I feel like we haven’t had a good Ryan Gosling-Eva Mendes story in a while. I guess they’ve managed to quietly wait out their haters, the people who thought they’d break up as soon as they promoted their film together. Well, no. They are still together. Ryan is in Detroit, working on his directorial debut (How To Catch A Monster) and he wrote a part for Eva, so she’s been in Detroit too I guess. According to Star, she’s been hanging out with Ryan for moral support. And to distract him by jumping on the Gosdong whenever possible.

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes just upped their game when it comes to being the sexiest couple in Hollywood – because the two can’t keep their hands off each other, even while on the job!

While Ryan is busy working on his new movies How To Catch a Monster, the two have been using the editing suite to steam things up.

“They aren’t exactly discreet,” spills the source. “Ryan will be totally focused, then she’ll throw him off by giving him a saucy look. The next thing you know, they’ve kicked everyone out of the room so they can ‘talk’.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Ew. I mean, I can picture Eva and Ryan having sex and it’s hot and everything, but the idea that Ryan – with his directorial debut! – is telling professional people to leave the room so he can bang his girlfriend in the editing suite? NO. That’s gross. And it’s probably not true, so who knows. Maybe Eva is the way Ryan “de-stresses” after a hard day.

Additionally, The Enquirer has a completely bizarre story about how Eva Mendes developed a bit of a crush on Larry David after working with him in Clear History and now Ryan Gosling is super-jealous. A source told The Enquirer, “Ryan figured that after a few months, Eva’s fascination with Larry would fade and he’d never hear the guy’s name again.” But Eva and Larry have remained close and Ryan is jelly because Larry is “rich” and “women are constantly falling at his feet”. It’s kind of amazing to think that Gosling could be jealous of Larry David.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Eva Mendes naked before. Doesn’t she drop trou in lots of her movies? Doesn’t she do lots of photo shoots and ad campaigns that are very close to being p0rn? I was just trying to conjure up the image of Eva naked, and I could easily remember/imagine it. So, what is my point? Eva doesn’t care. She’s not one of those “You have to pay extra to see my boobs” kind of women. She’ll show everything. And apparently that’s how she is in real life too, at least according to Star. Eva wanders around in the buff all the time when she’s at home, and it’s starting to irritate Ryan Gosling, who apparently wants to eat his corn flakes without having to look at his girlfriend’s vadge.

Ryan Gosling doesn’t want anyone else to see Eva Mendes’ Place Beyond the Pines! After admitted that she prefers being totally naked while at home, Eva’s liberal nudity is starting to wear thin on boyfriend Ryan, 32.

“At first he thought all his Christmases had come at once,” dishes an insider. “But after a few embarrassing moments when he’s brought a colleague or pal home and they catch a glimpse of a stark-naked Eva, he’s told her to wear more clothes around the house.”

Eva didn’t take too kindly to her man’s requests to cover up.

“It was a huge insult to her… she couldn’t believe he wouldn’t want to look at her body any chance he gets, especially because most guys would kill for it.”

The couple talked things out and Eva agreed to wear a robe when Ryan is around but “basically lives in the buff” when he’s not there.

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

“She couldn’t believe he wouldn’t want to look at her body any chance he gets, especially because most guys would kill for it” – yes, but there is something called “too much of a good thing.” If he sees you naked all the time, while you’re cooking and doing laundry and watching TV, it gets boring, right? Like, I would love it if Michael Fassbender lived with me (seriously, come live with me!) and he walked around naked all the time. I would love that for about a week. But then I would be like, “Dude, seriously. Put on some pants. I don’t want to see the Fassdong while I’m trying to watch Rachel Maddow. Enough.” Such a fickle thing, love.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

A week ago, Page Six had an interesting story about Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes’ relationship and their behavior towards each other at the post-premiere party for The Place Beyond the Pines. Apparently, an acquaintance of Eva’s yelled out “hey baby!” and Ryan proceeded to freak out and get in the guy’s face. Page Six also claimed that Eva and Ryan barely spoke to each other at the party. At this point, now that they’ve been together for more than a year and a half, I’m just not sure if they’re bringing out the best in each other. I feel like Eva is the one pushing this thing to work and Ryan is probably a moody bastard. I don’t know, it’s just a general sense I get and I could totally be wrong. In last week’s Us Weekly (print edition), there was this bizarre story about Ryan and Eva too:

Eva Mendes recently said Ryan Gosling is “your dream costar… he’s amazing.”

