But first he went into the gymnasium with a 2009 issue of Details magazine, with Bradley Cooper’s blue eyes staring out from the cover. Inside the magazine there was a gigantic picture of Derek spread across two glossy pages under the headline “Derek Black: The Great White Hope.” In the photo, he wore his usual black-brimmed hat, which the author had described as “the sort of gear one might wear on horseback while herding minorities out of the country.”
