Monthly Archives: July 2009

LOST nominated for five Emmy Awards

Posted on July 16, 2009 | 4 comments

Emmy Award

Great news: LOST got nominated for best drama series, Michael Emerson got nominated, for the third time, for best supporting actor, and Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof got nominated for best writing for the season finale episode, The Incident

Here’s the complete list of all the nominations for LOST:

  • Outstanding drama series: LOST
  • Outstanding supporting actor in a drama series: Michael Emerson
  • Outstanding writing for a drama series: Cuse and Lindelof, for The Incident
  • Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series: Stephen Semel, Mark Goldman, and Chris Nelson, for The Incident
  • Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour): Robert Anderson, Ken King, Scott Weber, and Frank Morrone, for The Incident

Source: Emmy site

Here’s a video clip of LOST winning Best Drama Series in 2005, for its first season:

Picture of Emmy Award from Wikipedia

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Michael Emerson, 17 years ago

Posted on July 16, 2009 | Leave a comment
In 1992, Michael Emerson was already playing characters that hang out with people wearing jumpsuits ;)

In 1992, Michael Emerson was already playing characters that hang out with people wearing jumpsuits 😉

In this 1992 training film for prison employees, Michael Emerson plays a prison counselor. He looks so young! He’s a better actor now, and, I think, more interesting-looking. Time has been good to him.

He first appears in the video about a minute-and-a-half in:

Posted on YouTube by mariloulem, who has a whole collection of Michael Emerson videos.

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Anthony Spinner’s previous lawsuit against LOST

Posted on July 15, 2009 | Leave a comment

gavelI found an article published on TV.com back in 2005 which said that Spinner had sued ABC, J.J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof in August, 2005, claiming they stole the idea that he had pitched to the network in 1977 — the same claim he is making in the new lawsuit he filed this week.

That 2005 lawsuit must be the one that TMZ said was dismissed for procedural reasons.

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Man sues, claims he wrote pilot for LOST in 1977

Posted on July 15, 2009 | Leave a comment

gavelIt looks like LOST is being hit with another lawsuit, on top of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Henry Ian Cusick in April.

Anthony Spinner, who was a producer on Baretta and Babes in Toyland, claims that he wrote a 121-page TV pilot script called Lost for $30,000 in 1977.

My opinion: this doesn’t smell right.

What about all the stories Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have told, over and over in podcasts, and panel discussions, and episode commentary, about the origins of the show, about how it started off as a twist on Survivor and they didn’t really know where it was going, figuring it out as they went along. Could all that have been a ruse to distract people from their having stolen the story? I don’t think so. (If true, it would have been such a spectacular long con that even Sawyer would have impressed.)

As for the question of why Spinner waited to bring the lawsuit now, rather than four years ago when the show started, Spinner said that it took three years of litigation to get his former employer to concede that he, personally, had the rights to the script. So that part of it, I guess, is plausible.

I’m betting, though, that nothing will come of this.

Sources: TMZ and Courthouse News Service

You can see a copy of a list (PDF), filed in the lawsuit, of supposed similarities between Spinner’s pilot and LOST (via TMZ).

Picture of the gavel from Wikipedia.

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Another fan-made trailer for Season 6

Posted on July 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

This is really good:

It’s by Campetin from the site sl-LOST.

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Josh Holloway, without his shirt, in a cologne ad campaign

Posted on July 13, 2009 | 4 comments

I think this is one of the best pictures of Josh Holloway without his shirt that I’ve seen — and that’s saying a lot. It’s from a print ad:

Josh Holloway in an ad for Cool Water cologne

Josh Holloway in an ad for Cool Water cologne

This is a screenshot from a TV ad for the same cologne:

Josh Holloway, emerging from the ocean, in screenshot from TV commercial

Josh Holloway, emerging from the ocean, in screenshot from TV commercial

Editing to add: I just found a copy of the commercial on YouTube, so I’m adding it in here:

And these are some screenshots from a video about the making of the ads. The first one does stray from the without-his-shirt theme of this post, but he looked so good there, I had to include it:

Josh Holloway, with stubble, in the "Making of" video

Josh Holloway, with stubble, in the "Making of" video

Josh Holloway, in "Making of" video, getting ready to dive

Josh Holloway, in "Making of" video, getting ready to dive

A blog devoted to men’s grooming products has posted what appear to be publicity stills from the making of the commercial. I especially like the one of Josh in jeans and no shirt, lying on his back, surrounded by the camera crew:

Josh Holloway lying down

Josh Holloway lying down

Print ad and videos (c) Davidoff Parfums

Several print ads, the TV ad video, and the “Making of” video are all available on the Cool Waters site.

Fanatic Sawyer fans (you know who you are) can also download wallpaper-sized high-resolution copies of the first image, as well as screensavers for the PC or Mac, on the Cool Waters “Goodies” page.

The “Josh Holloway lying down” picture is from The Grooming Guru, where you can find a much larger and higher-resolution copy, along with other high-resolution pictures from the commercial shoot. Editing 7/19/09 to add: Here’s one more!

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Ask LOST — Michael Emerson (Part 2)

Posted on July 10, 2009 | 2 comments
Michael Emerson in "Ask Lost" part 2

Michael Emerson in "Ask Lost" part 2

This is the 7th short video in the Ask LOST series. It appears to be the last one that ABC is going to put out, at least for now. So it’s fitting that this portion of the series ends where it began — with Michael Emerson.

He’s my favorite actor, of all the LOST actors, to watch being interviewed. I just love the way he thinks about what he’s saying — you can almost see the gears turning in his head. I love the sound of his voice, as I’ve mentioned before — his stage actor’s diction. Most of all, I love his sense of humor. A great example of that is in the last segment of this video, where he gently pulls our leg with an almost straight face — and then, holding off until the very last moment, he breaks out in a grin.

I do disagree, though, with Emerson’s notion that Ben hasn’t fundamentally changed. I think Ben changed a lot, in this last season — or else we are seeing a radically different side of him that we had never seen before. Ben had always been such a powerful presence, the alpha bad guy, but in Season 5 he became greatly diminished, losing alpha status first to Locke (or, rather, to notLocke), and then to Jacob. In his last scene in the Finale, he seemed to regress back to being a wounded child, which was something far different, though no less lethal, from the terrifying puppetmaster he had been in Seasons 2, 3, and 4.

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