The longtime friends have now been dating for more than a year and are “very much in love,” says an insider.

“They don’t shout from the rooftops, but they cherish what they have.”

The duo also don’t see the need to move in together, adds the insider. “There’s no rush. What’s his is hers already, and likewise.”

Mendes has confided to a friend that her special relationship with Gosling’s mom, Donna, is her secret weapon. “Eva says that’s what sealed the deal with Ryan… they’re going to make it.”

[From Us Weekly, print edition]

Sketchy? Or just typical tabloid nonsense? Eh. I’ve always thought Eva is leaking information to the tabloids, especially when it’s Us Weekly. And I have no doubt that Eva is in good with Ryan’s mother – I think Ryan’s mom adores Eva. I think Eva played that part beautifully, especially for a mama’s boy like Ryan. But the stuff about how they don’t really live together? You know what that reminded me of? Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel! Justin kept his LA “bachelor pad” until they were married (and he still might have it, come to think about it) and yes, he stayed at Jessica Biel’s place a lot, but he still got to do his dude things (like screw around) in his own space. Some guys are like that – they need/want their own cave. And it seems like Eva is making excuses for it.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Do you get offended when somebody calls you “baby”? What if it’s someone you sort of know, like someone you’ve worked with, and they’re greeting you at a party? I do think it’s the context. Like, if someone called me “baby” in a professional setting, I’d be like “Pig. Douche.” But at a party? I’d probably respond, “Hey, dude.” Well, this is the situation for Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes, at least according to Page Six. According to their sources, at last week’s premiere party for The Place Beyond the Pines, some dude was like “hey baby” to Eva and Ryan freaked out. How much would you love it if Ryan turned to the guy and was all, “Her first name ain’t Baby. It’s Eva. Ms. Mendes is you’re NASTY.” Ah, I love that song.

Don’t mess with Ryan Gosling’s girlfriend, Eva Mendes. We’re told the pair, in town for the premiere of their new movie, “The Place Beyond the Pines,” were at the Bowery Hotel Friday when a fashion photographer who had recently shot Mendes saw her and shouted, “Hey, baby!”

“Ryan completely flipped out, and it got heated,” says an eyewitness. “Ryan got in the guy’s face and said, ‘Who are you calling baby?’ Eva had to jump in and calm everyone down before it came to fisticuffs. Ryan then made nice and shook the guy’s hand.”

The couple, who quietly have been dating since September, worked to keep their privacy intact the night before during a Svedka-sponsored party for the flick, also at the hotel. Gosling brought his mother as his date and arrived and left separately from Mendes, says a source, with the actress turning up at the bash 45 minutes later than the rest of the cast.

“I didn’t see Eva and Ryan interact once,” says the spy. “They stayed at opposite ends of the room from one another.” Gosling’s rep didn’t get back to us.

[From Page Six]

Huh. How should we interpret this? I get a little bit gleeful at the idea that Ryan and Eva might be over, but the fact that Ryan’s short fuse (?) was activated when some dude called Eva “baby” doesn’t bode well for the idea that he’s over it. It also doesn’t bode well in general. He’s starting to seem… tightly wound. Which is gross. Another interpretation: it sounds like they’re both sort of over it? And maybe Ryan is possessive in all contexts? But God knows, really. The fact that they barely talked to each other through the night doesn’t mean much. They’re so weird.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

These are photos of the NYC premiere of The Place Beyond the Pines, and Eva Mendes could have made an impressive turn (this is her “big star” moment, right?) in some serious fashion. Instead, she chose this long-sleeved, orange Prada dress that follows the recent orange trend, but the look as a whole is kind of awful. It doesn’t make much sense as a red-carpet ensemble for a leading lady — there’s soo much fussiness with the sheer fabric, frou-frou bodice, and holy crap, the encrusted butterfuly nonsense going on at the waist. Those shoes are really ugly too.

