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I copy this from newspaper because I like Lost.

Job loss

Fresh from winning the Emmy for best drama series last month, Lost returns with Season Two but the stars are bracing themselves for a brutal exit from the show.

Actors on the TV series Lost may be struggling to survive as castaways on a tropical island – but of-screen they are fighting to keep their jobs.

Stars of the phenomenally successful show have revealed how producers have drawn-up a secret “hit-list” for Season Two with any one of them liable to face the axe at any time,

A whole new cast of newcomers – including 27-year-old Texan beauty Michelle Rodriguez – will add to their expendability when, in a ratings-grabbing plot twist, a second group of survivors is found along with the tail section of crashed Oceanic Flight 815.

Josh Holloway, 36, who plays James “Sawyer” Ford, said : “It’s pained and nerve-wracking. The hit-list has changed the dynamic of the whole show and o say it hasn’t is a lie. Before, it was all love and family. Now there’s fear.”

Lost stars were warned that none of their jobs were safe before they started shooting Season on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.

“We’re all watching our backs now,” added Holloway. “There’s a negative thing now that wasn’t there before.”

Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin Kwon, became one of the cast members to buy a home on the island two months ago – after begging producers to him if his character survives.

He said : “They wouldn’t tell me. I wanted the security of knowing that if I bought a home on O’ahu I’d around long enough to enjoy it.

“But they gave me the same answer they’ve given all the other cast members who’s invested in property. They said it was my decision.

“I guess they have to be true to what they do but we know there are some very nasty shocks in store for some of us.”

At the end of the first season, Kim’s character was stranded, adrift on a burning raft, with Holloway’s Sawyer and Michael Dawson, played by Harold Perrineau.

Amazingly, Perineau, 37, took swimming lessons during the summer “in the hope that I can climb back on the raft – and save my job.”

“I can’t stay afloat for too long – but just long enough to tread water while they’e setting up shots. I’m more worried about keeping my head above water than I am about sharks.”

According to cast members, the real sharks are Lost production chiefs, who aim to sink at least one major star by the third episode of Season Two, which premiered in the United States last week.

Stars including Britain’s Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, and offset lovers Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly beamed as they waved to thousands of local fans on Waikki Beach during a recent outdoor sneak preview of the new season.

But behind their miles was a dread over who will face the axe first.

Fox, who plays Dr Jack Sheppard, confessed : “Being the show’s hero counts for nothing,. They even wanted to kill me off in the first season.”

“J.J. Abrams, the executive producer, wanted to create Sheppard as a hero and then have him die as a way of shocking the audience.

“But he kept passing the script to his friends and family to read and they said : ‘You can’t just kill the hero like that.’ Good thing for me.”

“Now, however, it’s going to get even tougher. Lost is a fantastic gig and a phenomenal success – but no one is safe.”

Fox, 39, who now lives on O’ahu with his wife Margherita and their daughter, Kyle, seven, and son Byron, three, fears he may suffer a backlash for leading a stars’ pay revolt earlier this year.

Lost cast members furiously pointed out that Teri Hatcher and her fellow stars on Desperate Housewives – their biggest rivals on US network giant ABC – were earning five times their salaries.

Wisteria Lane pay queen Teri and Felicity Hoffman, who won a best comedy actress Emmy Award last month, takes home US$ 198,000 (RM 740,520) per episode plus huge bonuses tied to worldwide syndication profits.

The Lost stars, meanwhile, who won series a coveted best drama award at the recent Emmys, have been granted small raises plus a possible bumper pay day if plans for a major movie spin-off go ahead.

One cast member declared : “We’ve been slapped back in our place. They gave us a little more cash but then warned : ‘Any one of you could be killed off in the blink of an eye.’

“The series is filmed on the run…which means that we’re shooting only two or three episodes ahead. I get the impression that if anyone steps out of line, there’ll be an instant script change – and he or she will be out.”

“It’s a brutal way to work.”

Producer Damon Lindelof, who has taken over as the show’s chief from Lost co-creator Abrams – currently working on Mission ; Impossible 3 with Tom Cruise – said : “We have a hugely successful formula.”

“Now we need to build on that and keep fans glued o the show. There’s going o be a lot of creative tension which will keep everyone on their toes

“Yes, there will be comings and goings. A lot of questions left unanswered in the first season will be resolved in ways which we hope are going captivate our audience.”

