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RYAN
... the FACTS
Born: Brentwood, CA
Resides: Malibu, CA
Birth date: 12-4-74
Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5'10"
Hair: Reddish blonde
Eyes: Hazel
Status: Divorced
Want children: Undecided
Nonsmoker
Occupation: CEO of media
company/Producer
Movies produced: "300, Taladegga Nightss, Hancock,
Wanted, Mama Mia, Pineapple Express, Maid of Honor, Baby
Mama, American Gangster, The Holiday, Catch and
Release."
Releases in December: Green Zone (thriller), coming out in
February (Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass); A Serious Man (Coen
Brother's comedy), The International (Action) (Clive Owen,
Naomi Watts); The Wolfman - spin off from the Xmen - that
will be coming out around March. The Public Enemies
(Action/gangster movie) (Michael Mann, Johnny Depp,
Christian Bale); Dear John which is a Channing Tatum movie
based on the Nicholas Sparks book."
... on HIMSELF
Strengths: "People tell me my smile. I think my sense
of humor. I can only go on what people tell me. I love to
give, one of my favorite things is giving to people. Whether
it's gifts or throwing a party or helping someone out. I am
definitely very driven but I also know how to have
fun."
Weakness: "My weakness is probably women. Basically, I
love women and they definitely can be my downfall ala when I
was 21 having been married for 8 months."
Others may not see: "With me, it's kind of what you see
is what you get. I wear everything on my sleeve, good and
bad."
I've been known to ... "shock people, just in any way.
I'm the type of guy who will walk out of a restaurant at
night, having had drinks, and there's a car dealer next
door, and I'll go buy a car. And I'm a total prankster, 100%
prankster. Like Passover dinner, I put the fart machine
under my mom's chair, I'm always doing things like
that."
Interests: "I like to play tennis, I love to play
guitar still and drums, I love to sing. I'm ok, not good
enough to be a professional. I love to travel, I absolutely
love to travel. I like to write, everything from my own
short stories to scripts to books. I basically write
whenever I have time. I have a barbeque at my house every
Sunday and I love to have my friends over, that's kind of a
hobby. Every Sunday I have any where between 15 and 50
people at my house. I have a caterer come over every Sunday
and throw a Sunday barbeque on the beach."
Turn-ons: "I love closing a deal to me is a huge, it's
like the best high there is. I love fast cars, classics
usually. I love walking on the beach, I love time with my
friends and family. My two favorite times, that's why I live
on the beach, my favorite times are first thing in the
morning like right as the sun's coming up then right before
the sun's going down but right as it's starting to get a
little darker."
Turn-offs: "When people brag, or point out all the
great things that they do. What are my other pet peeves,
it's fairly hard to push my buttons, I hate when people
overstep their bounds. Just when you give a little and
someone takes a mile. Fake people."
Special Talents: "I speak Japanese. I know it's a
little crazy. I can hold a conversation still but I used to
speak really fluently. I started actually in high school and
then I moved on and took it in college."
Titles: "Detail's Mavericks. It was very cool. I was
honored to be on a list that was so prestigious. 40 most
powerful under 40. I just got producer of the year. That's
why I was at the Italian film festival they gave me an award
for producer of the year. Some of our films have gotten
academy - we've probably had 20 or 30 academy award
nominations, we have not had a best picture yet but we have
had certainly maybe 10 or 15 academy award twists, best
supporting actor, or makeup. I think we're the first
production company to ever make 100 movies. I think I'm the
first producer/executive producer to be on a 100
movies."
Charities: "I spend actually about half my time on
charity. Jewish Big Brother's is something I've been doing
for 7 or 8 years, 10 years maybe. I actually mentor a child
in something called Best Buddies but in Jewish Big Brothers
I just basically give them a lot of financial support and
help underwrite their events. I do a lot of different
auction stuff, I'm co-chair on the board for Habitat for
Humanity. There's a charity called Art of Elysium that I'm
also on the board of. Art of Elision is a cool charity, they
help children who are terminally ill in hospitals - what it
actually does is it brings in performers, actors, musicians,
they come into the hospital and put on events for these
kids. Then it also helps struggling actors and musicians
kind of get placed. It's probably more star driven and more
celebrities and producers and Hollywood personality than any
charity."