Overall, this is an underwhelming dress although her hair and makeup look fine. There’s no real drama here, and Eva is fully capable of bringing the drama in more ways than one. I’m not anti-Eva like many of you. She seems pretty harmless as a Hollywood player even if I can’t stomach the fact that she uses a shock collar on her dog, and she has no fashion sense of which to speak.

Ryan Gosling wore a black velvet suit that gives me the heebie jeebies. I would never be able to date a dude who wore this suit and was serious about it, but I’m not a Gosling die hard devotee. He seems so overrated and kind of full of himself, and I don’t find him physically appealing either. Maybe that’s why Eva doesn’t bother me that much.

I’m including photos of Bradley Cooper (looking like a Muppet serial killer and trying to rock the Brad Pitt World War Z hairdo) as well as Ray Liotta’s amazing Botox forehead and the revolting Terry Richardson … being revolting as usual.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Here are some photos of Eva Mendes out and about in New York this week. Eva isn’t important enough to do, like, breaking-news coverage of her street style, but I still enjoy looking through the photos. I really don’t think Eva’s street style is as great as she seems to think – the ankle booties are unfortunate, her prints are too busy and that white dress makes her look like she’s the bride at a shotgun Texas wedding.

Eva’s been everywhere this week because she’s promoting The Place Beyond The Pines, which… I’ve seen some reviews, and they make it sound like the film is completely boring, overwrought and Lifetime-esque. So, chalk up another bad movie for Eva! This shall be one of many bad Eva Mendes films. I know it’s mean to say, but she’s really not anything special as an actress. She’s pretty, she has great hair and she’s sexy and she’s a complete dud as an actress. But in Eva’s mind, she could be just as good as Jessica Chastain, if only someone would hire her!

Eva Mendes is so jealous of Jessica Chastain’s success, she’s ordered her high-powered agent to go after the same roles, according to a Hollywood insider.

“Eva’s been almost obsessed with Jessica since she played the part of Maya in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a role Eva wanted for herself,” a close friend told The Enquirer. Jessica won an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for the role, and now sources say Eva wants to pursue more serious parts instead of just banking on her sex appeal.

Eva, 39, is taking advice from boyfriend Ryan Gosling, who’s convinced her to chase prestigious parts that can bring her an Oscar. Since Ryan and Eva began dating in September 2011, friends say Ryan has given her a “complex” over her career.

“I think he is very controlling and tells her he thinks she can do better,” said the friend. “It is as if Eva lives to please Ryan and is desperate to impress him.”

To further boost her career, Eva listened to Ryan and signed on with super-agent Hylda Queally – who also represents her rival Jessica.

“It’s no coincidence that she’s now with Hylda… aside from Jessica, Hylda looks after Cate Blanchett and Marion Cotillard, so she knows her stuff. Eva told Hylda to send her to whatever auditions Jessica attends. She’s tired of being typecast as the love interest and wants to be a leading lady. But Eva’s problem is she’s just too sexy. She’s got a real mountain to climb to really get away from bombshell roles.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

This is the same problem that I had with Jessica Alba too, remember? The “I’m too pretty to be taken seriously as an actress” problem. There are plenty of beautiful women who manage to “make it” as serious actresses. Many serious actresses are sexy, attractive, accessible, and enchanting. The problem isn’t that Eva Mendes (or Alba, for that matter) is “too pretty” or “too sexy” to be taken seriously, it’s that when they’re given the opportunity to develop their questionable talents outside of the standard, one-dimensional “pretty girl” roles, they fail miserably. Besides that, no one forced Eva to take those “bombshell” roles or to take modeling contracts or to play up her sex-bomb image for years and years.

