Lou Pearlman Update

because i know you've been wondering about his whereabouts as much as i have. THEY FOUND HIM! he's been on the run for a few months now...and was said to have been last seen in Germany in April.

he was in Indonesia, probably scooping up some young Indonesian boys to start a under-10 boy band.

MSN reports:

Lou Pearlman Arrested in Indonesia

Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman was arrested in an Indonesian hotel early Thursday, turned over to U.S. law enforcement officials and flown to Guam to appear before a judge there, authorities said.

Pearlman was charged with one felony count of bank fraud.

"We expect that he will be returned to Florida," said Steve Cole, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa.

Pearlman allegedly defrauded about 1,000 investors of more than $315 million by selling for years a bogus savings account plan, then using their money to cover his losses in other businesses. Banks are hounding him and his companies for more than $120 million, according to court documents.

Pearlman conjured multi-platinum success by piecing together boy bands such as the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync in the 1990s.

He hadn't been seen or heard from in months, nor had he responded to multiple subpoenas.

Creditors liquidated Pearlman's assets at an auction Tuesday in Orlando. Proceeds from the sale were to pay off his considerable debt, though authorities were still trying to put the whole picture together.

5 seconds of nothing...

and then...NO MUSIC. the music that we're use to hearing blaring during the white credits set upon a black screen was not there. the end just ended without us even knowing what just happened. and i was so tense for the entire diner scene, i think most people were shaking in their boots. who's that guy at the counter, stirring his coffee? who's the guy at the booth in the USA hat? why do they always show a laughing couple that seem oblivious to what might happen? was meadow taking so long to park her car because she was going to just miss being killed with her entire family? when the guy in the gray member's only jacket started walking toward the booth i started to cover my eyes...

If you read any article today read Alan Sepinwall's column here on NJ.com
or check out his Soprano's blog here. he has been covering the Sopranos since day 1 and a fellow NJ'er definitely knows his stuff. below are comments from NY.com:

hidden messages:
So here is what I found out. The guy at the bar is also credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. That wasn't that long ago. Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. Phil's brother Nikki Senior was killed in 1976 in a car accident. Absolutely Genius!!!! David Chase is truly rewarding the true fans who pay attention to detail. So the point would have been that life continues and we may never know the end of the Sopranos. But if you pay attention to the history, you will find that all the answers lie in the characters in the restaurant. The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body. The boy scouts were in the train store and the brothas at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear (was that season 2 or 3?).

Absolutely incredible!!!! There were three people in the restaurant who had reason to kill Tony and then it just ends. This was Chase's way of proving that he will not escape his past. It will not go on forever despite that he would like it to "don't stop". Not the fans!!! Tony would like it to keep going but just as we have to say goodbye, so does he.

perfect ending:
No ending could have been more perfect: the family gathering over yet another supper, and that sense of the outside world (ie, their outside world, which could contain the threat of people like them, or the threat of people like us) and only the mere possibility that there will be a tomorrow for them all.

I loved how Chase shot almost all of the characters in this episode in moments when we were certain that was IT for them: Paulie in the darkened bar being stood up; A.J. car's bursting into flames; A.J. walking to his new (and better!) car after leaving the production office, talking on his cell; Meadow screwing up her parallel park over and over: we all tensed up at these moments, thinking, Christ, here it comes. And then it didn't. Well, this time it didn't. And as Tony's looking up to see Meadow come through the door, that bell ringing (didn't everything ring a bell in this episode?) and either that guy has just loaded a gun in the bathroom and he's heading out or he's just taken a whizz and he's going back to place his order. It's all over, or it's going on.

And then five seconds of black as Chase punted us back into a world without these characters and these stories. That was tough love, but it was love just the same: imagine a world where our storytellers would trust we were smart enough and mature enough to accept the kind of terminal ambiguity we got tonight. I want to live in that world and I'm glad I did.

we were whacked:

The viewers - US - were whacked as Meadow walked into the restaurant.......and, we never saw it coming.

and it ended just like this - "don't stop..." and black out.