McCarthy with one of the most persistent labels of his career: the “Brat Pack.” The phrase became widely associated with a group of young Hollywood actors after a 1985 New York magazine article by journalist David Blum. Rather than being a formal group that regularly met or worked together under that name, the “Brat Pack” was largely a media construction. McCarthy has repeatedly said that the label felt dismissive and damaging at the time. He believed it reduced a collection of individual actors to a caricature involving youth, privilege, celebrity,
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