The 6th and final season of the ABC drama Lost is about to debut and to promote the final eps, a new promo photo has been released that shows the surviving cast assembled around a long dinner table while seated in airplane chairs as if they were enjoying The Last Supper of Biblical fame … behold:

It’s one of TV’s most mysterious and addictive shows and the [sixth] and final series promises to be a major television event. So, how better to promote the end of U.S. series Lost than with a encrypted recreation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper? Two pictures have been issued which feature all of the show’s remaining characters in replicas of the famous painting. Now fans will be squinting to work out the differences in the hope it holds clues to the ending of a show which has captivated and confused audiences for [five seasons]. Lost follows the escapades of a group of plane crash survivors who are trapped on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. However, all is not as it seems, with constant flashbacks to each of the characters’ previous lives revealing more and more about the mystery surrounding what’s happening on the island. The characters have experienced everything from monsters to indigenous tribes people. Some of the key points fans have picked up on since the photo was released include:

● In the first photo everyone is looking at Locke, who is clearly in the Jesus position. Could this be proof that his prophet-like role among the survivors and mystical understanding of the island will continue?
● There are skulls at both Sayid’s and Hurley’s feet. Is death knocking at their door? Or are they just stones or coconuts, meant as a red herring?
● It looks like wrinkles are visible on Richard’s face. Could he finally be aging? If so, what does this say about the magical, powers of the island?

Viewers will have to wait until the final series launches in the U.S. on February 2 to find out exactly what happens, but can expect a dramatic conclusion to the show. ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson announced that Lost will end with a “highly anticipated and shocking finale.” ‘We felt that this was the only way to give Lost a proper creative conclusion,’ he said.

While I may have gotten a bit tired of Lost a couple of seasons ago, I’ll admit that I drew me back in last season. I’m nowhere near as diehard a fan as I used to be but I am not ashamed to admit that I am painfully curious to see how the whole thing will end. I pray the final eps of the final season are not as tedious as most of the eps have been in recent seasons … I’m not sure I could stand it. They can make every single episode a thrilling, exciting and thought-provoking one … and that will ensure that the show goes out with a bang. After the jump, check out an alternate second version of this Lost Supper photo and watch the newest trailer for the final season of Lost which shows a greatest hits collection of scenes from all the previous seasons and hints at what’s to come …

We learned a few days ago that Matthew McConaughey and babymama Camila Alves welcomed the birth of their second child, a girl they named Vida Alves, and just yesterday Matthew surfaced in SoCal for the first time as a father of two:

Yeah, Matty boy didn’t look very different since the birth of his baby girl but he was rockin’ a skull cap that is emblazoned with his life’s motto “j.k. livin’”. Visitors to his official website know that j.k. livin’ (just keep living) is his life’s credo … which seems to be working out well for him. Congrats, again, go out to Matthew and Camila on the birth of their second child … I hope we don’t have to way very long to see what the little angel looks like :)

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Mariah Carey, among others, attended the Palm Springs International Film Festival award ceremony in Palm Springs, CA last night to collect an award. Mimi was honored with the Breakthrough Actress award for her work in the film Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire and, as a result, was called up onto the stage to accept her trophy. It turns out, tho, that Mariah was DRUNK as hell as she stumbled onto the stage to accept … I’m not even kidding. Here are a few screencaps from her acceptance speech along with an excerpt of what she managed to say slur while on stage in front of the amassed audience:

“Please forgive me because I’m a little bit…” and then she paused for a while, long enough for someone in the audience to yell out, “Drunk!” to which she replied, “Yeah.”

LMAOOOOOOOOOO! Priceless … some might even say the moment was precious ;) After the jump, check out video of Mariah‘s drunken acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film Festival last night …

An historic dual portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry has been unveiled in the UK as it went on display in the National Portrait Gallery earlier today. Artist Nicky Philipps was commissioned to paint the portrait in a series of sittings thruout 2008 & 2009 and the final product was unveiled just today. Check it out:

The first ever joint portrait of princes William and Harry went on display at the National Portrait Gallery today. Artist Nicky Philipps was commissioned to paint the brothers, who sat for a series of sessions in 2008 and 2009. William, 27, and Harry, 25, have been depicted together in paintings before, but always with other people. The painting shows the pair in Clarence House, the London home of their father Charles, the Prince of Wales. Among the previous works of Philipps, 45, is a painting of best-selling author Ken Follett. In 2007, Sergei Pavlenko painted Harry and William with the Queen, Prince Charles, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Cornwall to commemorate Harry’s graduation from Sandhurst. It was the first time a Royal group portrait featured Camilla. Philipps attended the unveiling with Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery.

What a fantastic portrait! The princes really do look very regal in their uniforms and Philipps did a great job of capturing their personalities, I think. I’m sure most of these official portraits have the same look to them but this one in particular reminds me of the presidential portraits that hang in the White House here in the US. If you so desire, you can see a much larger version of the portrait of Princes Wills and Harry HERE. It might make a nice computer wallpaper, don’t you think?

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