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  BBC - Kingdom Hospital - Andrew McCarthy star page
Andrew McCarthy made his screen debut at 19 in 1983's Class with Jacqueline Bissett, and gained fame in a string of commercial hits throughout the rest of the 1980s including St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Mannequin, Less Than Zero and the cult favorite Weekend at Bernie's.
McCarthy was born in New York City and currently resides in the city with his wife and kids.
Andrew McCarthy was one of Hollywood's 'brat pack' in the 80s and starred in the films Mannequin, St Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink.
www.bbc.co.uk /cult/kingdomhospital/stars/mccarthy.shtml   (270 words)

  
 Stars of the '80s: Andrew McCarthy
One of four brothers, Andrew McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey on November 29, 1962 and at age 15 moved to Bernardsville, NJ, where he began appearing in plays at the Pingry prep school.
This proved to be the high point of McCarthy's film career; for the remainder of the decade he made a series of films that were less well-received by critics and audiences alike.
McCarthy's hometown of Westfield, NJ was also the childhood home of actress Meryl Streep.
eightiesclub.tripod.com /id437.htm   (603 words)

  
 The Brat Pack - The Pack - Andrew McCarthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Andrew McCarthy grew up in New Jersey until he was 15, he then moved to Bernardsville.
Andrew married actress and his college sweetheart Carol Schneider, they also have a son.
Andrew still works today and the latest news is that he will be reprising his role as Larry Wilson for Weekend At Bernie's 3.
www.thebratpacksite.com /andrewmccarthy.html   (198 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy at Hollywood Cult Movies
Andrew married his college sweetheart, Carol Schneider, nearly 20 years after they first met.
Two yuppie ladder-climbers (Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman) are ready for a weekend party at their boss's beach house, but when he's bumped off by gangsters they have to carry the body around and pretend he's alive in order to salvage the bash.
Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman are back in the leads, this time taking their expired boss Bernie to the Virgin Islands for a wild caper that leads to the corpse's rejuvenation by a voodoo spell.
www.hollywoodcultmovies.com /html/andrew_mccarthy.html   (725 words)

  
 80sxchange.com: 80's Biographies: Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy brought a rare element of class to the Brat Pack.
While socially, he was in with the rest of the crew living it up in L.A., on the screen he had a presence which always managed to bring an extra layer of depth to his characters.
McCarthy has also appeared in a few European films by director Claude Chabrol.
www.80sxchange.com /bios/andrew_mccarthy.html   (318 words)

  
 Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McCarthy also made major contributions to the prosecutions of the bombers of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Millennium plot attack Los Angeles International Airport.
McCarthy supervised the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City, coordinating investigative and preventive efforts with numerous federal and state law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
McCarthy is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Justice Department's highest honors: the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award (1996) and Distinguished Service Award (1988).
www.defenddemocracy.org /biographies/biographies_show.htm?doc_id=239506   (364 words)

  
 Looking For Andrew McCarthy by Jenny Colgan | PopMatters Book Review
Ellie is so caught up in that very fantasy, the fantasy of living happily ever after with McCarthy, who she calls, "the coolest, wisest, most inspirational Brat Packer of them all" that it's all she ever talks about with her friends and thinks about when on her own.
Her life is so full of McCarthyism that she decides to travel all the way from London to America to find him and ask him why her life isn't as perfect as he pledged.
McCarthy is raised, in the book, to God-like status, the Holy Grail of Holy Grails for a couple of film fans desperate to find answers in their changing lives.
www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/l/looking-for-andrew-mccarthy.shtml   (1784 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Night of the Running Man (1994) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Andrew McCarthy plays a cabdriver who picks up a passenger who has a million dollars in his suitcase.
One bad mistake that McCarthy made which put Scott Glenn, the hitman onto him was telling this waitress at a diner where he was going so the hitman could force the truth out of her later on.
McCarthy goes to hospital and the hitman is always on his tail.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303427472?v=glance   (1164 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy
It was a lightning-quick rise to the top for New Jersey native Andrew McCarthy, but the brat packer was destined to be a star of the 80s.
The film was released in the summer of 1985 to a gross of $37.8 million and launched the group of actors that would forever be known by a title the media gave them: The Brat Pack.
In a bizarre twist, the film that almost brought Andrew McCarthy back revolved around two young men dragging a corpse around a beach for the movie's duration.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/where_are_they_now/47363   (545 words)

