ABC News
It's been almost four decades since a 1985 New York magazine cover story dubbed Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, and Judd Nelson, the "Brat Pack," a term that would go on to define a generation of actors and leave a lasting impression on pop culture. A play on Frank Sinatra's notorious 'Rat Pack' company of 1950s and '60s frequent film collaborators that also included stars Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Dean Martin, the Brat Pack referred to the group of young actors who starred in now-classic coming-of-age films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "St. Elmo's Fire." Ostensibly a profile about Estevez, the largely unflattering magazine profile titled "Hollywood's Brat Pack" – which also snarked about fellow then-20-something stars Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn and others – did little to dilute their box office success.