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Bonnie Covel at About.com reviewed LOST Ate My Life, and she had some really nice things to say about it.

My favorite part? Under The Bottom Line, she had this to say about LAML:

Lost Ate My Life is the best book about Lost I have ever read, mostly because it’s not so much about the show but about us, the fans.

Well now, you can’t really ask for a better review than that, can you?

Also, she listed LAML as #7 on her “Top 16 Gifts for the ‘Lost’ Fan”. Her blurb about the book there:

Usually I don’t recommend Lost books as gifts because they go out of date so fast. However this book is less about the show and more about the fandom. While this book will be most popular during the years that Lost is on the air, it will remain a piece of history as the book that explores the fans behind one of the greatest television shows of all time.

Yeah…I’m feeling pretty good right now Thanks, Bonnie!

ETA: Bonnie also mentions the book and gives a few more impressions of it on her LOST blog.

Meltdown Comics has added two new photo galleries with pics from the LOST Be@rbrick signing that took place there Wednesday night. Linkage below:

Meltdown’s Album

Pinguino’s Album

LA Weekly has coverage and photos of last night’s LOST Be@rbrick signing event at Meltdown Comics in L.A. There is a slideshow with 26 photos at the link. According to the article, they filmed the event for the Season 5 DVDs.

For some crazy reason Doc and I are getting interview requests to talk about the book we wrote, so I thought I’d share a couple of those interviews with the EPM Faithful:

Interview by Jopinionated of Doc and hijinx (which includes how I came up with my online alias) - READ IT HERE

Interview by Michael Pinto of fanboy.com of hijinx (which includes a question about JJ doing Star Trek) - READ IT HERE

Just got this from Erin over at ABC:

MEDIA ALERT

MEDICOM TOY JAPAN AND DIAMOND COMIC DISTRIBUTORS
PREMIERE “LOST” BE@RBRICK AND KUBRICK LINE

Signing Event Will Feature Executive Producers of “Lost” In Los Angeles on November 19

WHAT
Medicom Toy Japan and Diamond Comic Distributors unite with Meltdown Comics to host the world premiere and signing event of the BE@RBRICK and KUBRICK collections based on the hit television series “Lost,” in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Fans will have the opportunity to buy one event exclusive BE@RBRICK per person, and have it signed by the show’s creators and executive producers. Series-one Lost KUBRICKS will be sold (no limit) until Meltdown sells out.

Also showcased at the event, will be a limited edition (three made in the world) 1000% BE@RBRICK which includes signatures from the cast and producers of “Lost.” This 1000% BE@RBRICK will be auctioned off at a later date with proceeds going to The Children’s Defense Fund.

Exclusive Lost art by executive producer Jack Bender will also be featured.

WHO
Scheduled to appear at the event are “Lost” co-creators and executive producers J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, and executive producers Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz and Carlton Cuse. Also scheduled to attend are writers Elizabeth Sarnoff, Paul Zbyszewski, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Kyle Pennington, and Brian K. Vaughan.

WHERE
Meltdown Comics & Collectibles
7522 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046 www.meltcomics.com

Legal mumbo jumbo under the jump ~

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According to Erin at ABC, LOST will return on Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Don’t know if that is one of those special “catch up” dealios or if that’s a new eppy, but I’m hoping it is the latter.

ETA: Okay, it is a clip show at 8 p.m., then at 9 p.m. is the 2-hour season premiere of LOST S5.

So I totally suck. No really, I do. I did NOT watch the extended version of “There’s No Place Like Home, Pt. 1.” In the extended version, extra footage from the press conference was shown - one part of which was Jack revealing the names of the other three “survivors” of Oceanic Flight 815, who later died before the Oceanic 6 were rescued. He starts the reveal at 45 seconds in the clip below:

This is going to be one of those things that REALLY bugs me if that information is not picked apart or brought to light fairly quickly in Season 5. I like the extended episodes - don’t get me wrong - but they make canon “flexible” which is never a good thing, in my book.

The award show nominations and wins have been a bit scarce the past couple of years for LOST (except for Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn’s Emmy noms - resulting in a win for TOQ). But it looks like Season 4 may have turned the tide back to some well-deserved recognition for the show: the first sign being the Television Critics Association nominating LOST for Program of the Year.