  
 Andrew D. McCarthy, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Andrew D. McCarthy, MD, is currently the  assistant medical director for Neurologic Programs at NRH.
He joined NRH on April 15,1988, as an associate physician on the Brain Injury Unit and became the medical director on January 1, 1993. His clinical and research interests include traumatic brain injury, post-neurosurgical rehabilitation, multiple sclerosis, headache, dementia and other cognitive behavioral disorders, as well as general neurology.
McCarthy did his neurology residency as well as his medical school training at Georgetown University finishing his undergraduate medical education in 1983 and his neurology training in 1987. He also spent one and a half years in private practice (July 1987 till December 1988) at Easton Memorial Hospital in Easton, Maryland.
www.nrhrehab.org /body.cfm?id=145   (174 words)

  
 WEEKEND AT BERNIES at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman make an excellent comedic duo playing off each over with expert timing.
McCarthy and Silverman play Larry Wilson and Richard Parker, two New York office workers who are desperate to make their way up the corporate ladder.
It is interesting to note that former Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy was originally offered the Jonathan Silverman role but on reading the script he opted to take on the more hyperactive and involving role of his friend.
www.hollywoodteenmovies.com /WeekendAtBernies.html   (640 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy Appreciation Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This page is also dedicated to the many adoring fans whom without their curiosity and need to find out more about Andrew, and his films, this website would not have been created.
Andrew has also taken on several newer roles in films such as "The Sight", "Jackie Bouvier-Kennedy", "Nowhere in Sight", "Diggity- A Home Away", "Straight from the Heart", "2 Be Perfectly Honest", "Anything But Love" and the Steven King TV drama series "Kingdom Hospital."
So if you are a fan, or just have a natural curiosity of who Andrew McCarthy is, please take some time to sit back and enjoy the many facets of his career by visiting the many links provided for your viewing.
andrewmccarthy.net   (373 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey.
When he was 15, he moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where he attended a prep school, The Pingry School, where he performed in plays/musicals and played basketball.
Andrew has also appeared in several on and off Broadway shows.
www.tv.com /andrew-mccarthy/person/25690/summary.html   (115 words)

  
 Mannequin Movie with Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall @ The 80's Movies Rewind -- Home of 80s Movies
This is Andrew McCarthy in one of the roles that made him a downtrodden 80's legend.
Originally the lead part was written to be an older, lonely storekeeper, with Dudley Moore in mind for the role, but when Andrew McCarthy came on board, the part was rewritten to be the part of a young artist.
Prior to Mannequin, Andrew McCarthy and James Spader acted together in "Pretty in Pink".
www.fast-rewind.com /mannequin.htm   (1647 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Andrew McCarthy discusses his alcoholism
Andrew McCarthy can admit now that he wasn't exactly in the pink while shooting the movie "Pretty in Pink."
The actor says he had a serious drinking problem at the height of his Brat Pack fame in the '80s, but he still managed to function -- and fool everyone.
McCarthy went through a detox program and has been sober since 1992.
www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/03/26/andrew_mccarthy_discusses_his_alcoholism?mode=PF   (238 words)

  
 An Introduction to English Morphology; ; Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.
He explains the various ways in which words are related to one another, and shows how the history of the English language has affected word structure.
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy teaches linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/074861/0748613277.HTM   (141 words)

  
 News - Andrew McCarthy Fired from 'Law & Order'
Pretty In Pink star Andrew McCarthy has been fired from the set of hit American drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent after falling out with show regular Vincent D'Onofrio.
The 1980s movie pin-up was supposed to guest star in two episodes of the show, but series creator Dick Wolf gave him his marching orders when he failed to work amicably with the star.
McCarthy engaged in fractious behavior from the moment he walked on the set." An angry McCarthy fires back, "I was fired because I refused to allow a fellow actor to threaten me with physical violence, bully me and try to direct me."
www.starswelove.com /scriptsphp/news.php?newsid=2954   (172 words)

