Bell hooked

In news seemingly conjured up in a fanboy's hot, sweaty, sticky dreams, our beloved Kristen Bell, she of "Veronica Mars" (the amazing yet now-canceled show that I have been spotted cuddling the DVD boxes of) has been linked to a new role on the show on the forefront of most every geek's minds - "Lost." Potentially the greatest intersection of awesome pop culture things since "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue." You might as well have told me that Spider-Man and Boba Fett were coming to my birthday party.

Nothing's official, yet, but it's also exciting when you think about the implications it has on "Lost." Given what happened at the end of the still boner-hardening third season finale, there are plenty of opportunities to introduce new characters - like the one Bell may or may not play, a "precocious, loquacious and funny" 20something named Charlotte (the 27-year-old Bell playing her age would be kind of disorienting at first).

KB has two movies coming out - including "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which sounds promising and has a lot of the Apatow gang in it (Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill and "How I Met Your Mother" dude Jason Segel, who wrote the film and stars opposite Bell). IMDb says they've both wrapped, though, presumably leaving her schedule clear to get her "Lost" on. Aww yeah. She's also narrating the new CW series "Gossip Girl," so who knows how that will all shake out - although presumably it'll only be a problem is "GG" isn't canned by the time "Lost" returns in February 2008 (sigh, so far away).

Finally, what does it say about this Internet of ours that this picture is the first to come up when you Google "Kristen Bell"?