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Sometimes I think James Cameron is a pompous piece of shit, but he is also a talented pompous piece of shit. And truth be told I have never met him and he actually seems kind of cool whenever I see footage of him. His newest project Avatar has some ambition behind it, only to change the way movies are made forever. Fox and IMAX announced that the film will be released simultaneously in IMAX 3D, like duh.

"Our goal with Avatar is to revolutionize live-action 3-D movie-making, and I have no doubt that it will look and sound incredible in IMAX 3-D," Cameron said. "The larger field of view and power surround sound of an IMAX theatre will completely immerse the audience in a way that cannot be experienced anywhere else."

He later added off the record, "It's the visual version of the brown sound, if you know what I mean". The movie is about some ex-marine in the middle of some fighting on some weird alien planet.

As an Avatar -- a human mind in an alien body -- he finds himself torn between two worlds, fighting for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.

There is no doubt that James Cameron is a masterful story teller, and a visionary. Add in "groundbreaking techniques" and throw it in Cameron's scifi wheelhouse and it seems you have a surefire hit. A couple weeks ago Jon Favreau said he saw an early cut and it is the future of movies. Sounds good to me, a hope for change!

Here is the (really good) teaser trailer.

Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess have been shipped out of Detroit for one Allen Iverson. Pretty big trade for the last day of the first week of the season. Are we sure this wasn't just a fantasy trade?

I like this trade for both teams actually, basically because neither was going anywhere. Iverson and Melo didn't work, that team sucks, get some upcoming cap relief and a quality pg. When your last "quality PG" was someone that is not even a quality PG (yes I am talking about you Andre Miller), its safe to say Billups will be well received, doesn't hurt that he went to Boulder.

Detroit needed to do something, that team had no fire, would be effective throughout the regular season, then implode from apathy in the playoffs. At the very least Iverson should fire up Rasheed a little bit. I see a lot more feisty games for Detroit this year than there have been since they won the title.

And obviously it goes without saying to pick up JR Smith in all fantasy formats.

Obviously any night that flirts with the "one of the best nights of my life" category would promintently involve Dog The Bounty Hunter, or in this case, his less famous sibling Hot Dog The Bounty Hunter.

I can't think of a single person involved that is making any sense. I don't even know where to start, aside from the prayers I have already prayered praying this never happens.

Produced by ABC Studios and penned by Lawrence and "Scrubs" writer Kevin Biegel, "Cougar Town" centers on an attractive, newly single 40-year-old mom (Cox) with a 17-year-old son.

"Forty-year-old women on TV are so beautiful and perfect and wrinkle-free," said Lawrence, who first worked with Cox when he was a writer on "Friends." "People don't do the reality of it, and there is a real comedy area about a woman who is talking about Botox, about having sex with the lights on and how her body is changing."

Either I am in bizarro world or that last bit is a really good joke. Nobody wants to see any of that. I am already having nightmares about the commercials.

"She's 40, and she has sex with younger people! This week featuring a special cameo with Linda Hogan!"