As for the idea that Ryan is pushing Eva to become more of a “serious actress”… I believe that too. Ryan seems like that kind of guy. He can’t just date a hot girl and own his superficiality (“I’m dating her because she’s beautiful and amazing in bed”), he wants to think that his girlfriend is super-talented too, and that he’s genuinely disappointed in her because she doesn’t have a career like Jessica Chastain.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

This story is from The Sun, which pretty much means that it’s 95% crap. So why am I discussing it? Because I think The Sun has tapped into the completely dumbass way many producers go about casting their films. Let’s take the Oscar Pistorius situation – we have a heroic athlete with a physical disability. The man had a beautiful girlfriend who he may or may not have murdered in cold blood, and the entire situation is receiving tons of media. Therefore, I believe that there are probably several studios looking to turn this situation into a film. So how would Hollywood go about casting the roles of Oscar and Reeva Steenkamp? Eh. Wouldn’t they just pick the lowest hanging fruit out there? Like, “Go get the hottest actor out there and isn’t Charlize Theron blonde and South African? Yeah, get her.”

HOLLYWOOD heartthrob Ryan Gosling and South African beauty Charlize Theron are being lined up to star as murder-charge athelete Oscar Pistorius and his late model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a forthcoming biopic, reports claim.

The Drive star recently announced he was taking a break from acting but it’s thought he could be tempted to play such a high-profile role.

The Daily Mail claim that a number of scripts are being developed in Hollywood which tell the tragic story of South Africa’s one-time Paralympian hero and the fateful Valentine’s Day morning in which his model girlfriend was shot and killed.

Oscar, who is currently on bail, denies murder and claims he mistook Reeva for an intruder.

Sources say two scripts are being currently being developed in Hollywood with an announcement expected soon from one of the major film studios.

A source said: “You’ve got one of the world’s most famous sportsmen under arrest and a beautiful young woman who meets a violent death. Scripts began doing the rounds within days of the scandal breaking. Ryan has the kind of quiet magnetism that would make this project work – plus there’s some mystery about him. Although Ryan has been saying publicly that he wants to take a break from acting to relax, executives will be falling over themselves to woo him once the scripts are finalised.”

Ryan said he wanted to quit acting because he didn’t want people to get fed up with him.

He said: “I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing. I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.”

[From The Sun]

If they are really going to do a film about this… ugh, first I would hope that they would wait a few years, at least until Oscar goes on trial (or perhaps takes a plea deal, although who knows). Then, if they still want to make the movie, fine… Ryan is an okay choice. It will come down to A) whether he can do the accent (doubtful) and B) whether they can CGI his legs to make him look like Oscar, which I’m pretty sure they CAN do. As for Charlize… no. Think again. Reeva was 29 years old when she was murdered. Oscar is currently 26 years old. Charlize is 37 years old and Ryan Gosling is a boyish 32. I’m not saying Charlize is “old” – I’m just saying she’s too old to play this particular part.

Photos of Charlize in Boston this week, photos of Gosling last week in LA, all courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Eva Mendes seems like the kind of woman who publicly stakes claim to what she feels belongs to her. She seems like an alpha-female, especially about men. I’m not saying she’s a maneater or anything, just that she’s… protective. Territorial. Hardcore. There was a story last year about Eva stone-cold icing of one of Ryan’s overzealous Hey Girls – the girl was stroking Ryan and flirting with him and Eva was all “Keep your hands to yourself, little girl, lest I reveal my Slut Shank of Doom.” Well keep that in mind with this story from Star which probably isn’t true at all but I want it to be true because YES, it would so much fun. You know how Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen just broke up? And you know how most of Ryan’s fan-girls would be really happy if he dumped Eva and went running back to Rachel? Well, Eva decided to go on offense and good God, don’t let me ever get on Eva’s bad side.

While fans of The Notebook still hope that former couple Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams will reunite in real life, Ryan’s current girlfriend, Eva Mendes, is definitely not on the Noah and Allie bandwagon.

Eva, 39, who met Ryan, 32, on the set of their new movie The Place Beyond the Pines, can’t shake the fear that her boyfriend might still have feelings for his former flame – especially now that Rachel is newly single following her split from Michael Sheen.