Travels: "I love Italy, Capri is one of my favorite
places in the world. I go to Cabo a lot, Cabo San Lucas in
Mexico. I probably travel out of the country once every two
months. I've been all over. I've been to Greece, Spain,
Australia, London, France, Italy. I've actually been to
Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Egypt."
Spirituality: "I'm Jewish and I go to temple on the
high holidays which are twice a year but I'm just not overly
religious. I grew up believing in Santa Clause. I'm an LA
Jew. I meditate twice a day, I'm very spiritual myself but
in what I believe in not what a religion prescribes to me. I
meditate for 20 min. I try to do it in the morning and at
night. I actually was taught by somebody how to meditate, I
actually once asked him, I said everybody asks me what
meditation is, how do I explain it? He said tell them to
explain to you how to ride a bike, you can't really explain
it."
Fashion sense: "I always wear blue converse, that's
basically my staple. I usually wear blue jeans, a button up
shirt and a coat. On weekends, I usually don't get out of my
beach clothes. I'm usually in a swimsuit and I'll throw
jeans on at night."
Staying healthy: "I work out an hour every morning. I
have a trainer who comes to my house. I run on the beach and
I'm kind of a fanatic about what I eat."
What touches my soul: "My 97-year-old grandmother.
She's the best."
... on WOMEN
I first notice ... "the eyes. I don't know if I can
actually specify it but it's just a woman's eyes to me makes
or breaks really how they're overall persona. I love blue
eyes and green eyes, but it's not like a specific color,
it's something about eyes that defines everything for
me."
How a woman can get my attention: "Well, if I don't
know them or I don't have a chance to talk to them, for me,
a woman's personality can change her looks for me,
literally. You can meet someone who's extremely attractive
physically and start talking to them and literally in front
of me their looks will change and vice versa. So if I
haven't talked to them, it's usually, if they're farther
away where I can't actually see their eyes or smile, it's
probably their facial features, cheekbones, jaw line. I like
in shape women. For me, it's someone who's extremely kind of
warm and open and sharing and inviting to a person. It's
really hard to put in words but the more a person is open to
who they are and more kind of accepts who they are and
invites someone else in and is very comfortable with
themselves, the more attractive they are to me."
Ideal woman: "She has to be charitable, that's really
important just because I spend so much of my time on it. She
has to be very social. I spend pretty much every night of my
life I'm in either a business dinner or a function. Pretty
much every Sunday I have a barbeque at my house. Someone who
loves to entertain, loves people, and kind of loves to be
involved in the entertaining part. Someone who loves to
travel, I'm pretty much on a plane all the time. Someone
who's spontaneous, someone who's physically fit, works out,
who can do physical activity. She has to totally sweet but
not too sweet, generally happy person, good family or close
with their family. I don't think any guy wants like the
sweetest girl in the world. Sweet's great but you also want
to have someone with an edge, kind of can challenge you.
Someone who's too just like whatever you want, to me, isn't
attractive at all. Someone who will challenge and not just
say whatever you want. No, definitely not a doormat."
Most important quality in a woman: "Understanding just
because of my lifestyle. I obviously travel a lot, my life
surrounds work and it would be impossible for me to be with
a woman that wouldn't be understanding of my life and what
it entails. And understanding that sometimes I have to hop
on a plane in two minutes flat and be gone for a week, my
nights are usually consumed by business dinners or taking
out people from our films and being a Sagittarius, I'm not
the easiest guy in the world."
Ideal date: "Dinner at Nobu in Malibu, followed by a
walk in the beach in front of my house and a bottle of
really good Bordeaux in front of the fire."
I'd call back after a first date ... "It's really
hard to put in words but it's a connection. It's having a
connection with someone that ... it's 3 things, it's
intrigue meaning one of the hardest things about following
up is if all the intrigue is gone after a first date, it's a
connection, in that I really feel like there's going to be
something more than either just chemistry or a fun
time and someone who makes me laugh."
I'd never date a woman who ... "doesn't like to
travel."
