September 13 - Where Are They Now? Wednesday - Weekend at Bernie's 3?

This week’s WHERE ARE THEY NOW? WEDNESDAY is Andrew McCarthy.

Mr. McCarthy was a member of the 80’s group, known as the Brat Pack. The "Brat Pack" frequently appeared together in teen-oriented films. The name "Brat Pack" came from a 1985 cover story in New York Magazine by David Blum (June 10, 1985, pp. 40-47). The term is a play on the Rat Pack from the 1960s.

The eight people most commonly included in the Brat Pack are:

• Emilio Estevez


• Anthony Michael Hall


• Rob Lowe


• Andrew McCarthy


• Demi Moore


• Judd Nelson


• Molly Ringwald


• Ally Sheedy

Mike Tyson once said, “I guess I’m gonna fade into Bolivian”. Others in the Brat Pack may have fallen further into “Bolivian” than Andy McCarthy, but I lost track of him after the 1993 movie, Weekend at Bernie’s II.

Andy’s other films of note include:

Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Less Than Zero (1987)
Mannequin (1987)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

When I looked at his bio on his web site, I learned that Andy started smoking during the filming of St. Elmo's Fire (his character smoked). Andy has since quit. I also learned that he is an avid and competent pool player. That’s cool, because no one wants to play with an avid yet incompetent pool player.

Andy married Carol Schneider on October 9, 1999. Apparently all of those people that thought he was gay were wrong. It was only a 37-year phase he was going through. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

What peeked my interest in Andrew McCarthy is I originally thought I saw him doing political commentary on MSNBC. Turns out it was Tucker Carlson (on the left), his obvious twin.

So where is Andrew McCarthy?

According to his official web site, McCarthy travels extensively. He has walked across Spain, gone down the Amazon River, traversed through much of Africa and Southeast Asia. An avid kayaker, (it didn’t say if he was also competent), he has paddled in Artic Norway, Alaska, the Pacific and his home waters of the Hudson River off Manhattan. Sounds like he lost his license to drive.

While trying to locate Mr. McCarthy, I found something I would file under the, “Get a Life” category. A woman named Mary has designed an Andrew McCarthy Appreciation Site.