Jake Ryan
So the other day we're having dinner with Rich and Cherry Rosenthal and Rich asks who's the actor who played Jake Ryan in the movie Sixteen Candles? I immediately say "Judd Nelson" it has to be Judd Nelson, all cleaned up before his famous work in Breakfast Club. I even went so far as to stupidly bet $10 on it.
I say stupidly because just last year I lost $20 to my boss in a Gloria Estafan/DeBarge kerfuffle but that's a story for another day.
This past weekend Sixteen Candles comes on one of the random cable channels and low and behold - clearly NOT Judd Nelson. What was I thinking?
If it wasn't Judd Nelson, then who the hell was it? Turns out it was some guy named Michael Schoeffling. Apparently this was his big moment. He went on to do some other clunker movies but was never cast again. So he moved to Northern Pennsylvania where he had two kids and now makes hand crafted furniture. Just in case you ever wanted to know that.
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