How I show I care: "I'm kind of a hopeless romantic.
One time I sent 1,000 red roses. I filled up her apartment
and then every day of the week, I sent a different color
with a saying of what I liked about her."
For how many days after: "Five, there were only five
colors that I liked."
What makes a woman unforgettable: "It would be a
combination of things. I think it would have to be someone
who, to me, is beautiful, who has what I would call, soulful
eyes, who does something extremely noble with her life that
isn't just what every other person in this town does.
Someone who is doing something that's more than just for
themselves whether it's doing charity work, whether it's
doing something to better the world rather than just someone
who's looking to be on a movie or be on the front page of a
magazine."
I wish women understood ... "probably that men need
breathing room. Women tend to, the more that men try and get
the breathing room, the more women squeeze, and the more it
pushes us away. Men, we like the chase and women don't
always realize that. And just bc we want to go have time
with our friends or be alone doesn't mean that we don't love
the person, it means we want to have time alone."
One thing a woman has never done for me yet, but I would
love it: "Yeah, but I don't think you can put that in
print."
... on RELATIONSHIPS
On marriage: "Marriage and family is important to me. I
grew up with a very loving, close family and it's something
that, for sure, I would like to have myself. Preferably two
but it's not set in stone. But I definitely want to have a
family at a young enough age that I can enjoy my kids before
I need a walker."
Is a relationship important to you: "The right
relationship is important to me, the wrong one certainly
isn't."
What I love most about being in a relationship: "Having
someone to connect with, having someone to support you,
having a best friend, having someone to love you."
Top relationship keys: "Understanding, support and
forgiveness."
A woman in a relationship with me can expect ... "well,
I'm a very good boyfriend but I'm extremely spontaneous. So
probably expect the unexpected. Expect that I may call and
say we're leaving for Paris in 20 minutes, it's happened
before."
What I expect: "Well, considering that so far I haven't
made it all the way through and married one, I hopefully let
all my expectations go and kind of hope that when the right
one hits me, I'll know it."
What makes me feel close to a woman: "A really romantic
trip, going away somewhere that's incredibly romantic and
having a great time."
Greatest relationship lesson: "Making sure that you
make the other person feel important in your life, if not #1
priority, close to it. It works both ways. For me it's
really easy for me to just expect someone to kind of tag
along and follow my life and it's easy to not make them a
priority and I think that's what I've learned from my past
relationship."
What makes a woman marriage material: "No matter how
good looking someone is, ultimately it's not about the
looks, it becomes, `hey, can I have fun with someone and can
this person be a great mother to my children, is it someone
I can wake up next to every morning and go to sleep next to
every night and imagine the worst possible things that can
happen in one's life and want that person there next to you
being the person going through it with you."
... on SEX
What makes sex good: "Well it depends on the kind of
sex. If it's just sex, then having a really hot amazing
night. If it's with someone who's important, it's having
more than just sex but having a connection."
I feel my sexiest when ... "I'm five pounds lighter and
two tones tanner."
Most sensual part of a woman's body: "Probably legs and
ass."
Sexiest thing a woman can wear in private: "For me,
just cowboy boots. Nothing else. Any color, just tall,
leather cowboy boots."
Not even a cowboy hat: "No, just the boots."
Surefire way to seduce me: "It's pretty funny but
scratch my back. I love my back scratched."
... on LIFE
Making my mark: "I have pretty big extreme goals but I
really do want to change the world, not in a business way
but more in a social and medical way. I do a lot of
charitable work and I try and make a difference. I work with
six different charities that are all focused on helping
children but beyond that my goal that not a lot of people
know is that I want to put a lot of my resources towards
helping to cure cancer. My grandfather when I was really
young passed away from cancer and a lot of friends around
me. I feel like it's something that watching it happen
shouldn't happen with so little knowledge. And it seems like
something we should be able to stop considering it effects
probably more of the population than any other issue we
have."
Do you think there is a cure, do you think it's possible in
our lifetime: "Yeah, my hobby I read a lot of biology
and physics, I know it sounds crazy but that's what I like
to read on the side, and I do actually believe it's
possible."
