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...Soft-spoken and pacific, Lee is as well known in Hollywood for his modesty as he is for his protean talent. It's hard to square volcanic passions, after all, with a man who once told an interviewer that one of his favorite restaurants was KFC. Lee's movies, too, often revolve around the repression of overwhelming emotion. In his wuxia epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, swords and fists became stand-ins for everything the martial characters couldn't say. Brokeback Mountain's cowboys suffered for love they could not acknowledge. Even Lee's Hulk was an exploration of suppressed...
...will read about all the sirens going off at the same time - "ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them" - and no one in power ever giving these life-or-death matters the full, single-minded attention they so desperately deserved. Carlos A. Leo Hollywood...
...forge a new idea of manhood for this brave new two-income world? Hollywood hasn't been much help. From Michael Keaton in the 1983 movie Mr. Mom to Adam Sandler in Big Daddy (1999) to Eddie Murphy in Daddy Day Care (2003), the sight of a man caught in the act of parenting has been a reliable laugh getter--always a good indicator of what the culture considers uncomfortable material. For every Pursuit of Happyness, there's a movie like this summer's Knocked Up, which plays not so much as a tribute to fatherhood as an effort...
Gosling, 26, has impressed Hollywood with his brooding performances as a crack-addicted middle-school teacher in last year's Half Nelson, which earned him an Oscar nomination, and a neo-Nazi Jew in The Believer, his breakout 2001 role. Wider audiences discovered him wooing Rachel McAdams in the 2004 romantic weepie The Notebook and pursuing a murderous Anthony Hopkins in this year's thriller Fracture. But it took Bianca's quiet charm to draw out Gosling's most appealing performance and the one closest, he says, to who he really is. Bianca, by the way, is a life-size...
...friend in kid shows and teen soaps--and a small part in his first film, Remember the Titans, in 2000. But it wasn't until later that year, on the set of The Believer, Gosling says, that "I realized I would act for free." Since then, by Hollywood standards, he virtually has, opting mostly for low-budget indies over the kind of effects spectaculars that buy a guy his first yacht. "Everyone's like 'Wow, you really slummed it on Half Nelson,'" he says. "For two months of work I made way more than my dad would make...