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Fox’s is upping Kaley Ronayne to series regular for Season 6.

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 Us Weekly while attending the Children Uniting Nations 24th Annual Academy Awards Celebration & Viewing Dinner on March 10 in Beverly Hills.“Also, like, [McCarthy’s] a nice guy,” he continued, “but I hadn’t seen him in 35 years.“And it’s like, I’m not going to [be] like, ‘Hey!’ No, dude.”It was announced in January that McCarthy, 61, was working on the Hulu documentary about the Brat Pack, so dubbed in a 1985 New Yorker magazine article after the cast appeared together in two movies, “The Breakfast Club” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.”The main Brat Pack members were McCarthy, Nelson, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Mare Winningham, Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and Ally Sheedy.Fringe members, sometimes included in the group, were Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and Sean Penn.McCarthy, Lowe, Moore, Cryer, Sheedy and Estevez, among others, will all be featured in the new project.The documentary will premiere later this year and will be written and directed by McCarthy, whose 2021 memoir was titled “Brat: An ’80s Story.”The group’s name was a play on Frank Sinatra’s early-’60s era Rat Pack, which included Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop.Nelson confirmed to the outlet that there was a “request” for him to join McCarthy’s Brat Pack documentary, but that he “politely declined” the offer.

A 1985 New York Magazine article that first termed the phrase Brat Pack rocked the world of Andrew McCarthy and his co-stars of St. Elmo’s Fire — so much that each of the actors went years, even decades, without talking to each other. As McCarthy says, “actors want to be free of that baggage.”

“The View” to bring two formerly feuding co-stars together.Jon Cryer appeared Friday on the daytime talk show and revealed it’s where he and his “Pretty in Pink” costar, Andrew McCarthy, turned over a new leaf. “He and I famously did not get along when we were shooting ‘Pretty in Pink,'” Cryer, 58, reminisced to the ladies of the ABC talk show. “It was because there was tension,” he explained.

according to Deadline.The documentary will premiere later this year and will be written and directed by McCarthy, whose 2021 memoir was titled “Brat: An ’80s Story.”Together with Lowe, Moore, Estevez et al., McCarthy co-starred in the big-screen ’80s hits “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985), “Pretty in Pink” (1986) and “Less Than Zero” (1987) with Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr.

BreAnna Bell ABC News Studios has teamed up with Neon and Network Entertainment to announce “Brats,” a feature-length documentary that focuses on the stars who came to be known in the ’80s as the famous Brat Pack. Told with the help of director and former Brat Pack member Andrew McCarthy (“Pretty in Pink,” “St. Elmo’s Fire”), the director hits the road 30 years later, reuniting with several members of the Brat Pack crew including Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Emilio Estevez asking each member what being apart of the Brat Pack meant to them.

Andrew McCarthy is getting back together with his fellow Brat Pack alums Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and more for the feature documentary Brats, a revealing look at the cultural phenomenon they became in the 1980s and how that has impacted their lives ever since.

Robert Klane, the writer-director best known for penning Weekend at Bernie’s and National Lampoon’s European Vacation, died Aug. 29 of kidney failure in Woodland Hills, CA. He was 81.

Andrew McCarthy recalled his rise to stardom as one of the members of the Brat Pack. During the ‘80s, the actor was a reluctant member of the Brat Pack – which consisted of a group of young idols such as Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe – who dominated Hollywood. McCarthy, 60, reflected on how the term had a negative impact initially, but he learned to embrace it later in his career.

A post shared by Andrew McCarthy (@andrewtmccarthy)The documentary is based on McCarthy’s 2021 memoir “Brat, an 80s Story,” which focuses on his career in the 1980s and the peak of his fame as an actor. That period coincided with several other young actors who often appeared in one another’s movies, the most often cited being Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.

A mini Brat Pack reunion took place over the weekend. Andrew McCarthy shared a present-day photo with Demi Moore on his Instagram, accompanied by a throwback pic to their "St. Elmo’s Fire" days.

Andrew McCarthy and his actor son, Sam, embarked on a five-week journey across Spain's Camino de Santiago, which is chronicled in McCarthy's latest memoir, The book details the father-son expedition along the 500-mile pilgrimage as they attempt to connect on a deeper level and have candid, honest conversations about their relationship, life, fame and more.The trek is one McCarthy, who became a household name with coming-of-age 1980s films like and , is familiar with. The actor embarked on the same walk about three decades earlier when he was much, much younger and recalled having a «life-changing» experience. «I always wanted to do it again and then as Sam was cusping adulthood, I thought it might be a great thing for us to do together,» McCarthy, 60, told ET's Rachel Smith in New York City in an exclusive sit-down with Sam, who most recently played Christina Applegate's TV son on . «I was in a very different place in my life,» McCarthy said of the first time he walked Spain when he was younger.

