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A Real Human Being and a Real Hero: Ryan Gosling Apparently Stops New York Street Fight

Movie stars: they really are just like us! They didn’t like Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life , they have trouble containing their bladders on international flights , and they break up gritty street fights? Perhaps! At least if they’re Ryan Gosling, who performed the latter chivalrous act recently in New York. Now, thanks to a passerby who couldn’t ignore the opportunity to capture the escalating urban violence on her cell phone, there is footage online. Ahead!

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A Real Human Being and a Real Hero: Ryan Gosling Apparently Stops New York Street Fight

Moment of Truth: Marshall Curry on Bringing Racing Dreams — and NASCAR’s Next Wave — to Life

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from Marshall Curry, whose Racing Dreams opens Friday in New York and July 23 in Los Angeles. After earning an Oscar nomination for his gripping 2005 political documentary Street Fight , filmmaker Marshall Curry turned to perhaps the last subject anyone would have seen coming: NASCAR. More specifically, the “Little League of NASCAR, ” where the adolescent subjects of Curry’s fine new film Racing Dreams have a lot more at stake than just a trophy at the end of their 20th lap.

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Moment of Truth: Marshall Curry on Bringing Racing Dreams — and NASCAR’s Next Wave — to Life