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· Brett Ratner laments that the stories he plants in the tabloids portray him as a "party animal," overshadowing his legacy as America's most extravagantly gifted fauxteur and passion for inept moviemaking, as he allegedly tells no media outlet we can identify, "I'm a serious film-maker and the people I work with know that so whatever is in the tabloids you can't take that seriously. I think, eat, sleep and dream film so that's what my focus is. That's the real me. I love women and I appreciate women but my focus is my work. You got to celebrate. That's the way to blow off steam. It's a hard grueling process and you want people to know that you really appreciate their hard work so I like to throw a few little soiree." [WENN]
· Ratner demonstrates his formidable filmmaking vision by musing about inverting the iconic Game of Death big black guy/little Asian guy fight scene between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bruce Lee for Rush Hour 3, with little black guy Chris Tucker taking on big Asian guy Yao Ming. Minds officially blown, as we would've expected the far more predictable Jackie Chan vs. Shaq battle. [Kaiju Shakedown]
· And if you can't be in NY tonight to see the Portraits by Brett Ratner exhibition, you can get the same feeling of celebrity essences frozen in time by clicking through the gallery on his web site, and imagining the shutterbug wandering your office while muttering "Oh yeah, on that one Pacino thought I was making a really interesting artistic choice, but actually I just kept dropping the camera in the middle of my shots." [Gawker]