Gosling Update

I watched "Crazy, Stupid, Love" last night and thought it was great. Whenever you see a movie like that it makes you wonder why all movies can't be at least that good. It just doesn't look that hard. And that's probably why the guy who wrote it is getting $500 grand a week to punch up scripts, but for some reason, that doesn't really work.

Anyway, in my last post I wrote that I was surprised that Ryan Gosling got cast as "the player" because I thought the role would go to someone who is good looking.

Well, much to my surprise, Gosling completely won me over! I love him.

And it got me thinking, we always reward these actors for playing "ugly" or "retarded" characters. That's what wins Oscars. But really, that's easy to do. It's easy to go from good looking to ugly. The leap from Dustin Hoffman to retarded isn't that far.

But the real challenge for an actor, is to be unattractive and act handsome. Seems impossible, but Gosling has pulled it off.

Ryan Gosling can pretend to be good looking. I don't know how, but he can do it. Now that's impressive. He should win every award, because I don't think it's been done before.

If only he could teach Taylor Lautner how to do it, we'd really have something.