Perspective | 'Brats' assesses the meanings of the Brat Pack. They are legion.
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As a country, we love categorizing people...fit more neatly into designated boxes...what actor Andrew McCarthy believes happened to him...when a 1985 New York magazine article lumped him together with a handful of other young performers under the cover line 'Hollywood's Brat Pack.'
The designation, a play on the Rat Pack of the '50s, added fuel to McCarthy's fame, which was already skyrocketing. But for him, it was also destabilizing. Something had been wrested from his control. So he has made 'Brats,' a documentary about that time in his life...
Read at Washington Post
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