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‘BRATS’: Why Andrew McCarthy Tracked Down His Fellow Brat Packers For a Hulu Doc: “It Altered The Perception Of How We Were Perceived”
'Brats': Why Andrew McCarthy Tracked Down His Fellow Brat Packers For a Hulu Doc: "It Altered The Perception Of How We Were Perceived"
A 2008 New York Magazin e article that first termed the phrase Brat Pack rocked the world of Andrew McCarthy and his co-stars of St. Elmo’s Fire — so much that each of the actors went years, even decades, without talking to each other. McCarthy is now behind an ABC News documentary called Brats that addresses how that one phrase captured the zeitgeist and forever altered the careers of then 20-something actors like Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham and Molly Ringwald. Even then, it was not entirely clear who was a member of the Brad Pack (though the article by David Blum would go on to point fingers at Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and Sean Penn as well).
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