Talking to Details magazine about the end of the island drama, Fox said that he had "some idea" of what was going to happen:

All of us knew that if the show was strung out indefinitely, it was going to ruin the story. It's not like a doctor drama, where you have a new case each week. This show started with a plane crash on an island in the South Pacific, and it's going to have a very global and epic ending.

Okay, we'll be happy to see an epic ending; those of us who've been eagerly trying to work out what all the clues mean for years deserve that much, at least. But "global"? Really?

One of the things I've loved about Lost has been the way that, despite the scale of the story that's been told — and with time-traveling and evil rich men disposing of unwelcome suitors of their daughter on desert islands and everything — it has managed to stay somewhat intimate, dwelling on key characters and keeping the show's focus tight. The idea of a "global" conclusion hopefully refers to locale as opposed to scope, because if the series' last two seasons reveal that the island, Dharma Initiative and Oceanic 6 are fighting for the fate of humanity or anything so grandiose, it'll feel — to me, at least — like a betrayal of what's gone before.

(The interview with Fox did offer this titbit for fans of Jack's beard and self-pity, however: "When it's all said and done, you'll be able to look at the six seasons of Lost and see a pretty amazing character arc... Jack has been evolving, and not necessarily into a good place." More drunken shenanigans and crying? I can't wait!)

Matthew Fox [Details]

Despite the writers' best efforts, they are amongst the least compelling characters in the show. Other characters can keep telling us how great a leader Jack is as much as they want, we just don't see it - He lacks the charisma of Locke, Sawyer or Ben (Hell, even Hurley is more charismatic), and almost every decision he makes comes accompanied by petulant grumpiness or months of angst. Kate, meanwhile, may be the object of Sawyer and Jack's affections, but apparently that's because they both share a taste for self-indulgent whiny women who say that they're bad-ass but never quite seem convincing when trying to be bad-ass. Both of them should really start paying more attention to Juliet, if you ask me.

Neither character seems tied to any of the core mysteries of the show. Yes, yes, I know; they're both part of the Oceanic Six. But nonetheless, just because they got off the island and want to go back doesn't make them that special (After all, we've got four other characters in the same position), and neither Jack nor Kate have the connection with the island that Ben or Locke seem to (Although Jack comes close, with his father's ghost... but that storyline could continue with Claire), nor the connection to the numbers that Hurley has, or even the time-traveling love story of Desmond and Penny. What exactly do you lose, storywise, if you lose Jack and Kate?

Just because they're part of the Oceanic Six doesn't mean that the island can't get them. Lindelof and Cuse love to do the unexpected, and what could be more unexpected than the island proving how powerful it is by killing off two of the show's stars as soon as they get back there? There's your fifth season finale right there, gentlemen.

It's a familiar story - Actors on popular TV shows start asking for more money, thinking that they're more important than the show itself. But what Fox and Lilly need to remember is that, just because you've been the stars of the show so far doesn't mean anything on Lost. Just ask Michael, Charlie, Mr. Ecko or Ana Lucia, in case you don't believe me.

'Lost' stars in renegotiation talks [Hollywood Reporter]

Talking about his secret knowledge of the end of television's most Kurt Vonnegut-influenced island-set show, Fox revealed why he's probably hated by his fellow castaways:

They understand I can't talk about it, but sometimes they'll ask hoping I'll just blurt it out. Besides, having a secret is fun.

We're going to catch up with the flash forwards this year and then it's going to be really interesting to see how time is structured in season five. But we will have closed on two points - the finale of last year where you had that juxtaposition of Jack on the island feeling like he'd finally accomplished a rescue, and this future where he's desperate and at the pit of despair and he feels like he has to go back. We will eventually be back in the present.

Fox also couldn't help but accidentally raise some strange family dynamic when talking about his Racer X outfit from Annalee's favorite summer bomb, Speed Racer:

It's pretty sexy. I think my wife thought so! The minute the mask dropped over my face people would change around me. It's amazing because they can't see your eyes and you can really manipulate that. You can mess with them in a big way... [My sons] thought it was cool. They were sitting on the set, which was huge and I'll never forget their faces when I walked in wearing the full gear. They both turned and did this double-take and went: 'Daddy?' So I'm like, 'Yeah it's me, don't worry, it's just me.' When I walked on set to do a scene, my little boy turned to my wife, and said: 'I want to be Racer X for Halloween next year.'

Lost star Matthew Fox reveals his wife thinks he's sexy in leather [Sunday Mirror]

I've been living in Hawaii for three and a half years now and it's not really paradise anymore. Throwing snowballs on a mountain top is now my idea of paradise. I enjoy getting off the island. It's a beautiful place and my kids are happy there and it's been a good place for us to be for the past three years... but it's not a place we're gonna stay after Lost is finished.

There are so many ways to make Christina Ricci look like a cartoon character AND awesome, but this is not one of them. Click here to see ET's interview with Ricci, which isn't on YouTube yet. She doesn't reveal much, except that her character kisses Speed Racer, and she had no idea what was going on during filming because it was 100 percent greenscreen.

On the plus side, the car looks cool. And after the head-clutching Existentialism For Dummies of the two Matrix sequels, it might be good for the Wachowskis to serve up some brain-dead action. I'm just not sure why it needs to have actors, since it's all CGI and sticks close to the cartoon original.