I hope this is the first of MANY more nominations. Season 4 kicked ass.

I found this article mainly because Damon Lindelof was one of the television producers who participated in this roundtable discussion regarding dealing with networks, cable bosses, ratings and the FCC. It was both enlightening and hilarious, so of course, I must share it Alongside our beloved Nomad are Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies), David Shore (House), Matthew Weiner (Mad Men), and Craig Thomas (How I Met Your Mother).

I hope UrbanDictionary.com gets money for all those hits

With all the articles posted this week about the LOST Season 4 finale, Parts 2 and 3 of which air tomorrow night, I found this piece from the L.A. Times regarding the excessive use of curse words in the LOST scripts to be highly amusing - and a refreshing something different. Having read a few scripts from that club of writers, I was aware of their fondness for the use of the “f-word” especially, but it was interesting to read Damon’s explanation - as well as Michael Emerson and Jorge Garcia giving their takes on reading said salty scripts.

For those of you who didn’t already know, I have spent the better part of the past nine months co-writing a book about the LOST fandom with blogger extraordinaire DocArzt. The book is called “LOST Ate My Life!” and as of TODAY it is available for pre-order on Amazon!! w00t! Click on the piccie below or in the sidebar to check it out:

If you want a more detailed description of the book, you can find it HERE on our publisher’s site.

The support I have had during the writing of this book has been EPIC. Whether it was agreeing to interviews (Bryan, Gregg, William, Javi), writing the foreword (Javi), joining my fanclub (MONGERS), listening to my rants and/or holding me up as I was falling down (Bryan, Javi, Gregg, Rick, Denise and the rest of the Mongers) - I can’t imagine going through this without any of these people. I hope everyone will be pleased with the results.

The book is due to be published November 1, 2008. If you are REALLY curious as to how this whole thing came about and how I have dealt with the highs and lows - go check out my author’s blog: Fandom Life.

According to Variety, Jack Bender will be directing the pilot for a new ABC drama The Prince of Motor City. More info below:

“The Prince of Motor City”…[is] set to start shooting at the end of June, [and] is a gothic family sudser set in the world of Detroit’s auto business. Hour-long project, from ABC Studios, also contains “Hamlet” undertones.

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Chris Brancato and Bert Salke are behind “The Prince of Motor City” as exec producers; Jessica Goldberg is also an EP. Goldberg wrote the pilot with thesp Hamish Linklater.

Andie MacDowell, Piper Perabo, Aunjanue Ellis and Warren Christie are all set to star in “Prince of Motor City.”

Source

According to today’s Cynthia’s Cynopsis:

Big news from the ABC camp. The network, which led the industry in making programs available for iTunes and developed one of the best HD-quality video players on the net, is at last loosening its hold on its content to allow users to embed clips of its shows on blogs and personal profiles. ABC.com’s newly-enhanced video player, coming this fall, will also feature:

* True full screen viewing
* Enhanced navigation and video search capabilities allowing users to search for series graphically, alphabetically, by genre or popularity
* Content recommendation functions
* Closed captioning
* Parental ratings information for all full episode content

This will be a big deal for LOST bloggers, who have had to stick with screencaps and poor quality vid clips up to this point.

Yes, LOST is a complicated and twisterrific television show, but understanding EVERYTHING that is going on is NOT necessary to enjoy the show or keep up with the plot. For those who may feel a little “lost” - Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse offered up this handy dandy guide to the show during a conference call with TV reviewers.

A sample from the guide:

ON JOHN LOCKE
Cuse: “Locke is a man who’s on a journey. And that journey, like many biblical characters, is one that has periods of doubting and uncertainty and frustration.”
Lindelof: “And the occasional Emmy win.”
Cuse: “And the occasional Emmy win.”

Ahhhh…love those Darlton boys. ONE WEEK UNTIL THE (rest of the) FINALE!!!

If you are still mind-frakked over last week’s Lost episode, then you should go HERE to read Watch with Kristin’s interview with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. The Darlton boys are doing interviews aplenty these days - pretty typical for the Season Finale build up.

Assume there be spoilers in the article.