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Or at least, he doesn't in a series of cleverly edited movie clips titled Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal.

For many years Ryan Gosling was on the cusp of fame. He seemingly didn't want it.

Every once in a while a movie comes along whose plot line must be seen and not heard , and The Place Beyond the Pines is such a film.

''He came to live with us when I was six and he'd be in this jump suit, bedazzling it and putting a big eagle on the back and creating this character in the mirror,'' Gosling says.

Not since Steve McQueen has any man looked cooler on a motorbike. Place this same actor behind the wheel of a car and he purrs like Paul Newman.

At one point, I was crossing the street on my way to lunch and overheard a woman - clearly someone who hadn't been downtown in a very long time - remark, "No wonder people don't come down here.

If 2012 felt like a low point for the local film community, 2013 could mark a fresh chance to make the most of scaled-back Michigan film incentives -- with a little help from AMC's "Low Winter Sun" and two very different movies.

Ryan Gosling played a stunt driver who stared at crime/women until they simply dissolved in this breakthrough role for the Gos's eyeballs, a film which would have been better named Look.