Jake Ryan.
Sigh.
In your tapered ankle jeans, shiny red car, and intense gaze.
After watching 16 Candles on the fourth week of Insomnia-palooza ’11, I’ve decided I need to see Jake Ryan. The real one. Michael Schoeffling.
Ok, that is admittedly not as hot of a name as Jake Ryan.
Regardless. I need to know how he held up. You know, after Samantha blew out the candles and took off the flower wreath and weird hairbraid currently rocked by my almost two year old, NOT by a 16 year old girl looking to get her boobies touched by a senior.
CHRIST, SAMANTHA.
Turns out? Michael Schoeffling is straight off the grid. No current pictures. No current interviews. The only thing I can find is that he owns a woodworking shop in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.
Which, hello, Jake Ryan all rustic looking playing with tools and wood all day? Yes please.
So, I need someone to find him for me, just so I can see if he still makes me swoon and doesn’t look like my dad at all, because HE IS 50 YEARS OLD.
I don’t have a current picture, but I’d imagine he looks similar to this.
Unless he got super fat and bald, in which case, nobody tell me and let’s just pretend he died while rescuing animals from a burning pet store…naked.
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thank you thank you thank you!
i went on an internet search for him a few months ago & also came up empty
i NEED to know if he is still as sexy as he was.
EXACTLY. I can’t move on until I know, ya know?
My bestie and I tried to find out more info on him in high school (approximately 10 years ago). We found nothing! I hope you have more luck.
A blog, completely dedicated to finding him!
http://thejakeryanproject.blogspot.com/
OMG OMG OMG! Ok, I need to follow this. I mean, other people have had to try and find him before, right?
Why is it a big secret? Was he in an accident and he looks like Mel Gibson in that one movie where his face is all jacked up?
SOMEONE HAS TO KNOW SOMETHING.
it’s like every0ne in that town has been sworn to secrecy or something. why hasn’t anyone spoken out!?! if i lived in JAKE RYAN’s town i would tell anyone who would listen. i’m sure i would end up with a restraining order.
Love it! I had the biggest crush on him, especially after Vision Quest, too.
Oh and in Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. I remember swooning over him in that movie one late insomnia filled night while on bedrest with my first. Thanks for bringing him up. Now I must know.
I loved him in that movie. All hands on and rough with the horses. Sighhhhhhh.
No, No, No! Jake Ryan, is thirty, looks EXACTLY the same, lives in my state, is driving around in his sporty red car, and looking for the PERFECT chance to tell me he’s been waiting to talk to me……RIGHT ????(Why else would I wear the off the shoulder T-shirts, with the flowy skirt everyday!)????? No way is that dude 50!!!
Now, if there WAS some kind alternate universe/time warp thing going on, and he is indeed 50 (sacrilege!) and living in Pennsylvania, I think one of your readers residing there, should accept the challenge!! Go stealth mode, bite the bullet and get some cabinets made…..at his wood shop……with a discreetly placed phone camera!
No internet stalkies?
*Sad face*
He is on Facebook… try a friend request?
I’m gonna do it!
Sixteen candles was just on the other day on one of those obscure channels like 37 or 38 that don’t really mean anything to my TV. And I wondered, what happened to Jake Ryan? Or Lori Singer from Footloose? Happy to hear he’s woodworking, I guess? Love the additions to the pic.
Ok I googled Lori Singer….she doesn’t look so hot.
We were watching Can’t Buy Me Love this past weekend and decided to Google Cindy Mancini. Talk about dissapointment. She looks like a meth addict.
McDreamy on the other hand…SO DREAMY!
Ok great now I need to look at her.
Maybe you can just watch “Mermaids” instead? He was smokin’ in that movie.
Smokin’.
Did you somehow cosmically hear me have this conversation with my Mom the other day? Freaky!
They did a short story on him on the show Where Are They Now and even they didn’t have any up to date photos of him, same info, makes and sells hand crafted furniture in Penn.
Ok why is he so mysterious!? Now I have to get to the bottom of this.
