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Ryan Gosling just got a little bit hotter after breaking up a real fight in New York City

By Kevin Naulls

| August 22, 2011

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Canadian actor Ryan Gosling has played a goofball, an accomplice to murder, an addict and a sob-inducing lover. In real life, he breaks up fights that spawn from art thievery on the mean streets of New York City. Cue swooning.

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