Name a Brat-Pack Star Day: POO

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Patrick Dempsey

― LQ Kennedy, Sunday, 2 March 2003 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Rob Lowe (obv.)

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Cory Feldman

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally Sheedy

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 2 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Mare Winningham

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 2 March 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sloth

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 2 March 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeffrey Jones

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Proper ones, Ned.

― Clipped, Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt Dillon

― Clipped, Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew McCarthy

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Proper ones, Ned.

He was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he is therefore a star.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

James Spader, of course.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Suddenly I have James Spader hair, so seconded.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ione Skye

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr Blasphemy

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Semantics, semantics - when what really matters is the quest to list true Brat-Pack Stars. Proper ones, Ned ...

Ralph Macchio.

― Jagdish Tish, Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

mare w. was a most unlikely movie star

demi moore

― ron (ron), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Happy Birthday, Ned.

― Roy Blows, Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Matthew Modine

― 'arry flute, Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

JUDD NELSON

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Emilio Estevez

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

C. Thomas Howell

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Molly Ringwald

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Ferris Bueller , it turns out FERRIS HONORS THE FIRE! In a tiny snippet, Ferris is seen parping tunelessly on a clarinet (just before bolding proclaiming, "Never Had one Lesson!). In the background hangs the poster from the 12" single of Killing Joke's "Kings & Queens." FACT!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 March 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony Michael Hall

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god. Now I'm going to have to put on Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This is not good, I'm supposed to be doing a midterm for polisci and an essay for L&R. Instead I am honoring the fire. Fuck.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Charlie Sheen in Ferris?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

John Cusack (peripherally)

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Eric Stolz

― Si, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Frank Whaley (again, peripherally)

― Heidel Bone, Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Frank Whaley.....erstwhile drummer of fantabulously rocktastic local NYC band, The Niagras!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 March 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god. Now I'm going to have to put on Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

As well everyone should, on a semi-regular basis. Not constant, though, that's overindulgence.

Among other things, Ferris also loved Cab Voltaire and the Sisters of Mercy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember the Cabaret Volatire poster, but not the Sisters. He also had a Simple Minds poster and a Bryan Ferry poster. Bit of an Anglophile, our Ferris.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

John Cryer, who starred in 'Pretty in Pink', and later in 'Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God... Be Back By Five', where one of his Brat-Pack co-stars was Frank Whaley. I've never seen the film, but imagine it may be the peripheral Brat-Pack equivalent to DeNiro and Pacino in 'Heat'.

― Tanis, Monday, 3 March 2003 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I nearly confused C. Thomas Howell with former ECW person CW Anderson there. Not sure why.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 3 March 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Kevin Bacon and Patrick Swayze, perhaps some of the most succesful post the era. (Matthew Broderick was alluded to, of course, and he too has been one of the most succesful). Those who've perhaps been most succesful, in order:

1)Tom Cruise
2)Brad Pitt
3)Julia Roberts
4)Kevin Bacon
5)Keanu Reeves
6)Sean Penn
7)Demi Moore
8)John Cusack
9)Matthew Broderick
10)Timothy Hutton
11)Robert Downey Jr.
12)Matt Dillon
13)James Spader

Under used:

1)Patrick Dempsey
2)Molly Ringwald
3)Iian Mitchell-Smith
4)Chris Makepeace

Brit-Packers:
1)Hugh Grant
2)Daniel Day-Lewis
3)Rupert Everett
4)Kristin Scott Thomas
5)Ralph Fiennes
6)Jeremy Irons (possibly)
7)Dexter Fletcher
8)Julian Sands
9)Rupert Graves
10)James Wilby

― Stills Department, Monday, 3 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

The Coreys (Feldman and Haim)!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Jason Patric.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

was river phoenix?
and johnny depp (he surely should be in the list of success??

