There Goes the Neighborhood: Brett Ratner Dot Com
With the Oscars occupying most of our attention the last few days, we somehow forgot to recognize the launch of Brett Ratner Dot Com, the official online presence of the beloved fauxteur. Clicking through to the site's main page brings you to a black-and-white slideshow of Ratner in various directorly poses (note: the picture above is actually from the bio page, not an early storyboard for Rush Hour 3): Ratner with his arm around sour-looking After the Sunset star Woody Harrelson, Ratner and Diddy behind a monitor, Ratner standing near a camera and gesturing to something outside the frame that he will capture in forty takes and then turn over to his editors for salvage. On the whole, however, we have to admit that we're a little surprised at the site's classy minimalism; we expected something that more accurately represented his cinematic gifts, like a five-minute Flash montage of Chris Tucker screaming at the top of his lungs and firing guns in the air.
