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Article: Anthony Michael Hall and the geek mystique Years after the Brat Pack, he's back - in a cable-TV movie about the rise of Bill Gates
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1999
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In a moment of deja vu, you might glimpse him on the street, a
blur of fair skin, reddish-brown hair, eyes of steel. And you might
wonder "Who is that guy?" as strains of a bittersweet 1980s pop song
swell in the back of your mind. "Don't you . . . forget about me . .
." And before long your memory, that quicksand of celebrity
has-beens and will-bes and woulda-coulda-shoulda-beens, will convulse
and explode and, finally, give it up: He's Anthony Michael Hall.
Once the rail-thin jester of the 1980s Brat Pack, once the geek
icon who brought his wiry energy to "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen
Candles," Anthony Michael Hall is now a vaguely familiar face on a
city street. His features ...