Andrew Mccarthy

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    Andrew McCarthy on his Brat Pack past and why he'll never be Team Duckie

    The '80s star revisits his Brat Pack days in a new memoir.

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    Andrew McCarthy taps into 80’s nostalgia with new memoir

    Andrew McCarthy admits he “fled” from his shaggy-haired 1980’s persona and didn’t look back for decades. Now a TV director, acclaimed travel writer, and best-selling author, McCarthy has been busy in recent years, if under the radar. The book helps explain the evolution of the Brat Pack — a group of young actors including Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson who dominated movies in the 1980’s and set cultural trends — and how McCarthy and others swept into its vortex became the nostalgic “avatar of

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    Back to the '80s: Andrew McCarthy writing 'Brat Pack' book

    Actor-writer-director Andrew McCarthy, a 57-year-old father of three, keeps getting asked about his “Brat Pack” years in the 1980s. Grand Central Publishing announced Tuesday that McCarthy's “Brat: An '80s Story” will come out next spring. Grand Central is calling the book “a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction and masculinity.”

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    'Pretty in Pink' director Howard Deutch on film's famous lost ending and Molly Ringwald's theory that Duckie was secretly gay

    "Pretty in Pink" director Howard Deutch shares behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the Brat Pack classic.

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    The most iconic Corvette moments in movies: 'xXx,' 'Terms of Endearment' and more

    As Chevy releases the new Corvette C8, look back at some of audiences’ favorite scenes featuring the iconic car, from movies such as "xXx," "Boogie Nights" and "Terms of Endearment."

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    Andrew McCarthy on His New YA Novel, and Directing ‘OITNB’ ... and James Spader

    'Pretty in Pink' star Andrew McCarthy is an actor, travel writer, prolific TV director, and, now, young adult novelist.

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    'The Family': So Many Secrets, So Hard to Care

    The degree to which you become involved in the new domestic drama The Family depends on how much you believe that a single event can alter and utterly redefine a family. In this production, a young man who has been gone for a decade — he was thought dead, murdered — returns home to find that his absence has altered the trajectory of every other member of his family. One moment, we see the boy, Adam (Liam James), playful and curious, horsing around with his parents, Claire and John Warren (Joan