annoying guy we used to date, who always had to get up early the next morning to train for a triathlon? In a battle with Sawyer’s hair and Jin’s abs, who would prevail?

They also showed the 3 alternate-reality videos that they had shown at Comic-Con. Carlton said there were “some definite clues that are embedded” in them. (The videos are the Oceanic Airways ad, Hurley’s ad for Mr. Cluck’s, and Kate on “America’s Most Wanted”.)

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Picture of Chang & Eng Bunker, the famous “Siamese twins,” is a watercolor painting on ivory, done in the 1830s. From Wikipedia.

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Michael Emerson talking about “The Incident”

Posted on September 5, 2009 | Leave a comment
Ben, to Jacob: "What about me?"

Ben, to Jacob: "What about me?"

I’m still thinking about The Incident.

The last official audio podcast of Season 5, released May 16, 2009, has an entertaining interview with Michael Emerson. He made me laugh again because he appeared to be as amazed by the episode as we were.  He said when he first read the script and saw he would be killing Jacob, he was shocked.

Emerson and his interviewer also talked about the first scene, the one with Jacob and the unamed man I like to call Esau.  The interviewer said that Jacob wearing white and the other man wearing black was a return to the theme of black and white that has appeared in the show before, but that he thought it didn’t necessarily mean that Jacob was good and the other man bad.

Emerson emphatically agreed, and he said, “Our show delights in thwarting those equations.”

I agree also. I’ve seen a lot of theories online that posit that Jacob represents the forces of good, and Esau the forces of evil, and they will have an epic confrontation in Season 6. But I don’t think that’s where the writers are going. At least I hope not.

Emerson also talked about his plans for the summer (now over, alas!). He said he likes to be with his wife Carrie in New York during the summers. They have an enforced separation while LOST is shooting, “so I just like to follow her around during the summer. I like to hold her coat, and fetch her drinks, and be her personal assistant as much as I can.” So sweet! I hope he got a chance to do just that.

He also mentioned he had just finished shooting the character of a radical fundamentalist Puritan in a show for PBS. That should be interesting!

There’s a lot more in the podcast, which is available in the ABC archives:  Official audio podcast of 5/16/09

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