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Article: Brat Pack hunk is back in business; KINGDOM HOSPITAL Sunday, BBC2, 10pm
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- May 29, 2004
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During the 1980s The Brat Pack ruled our cinema screens. Everyone
had their favourite, whether it was Demi Moore or Molly Ringwald, Rob
Lowe or Emilio Estevez, to name just four of the famous faces.
Two decades on and a few names have dropped off the radar -
Ringwald seems to have disappeared, and so, we thought, had Andrew
McCarthy.
Although the actor has been beavering away in the US, UK audiences
have barely had a glimpse of him for years.
Now back on UK screens with Stephen King's cult mini-series
Kingdom Hospital, which has just started on BBC2 and 3 on Sundays, he
reveals that despite his success during the Brat Pack years, at the
height of his fame he was struggling with a drink ...