Nav'occhio

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It was just a matter of time before the first official photo from Avatar yielded its real revelations -- not the Nav'is' tastes for tanning beds, but rather the slight influence of a particular puppet-turned-donkey-turned-little-boy on Jim Cameron's alien vision. By the same token, it could just as easily be a nascent GoatBoy growing in Lorne Michaels's backstage incubator in the spring of '96. Or an homage to Kirstie Alley's Vulcan officer from Star Trek 2. Come clean, Cameron. [Hollywood Elsewhere]