The Brat Pack hated the name that made them famous — here’s every time they slammed it
nypost.com“Brat Pack” – a collection of popular young actors in the 1980s — have made it clear that they weren’t, and in some cases, still aren’t, fans of the group nickname.The phenomenon started with the 1985 New York magazine cover by David Blum.
He had a night out in Los Angeles with Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Judd Nelson, and decided to coin the now-iconic phrase which was inspired by the “Rat Pack,” a group of entertainers (including Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin) from the 1940s and 1950s.Estevez, Lowe, Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy make up the Brat Pack, as they all appeared in the ensemble of classic ‘80s films such as “St.
Elmo’s Fire,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink.”Adjacent members include Jon Cryer and Mare Winningham. While Lowe, 60, has been very complimentary about the Brat Pack title, the rest of the group have been critical of the label and how it negatively impacted their careers in the 1980s.
In the new Hulu documentary “Brats,” McCarthy, 61, rounded up the rest of the Brat Pack (sans Ringwald, 56, and Nelson, 64) to talk about how their lives changed when the iconic phrase was created. “My career and the career of everyone who was involved was branded to the Brat Pack …I’ve never talked to anybody about what that was like,” McCarthy said in the trailer. “So, I thought it might be interesting to try and contact everyone who was in the Brat Pack.”The iconic actors do not hold back their opinions on being involved in the Brat Pack in the Hulu doc.
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