And in business: "I certainly hope that I've made a
mark and hope to continue to make a mark. I feel like we've
helped to make a difference in the film and TV world. I hope
to continue to continue to come up with interesting
structures to make our media world more efficient."
Responsibility to society: "I don't know that it's
responsibility to society as much as it is just a
responsibility to people. I think we all have a
responsibility, rich, poor, young, old, to doing what we can
with the resources were given to make a difference and I
certainly feel that, I don't know that I have a specific
responsibility to any one group, but just my primary
feeling, is that I like to help children in need and also
kind of focusing on, like I said, how to improve the medical
world of cancer research. But I feel everybody does have an altruistic
responsibility."
Valuable life lesson: "Choose your friends wisely and
make sure they're your friends really for you."
I must do ... "cure cancer, I've always wanted to
travel to the Himalayas and check out kind of where all the
Buddhist study and that whole spiritual kind of trip that's
supposed to be so amazing. And I've always wanted to learn
to kite surf and I'm doing that now. I've been learning over
the past 4 months."
Best advice received: "Live life every day like it was
your last. I try to, I wouldn't say every day because we all
..., it's difficult, but I definitely try my best to."
Best advice I've given a woman: "Be careful who you
fall in love with."
... on HIS FAVORITE THINGS
Movie: "Somewhere in Time.The first Matrix I thought
was pretty amazing. And True Romance."
TV Show: "South Park."
Book: "I read really strange stuff. I read like physics
and superstring theory. I'm reading a book right now called
Parallel Universes. Superstring is a type of science.
There's a lot of crazy theories out there kind of tie
science fiction and science together. My favorite all time
book is probably The Celestine Prophecy."
Music: "I listen to so many different types of music
and I'm a musician, I play myself. I couldn't give you one
favorite. I'm not planning on starting a new career as a
rocker tomorrow but I do still play on the side for fun in
the quiet of my home."
Food: "I'm a chocolate fanatic. I love chocolate. Dark
chocolate, anything dark chocolate."
... final THOUGHTS
Wheels: "I have a black Audi R8, a silver Aston Martin,
and a 1957 gun metal gray Mercedes convertible, I love
to drive. I have a SUV, that's boring. And I am on search
for a 61 California GT Spyder which is a classic
Ferrari."
Pets: "I have two dogs. I have Blue who is a 150 pound
white German Shepherd and then I actually share Isabella
with my ex. We trade off custody who happens to be a 4 lb
Chihuahua. To see the two of them together is pretty funny,
a 4 lb dog and a 150 lb."
Tattoos/piercings: "No tattoos. I had my left ear
pierced three times and my right was pierced once but I
haven't had earrings since I was 19."
Always in my refrigerator: "Well, I'm pretty lucky that
I have a housekeeper who stocks it but I'm kind of a health
fanatic too so there's always grilled chicken, vegetables
and really hot salsa. My housekeeper homemakes it from
chilis from her country, super spicy."
Hottest
possession: "I don't think I have anything that would
be my most cherished. My dogs. Well, actually, I have a
bunch of old Chinese antiquities that my parents bought me
that are like ... oh, I'll tell ya what it is, I have a
necklace I wear around my neck that my grandmother (my dad's
mom), who passed away less than a year ago gave me. She was
in concentration camps and it was the only thing that she
took through camp. She didn't even wear it. What happened
was she was taken and put in camps for five years when she
was 14, there til she was 19, her whole family was killed
and she was able to hide through the camp a very small piece
of gold that was from her family. It was the only thing she
kept from her family and after she got out, when she had my
dad and his brother and us, she took the gold and had it
expended into four necklaces that my father, my brother, me
and my uncle all have one. It's a gold strand. It's
definitely my most cherished possession."
I'd most like to hang out with ... "yeah, for sure,
Albert Einstein. To really get to ask him questions about
theories that only I can read about and that seem so out
there that couldn't be proven but he just knew it. Just to
ask him what he knew and how he knew it without there being
any proof and how he stood so far behind it."
Why I'm a great catch: "I don't know, they'd have
to ask my mom."
Me in a word: "Happy."
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