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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 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 ...
A 1985 New York Magazine cover story by Blum is credited for coining the term Brat Pack for a group of young 1980s actors. [2] In 1992, he published his first book, Flash In The Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant, which was named a notable nonfiction book of the year by The New York Times Book Review.
Blum was 29 when he wrote the Brat Pack article, still practically a kid himself. Now these two are just a couple of aging guys, reckoning with obsolescence, which eventually comes for us all.
The term Brat Pack was coined by writer David Blum in a 1985 New York Magazine story, and went on to define a generation of Young Hollywood, for better or worse. The group, which Blum described at ...
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 Brat Pack “is to the 1980s what the Rat Pack was to the 1960s,” Blum wrote at the time. “A roving band of famous young stars on the prowl for parties, women and a good time.