I went to high school with a girl who was his COUSIN! I wonder if I can get a hold of a picture of him for you…
NOW…I live in PA…think if we can find the shop, and I just drive up and take some pictures, he’d be freaked out??
And since I know you Molly, I will go with you! All we need is some Starbucks and my GPS.
He is the enigma we’d all like to solve. 50 yrs old or not.
If I was gonna stalk him (and I’m not – lol), I’d start with his wife. She was a model, so she’s probably got some info out there. (I wikipedia’d him!) Wife’s name is Valerie L. Robinson.
Brittany Gibbons = master of photoshop
To me, Jake Ryan (Michael who?) looked like a young Richard Gere when he was in An Officer and a Gentleman. Fast forward… to 1999 when Richard Gere was 50, he was named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine. I’m pretty sure Jake Ryan would be in that sexy category. And if you find a picture of him and he’s not in that sexy category, shhhhhh. Ignorance is bliss.
i totally can’t deal with the fact that he’s 50. and admittedly i Googled him as well not that long ago, also to find that he owns his own furniture store in PA. really? that’s all? all that smokin’ hotness and he’s owns a furniture store?! and just think, he could be like a grandpa by now. sheesh.
SWOON!!! I love him. I am almost sure that I saw him on a VH1 special or something a few years ago. He talked about stepping out of Hollywood and doing the woodworking thing. Maybe I’m imagining it. Well, in my head he’s completely hot, even though he’s much older than I am! He was also in one of my favorite movies ever – Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. I loved him in that…
Holy crap I wonder what happened to him every time I see that movie! In case he does turn out fat and balding and bloated like a swollen carp, I’ll just happily assume he looks like the picture above. Glad I’m not the only curious one!
Gah – you mean he looks like Matt Dillon in Something About Mary now?? Maybe I’d rather remain in the dark…
I think he designs and builds handcrafted furniture in Pennsylvania.
50!?! That’s crazy!
Errr, he apparently lives near my parents, so …
(And the locals do swear he’s there, but I just haven’t had the time to go searching when I go home.)
I think I might like him more with your improvements. I don’t know if I want to know what he really looks like now because you’ve ruined him with the sexy Tom Selleck ‘stache.
Young Tom Selleck. Not now Tom Selleck. Case in point of why Jake Ryan is better left silently woodworking.
Im in PA, so Im all for renting a bus and doing a trip…
Also where is Ultimate Warrior (yes WWE) (Yes Im 38, 39 in June) And just yes. Cheesy fake wrestling? Hot man ass? um yes.
How about Ilan Mitchel Smith from Weird science? I think he is a professor in AZ. Havent checked in yrs. OMG I loved him. And MJ Fox. Yeah Alex P Keaton.. Now Im gonna be thinking who else was a hotty? HHmm? Lets make a list.
Where are they now, 70′s & 80′s edition…
BJ and the Bear anyone?
Google Image Search–second page–next to Molly Ringwald
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2201903262_3d173e0042_o.jpg&imgrefurl=http://seriouslyomg.com/%3Fp%3D7146&usg=__AGT5WyT3kDxjzn8xGhFDXy3aelk=&h=600&w=449&sz=97&hl=en&start=42&sig2=c05tmK60ow7aIOdHRo4uTw&zoom=1&tbnid=-eu0FQIH0cyfNM:&tbnh=138&tbnw=103&ei=Y2NlTdy1DYSKlwferIDSBg&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMichael%2BSchoeffling%2Bpictures%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1069%26bih%3D774%26tbs%3Disch:10,1095&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=340&vpy=286&dur=40&hovh=260&hovw=194&tx=105&ty=142&oei=WWNlTfyrGoOBlAf5rJGpBg&page=3&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:42&biw=1069&bih=774
http://seriouslyomg.com/?p=7146
I don’t think that is him…unless he had some surgery
This is from Gawker.com:
“So, last night I was walking through the playground in my Long Island City neighborhood and noticed a guy sitting on a bench with really long hair in a braid. After some major stalking, I confirmed that he was Michael Schoeffling aka Jake Ryan from Sixteen Candles. He was just sitting there eating a sandwich. I know that 20 years have passed since that movie and it was dark, but he is still looking fine. He can even pull off the long braid. Anyway, I’m positive it was him because I also saw him six years ago when he came to fix a window at this Upper East Side bookstore where I used to work. I guess that he is some sort of woodworker. The weird thing was that the same day he fixed this window, I also saw him that night driving a red pickup truck in Greenpoint.”
