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...Hollywood scene, riding in submersibles, shooting documentaries and building new filmmaking toys. In 2005, Fox funded a $10 million, 5-min. prototype for the movie, but when Cameron delivered a 153-page draft of the script months later, the studio balked. Here was an ambitious project with a lot of risky elements, including unproven technology, blue protagonists with tails and a script that wasn't based on a comic book, novel or video game - making it unique for a big-budget film in its time. In September 2006, Fox formally passed on Avatar. Only after another studio (Disney) seemed poised...
...Plus," he adds, "those Victorians dressed a lot better than...
...have a lot of favorite bands. Deerhoof are amazing. You can't go wrong with a name like Deerhoof. I get happy for bands when they get really successful, because I remember what it was like. Like Kings of Leon--I'm happy for those guys. When I hear live drums and real guitars and people singing on the radio, it makes me feel that there's still hope for this world...
...also discovered, to my surprise, that I'm a lot like the person I was in high school. Several women told me about comments I'd written in their yearbooks about their breasts. When I went up to a woman named Dana and told her that she looked exactly the same, she said, "But you never thought I looked good." I, for some reason, said, "But at least you don't look any worse," and walked away. Coors Lights can really pile...
When we got to the conference room at the Crowne Plaza in Edison, N.J. - perhaps the perfect adult analogue to being in high school - the people who worked for Reunions Unlimited Inc. asked me for $244 in cash. This seemed like a lot for a bad buffet, Coors Light and finding out what people I knew as teenagers look like, how many kids they have and what they do for a living. When Reunions Unlimited Inc. came up with its pricing plan, it was clearly unaware of Facebook. Or the career paths of people who went to public school...