WHO MAY GET LOST

LOST insiders say fearful stars are already working out the odds on whether they’ll stay or go. Here’s how one senior crew member rates their chances :

Matthew Fox (Jack) : 5 to 1. He’s hero and his intense Man of Science versus Man of Faith battle with Locke captivates viewers. But the men in suits already have him marked down as a rebel after leading the pay revolt.

Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) : 3 to 1. He’s been adrift from the group because of his poor grasp of English and at end of Season One, he’s physically adrift on a blazing raft. A real candidate for the chop.

Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) : 7 to 1. Charlie seems to have fixed his addictions. Or has he? The Lord of the Rings actor looks safe as one of most interesting survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.

Naveen Andrews (Sayid) : 7 to 1. The scene is set things o heat up between Sayid and Shannon in Season Two, so the British heartthrob seems relatively safe.

Josh Holloway (Sawyer) : 4 to 1. Viewers have seen his power crushed and eroded. Inside, there may be a man who wants to love and be loved – but the group wouldn’t shed too many tears if he made a nasty exit.

Harold Perrineau (Michael) : 2 to 1. Will he drift away for keeps from son Walt – played by Malcolm David Kelly – on that blazing raft? Looks a prime contender to sink, not swim.

Emilie de Ravin (Claire) : 5 to 1. Her struggle to adapt to motherhood should sustain enough interest to save her. But wouldn’t it be heartbreaking if mother and baby met a grisly end?

Maggie Grace (Shannon): 7 to 1. Her inner turmoil over the way she violently lost her stepbrother Boone and her developing relationship with Sayid make Shannon a “must keep” pot-boiler of a character.

Evangeline Lilly (Kate) : 5 to 1. Just where does Kate’s heart lie? An interesting question – but one which may not be strong enough to keep her alive forever.

Jorge Garcia (Hurley) : Evens. The curse of his winning lottery numbers looks a 4-gone conclusion 2 make him a 10-tative bet to be No 1 to exit the prime-time show.

Yunjin Kim (Sun) : 3 to 1. Was something growing between Sun and Michael? We’ll never know if he slips off that blazing raft which in turn reduces her interest value.

I copy another this from newspaper because I like Lost.

J.J Abrams is the writer, producer and director of LOST.

THE PLOT MAKER

Few people make it big in the television industry. Even fewer get to dabble in first-rate TV and movie projects at the same time. J.J. Abrams is one in that select group of people with a string of credits as writer, producer and director.

At present, the 38-year-old Abrams’ many ventures include TV series like the espionage drama Alias, plane crash survivors’ drama Lost and a new show about a single guy’s relationships called What about Brian plus action movies Mission : Impossible 3 and The Good Sailor that are both se for release next year.

“I’m not doing everything. I’m involved in various ways with these different projects,” Abrams explained to the international press visiting the set of Alias at The Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles earlier this year.

“On Lost, Damon and Carlton Cuse are in the office all the time writing great stories. I come in when they call or I wander in and we talk about stuff. On Alias, it’s same. The Mission : Impossible movie is being by me and these writers I worked with on Alias for the first two seasons.”

Besides, not only is it next to impossible to do all these projects himself ; he has his own family to think about as well.

“At the end of the day, my wife and two kids are more important than any of this stuff obviously. I could see if I didn’t have a family, I’d be a disaster. I wouldn’t be sleeping. I wouldn’t be a person. I’d get lost in it. Having a life gives you perspective,” he reasoned.

Slightly geeky and looking younger than his age. Abrams’ exuberance about the projects he is working on is infectious. He speaks a mile a minute, animatedly and at length about any and all of his plans as long as it does not involve giving away any pertinent plot points to Lost and Alias.

Lost is one of the new hit shows of the year because it is nail-bitingly riveting, constantly surprising and wonderfully unique. In an age when reality shows is flooding both free-to-air and pay TV, Lost is indeed a breath of fresh air.

Set on a mysterious island in the South Pacific, the series focuses on two main threads – the survivors coping with each other and the circumstance they are in s well as the back story of 14 main characters.

“Each show is like two shows. Each episode has the beginning, middle and end that part of the flashback of the person who is being featured and a somewhat serialized nature of the island story,” Abrams pointed out.

TV viewers were drawn to the series from the star. A total of 18.7 million viewers tuned in to the first episode in the United States alone. And, despite having to go head to head with the American Idol finale in May, Lost attracted an impressive 20 million viewers.

“It was Damon’s (Lindelof, co-creator/executive producer of Lost) idea to start with the after-math of the crash, which I thought was genius, and start with a man in a jungle and he wakes up. I would have gone anywhere with that,” revealed Abrams.

