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Yesterday, we offered up the inaugural edition of what we hoped would become a running feature, the Fauxteur Fashion Minute, in which readers spot Hollywood's hottest, hackiest directors in the wild and hold forth on their sartorial sense. We joked that a Brett Ratner installment would be forthcoming, but were reduced to tears of joy when, mere minutes later, our prayers were answered.
I saw Brett Ratner at the Barnes and Noble at The Grove on Sunday afternoon (4/10). He was looking fat. He was wearing a sweatshirt and jeans, and the sweatshirt looked tight around his big gut. He also had the week-without-shaving look going on. Looking like he did, he still had a model-type girl on his arm. The best part was that he was flipping through books in the Film section. You know, where they have books that will teach you how to direct a movie or write a screenplay. Hopefully he bought a couple of them.
Defamer recommends that fashion-conscious fauxteurs wear a loose, button-down shirt if they're still trying to work off some stubborn pounds packed on at the movie premiere buffet. In Ratner's defense, he's been playing this game long enough to know that being spotted with an attractive woman is a good way to distract from the sweatshirt pulled taut against a directorial paunch. And while we're enthusically in favor of self-improvement activities, overall points are deducted for boning up on your craft in public.
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