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“hollywood’s brat pack,” by david blum, first appeared in the june 10, 1985, issue of new york magazine Looking back at the magazine article that came to define a group of young actors 30 years ago this summer.

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In june 2024, brats, andrew mccarthy’s documentary about our story. In ‘brats,’ andrew mccarthy tracks down his former cohorts to discuss being branded ‘the brat pack’ in the ’80s. The new york magazine writer who coined the phrase brat pack set off a ripple effect that had an impact on the careers of several actors on the rise in the 1980s.

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The term brat pack, a play on 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

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[1] david blum wrote the article after.

By david blum, a writer and editor based in new york city He is the author of “hollywood’s brat pack,” which appeared in new york magazine in 1985 and is credited with the birth of the brat. From the june 10, 1985 issue of new york magazine. Writer david blum — who coined the phrase 'hollywood's brat pack' in 1985 — is standing by his creation of the phrase in a new column for vulture.

A 1985 new york magazine article coined the phrase brat pack The stars from that period continue discuss its impact in andrew mccarthy's movie brats. Andrew mccarthy spent decades loathing the term brat pack, and in turn, the 'st Elmo's fire' and 'pretty in pink' star was angry with david blum, the 'new york magazine' writer who coined it.

10 Classic Brat Pack Movies
10 Classic Brat Pack Movies

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. Andrew mccarthy and david blum, the journalist who published the notorious 1985 piece about the brat pack, have a tense conversation in the brats documentary. An archive of articles by david blum for new york magazine. The writer, 29 when he wrote the story, notes that for all the controversy, the actors considered part of the pack enjoyed long and successful careers

“it struck me as an odd omission that the brat pack’s current careers and successes don’t even earn a mention in mccarthy’s brats,” he wrote last week in new york magazine. The new hulu documentary, brats, resulted from david blum’s article that labeled a group of actors as the brat pack, but does he regret the story? The “brat pack” label seems to have been applied by the public mainly to the people in the accompanying st Elmo’s fire photo, despite the fact that many others were referenced in the article (tom cruise, timothy hutton, sean penn) and that the writer was actually discussing a larger circle of actors.

5 Things We Know About New 'Brat Pack' Documentary
5 Things We Know About New 'Brat Pack' Documentary

About two years ago i invented the phrase brat pack

It was the headline and recurring theme of a story i wrote for new york magazine on the occasion of a movie called “st 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.

5 Things We Know About New 'Brat Pack' Documentary
5 Things We Know About New 'Brat Pack' Documentary
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