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Perhaps not realizing that being a bigshot Hollywood director is an even more reliable way to take advantage of women desperate for a taste of fame than a career snapping pictures of women with no clothes on, guy-who-sits-behind-a-monitor-on- a-movie-set-and-occasionally-mutters-to- no-one-in-particular—that-he'll-fix-it-in-editing Brett Ratner mused to the NY Daily News about a possible side career in the naked lady photographic arts:

"I've shot a lot of guys - I want to shoot some girls," the 37-year-old Ratner told Lowdown at a party celebrating his other career as a portrait photographer. "Mariah Carey is like the only woman I've shot. I want to shoot some women. Halle Berry would be cool. And Lindsay Lohan." [...]

A young blond woman in tight jeans interrupted to ask: "Can you be requested to take pictures? Do you do nude shots?"

The gum-chomping Ratner brushed her off, then confided: "I'd like to take nude pictures of girls. Not her, though."

Which didn't stop him from checking her out as she sauntered away. Ratner admitted: "I'm overpaid as a photographer, I've got to say. Way overpaid."

We have to admit that we're a little intrigued about what the results of a Ratner nude shoot might look like. A series of photos of blurry nipples, bare buttocks creeping out of the frame, or a [uzzling part of the female anatomy only revealed to be a vagina when rotating the picture clockwise and viewing from a distance of ten feet cumulatively might have the effect of somewhat radical, if accidental, art.