AVATAR

Já está nos cinemas um dos filmes mais aguardados de todos os tempos: "Avatar", escrito e dirigido pelo realizador canadiano James Cameron, que estudou Física na Universidade da Califórnia. Disse a sua biógrafa Rebecca Keegan recentemente ao "Los Angeles Times":

"The fact that he has this sort of equally developed two sides to his personality -- the scientist and the artist. ... [At Fullerton College] he was majoring in physics and at the point when he had to decide between the scientist and the artist. And he chose the artist. Usually people are a left brain or a right brain. ... He's as good a painter as he is a designer of cameras. ... He worked with NASA. He could hold his own in a room full of scientists. This is a guy with a couple of junior college physics classics. ... For him, science and art are equally necessary parts of what he does. In a town, Hollywood, where people get by being really good B.S.ers, he's actually incapable of it -- to a point of detriment, at times. ... He really tells you what he thinks to your face."