Catch Up with the Authentic Brat Pack Almost 40 Years Later

McCarthy performed adrift Georgetown College grad Kevin in St. Elmo’s Hearth—after which, in Fairly in Pink, wealthy, widespread highschool senior Blane, who falls for Ringwald’s outcast-because-she’s-not-rich-and-makes-her-own-clothes Andie.

After that it was onto a window dresser whose muse involves life in Model and a disaffected school pupil in Much less Than Zero (additionally with Robert Downey Jr. and Fairly in Pink co-star James Spader, each thought of Brat Pack-adjacent), but it surely’s Weekend at Bernie‘s that is rewatched endlessly right now.

McCarthy’s movie highlights after the Eighties included The Pleasure Luck Membership and Mulholland Falls, and he starred on quite a few exhibits that solely lasted one season, such Lipstick Jungle. However he additionally leaned into theater (he was in Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Evening when he advised Folks that the Brat Pack wasn’t an actual factor) and has turn out to be a busy director, engaged on Gossip Lady, Orange Is the New Black, The Blacklist, The Sinner and Good Ladies.

He can also be, enjoyable truth, an award-winning travel writer—so in case you see the “Andrew McCarthy” byline in The New York Instances, Journey + Leisure or Bon Appetit, that is the identical man—and he authored a YA novel, Simply Fly Away.

McCarthy has a son from his first marriage to varsity sweetheart Carol Schneider, and a daughter with Dolores Rice, his spouse since 2011.