'Desperate Housewives' for 'Lost' crossover?

An Oceanic Airlines flight featured in the series Lost may crash into Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives.

Housewives creator Marc Cherry recently revealed details of an upcoming cliffhanger involving a plane crash in the first half of the current season.

A source has now told E! that the aircraft is likely to end up being a fictional Oceanic Airliner from Lost.

The plot crossover has not yet been finalised, though the insider added that network executives are keen on the idea due to the series of promotional spots with casts from different ABC programmes.

"Everyone loved how well those 'ABC House' promos did last year," they explained. "We're looking at ways to find more fun crossovers between shows, and so the idea came up to have the Desperate Housewives plane be Oceanic."

Cherry previously developed a succession of Sprint advertisements, which were inspired by the soap opera tone of Desperate Housewives.

Eva Longoria Parker Joins Latino Commission With Sights Set on New National Museum

"Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria Parker helped transform Capitol Hill into Hollywood today -- attracting a swarm of paparazzi, press, screaming fans, and autograph seekers as she joined a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers, cabinet members, celebrities and activists in the effort to bring a national museum for the American Latino to Washington, D.C..

Longoria Parker is one of 23 leaders from the American Latino community recently appointed by President Obama and congressional leadership to commission aimed at establishing a new National Museum of the American Latino.

Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten Has Lung Cancer

Kathryn Joosten, a two-time Emmy winner for her role as feisty neighbor Mrs. McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, has lung cancer – and she plans to do everything she can to fight it.

"I've got a little hang-up here," Joosten tells PEOPLE exclusively of the diagnosis she received less than a week ago, "but we're going to handle it and move forward. I'm doing great."

The actress, 69, who already won a bout with lung cancer in 2001, broke the news to her Housewives producers Monday morning as she expects her shooting schedule could be

interrupted for treatment. "They're totally supportive," she says. "I said, 'If you want to put it in the story line, do it! Tell anybody you want, because the public's going to know.' "

Two weeks ago, the actress – who also played Mrs. Landingham, the beloved secretary to Martin Sheen's President Bartlett on The West Wing – underwent her annual physical exam during which doctors discovered a spot on her lung. Tests will determine the type of lung cancer Joosten is suffering from and her course of treatment.

"I felt like the legs had been pushed out from under me," Joosten says of receiving the news. "I completely did not expect it, and was devastated. I was crying for nearly five days straight."

Removing the Stigma of Lung

CancerJoosten, who regularly speaks about beating cancer, flew to Okalahoma City the day after receiving the news for a previously scheduled speaking engagement, where she talked to an audience of 600 people about surviving and living your dreams.

After coming to terms with the diagnosis, she now says she wants to speak out more about fighting the disease. "To get back in control, I have to attack. I have to make this something that I can have an effect on,” she says.

Joosten, once a heavy smoker who quit on the day she was diagnosed in 2001, adds, "My other goal is to try to erase some of the stigma of lung cancer."

Because lung cancer is often associated with smoking cigarettes, she says, it is often dismissed as
something lung cancer sufferers did to themselves. "The first thing everyone says is, 'Did you smoke?' Yeah, I smoked," says Joosten. "I smoked because Betty Davis said it was very glamorous. I smoked because it was seen everywhere and done everywhere. I got addicted because the tobacco companies add additives to their tobacco to make it more addictive. I'm damned mad at all of them. But that stigma has to go away."

In short, Joosten says, "No one deserves lung cancer."