Actor Michael Schoeffling (born 1960 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey) began his career in the mid-1980s as a GQ fashion model, photographed by the likes of Bruce Weber. He went on to star in movies such as Sixteen Candles and Vision Quest. Michael studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Temple University. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wilkes-Barre (IPA: , , or ) is the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. ... Official language(s) None defined, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 47th 22,608 km² 110 km 240 km 14. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A model is a person who acts as a human prop for purposes of art, pornography, fashion, advertising, etc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sixteen Candles is a 1984 coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Michael Schoeffling. ... Disambiguation note: Vision Quest is also a 1985 wrestling movie starring Matthew Modine. ... Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 - February 17, 1982), was born Israel Lee Strassberg in Budzanów, former Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Budanov, Ukraine), to Ida and Baruch Meyer and became a Jewish American director, actor, producer and acting teacher. ... Temple University is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

Schoeffling is married to a fellow former model, Valerie Robinson, with two teenaged children and has mostly dropped out of acting. He now runs his own business, a shop in his northeastern Pennsylvania hometown of Wilkes-Barre, near Scranton and north of the Poconos Mountains, that produces handcrafted furniture. The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains region, is a mountainous region of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) located in northeastern Pennsylvania. ...

While in high school and college, Schoeffling was an accomplished amateur wrestler medalling in national and international tournaments, winning a Gold Medal in the Junior Olympics held in Germany. His wrestling skill is shown as Cooch in Vision Quest where he wrestles Matthew Modine, his best friend in the movie. For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... The Wrestlers from Uffizi Gallery, Florence. ... Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959 in Loma Linda, California is an American actor. ...

Schoeffling's character in Sixteen Candles, Jake Ryan, is legendary among fans of all ages. The Washington Post ran an article titled, "Real Men Can't Hold a Match to Jake Ryan of Sixteen Candles" on Valentine's Day, 2004. Jennifer Love Hewitt declared to Rolling Stone magazine in 2002 that "My whole life, I've been waiting for Jake Ryan . . . to come and get me." Sixteen Candles is a 1984 coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Michael Schoeffling. ... ... Valentines Day postcard, c. ... Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. ... This article is about the music magazine. ...

External links

• Michael Schoeffling on imdb.com film credits
• Real Men Can't Hold a Match to Jake Ryan of 'Sixteen Candles' article