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My clothing-conscious friends assure me that "Project Runway" is a superior reality TV show that really takes the creative process seriously.
I have no reason to doubt them. But the documentary "Eleven Minutes," which charts the struggles of "PR" first-season winner Jay McCarroll to mount his first actual show for New York's Fashion Week, comes off like a bracing reality check.
As palpably unstaged as most reality shows are slickly packaged, the fly-on-the-wall film charts seemingly every screw-up, blow-up and step of hard work that results in the title catwalk, when the designer's line is unveiled to hard-to-please fashion buyers and reporters.
Neurotic, funny, sometimes sharing too much, McCarroll is at heart all business in the movie because...