EVIL PUPPET MASTERS

Big congrats to Keri Russell (Felicity, M:i:III), who got hitched on Valentine’s Day!

According to this article from Zap2it.com, former Felicity and Mission Impossible: III star Keri Russell is pregnant and due to give birth this Summer.

Congrats to Keri and her fiance!

Something is in the water for those who used to act in BR shows, it seems…not that that is a BAD thing. First Bradley Cooper, and now Scott Foley (Noel on Felicity) is engaged. He’s doing some kick ass work on The Unit and now it looks like his personal life is hitting a homerun as well. Best wishes to Scott!

The Mission: Impossible: III DVD was released this past Monday, so JJ has been hitting the interview circuit. And since it is JJ, they aren’t only talking to him about M:i:III. There are also queries about Lost and Star Trek:XI in the following interviews. Enjoy!

TV Guide interview

MTV News interview — MTV still has a crazy, screwed up website. Good luck on actually getting to read the WHOLE interview. Sheesh!

E!’s Kristin Veitch’s interview — I have to say, as annoying as Kristin usually is to me, this is a good interview, because she and JJ have a history, and it shows.

ETA: I meant to include this quote from JJ’s interview with Kristin, just cause it’s funny –

… Okay, so you worked with Tom on Mission and also his cousin, William Mapother, on Lost. Is that just a coincidence?

The weirdest coincidence is both were named Ethan.

Hee!

Well, I guess I should have actually POSTED my notes about “Every Man For Himself” here, since Lauri from The Associated Press used some of them for that video round-up I linked to *NOTE: This is not EVERYTHING from that episode, but this is the stuff that I made note of during the episode and researched that night. Enjoy!

• Number 8 on the white rabbit — which, by the way, was a White Rabbit, which was an episode title from Season 1 (and should have clued you in that there was some sort of misleading going on). The white rabbit, in a cage, with the number 8 on its back is actually taken from Stephen King’s book “On Writing.”
• Desmond can see the future, but he can also ALTER it. Evidenced by his prevention of the lightning striking Claire’s tent.
• Kate says she loves Sawyer, then says she only said it to keep them from continuing to punch him, but then STILL stays in the cage, even though she can get out (and did, briefly).
• The X-Ray showed a spine, which led many fans to believe that it was Locke at first. But the preview leads us to believe that it is Benry.
• Ben says “the sub is back” which confirms that the Others have a submarine. That would allow them to get between the two islands undetected, and (to me) explains how Ethan was able to come from the water to kill Scott/Steve (still can’t remember which) without being seen coming.
• The cartoon they made Jack watch was “A Corny Concerto” which includes an early version of Daffy Duck, and is an Ugly Duckling story with war references. The Blue Danube is the main song in the cartoon. A Corny Concerto
• NUMBERS — Sawyer’s prisoner number was 840. The storage unit that the $10 million was put in was 23C.
• Clementine is the name of Sawyer’s (supposed) daughter. Also the name of an orange and is a very obscure reference to a scene in the Alias episode 5.01 “Prophet Five” where Vaughn and Sydney are discussing names for their baby. Clementine is mentioned, and Vaughn says that Clementine is a stupid name for a baby. Would have thought that was a throw away connection, except that Monica Breen and Alison Schapker wrote that episode of Alias, and they both now write for Lost — so maybe not such a throw away
• The prisoner who had the $10 million was played by Ian Gomez, who (in the Six Degrees of JJ Abrams) played Javier on Felicity.

Hold on a second…my sides are still hurting from laughing so hard at parts of this interview with Greg Grunberg that The Futon Critic did.

You know, it started out normal enough, but then Jesse Alexander (formerly with Alias, now an exec prod at Heroes) came into the interview and I couldn’t stop laughing. I LOVE interviews like this. *giggles*

*sigh*

Okay, I’m better now. Greg talks about how he got the part and how he harrasses Jesse endlessly (and Jesse harrasses him right back). I thought this part was interesting — in response to the question about his Heroes character not being in the pilot, Greg had this to say:

Plus, I think this is sort of my pat line, I think I told you this, I wasn’t in the pilot of “Felicity,” I wasn’t in the pilot of “Alias” and I was on those shows for nine years. And then as soon as I was in the pilot to “Lost” I get killed in the first five seconds. So I had no interest in being in the pilot.

Hee!