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Article: Join the club: Midlife crisis common among women and men, as the Brat Pack can tell you
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 8, 2005
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In 1985, Demi Moore was a fledgling actress who co-starred in "St.
Elmo's Fire" -- a film about seven college graduates and their
difficult transition into the real world.
Moore and some of her co-stars were quickly dubbed the Brat Pack -
- twentysomething actors who often had little acting experience but
snagged major roles playing spoiled twentysomething characters.
Director Joel Schumacher once described the movie as "a story
about people just like you and me, only better looking."
Fast forward 20 years. The actors are still better looking than
the rest of us. But after a decade or more commanding some of the
highest salaries in Hollywood, Moore is middle-aged, on her third
marriage ...