For quite some time in the 1980s, anyone who went to see a coming-of-age film could expect two or three of eight specific actors to be billed. These actors were Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy, otherwise known as the Brat Pack. The name was a riff on the Rat Pack from the 1950s, and it was first used in an article called "Hollywood's Brat Pack," written by David Blum, which appeared in a 1985 issue of New York Magazine.

The article shook Tinseltown. Some of the actors weren't thrilled with the appellation, and a handful of others mentioned in the original article managed to escape membership (Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, and Matthew Broderick, for example, were all named, but in retrospect ar

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