James Cameron Gets Milk, Plans Director's Cut

Rumors continue to fly over what Oscar-winning Titanic director James Cameron will choose for his next project, with a big-screen version of Spiderman and a remake of Planet of the Apes leading the pack of possibilities. But the filmmaker has taken a decidedly low-key approach to following up the megafilm's eleven Oscars: he's become the latest celebrity to don a milk mustache. Appropriately, Cameron's ad reads: "I Like to Float Big Chunks of Ice in Every Glass." Says Kurt Graetzer, executive director of the milk campaign: "James is one of the most high-profile people coming out of the Oscars, and what better way to capture America's attention."

And for those who thought Titanic's three-hour, fourteen-minute length was just too darned fast-paced, we have good news. Backstage at the Shrine Monday night, Cameron told reporters that he's planning a director's cut of the big-boat epic, which will likely be released on laserdisc or DVD. "We are not going to do it right away," he cautioned. "We will do the normal laserdisc release first." And Cameron insists he'll show restraint: "Don't expect a seven-hour movie," he said, "but we could add fifteen or twenty minutes." The perfectionist filmmaker says the extra footage would flesh out the historical aspects of the tragedy and "shift the balance away from the emotional story and a little bit to the factual story, which was the decision we made in editing not to do." And the legions of fans who have taken Titanic to heart won't be disappointed by the new cut. Cameron promises that "it will be a good watch."