Time Magazine named their person of the year yesterday – it’s The Protester. The pop culture person in me says zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Thankfully, Joel Stein from Time felt the same and decided to name The Coolest Person of the year. And **cue drumroll**…it’s Ryan Gosling! Are you surprised? No way. Did you see Crazy, Stupid, Love?
Stein says this is why he chose him…
So the 2011 Coolest Person of the Year is a man who is tough but emotional. A movie star who broke up a fight on the streets of Manhattan and was also caught walking down a Manhattan street playing a Strumstick, which is like a ukulele only ukulelier. An Oscar nominee who also smokes, tags graffiti and has a predilection for posing with a fist to the camera but makes dioramas and takes public ballet classes alongside little girls too. He’s the only actor since Andy Kaufman to work as a waiter after making it in show business. One who has a rock band that spent a month accompanying a children’s marionette show in Los Angeles. He is a man who caused a protest outside our very own Time & Life Building when People magazine chose Bradley Cooper instead of him as the Sexiest Man Alive. I doubt Cooper is cool enough that his fans would object to his loss of Coolest Person of the Year by protesting in front of our building and blocking foot traffic with an annoying publicity swarm (Sixth Avenue and 50th Street, northwest corner most visible).
HILARIOUS!!!! They also forgive him for speaking with a Brooklyn accent even though he’s Canadian.
Look – Ryan Gosling is cool, hot…and actually – let’s stop talking…watch this…freeze frame at the 19 second mark and get back to me later! (oh god love Youtube for making the ABS the freeze frame already!!!
Okay, watching this tonight! My fave line in the trailer? Julianne Moore saying, “when I told you I had to work late, I really went to the new Twilight movie by myself. And it was soooo baaad!” LOL.
And you’re right, Ryan Gosling is both hot and cool. Sweet.
haven’t seen the movie, but my girls showed me this scene in the summer and I have to say… I’m still not getting the Gosling. You ladies can have him, I’ll keep my movie-star-of-choice for the last dozen years or so, Matt Damon. I am, if nothing else, consistent and faithful with my love!
That movie was killer… LOVED it!!
So true Jen! I hadn’t thought of it like that – but you’re right….
yep…thank YOU Sara for my Friday morning perk up! *smirk*
This is so funny, Sara, because I was going to go back to Nancy’s Say Anything post and suggest she see “Crazy, Stupid, Love”. I kind of loved it the same way I loved “Say Anything” 20 years ago. There’s something about Steve Carrell’s character that’s a little middle-aged Lloyed Dobbler-ish. (but the Ryan Gosling eye candy in the film is absolutely not worth overlooking).