has aged, but so have the viewers who once watched him as teenagers. That makes reunions and retrospective discussions emotional in ways that have little to do with appearance alone. The movies can function as markers of personal history.
In discussions about the enduring significance of the Brat Pack era, McCarthy has suggested that his generation of films represents coming of age for many viewers. People were often watching those characters while experiencing their own adolescence and young adulthood. When those audiences see the actors again decades later, they may
