Like many fans, I am happy to be lost in Lost. Savoring it, in fact. Locke as the Smoke Monster? Bring him/it/whoever on! A ”flash-sideways”? I like coming in on that new angle! As the final pieces of TV’s trickiest jigsaw puzzle are being wedged into place, the burden is on the guys who run the show — Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof — to have the sixth and final season not end up looking like…one big jigsaw puzzle.

How to do that? So far, they’ve got the right idea in finally establishing that Lost isn’t just a mind game: The Island has always been a metaphor for the heart — the center, the life force. Now many of the mysteries of the heart are being revealed, along with alternative glimpses of how the lives of so many did or may or could have turned out. Read the rest of this entry »

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Rounding the home stretch of a tween-media blitzkrieg for his debut album My World (out Nov. 17), Justin Bieber stopped by the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP for a guest spot on the show’s season premiere.

In the EW exclusive clip below, teen fashion exec True (Keke Palmer) and friends Lulu (Ashley Argota) and Ryan (Matt Shively) sneak into a studio to spy on the singer while he lays down an acoustic take on his hit single “One Time.”
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‘American Idol’ semifinals (Top 10 guys): God changed the channel to ‘Lost’

There was a lot of talk of a higher power on tonight’s American Idol telecast. One contestant declared himself a “God-fearing person.” Another vocalist talked about prayer as a pre-performance ritual. Heck, even Simon Cowell got into the (holy) spirit, accepting an invitation to attend church. But after listening to the 10 male semifinalists’ performances, I’m beginning to fear that God has finally decided to forsake the nation’s most popular televised singing competition now that its ninth season is providing direct, ratings-draining competition for the final season of ABC’s Lost. [SPOILERS ahead, west-coasters!] How else to explain the parade of bum notes sent forth by everyone from Jermaine Sellers and John Park (expected) to Andrew Garcia and Casey James (less so)? lviv apartments for rent
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