― monty, Monday, 3 March 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Keither Sutherland

― Owen, Monday, 3 March 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Donovan Leitch

― Keen Filter, Monday, 3 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

If Johnny Depp is allowed then we'll have to have Richard Grieco!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Donovan Leitch seems a bit too young to be a Brat Packer, no?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Martha Plimpton and Leaf (Joaquin) Phoenix - both in Running on Empty.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew McCarthy
Patrick Dempsey for "Can't Buy Me Love" one of the greatest movies ever.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Should Brad Pitt be allowed?

― chris (chris), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael J. Fox, surely!

― Max, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Charlie Estevez and Emilio Sheen surely!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Charlie, Emilio and Patrick D and Andrew McC have all been mentioned before. Do your research kids!

I learned my lesson after repeating Corey Feldman (although I spelled it correctly so maybe that was allowed?)

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

definitely Nic Cage - has he been mentioned?

― jam, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

E-D-I-T F-I-N-D!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Robert Sean Leonard

― ablutions, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

He wasn't really a Brat-Packer though, was he? If he was we'd have to start including people like Ethan Hawke. When we stretch the boundaries ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

They've already been stretched pretty far ... this is the first I've heard "Brat Pack" used to refer to actors beyond the original coinage of "the stars of Breakfast Club and St Elmo's Fire."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe, but these are some other movies i saw at the time and now associate with the brat-pack movement:

'The Famingo Kid'
'Taps'
'Pretty in Pink'
'That Was Then, This is Now' Emilio Estevez
'Some Kind of Wonderful' Eric Stolz, Lea Thompson
'The Outsiders'
'1969', starring Robert Downey Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland
'Weird Science'
'Kansas', starring Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy
'Can't Buy me Love'
'16 Candles'
'Risky Business'
'One Wild Night', with Frank Whaley
'About Last Night' Rob Lowe
'Mannequin'with Andrew McCarthy
'Young Guns'
'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck
'Renegades' with Lou Diamond Phillips and Kiefer Sutherland
'Bright Lights, Big City'Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates
'Footloose'

― hugh, Monday, 3 March 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Billy Crudup

― Bet, Saturday, 5 July 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Sir John Gielgud

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 5 July 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

George Alagiah

― Jamming Salon, Saturday, 5 July 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Tim Robbins

― reportage plod, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

William McNamara

― nubile blur, Monday, 26 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Charlie Schlatter

― nubile blur, Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Stephen Dorff in The Gate

― hugh, Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

ferris bueller's day off is on hbo 2 as we speak!

― nervous (cochere), Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

but still i pick molly ringwald

― nervous (cochere), Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I thought I knew who the Brat Pack were until I read this thread. Now I have no idea.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

oh wow alex was right theres a killing joke poster right there

― nervous (cochere), Saturday, 18 March 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Could Annie Potts be considered an honorary Brat Packer via her costarring turn in Pretty In Pink? She was fabulous as Andie's (Molly Ringwald's character's) co-worker and guiding light. I remember when she let Andie use her old prom dress and Andie deconstructed it to make something totally, uniquely her. I also remember Duckie, i.e. Jon Cryer, and I think the highlight of Andrew McCarthy's career was playing the "he's so good-looking but he's also got a weird name" character of Blaine. "Blaine? You're going out with a guy named Blaine?" And remember Harry Dean Stanton as Andie's alcoholic father? And James Spader as King Jerk? I need to play this movie NOW.

(Picking one Brat Packer? Today I pick Jon Cryer, because no matter what he does in life, he is and always will be The Duckman. Cue shoe shimmy now.)

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 18 March 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Judge Reinhold?

― sgs (sgs), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I've just realised I LOVE Kevin Bacon.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 18 March 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Jami Gertz

― earlnash, Sunday, 19 March 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Craig Sheffer

― earlnash, Sunday, 9 April 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Ferris Bueller , it turns out FERRIS HONORS THE FIRE! In a tiny snippet, Ferris is seen parping tunelessly on a clarinet (just before bolding proclaiming, "Never Had one Lesson!). In the background hangs the poster from the 12" single of Killing Joke's "Kings & Queens." FACT!

I noticed this too!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

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