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At one hospital, the trio met a 3-year-old girl whose village had been attacked and destroyed by the child soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army. “She had been thrown into a fire to burn to death. But she managed to wriggle out. The child soldiers grabbed her, wrapped her in a rug and threw her back in. But she managed to crawl out again, stay hidden in the brush and survive. She was just 18 months old. She’s still alive but is horribly burned. The carpet is embedded in her head. "She has a cerebral infection and is in terrible pain with every movement and every breath,” says Abaunza. She cannot grow because her skin is so scarred. The brave little girl needs more help than the Doctors Without Borders can provide and her only hope now is to get to the US and be given long-term treatment at a Burn Center." Ryan, Jimmie and John are determined to get her out of Uganda and flown to the US for specialized care and Bonnie is trying to arrange airfare and medical care as fast as she can. So if you wonder where the Oscar-nommed actor has been during the fabulous frenzied awards season, that’s what he's been up to. Freaking inspiring, isn't it?
Source: The Envelope.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
At 26, the scruffy, Ontario-born Gosling is a standout in nearly everything he appears in, be it The Notebook (opposite his girlfriend, Rachel McAdams), Murder by Numbers (opposite Sandra Bullock), or 2001’s The Believer, in which he is extraordinary. In Half Nelson, Gosling delivers one of the most heartbreaking performances of 2006 as Dan Dunne, a twentysomething middle school teacher in inner-city Brooklyn struggling with a wicked drug problem that almost goes unnoticed. Supported by talented costars Anthony Mackie and Shareeka Epps, Gosling’s acting is subtle, complex, filled with humanity, and yes, worthy of an Oscar nod.
Source: LA Confidential Magazine.
Make Way for Gosling: Half Nelson made Ryan 2006's official 'it' indie kid.
Source: The New York Observer.Friday, February 02, 2007
Q: You said, when picking up your breakthrough award at the National Board of Review gala, that the award finally stopped your mom from worrying about your career choice. How’s she handling the fact that you're an Oscar contender?
Source:USATODAY BLOG
Monday, January 29, 2007
That Canada's Ryan Gosling, the Mousketeer-turned-best-actor candidate, has been sweating the small stuff. After playing crack addict Dan Dunne in his now Oscar-nominated turn in the movie Half Nelson, he had to seek medical attention.
"I got sick," Gosling starts to say in this week's special Oscar issue of Entertainment Weekly. "I went to the doctor, and after talking me he said I wasn't sick. He pulled out his prescription pad and wrote down: "Try a light comedy."
Sunday, January 28, 2007
The Academy has a soft spot for people portraying addicts, but Ryan Gosling's work in Half Nelson — in which he plays Dan Dunne, a high school teacher and barely functioning crack addict — carries none of the grandstanding that plagues the form. Instead, he turns Dunne into an exhausted shell, hollowed out by hangovers and barely able to muster a facial expression. The actor's greatest success comes in finding the balance between competence and collapse: The character still has to go to work, coach girls' basketball, function around his family. Wiping his nose on his collar, clapping his hands constantly in an effort to stay awake, Gosling adopts a dry, recalcitrant demeanor that's both seductive and heartbreaking — Dunne may be disappearing, but it's impossible to let him go. —Whitney Pastorek.
Source:Entertainment Weekly