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Where is the weirdest place you’ve ever been sick?
My wife and I traveled to Jamaica 15 years ago. Oh God that was a crazy trip! We stayed in this little bungalow out on the water, baked out of our minds for the first three days. We were just so stoned! And then we got sick and proceeded to get stoned ‘cos that makes you feel better.

Have you ever knowingly broken the law?
No comment. Yeah, all the time! I’ve done plenty of illegal narcotics, but I think everyone knowingly breaks the law pretty often, don’t they? I can’t imagine living my life abiding by the law completely. That’d be tough to do.

How much is a pint of milk?
There’s four of them in a gallon, right? A pint of milk, 16 ounces. How much would it cost? In Hawaii, a gallon of milk is like $6, so we’re talking $1.50. Buck 50.

When were you last naked outdoors?
Eight days ago. I’m naked outdoors a lot - I live in Hawaii - if naked outdoors means walking out to the pool naked and jumping and walking back inside.

What’s your karaoke song of choice?
Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead. Thats a tough song! I like Radiohead a lot. I don’t think I’m a great singer, but I enjoy doing it.
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They may play Secret Service agents in new thriller Vantage Point, but in real life, neither Dennis Quaid nor Matthew Fox wish to wear the badge.

“Most of the time, you’re just sitting in a hallway making sure someone doesn’t come down it. It’s not really interesting work, but in the movies, it’s great to be a Secret Service agent,” Dennis told reporters at the film’s New York premiere.

Matthew added: “It’s amazing and admirable that someone would give their life for someone else’s in a job and in a professional manner. I could never do this for real. I’d only take a bullet for my family.”

The Lost star revealed he didn’t have much time to prepare for the role, as he began filming Vantage Point only a day after wrapping up another project.

“Dennis did some preparation earlier, but I was working on another film and there was a 24-hour turnaround between both films, so I got thrown into the midst of it,” he admitted.

“We had consultants on the film at all times, so we could ask questions, and to make sure we got the logistics and the outward appearance of these guys.”

Matthew added: “And then, Dennis and I had to work quite a bit on finding a history between these two guys, which was cool.”

Vantage Point tells the story of an assassination of a president, from various perspectives. It’s released in the UK on March 7.

STARRING in Lost, possibly the most surreal television mystery since Twin Peaks, has made Matthew Fox a much better actor. Off screen, that is.

Matthew Fox knows how to keep a good secret.

He says he is forever pleading ignorant when fans — and sometimes fellow cast members — try to extract juicy details about the show’s many secrets from him.

And often, Fox says, he’s not giving those people the whole story.

The Channel 7 series about survivors of a plane crash marooned on a mysterious island has won legions of fans around the world and triggered countless theories about where the castaways actually are — purgatory, a computer game and a scientific experiment being some of the more outlandish suggestions.

As a friend of the show’s creators, JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, Fox has occasionally been privy to plotlines ahead of time, but is sworn to secrecy.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The political thriller ‘Vantage Point’ secured the top spot at the weekend box office, earning an estimated $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The previous No. 1 movie, 20th Century Fox’s ‘Jumper,’ dropped to second with $12.7 million, raising its domestic total to $56.2 million in two weeks. Paramount’s family fantasy ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ was a close third with $12.6 million. Disney’s dance saga ‘Step Up 2 The Streets’ and Warner Bros.’ romantic comedy ‘Fool’s Gold’ rounded out the top five.

‘Vantage Point,’ a Sony (NYSE:SNE) Pictures action-drama about a presidential assassination seen from the viewpoints of different characters, included a star-studded ensemble cast that featured Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox as Secret Service agents.

‘Audiences really love it when they get a summer-style popcorn movie at a time of the year when they don’t expect it,’ said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Media By Numbers.

The studio said ‘Vantage Point’ appealed to a broad audience — 52 percent of moviegoers were male and half were under age 30.

‘It’s fresh with lots of twists and turns. Audiences become very invested in it,’ said Rory Bruer, Sony president of distribution.

The only other new release to crack the top 10 was the Jack Black comedy ‘Be Kind Rewind,’ which took in $4.1 million and was tied at No. 7 with ‘Juno.’ The Fox Searchlight pregnancy comedy has rung up $130 million since opening 12 weeks ago.

Paramount Vantage’s oil saga ‘There Will Be Blood’ moved up two slots to No. 10 with $2.6 million for a total of $35 million in nine weeks.

The weekend’s other two debuts, Lionsgate’s (NYSE:LGF) ‘Witless Protection’ and MGM’s ‘Charlie Bartlett,’ came in at Nos. 13 and 14, respectively.

Box office revenues were down for the second straight week. The top 12 movies grossed $90 million, down 23 percent from last weekend and 10 percent from the same weekend in 2007.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. ‘Vantage Point,’ $24 million.

2. ‘Jumper,’ $12.7 million.

3. ‘Spiderwick Chronicles,’ $12.6 million.

4. ‘Step Up 2 the Streets,’ $9.8 million.

5. ‘Fool’s Gold,’ $6.3 million.

6. ‘Definitely, Maybe,’ $5.2 million.

7. ‘Juno,’ $4.1 million.

7. ‘Be Kind Rewind,’ $4.1 million.

9. ‘Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,’ $4 million.

10. ‘There Will Be Blood,’ $2.6 million.

According to Box Office MoJo Vantage Point is in the lead to be the top grossing movie this weekend.

I just got back from seeing it and really, really enjoyed it.

“Lost” fans finally got new glimpses of their fearless (and, apparently, utterly bonkers at some future date) leader, Jack Shephard, when the brain-teasing hit show began its fourth season at the end of January.

And in his new movie, “Vantage Point,” Fox’s Secret Service agent Kent Taylor can be seen trying to save an American president from a Spanish assassination plot again and again and again. The movie depicts the same shooting from eight different perspectives, revealing more information each time it rewinds.

Fox was raised on an isolated Wyoming ranch and loves living in Hawaii with his wife of 17 years and their two children, out of focal length from most paparazzi lenses. And though the 41-year-old actor isn’t one to seek attention, he doesn’t mind if his current ubiquity pleases many adoring fans.

Now, if we could only figure out what his characters are up to.

Let’s talk about your character in “Vantage Point.” Oh wait, we can’t.

It’s kinda tricky; I’m not used to that. We really wanted to find ways of foreshadowing stuff that audiences wouldn’t necessarily see the first time around, but after the realization they would go, “Oh. Yeah.” So we were playing with levels of it and trying to make something that was nuanced.

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