Andrew McCarthy Recalls His Brat Pack Years In A New Memoir
The star of movies like St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink writes about his tumultuous 20s in Brat: An '80s Story. Of that era's movies, he says the emotions are timeless, the hair not so much.
We're going to go back now to the 80s — you remember that era: big hair, big shoulder pads, Walkmans and a new kind of film star.
Andrew McCarthy starred in iconic movies like St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink and Weekend at Bernie's. He's considered one of the so-called Brat Pack — think Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, young stars with swagger who were in all the hot movies that catered to the desires and dreams of young people for the first time.
McCarthy has spent a lot of his adult life running away from that label. But in his new memoir, , he takes a look back at his tumultuous 20s, when he first became famous.