Long hair??
Jake?
Jake RYAN???
No. Just no. Newfoundland, PA is only a few hours away. I believe I need to make a pilgrimage.
dude, i always thought that was matt dillon.
Not to be a buzz kill but I think he’s in jail. I mean he did say something along the lines of “She is so drunk I could violate her 10 different ways, but I’m just not interested.” so instead he gave her and his Dad’s car car to a drunk underage kid and told him to go ahead and have sex with her since “she’s so drunk she’ll never know.” Or he might be hanging out with Goran Van Der Sloot or something at this point. So sad… Being a parent has ruined 16 candles for me… And my love for Jake Ryan….
LISTEN. I need to see him. It’s become my 30th birthday wish.
You know what? I kinda like remembering Jake Ryan the way he was in the movie…young, hot and dreamy. I dont’ know if I’d wanna know what he’s like now…might ruin the dream.
Okay, I’m not saying he looks like this anymore, but did you see him in Vision Quest? All my teen angsty girl dreams of becoming real-life Samantha and getting him to notice me, died with that movie.
Unless, of course, you’re into the bald-except-for-a-mohawk, biker, greasy type. So, ya know, basically anti-Jake-Ryan. Which I’m not. Not that there’s anything WRONG with that, but I don’t think mohawked bikers are what teen girl angsty love fantasies are made of.
I just have to say thank you for this post. I legitimately thought I was the only person in the world secretly obsessed with Jake Ryan
Also I live in Pennsylvania and have tried to persuade my friends to roadtrip to find him like 50 times. I may have not been in any position to actually drive at those times, but you get it.
I’m scared to see the pictures of him now. I know I looked better in the 80′s.
If you happen to see him, be a peach and give him this message for me: http://the21stcenturymrs.com/2011/02/16/a-conversation-ive-been-meaning-to-have-with-jake-ryan/
I have no words.
Ok one- AMAZING.
Haha…my mom went to high school with him and brings it up all. the. time. thinking that she has never told me before.
OK…Its all lies guys ….Michael schoeffling, aka jake ryan is gay and is my partner, not that its anyones buisness but he left his public life because he didnt want to be judged for his gay life style…and wee have hot amazing sex every nite….LOL yeah right !!! I wish lol yes im a gay guy with a cruch on jake ryan at 30 lol i told my boyfriend he is the only peerson i would ever leave him for my guy said hes prob fat and bald so now im on a mission…to find this furniture store …i need to go with you girls! it would be more belivable if you had a gay guy helping you shop for furniture…i hope he makes beds puuur lol
How is that the only movie he ever did. He made us swoon!!! I really am curious as to what happened to him.
He dissapered from the face of the earth as of 1991. I sooo want to find a recent pic!
Pretty sure I’ve started and ended the same search many times. Hopefully someone in your readership KNOWS the dude. Eep!
I found his daughter but finding him is proving to be much harder.
lets just road trip to this woodworking shop.
Here’s the thing. I did this research a couple of years ago, and came up with nothing. But, I’m kind of feeling like that’s okay, kwim? Because if he is fat and bald, then…well…I can’t deal.
Instead I wear this shirt around the house once a week (or more if I don’t have time to shower – which is often).
http://www.80stees.com/products/Jr-Jake-Ryan-Sixteen-Candles-T-shirt.asp
And so it’s like Jake Ryan never left. And he’s nestled right between my boobles.
I had to do my own search-no luck on current pics for Michael but it appears his son’s in a band. I think you should invite them to play the Zombie Pond! http://m.myspace.com/home.wap?bfd=webnext&isredirected=true#friends.list/profile/61277511