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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 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 origin of the term dates back to a New York magazine story with the headline “Hollywood’s Brat Pack,” which lumped together stars of movies like “The Breakfast Club,” “St. Elmo’s ...
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 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 ...
Brat Pack member Andrew McCarthy revisits the nickname that seemingly damned, but ultimately cemented the legacy of, a group of actors in the '80s.