Laurie Sandell

As one of the last people on earth to finally see Avatar, I went into the film with a few expectations. I knew it would be an astonishing visual experience but didn’t think the story would hold up all that well. I was wrong–I really loved it! I was entertained throughout and never bored; if I closed my eyes for five minutes it’s only because I didn’t get much sleep the night before. The theater itself was cool, too; we saw it in 3-D at the Dome at the Arc Light Cinema in Hollywood. The only real downside was that the glasses were huge and I have a pinhead, so they kept sliding down my nose. Julie and I were actually discussing the fact that we are both pinheads when we were ordering at the popcorn stand, and the guy behind the counter said, “How can you call two gorgeous girls like yourself pinheads?” I said, “It’s a fact, Jack–it’s not something we’re upset about, we just happen to have small heads. Hats and sunglasses don’t work. We’re just as God made us.” If plastic surgery for pinheads does, indeed, exist, I’m sure I’ll find it here in LA. But for now, I’m just going to have to live with it, and make extra cash performing in a traveling freak show.