Summary

I have never seen an actor resist Hollywood stardom more stubbornly than Ryan Gosling. Three years after his 2001 breakout performance as a Jewish skinhead in Henry Bean's incendiary "The Believer," (for which he should've been nominated for an Academy Award), he was transformed into a big-screen heartthrob via his portrayal of Noah Calhoun in Nick Cassavetes' "The Notebook."

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