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Lost Finale Ratings: About as Good as Desperate Housewives!

The preliminary ratings are in from last night’s Lost finale, and Nielsen is reporting that the much-anticipated series closer averaged a 9.0 rating. That means that over 60 percent more viewers turned into last night’s show than last season’s finale, but roughly the same number of people tuned into the Desperate Housewives episode last year on the same date. The more impressive figure from last night’s episode is 45 — the estimated amount of minutes spent on ads. [ EW ]

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Cats Explain Lost, Uncover Its Profound Cuteness

Weinsteins Won’t Reclaim Miramax

Harvey and Bob Weinstein have been working steadily over the last few months to regain their old haunt Miramax from Disney, but the LAT says the deal has fallen apart. Among the sticking points: the Weinsteins’ final bid, $625 million, wasn’t quite as high as Disney wanted. Ugh, now the brothers will have to use that money to actually release the films they have on the shelf. They hate having to do that! [ LAT ]

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Is USA’s Covert Affairs Just Bourne Identity Meets Coyote Ugly?

Over the past week, Movieline has reviewed all kinds of network series featuring a range of cops and crime-fighters. There have been funny, overweight cops looking for love ; handsome police officers patrolling Hawaii , three generations of squabbling Irish badges , Detroit detectives and Chicago heat . But nowhere in these line-ups was there room for a gorgeous CIA trainee who shame-eats pints of cookie dough ice cream when she’s not taking down deadly assassins. Fortunately, USA Network has that subgenre covered.

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Lost: The Final Scene

So, fellow Middlers and Tailies, Others and Dharmites, Mr. Clucksters and Apollo-Chompers, the end of Lost is nigh. On Sunday night, in a fourteen-and-a-half-hour finalestravaganza, conjoined executive producers Carmon Cuselhof will bury your favorite show alive like a couple of bickering, photogenic diamond thieves. (Have we alienated you with enough inside, borderline nonsensical references yet? Yes? Oh well, you never understood us anyway .) But how will the show finish up its six-season run? To prevent ourselves from spending this weekend curled up in the fetal position while nervously clutching a Hurley-sized bag of Dharma-branded Cheese-Flavor Air Puffs as we await the final round of Answers to our Questions, we’re instead letting our imagination run wild, taking us to the place we dared not visit before: the final scene of Lost . Beware: as this is almost certainly what our last glimpse of the island will look like, spoilers are sure to abound!

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Lost: The Final Scene

Gregg Araki’s Kaboom Latest Cannes Pick-Up

The 63rd Cannes Film Festival may be nearing its end, but IFC Films’ Croisette buying spree isn’t. The distributor today announced its acquisition of Gregg Araki’s hot-and-heavy “comical thriller” Kaboom as well as the Mexican cannibal flick We Are What We Are . Neither have release dates as of yet, though We Are will appear in theaters and on VOD under the distributor’s new IFC at Midnight platform.

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This Weekend On Cable: 8 Films Worth Emptying the TiVo For

Between avoiding the new Shrek and waiting on the balls of you feet for Lost ‘s denouement, the weekend doesn’t have to be a wasteland of twiddled thumbs and regretted multiplex expenditures. You pay for cable already — use it.

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Watch Jesse James Laugh, Cry and Smugly Accept the Title of ‘World’s Most Hated Man’

You’ll be surprised to know that Jesse James is not too heartbroken over his impending divorce from Sandra Bullock. At least, that’s what it seems like from the preview that ABC released of his upcoming Nightline interview, in which, for the first time since cheating allegations broke, James responds to claims that he stepped out on Sandra Bullock — America’s Sweetheart, new mother, loving wife — with a nonchalant “yup.”

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Gemma Arterton ‘Not Even Close’ as Megan Fox’s Transformers 3 Heir?

The general rule of thumb on public message boards is to take seemingly official disclosures with a grapefruit-sized grain of salt. So: Here’s your salt, and now here are a few teasing head-ups about Megan Fox’s Transformers 3 replacement from a Michael Bay associate who has no reason to lie.

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Gemma Arterton ‘Not Even Close’ as Megan Fox’s Transformers 3 Heir?

Mike Myers, KFC Portraitist

Hey, Mike Myers! You haven’t toplined a film since the 2008 bomb The Love Guru . What have you been up to since? “Right now, I’m kind of obsessed with Col. Sanders,” says Myers, who has produced over 15 oil paintings of the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder. “There’s no chicken in the paintings. It’s just not a subject that usually has serious portraiture applied to it. Now, he’s just a two-dimensional person, and it just tickled me to paint him.” [ LAT ]

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