knew exactly who Andrew McCarthy was. He developed a directing career without abandoning acting entirely. He wrote books ranging from memoir to young-adult fiction. And he eventually confronted a label he had spent decades wishing would disappear.
His story also illustrates how misleading the concept of effortless celebrity can be. A magazine photograph can make fame look natural. A romantic movie can make an actor appear confident and emotionally composed. A red-carpet photograph can suggest that the person smiling for cameras is completely comfortable being watched. McCarthy’s own testimony complicates
