Evangeline Lilly wants Angelina Jolie to be the first female American president, according to femalefirst.co.uk.

Evangeline said: “Angelina is incredible. I can’t emulate her. My prediction is that she’ll be the first female president of the United States, with Brad as her first man.”

So, now there’s a 13-week break from Lost. It really sucks =( The last episode, which was a Kate one, was absolutely brilliant! I can’t wait to see what happens.

// 3×06 I Do Stills

After little more than a month of thrills and twists that have some fans feeling that the show is at its best ever, “Lost” is disappearing into the wilderness.

After tonight’s episode, only the sixth of the still-young fall television season, ABC will take “Lost” off the air for 13 weeks. The show will return on Feb. 7 for a run of 16 or 17 new episodes that will carry viewers into late May.

But the midyear split season is a scheduling gambit that could have enormous consequences not only for ABC, but also for the entire genre of serialized television drama, testing whether audiences are loyal enough to expensive, complex shows to weather long midseason interruptions.

Lengthy delays between seasons is a characteristic common to HBO and other premium channels, which have put popular series like “The Sopranos” on extended breaks to accommodate the plotting, script writing, filming and production schedules required to produce such cinematic shows.

But it is highly unusual for broadcast television, which still mostly adheres to a September-to-May season, to remove a show entirely from the schedule for three months in midyear.

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Evangeline Lilly dreamt of Palawan, not Hawaii

Our recent trip to Honolulu coincided with the Hawaii International Film Festival, which honored our press group. But the highlight was our interview with most of the cast of the hit TV series, “Lost,” and visits to the main set on the beach and the studio where many indoor shots are filmed.

On this first part on our exclusive “Lost” encounter, we feature Evangeline Lilly who set reports straight that she lived in “a grass hut (most likely a nipa hut) in the jungles in the Philippines.” Ever smiling and candid, Evangeline, who wore a white long-sleeved lacy blouse that set off her lovely face, talked to us about staying — but not living — in Palawan for three weeks.

The Canadian native, “Evie” to her cast mates, also discussed the love-hate triangle that her character Kate is embroiled in. Will she end up with Sawyer (Josh Holloway), with whom she had a passionate kiss (they intentionally did not rehearse so it will really look like a first kiss between them, she said) or Jack (Matthew Fox)?

In real life, the 27-year-old actress is going out with Dominic Monaghan, who was Merry in “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy and is now playing Charlie on “Lost.” Now on its third season, the award-winning “Lost” has rabid fans worldwide. Blogs devoted to the series constantly buzz with the latest plot developments and predictions on the plane crash survivors who end up on an island that is not completely deserted. There’s a group of mysterious island inhabitants known as “The Others.”

Evangeline was paired in our interviews with Daniel Dae Kim (Jin on the show), whom we will write about (as well as the rest of the cast) in this Sunday’s column. After the round robins, the cast joined us for cocktails and dinner on the oceanfront lawn of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

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