“Eva sent a polite word to Rachel’s team that she’s glad Ryan is of some comfort to her, but the message was loud and clear: ‘Back Off’,” says an insider. “She’s extremely nervous.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Ha, we don’t even know if Rachel and Ryan have even spoken in months or even years. But Eva heard about Rachel’s breakup and she was all “I’m going to shut this down before it even BEGINS.” So while Rachel is probably still dealing with residual Michael Sheen emotions, she gets “word” that Ryan’s girlfriend is on the g—damn warpath. Yeah. That was sort of a brilliant play by Eva. That would scare me off. But maybe that move will spur Rachel on… maybe she’ll be like, “Huh, that’s the way you want to play it? We’ll see, bitch. We’ll see.” Eva is like a Disney villainess these days. Eva Mendes: Shutting Bitches Down Since 2002.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ryan Gosling just started promoting A Place Beyond the Pines, and I just wanted to discuss this HuffPo interview which I found very interesting. I go back and forth on Gosling – sometimes I find him too cute by half, and I don’t really get hot for “cute”. I get hot for dirty MEN. But Gosling is pretty, and he’s very talented (if he’s given the right material) and I can overlook the Disneyland thing sometimes. Basically, I’m giving him a break… today. Tomorrow, he might be on My List. I actually learned several pieces of new information (new for me) from this HuffPo piece. I heard the rumors that he grew up Mormon, but I didn’t know his divorced parents were “working class Mormons” and that he grew up entirely in Ontario. I also didn’t know his mother homeschooled him! And he calls himself a “mama’s boy” which I already knew without him having to tell me. Here’s more:

He’s taking a break from acting: “I’ve been doing it too much,” he says of acting. “I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing. I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.”

His character in A Place Beyond the Pines: “One thing that kind of handed me the key to the character was that I totally overdid it with the tattoos,” says Gosling, who has a teardrop inked beneath his left eye in the film. “I said to Derek, `I got to lose this face tattoo. It’s the worst. It’s so distracting and it’s going to ruin everything.’ And he said, `Well, I’m sure that’s how people with face tattoos feel. So now you have to pay the consequences of your actions.’ So I had to do the whole film with it and now see it on posters. It gave me a sense of shame that I feel was inherent to the character.”

Character acting versus lead acting: “There’s a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film,” he says. “I have done it. It’s not my favorite way to work.”

On The Notebook: “By virtue of being in a movie like that, it just changes people’s perception of you,” he says. “But it doesn’t make it true.”

His acting method: “I don’t know what I’m doing,” he says. “I haven’t quite figured out what the balance is between being able to be lost in it – or try to, anyway – and then step outside of it.”

Dating costars: “Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it’s a creative endeavor,” says Gosling. “When you work creatively with somebody, it’s very telling and you sort of fast-track with everyone.”

He doesn’t want to be a lead actor: “The more opportunities I’m given, the more I learn about how easy it is to (expletive) it up,” he says. “You fight for freedom and then you get it, and then you have enough rope to hang yourself. It’s like trying to exercise some restraint because I do have so much freedom.”

[From HuffPo]

I agree with him that audiences need a break from him, and it makes me think more of him that he’s self-aware (or audience-aware) enough to acknowledge it. I imagine there are a lot of fancy Hollywood types on his payroll trying to convince him to strike while the iron is hot and that he should be working back-to-back. I like an actor who goes away for a year or two and then comes back for some kind of amazing passion project. I’m also surprised that Ryan is talking so openly about how he doesn’t like lead-actor work. Considering he’s one of the few young actors (young = under 40, for dudes) who is consistently offered lead roles, he must really have to LOOK for character work at this point. He must drive his management team crazy.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

I don’t really have much to say about Ryan Gosling at this point, but I just liked these photos and I thought you might like them too. These are my Valentine’s Day present to all of you! Although hopefully I’ll find some excuse to write about Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba or Tom Hardy too, right? *biscuits crossed*

Surprisingly enough, these photos are not outtakes from a GQ photoshoot in which Ryan is posing in this year’s “must have” windbreaker and henley. This is just how he looks in real life – Fame/Flynet says Ryan was “grabbing lunch with a friend”. And he just happened to bring his own perfect ray of sunlight which makes him look the second coming of James Dean. Speaking of GQ, they have a nice piece called “10 Steps to a Very Ryan Gosling Valentine’s Day: With this handy guide, even you (yes, you) can execute the perfect twee romance, just like Baby Goose himself.” Ouch!! Men’s magazines are now referring to Gosling’s shtick as “twee”!! You know why? Because for two years straight, he took all of his girlfriends to Disneyland. That’s it in a nutshell.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.