EXCLUSIVE: Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards, which is both a podcast and novel, is in the works at HBO as a drama series, Deadline has learned.

ABC marked the end of an era as groundbreaking comedy black-ish came to its final moments on Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox’s The Resident is getting a major new cast addition. Andrew McCarthy has been tapped to recur on the last three episodes of the medical drama’s current fifth season, with an option to become a series regular if The Resident is renewed for a sixth season. As Deadline reported on Friday in our annual Bubble Watch, that is fully expected.

Ally Sheedy’s most recent role hits close to home. The actress stars in Freeform’s "Single Drunk Female" where she plays a mother whose adult daughter moves back home after a stint in rehab. Sheedy  sought help for her own addiction battle in 1989.

EXCLUSIVE: Network Entertainment has optioned Andrew McCarthy’s bestselling memoir Brat: An ’80s Story and will produce a documentary adaptation, the company announced on Monday.

Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens is returning to Comedy Central in August and the second season will feature the TV directorial debut of star BD Wong.

NEW YORK -- Andrew McCarthy admits he “fled” from his shaggy-haired 1980’s persona and didn’t look back for decades. Much like the slouchy blazers he wore in movies like “Pretty in Pink” and “St.

In the 80s, Andrew McCarthy found himself a part of the decade’s coolest celebrity gang, The Brat Pack, and playing the leading man in some cult classic films like Pretty In Pink.

Brat: An 80s Story” (Grand Central Publishing), out May 11. His role in the 1986 film “Pretty in Pink” marked McCarthy’s entrance into a glamorous Hollywood life. Stays at the Chateau Marmont and parties at Sammy Davis Jr.’s house soon followed.

Ready for a reboot! Rob Lowe thinks a Brat Pack reunion would give the world something to smile about after a challenging year.

On Aug. 7, 1974, a trio of Capitol Hill’s Republican eminences, led by Sen.

These are dark days in the history of the United States, and no one is feeling them more intensely than Mike Pence. On Wednesday, the vice president admirably turned aside the president’s high-intensity demands that he shred the Constitution.

Former chief assistant U.S. Attorney and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy took President Trump to task over the ongoing chaos that has taken place on Capitol Hill as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and disrupted the certification of President-elect Biden's election victory.  Amid the contentious debate over certifying the Electoral College results from the 2020 presidential election, demonstrators breached the Capitol on Wednesday, causing lawmakers to go into lockdown.

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After Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ordered a hand recount of 2020 presidential election ballots cast in the Peach State, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy joined "Your World" Wednesday to discuss the potential impact. McCarthy told host Neil Cavuto that if President Trump fails to win Georgia following the recount, his legal options may be limited.

Last Friday, when we marked the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one thing that did not get enough attention was the sacrifice of the police, firefighters and other first responders, hundreds of whom were killed that day. First responders is an apt term for them.They are the people who show up.They knowingly charge into the dangers from which most of us flee.

National Review’s Zachary Evans has reported on the Justice Department’s indictment of former Trump campaign manager and White House adviser Steve Bannon, along with three codefendants — Brian Kolfage, an Air Force vet who became a triple-amput ee serving in the Iraq War; Andrew Badolato, a longtime Bannon associate; and Timothy Shea, who helped Kolfage establish “We Build the Wall,” the campaign said to be at the center of the alleged fraud scheme.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticGrand Central Publishing has acquired actor Andrew McCarthy’s memoir Brat: An ‘80s Story, set for publication in Spring 2021.“For years people have asked me, on a near daily basis, ‘What was it like back in the day?’,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Routinely, I’d offer up any number of stock responses.

Actor-writer-director Andrew McCarthy, a 57-year-old father of three, keeps getting asked about his “Brat Pack” years in the 1980s.

NEW YORK -- Actor-writer-director Andrew McCarthy, a 57-year-old father of three, keeps getting asked about his “Brat Pack” years in the 1980s. He is now ready to answer.

Emilio Estevez hates the fact he will always be referred to as a member of the Brat Pack.