Early on in George Clooney’s super-cool, super-dark spin on American politics The Ides Of March, Ryan Gosling’s wunderkind campaign manager, Stephen Meyers is playfully called “the big man on campus.” Is it life imitating art or art imitating life, as Gosling is certainly scaling the heights of mount Hollywood quicker and smarter than any other actor in recent memory? A trio of hits in as many months, with Drive, Crazy, Stupid, Love and now Ides anointing him into Clooney’s inner circle, it’s as if Gosling hired his screen-self from Ides to mastermind his campaign of cinematic dominance.

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