Island of “Lost” souls
Apparently paradise isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Another TV season, another “Lost” cast member busted: Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin-Soo Kwon, is the third co-star on the show to be arrested for a DUI.
Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros were busted in December 2005; both saw their characters subsequently killed off. In September of 2006, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was accused of disobeying a police officer and driving without a license, and even though those charges were later dropped, his character bit the dust (or rather, got bit by a smoke monster), as well.
While it seems that working in Hawaii would be all sorts of fun, apparently the relative isolation from friends and family creates a horrific stress that we mere mortals cannot fathom. Maybe “Lost’s” producers should create some sort of day-care (or night-care) center for their wayward cast, filled with activities that don’t include getting smashed. Shuffleboard, miniature golf, Sudoku, pie-eating contests (though Jorge Garcia’d probably dominate there), horseshoes – there must be some way to keep their stars off the sauce or out of the driver’s seat.
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Honestly, I just think a car service would do the job (and probably save ABC a fortune in the long run). We don't really know that these people have drinking problems, but they certainly do have driving problems. And if you're going to shoot your show in a place where it's apparently impossible to walk home from bars -- and this would include Los Angeles, and the star of "24" -- maybe mandatory use of the car service could be written into actors' contracts. That would certainly take their minds off their missing DVD payments...