Last week, over 23 million people watched Season Two premiere in the United States. Clearly, interest in the show is far from diminishing especially since the series won the Emmy this year of Outstanding Drama just the week before that.

Although spy series Alias hit a high this year with 16 million American viewers for its Season Four premiere, the numbers for the show have never really matched the buzz that surrounds it nor the other Abrams show, Lost.

There has been talk that Season Five, which began this week in America, will be indeed series’ last. Whether that will indeed be the case remains to be seen.

Nevertheless, Alias, which follows the adventures of super-spy Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) and her friends, has consistently been an exciting blend of comic book-inspired action, Bristow family drama, romance and intricate mythology week after week.

“The stories that appeal to me are those that grab you and compel you to watch for a certain reason. Alias and Lost both share something. As you’re watching you realise that something that was a fundamental assumption of the story that you were watching was wrong and it just turns everything,” said Abrams.

Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Abrams took a shining to moviemaking from the age of eight when his grandfather took him on a Hollywood studio tour. He spent the next 10 years making amateur films.

Then, he studied arts at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College and by his senior year, wrote a screenplay with friend Jill Mazursky which became a film called Taking Care of Business. That led to other feature films such as The Pallbearer, Forever Young, Regarding Henry and later, Joy Ride.

His first TV project was critically-acclaimed college drama entitled Felicity that he created with his friend Matt Reeves. Alias was born when Abrams tinkered with the idea of having a character like Felicity leading a double life as spy.

“J.J. Abrams has this innate ability to write for women,” opined Lost star Evangeline Lilly. “He just knows how to create incredible female characters and make them real and strong. They are never the stereotype of the damsel in distress or the heroine who needs the men. We don’t need the men in his shows.”

Another great thing about Lost and Alias is that Abrams is not afraid to take risks. No character is indispensable and each character is richly complex. Viewers, in turn, appreciate the well-crafted stories that unfold before them.

“In the pilot, Yunjin Kima and Daniel Dae Kim’s characters don’t speak English. When we did the first episode about them, it was 50% in Korean and we aired it in the States. I thought we’d get letters from people saying they didn’t want to read subtitles,” Abrams disclosed.

“Not one letter. People were just into that story. It was cool to do a show on American TV that had a Korean-speaking couple as the lead and no one batted an eyelid.”

I copy this from newspaper coz I like Harry Potter.

ENJOYABLE BUT SO MAGICAL

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

When Mike Newell came on board as director for the fourth instalment, he was told by the producers that because of the length of the book, he might have to make a two – parter instead of one movie

But then the British director said that he would be able o condense the-page book into one movie. And that probably is the problem with this movie. Newell lost some of the essence and excitement in his quest to make movie no longer that minutes.

In The Goblet of Fire, in which Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and three other competitors have to complete three tasks to win the Triwizard Cup, there’s no sense of urgency as the boy wizard tries to solve and finish his tasks.

Part of the of the book is how Harry and his fellow competitors – Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), Fleur Delacour (Clemence Poesy) and Viktor Krum (Stanislav Ianevski) – go about solving clues to what the next ask is and how to go about tackling it. However, in the movie, it seemed like the tasks are a walk in the park for them.

That said, this movie is actually quite enjoyable. For once, the Quidditch game is done away with ; thank goodness because how many different ways can you film Harry on the broom chasing the Golden Snitch?

The scenes of the three tasks are the breath of fresh air to the movie as we see different parts of the Hogwarts grounds. And these tasks break the monotony of the movie as we forget for the time being that He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named is after our hero.

The love angle is also refreshing as we see Harry experiencing his first crush, Hermione (Emma Watson) dressed like the belle of the ball at the Yule Ball for her date. Ron (Rupert Grint) turning into green-eyed-monster when he finds out someone else fancies Hermione and even Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) the giant meets his match in Olympe Maxime (Frances De La Tour) – who looks like a larger version of Anna Wintour with china doll hairdo!

Once again, the supporting actors give a good performance in their respective roles. Miranda Richardson is delightful as the nosy reporter, Rita Skeeter, Brebdan Gleeson is mysterious and funny as Mad-Eye Moody and Ralph Fiennes does a fine job as the Dark Lord … but with only minimal screen time here, we can’t for the next movie to see more of this evil character. Watch out Harry!

Sorry, I don't update my blog coz :

But not cause can't connect jaring, it is problem with wire!

My mum bought new wire and connect jaring is ok after our family trip!