{"id":11349,"date":"2021-04-27T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:19:22","slug":"what-the-hell-is-going-on-and-how-did-i-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/27\/what-the-hell-is-going-on-and-how-did-i-get-here\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cwhat-the-hell-is-going-on-and-how-did-I-get-here\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew McCarthy Recalls the Heady Days of the Brat Pack<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Pretty in Pink<\/em> and St. Elmo\u2019s Fire<\/em> star has a new memoir, Brat: An \u201980s Story.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0ANDREW MCCARTHY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lowe, Tom Cruise, and Estevez at the 1982 premiere of\u00a0In the Custody of Strangers. BY FRANK EDWARDS\/FOTOS INTERNATIONAL\/GETTY IMAGES.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It had been narrowed down<\/strong>\u00a0to four actors for the two lead roles. We were broken into pairs. I was teamed with an impossibly handsome young actor named Rob Lowe who was auditioning to play my rich roommate and the son of the woman with whom my character would have an affair. The film was called\u00a0Class.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was back in the dizzy and disorienting world of \u201cwhat-the-hell-is-going-on-and-how-did-I-get-here,\u201d which suited my character perfectly. Rob and I were sent off to spend an hour together in an effort to create chemistry while the other pair of actors were put through their paces. We wandered through the nearby Water Tower Place, where I was soon to shoot a memorable (at least to me) love scene in a glass elevator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob had recently costarred in his first film, Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s soon to be released movie adaptation of\u00a0The Outsiders.<\/em>\u00a0He held forth from a place of Hollywood experience as we drifted over the polished marble of the mall, killing time. He spoke of Tom and Matt and pasta dinners with Francis. I was unsure just who he was talking about, but nodded my head anyway. I wondered how much of Rob\u2019s banter was simply whistling in the dark and how much was a belief in his destiny, while another part of me simply envied his apparent ease and confidence. I said little. While a charming bravado may have been Rob\u2019s preferred method of making himself ready, mine was to go quiet and become hyper-observant\u2014both of those around me and of myself. I don\u2019t believe either one of us thought to actually rehearse the scenes together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Vanity Fair Andrew McCarthy Recalls the Heady Days of the Brat Pack The Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo\u2019s Fire star has a new memoir, Brat: An \u201980s Story. BY\u00a0ANDREW MCCARTHY It had been narrowed down\u00a0to four actors for the two lead roles. We were broken into pairs. I was teamed with an impossibly handsome young actor named Rob […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}