It's not just Sam Baker who thought Jake Ryan was the "cat's meow." To Anthony Michael Hall — who played "the Geek" in Sixteen Candles — costar Michael Schoeffling was "like a big brother." "Hollywood ...

Schoeffling was at the center of one of the ‘80s iconic movie love triangles — opposite Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall — as high school heartthrob Jake Ryan in writer-director John Hughes’ ...

Ever since he ended up as conspicuously the only member of the Breakfast Club not to get coupled up — and was pretty much okay with it — we knew Anthony Michael Hall was a guy we could identify with.