Ryan Gosling: hunk of the year?

 
The holiday season is a time for counting blessings.That’s why this seems like an appropriate time to give thanks for the greatest gift that the celebrity world has given us this year: Ryan Gosling.Gosling was a celebrity before 2011, but this was the year that Ryan Gosling the Phenomenon truly came into being. To those who spend little time navigating entertainment blogs, Gosling, 31, is an actor who has earned an Academy Award nomination and appeared in three wildly different films in recent months: Drive, Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Ides of March. (Four, actually, if you count Blue Valentine, which rolled out in January.)But to those who track the online fervor that surrounds the Canadian star and unofficially designated “dreamboat of choice” to women younger than 40, he is the modern, self-aware equivalent of Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando and James Dean rolled into one simultaneously uber-cool, sensitive male soul.Ryan Gosling is the celebrity most capable of generating a meme. He inspires countless blogs — including the oft-cited “(Bleep) Yeah, Ryan Gosling,” where the “Hey girl” catchphrase was born in 2009.Ryan Gosling is an urban superhero, the kind of guy who breaks up a street fight in New York, gets captured on YouTube doing so and is hailed on the Internet for being a hipster version of Batman even though everyone knows that Christian Bale is Batman.Ryan Gosling is a fascinating enigma who inspires New York Times essays in which he is called “as interesting as Bob Dylan in 1966.” That is because Ryan Gosling inspires deep thought.Ryan Gosling represents the completely unrealistic ideal that women want all men to live up to: elusive, edgy, potentially dangerous but also kind to dogs, considerate enough to take his mother and sister to the Oscars and willing to unashamedly fall in love in movies based on lousy Nicholas Sparks romance novels ( The Notebook) as well as star in movies about guys who form serious relationships with blow-up dolls ( Lars and the Real Girl).Ryan Gosling is a precious gift, one that we hope keeps on giving during what’s left of 2011 and for years to come.

The holiday season is a time for counting blessings.

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The The holiday season is a time for counting blessings.That’s why this seems like an appropriate time to give thanks for the greatest gift that the celebrity world has given us this year: Ryan Gosling.Gosling was a celebrity before 2011, but this was the year that Ryan Gosling the Phenomenon truly came into being. To those who spend little time navigating entertainment blogs, Gosling, 31, is an actor who has earned an Academy Award nomination and appeared in three wildly different films in recent months: Drive, Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Ides of March. (Four, actually, if you count Blue Valentine, which rolled out in January.)But to those who track the online fervor that surrounds the Canadian star and unofficially designated “dreamboat of choice” to women younger than 40, he is the modern, self-aware equivalent of Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando and James Dean rolled into one simultaneously uber-cool, sensitive male soul.Ryan Gosling is the celebrity most capable of generating a meme. He inspires countless blogs — including the oft-cited “(Bleep) Yeah, Ryan Gosling,” where the “Hey girl” catchphrase was born in 2009.Ryan Gosling is an urban superhero, the kind of guy who breaks up a street fight in New York, gets captured on YouTube doing so and is hailed on the Internet for being a hipster version of Batman even though everyone knows that Christian Bale is Batman.Ryan Gosling is a fascinating enigma who inspires New York Times essays in which he is called “as interesting as Bob Dylan in 1966.” That is because Ryan Gosling inspires deep thought.Ryan Gosling represents the completely unrealistic ideal that women want all men to live up to: elusive, edgy, potentially dangerous but also kind to dogs, considerate enough to take his mother and sister to the Oscars and willing to unashamedly fall in love in movies based on lousy Nicholas Sparks romance novels ( The Notebook) as well as star in movies about guys who form serious relationships with blow-up dolls ( Lars and the Real Girl).Ryan Gosling is a precious gift, one that we hope keeps on giving during what’s left of 2011 and for years to come. holiday season is a time for counting blessings.That’s why this seems like an appropriate time to give thanks for the greatest gift that the celebrity world has given us this year: Ryan Gosling.Gosling was a celebrity before 2011, but this was the year that Ryan Gosling the Phenomenon truly came into being. To those who spend little time navigating entertainment blogs, Gosling, 31, is an actor who has earned an Academy Award nomination and appeared in three wildly different films in recent months: Drive, Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Ides of March. (Four, actually, if you count Blue Valentine, which rolled out in January.)But to those who track the online fervor that surrounds the Canadian star and unofficially designated “dreamboat of choice” to women younger than 40, he is the modern, self-aware equivalent of Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando and James Dean rolled into one simultaneously uber-cool, sensitive male soul.Ryan Gosling is the celebrity most capable of generating a meme. He inspires countless blogs — including the oft-cited “(Bleep) Yeah, Ryan Gosling,” where the “Hey girl” catchphrase was born in 2009.Ryan Gosling is an urban superhero, the kind of guy who breaks up a street fight in New York, gets captured on YouTube doing so and is hailed on the Internet for being a hipster version of Batman even though everyone knows that Christian Bale is Batman.Ryan Gosling is a fascinating enigma who inspires New York Times essays in which he is called “as interesting as Bob Dylan in 1966.” That is because Ryan Gosling inspires deep thought.Ryan Gosling represents the completely unrealistic ideal that women want all men to live up to: elusive, edgy, potentially dangerous but also kind to dogs, considerate enough to take his mother and sister to the Oscars and willing to unashamedly fall in love in movies based on lousy Nicholas Sparks romance novels ( The Notebook) as well as star in movies about guys who form serious relationships with blow-up dolls ( Lars and the Real Girl).Ryan Gosling is a precious gift, one that we hope keeps on giving during what’s left of 2011 and for years to come.

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