The actor’s 2021 memoir, Brat: An '80s Story, inspired him to revisit the time period that brought him and his fellow actors so much acclaim and scrutiny. “I went back and tried to reconcile how [the Brat Pack label] is pejorative on one hand and a blessing on the other,” he to...
Inspired by McCarthy’s memoir Brat: An ’80s Story (2021), the documentary promised to feature interviews with his fellow Brat Packers Moore, Sheedy, Estevez, and Lowe, as well as with Blum, the journalist who gave them their infamous name....
McCarthy is also anaward-winning travel writerand authored the YA novelJust Fly Awaybefore delving into the Brat Pack tag's effect on his life in his 2021 memoirBrat: An '80s Story. The New Jersey native further explored the cultural impact of the moniker in t...
Now in their early 60s, McCarthy – having written a memoir, “Brat: An ‘80s Story,” about his experiences – transforms that into this ABC News documentary for Hulu, which is presented almost entirely looking over his shoulder. That includes an extended sequence of...
In Andrew McCarthy’s new documentary, Brats, the actor assembles a thorough retrospective on the “Brat Pack” title that he and his fellow young actors were begrudgingly given in the mid-’80s. Coined by New York Magazine’s David Blum as a play on “Rat Pack,” the term became a ...
It’s an ode to hedonism with the repeated insistence: “Should we do a little key? Should we have a little line?” Not saying that we’d begrudge Obama any skiing of the slopes, but it’s just not demure. Not very mindful. With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs ...
The new documentary “Brats” grapples with the complicated legacy of the group of young ’80s movie stars, with Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy himself leading the inquisition.