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Blue Was Pretty Much the Only Color Left, Says James Cameron

“What are the differences that we can deal with, without it becoming a barrier? Skin color is great, and it’s also great thematically, because skin color is obviously such a big issue on our planet. All the warm tones — from pallid Canadian pink, to beautiful warm browns, and, well, pallid Australian pink — were all taken. So, we were down to blue and green basically — and green had been taken by all those Martian movies with the little green men. So, we have big blue women, not little green men.” —James Cameron on why Avatar aliens are blue [MTV]

“I got to get her on a track, for real. We’d make a hit.” —50 Cent wants to duet with Susan Boyle [Daily Mirror UK]

“You are able to eat junk food without gaining weight; where Nike invent a pair of sneakers that allows you to fly like Harry Potter.” —Shakira on her ideal future world [Telegraph UK]

“If you take out the romantic storyline, it’s pretty much two and a half hours of me looking lonely. That’s all that’s left.” —Daniel Radcliffe on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [MTV]

“As you get older naked stuff gets easier. It’s more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There’s a liberation about it.” —Helen Mirren [Broadcast Now via Boston Globe]

“That can be a tough one to work around. There’s going to be no long monologue. Maybe her five-word vocabulary will stretch to 10 or 11.” —Kristen Wiig on hosting SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas [Boston Globe]

Blue Was Pretty Much the Only Color Left, Says James Cameron