Don’t you forget about them. “Brats,” the new documentary about the Brat Pack (now streaming on Hulu) covers the famous group of ‘80s stars, their memories about their heyday, and their gripes with that moniker. The circle of stars associated with the label are Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony … Read more
Don’t you forget about her. “Brat Pack” member Andrew McCarthy, 61, has cleared up why Molly Ringwald is missing from his documentary “Brats,” out Thursday on Hulu. “She said she’d think about it and that was really the end of It,” he told Us Weekly. “Brats” is about the famous group of ‘80s stars, their … Read more
For almost 40 years, actor and writer Andrew McCarthy has suffered from what he terms PTSD — but it doesn’t involve the usual Hollywood ills like substance abuse, stays in rehab or messy divorces. His trauma stems from a notorious New York Magazine cover story from 1985, about a group of popular young actors (including … Read more
The Brat Pack is back. A new trailer for the documentary “Brats” about the Brat Pack shows the famous ’80s stars reuniting. As director Andrew McCarthy – who is also a member of the Brat Pack – says in the trailer, the phenomenon started with the 1985 New York magazine cover that gave the stars … Read more
How can he miss them if they won’t go away? Judd Nelson says he “politely declined” to be in “Brats,” Andrew McCarthy’s upcoming Hulu documentary about the ’80s-era Brat Pack, of which both Nelson and McCarthy were charter members. “It seems strange to have that subject matter be something for edited entertainment,” Nelson, 64, told … Read more
Lowe-carb, high fun. Rob Lowe has to be one of the fittest guys about to turn 60 (next month) in Hollywood, fit enough that it’s almost frustrating, and maybe you’d like to sock him one, except your fists would probably just boomerang back and you’d wind up hitting yourself in the face. (Sorry, is this … Read more
Celebrities, they’re just like us — they mix up their A-list friend’s phone numbers. Rob Lowe admitted to embarrassingly sending a text to Bradley Cooper instead of Robert Downey Jr. to congratulate the “Oppenheimer” star on his Golden Globes win. “Downey does this amazing acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, and I’m so excited for … Read more
Remember them? The ’80s-era “Brat Packers” are reuniting for a new Hulu documentary called, appropriately enough, “Brats.” Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez, among others, will all be featured in the new project. It will be “a revealing look a the cultural phenomenon they became in the 1980s … Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger and ex-wife Maria Shriver famously parted ways in 2011 after his affair with housekeeper Mildred Baena. The “Terminator” star, 76, will be on an upcoming episode of friend Rob Lowe’s podcast “Literally!” — and in a new clip obtained by Entertainment Tonight — the former politician joked that Lowe, 59, took Shriver’s side … Read more
Rob Lowe revealed that leaving the Emmy-award-winning show “The West Wing” was the “best thing” he ever did. Lowe, who played Sam Seaborn, the deputy White House communications director, in the political NBC drama, said he felt “undervalued” during his four seasons on the show. “Whenever I talk to actors who complain about their relationships … Read more
Rob Lowe never intended to tell his son, John, about his scandalous past. Instead, he learned about it at school. John, 27, recently discussed how he found out about the former Brat Pack member’s notorious sex tape that leaked in 1988. Rob, 58, and John — who has followed in his acting father’s footsteps — … Read more
Well before the grandiloquently dubbed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted its inaugural award ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on May 16, 1929, the movie industry was already up to it eyeballs in stink. Star Fatty Arbuckle had been acquitted for rape and murder. Director William Desmond Taylor was a cold case, … Read more