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The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. The term "Brat Pack", a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and 1960s, was first popularized in a 1985 New York magazine cover story, which described a group of highly successful film stars in their early twenties. [1]
The "Brat Pack" name was coined by writer David Blum in a 1985 New York magazine article that was supposed to be about Emilio Estevez, but wound up instead focusing on a crew of actors in their ...
The Brat Pack, who came of age in the 1980s with movies like "St. Elmo's Fire," "The Breakfast Club," "About Last Night…," "Sixteen Candles" and "Pretty in Pink," defined a generation’s teen ...
The Brat Pack was a moniker created by journalist David Blum in a 1985 piece for New York Magazine — originally set to be a profile following Emilio Estevez. The article made waves by giving ...
The Brat Pack referred to a group of young actors in the 1980s, who were frequently cast in teen films together, like "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire."
The works of the Brat Pack authors owe a debt to the minimalist works of Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie. In the September/October 2005 issue of Pages magazine, the literary Brat Pack was identified as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, and Mark Lindquist. McInerney and Janowitz were based in New York City.
The headline, Hollywood’s Brat Pack—a sideways reference to the clique of urbane rebel entertainers, including Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., who cool-strutted through Hollywood and Las ...
The Brat Pack is back!Actors Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez took over the big screen in the 1980s when they starred in coming-of-age films such as St. Elmo's Fire, The ...