revival of the kids show “The Mickey Mouse Club.” I don’t know who did the selection of the cast members, but among the then-unknown pre-teens they chose were Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Keri Russell and a gawky 13 year-old Canadian kid named Ryan Gosling. ...
Gosling is part of that very first vintage of kids who broke into the industry on the then nascent Disney Channel, on one of two shows. There was The All New Mickey Mouse Club (a.k.a. MMC), a reboot of a popular 1950s variety show created by Walt Disney and originally broadcast on...
Mickey Mouse was becoming the straight man in the Disney shorts, but was still popular, with a recurring newspaper comic strip andThe Mickey Mouse Club, the hit television show (not to be confused with the 1930s clubs) that launched the careers of stars likeAnnette FunicelloandRyan Gosling. ...
in 1991 Russell began performing on the TV showThe All New Mickey Mouse Club. Several of her fellow cast members—notably,Britney Spears,Justin Timberlake,Ryan Gosling, andChristina Aguilera—went on to have major careers in show business. In 1993 Russell left the series, and by then she had...