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All kinds of opportunities come with an Oscar win and Ryan Bingham has been pitched a lot of them — and turned most down.

He passed on the chance to play a singing cowboy in a movie and resisted the urge to cash in on the notoriety he earned from his Academy Award-winning song "The Weary Kind," the theme to the film "Crazy Heart." Instead, he has decided to use the fame to help homeless kids in the Los Angeles area.

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