36 Years Since The Breakfast Membership, Take a Have a look at the Authentic Brat Pack Then and Now

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

Proper after that it was onto taking part in a window dresser whose muse involves life in Model and taking part in a disaffected school pupil in Much less Than Zero (additionally with Robert Downey Jr. and Fairly in Pink co-star James Spader, each thought-about Brat Pack-adjacent), nevertheless it’s Weekend at Bernie‘s that is watched and rewatched endlessly on cable to this present day.

McCarthy’s movie highlights after the 1980s included The Pleasure Luck Membership and Mulholland Falls, and he was a star of quite a few TV reveals that solely lasted one season, equivalent to Lipstick Jungle with Brooke Shields. However he additionally leaned into theater (he was starring in Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Evening with Ellen Burstyn when he advised Individuals that the Brat Pack wasn’t an actual factor) and has turn into a busy TV director, engaged on Gossip Woman, Orange Is the New Black, The Blacklist, The Sinner and Good Ladies.

He can also be, enjoyable truth, an award-winning journey author—so should 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, that got here out in 2017.

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

Estevez, Lowe and Nelson had been those featured in New York’s Brat Pack story, and an unidentified St. Elmo’s Hearth co-star predicted that McCarthy would not make it as an actor for the lengthy haul. However it seems as if we’ll discover out what McCarthy actually thinks about these days when his memoir, BRAT: An ’80s Story, comes out Could 11.