Of the five best actress in a drama nominations announced last year, only two were eligible this year. This year’s contenders are Kyra Sedgwick (TNT’s “The Closer”), Patricia Arquette (NBC’s “Medium”), Edie Falco (HBO’s “The Sopranos”), Evangeline Lilly (“Lost”) and Ellen Pompeo (“Grey’s”).

Lost is also nominated in the category Best Drama Series.

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Lost beauty Evangeline Lilly almost abandoned her successful acting career, because she struggled to deal with the trappings that come with being famous. The 27-year-old admits the pressure to be thin almost gave her a nervous breakdown in 2004, when she felt she needed to “get away from it all”.

She says, “I called my parents and said, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong. I don’t know if I can keep going in this industry.’ “I just wanted to get away from it all. I never wanted to be a big film star. I just wanted the comfort of having a job I love. “The pressure to stay thin is enough to make you go insane. I was overworked and undernourished.” But the star reckons she’s fully recovered, thanks to her mantra, “I am what I am,” which she repeats 20 times each day. She says, “I know it’s cheesy, but it reminds me if people don’t like who I am, that’s OK.”

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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