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    Twenty-four-year-old actor/musician Ryan Donowho is kinda like your best friend's cool, aloof, older brother—the one you had a giant crush on when you were, like, 14. With good bone structure, soft hair, and a hard body, Ryan is obviously easy on the eyes, but his appeal goes a little deeper than that. Unaffected and unpretentious, Ryan's sincerity separates him from the rest of the shaggy-haired Williamsburg set. After moving to New York from his native Texas at age 17 in search of acting work, Ryan began drumming on subway platforms for cash, pounding on "like, four buckets, two water bottles, a piece of a refrigerator, and a couple of cabinets," says Ryan. "It was my sole income for a good chunk of time."
    When he's not bucket-drumming or acting, Ryan's in the band Pagoda with fellow full-lipped actor Michael Pitt. (The two were introduced by director Gus Van Sant—that dirty, naughty genius.) They've just finished recording their first album, but for now, it's Ryan's acting that's bringing on the buzz. Even when playing small roles, like the teenaged stoner in A Home at the End of the World (starring Sissy Spacek and Colin Farrell), he's effortlessly magnetic, and the fact that his short screen time includes a sex scene doesn't hurt. Actually, he's racked up quite a few sex scenes already, and—as with real sex—some experiences were better than others. "I did one in this movie called Balls (not yet released) directed by Douglass Keeve who did the documentary Unzipped. It was shot on [digital video], so he didn't have to call, 'Cut.' Three hours and, you know, five climaxes later we're looking at him like, 'Uh, we've kinda rolled all over the floor and knocked everything over. I don't know what more you want.'" Um, well, I don't know about Keeve, but we want that footage. Uncut. Until then, you can get an eyeful of Ryan in Imaginary Heroes (with Sigourney Weaver and Michelle Williams), due out in February.