  
 Class Movie with Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe @ The 80's Movies Rewind -- Home of 80s Movies
Set at an upscale Illinois prep school, "Vernon Academy", Andrew McCarthy plays 'Jonathan', a somewhat geeky, sensitive student from a modest background on a scholarship who joins the school to become the roommate of 'Skip' played by Rob Lowe.
Skip is the son of a well known and wealthy family who is clearly rebelling against the very strict order and structure his successful and wealthy father is trying to push on him.
Ellen (Jacqueline Bisset) finds out Jonathon (Andrew McCarthy) is a student at Vernon Academy when his wallet falls out of his jacket pocket in the Burberry`s store.
www.fast-rewind.com /class.htm   (1276 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy
A member the so-called Brat Pack of '80s Hollywood teen stars, McCarthy was usually cast as a good-guy leading man, basically sincere underneath his brooding teen angst.
In 1989, McCarthy formed a winning comedy team with Jonathan Silverman for the goofy farce Weekend at Bernie's, a surprisingly funny hit.
In 2004, McCarthy was cast as surgeon Dr. Hook in the ABC horror miniseries Kingdom Hospital.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+46943   (332 words)

  
 Prof Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy - Linguistics - School of Classics and Linguistics - University of Canterbury
Andrew's first degree was in Literae Humaniores (philosophy, ancient history, and Latin and Greek language and literature) at Oxford.
After seven years as a civil servant in London, he resumed work on a PhD on inflectional morphology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (thanks to a Senior Studentship from the Leverhulme Trust) and finished it in 1981.
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy has research interests in morphology (particularly inflectional morphology), language change, and the origin and evolution of language.
www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz /people/carstairs.shtml   (1552 words)

  
 Welcome to my guest book.
When I was 13yo I discovered Andrew McCarthy and from then on, throughout my teens, I drove my mother insane keeping scrapbooks, magazine cuttings even the popcorn boxes from when I went to see his movies, particularly "Mannequin" (that she had to take me to multiple times).
Comments: i had an andrew mccarthy viewing, yesterday...i went to see the play 'the glass menagerie,' in which he was starring, at the A.R.T, in cambridge, ma, and on the way in, there he was on his cell phone outside...just like the movies...so cool but yet not so untouchable.
I don't know what it is about andrew that i like i guess if i had to choose its the way he puts his lips together when he closes his mouth but im definatly charmed by his smile and eyes.
members.aol.com /mopat1/guests.html   (8099 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Year of the Gun [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1978 Italy, anarchy is in the air as the Red Brigades keep the country in a state of terror.
Though not on a par with The Manchurian Candidate or Seven Days in May, Year of the Gun is a decent action film that goes a long way toward capturing the political and social chaos that was '70s Italy.
Andrew McCarthy, John Pankow, and Sharon Stone all deliver somewhat lifeless performances.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302320763   (931 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy (Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie) performed the roles of Jamie in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and Brother in Horton Foote's The Death of Papa at Hartford Stage.
McCarthy recently headlined the Broadway and Kennedy Center run of the Tony Award-winning Side Man and appeared off-Broadway in Psychopathia Sexualis.
McCarthy recently portrayed Robert Kennedy in the CBS miniseries Jackie: A Life, and has appeared in many other television films.
www.amrep.org /people/mccarthy.html   (100 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Weekend at Bernie's II (1993): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy return as hapless businessmen who flee to the Virgin Islands after being accused of embezzlement.
McCarthy is annoyingly mannered, Silverman is on auto-pilot, and the visual jokes--all based on one form of desecration or another--do not strike any resonant fl-comedy chords.
Our old friends Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman), accused of being accomplices, found the key and once again are off to the islands.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005QT9P?v=glance   (963 words)

  
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This page was made for Andrew McCarthy, the star of some of my all time favourite movies from the 80s including Less Than Zero, where the character Blair is featured!...as well as Pretty in Pink, St.Elmo's Fire and Mannequin.
Andrew still continues to act today and does work on and off of Broadway!
I find it endearing that he is not vain, does not publicize himself much in the limelight...that makes him remarkable for being in the world he is in...
artistgirl.bravepages.com /AndrewMcCarthy.htm   (410 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Looking for Andrew McCarthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Colgan's trademark storytelling techniques are present, fans will be pleased to learn: her easy to read narrative, witty (and often ironic) humour complements the feel-good tale of a thirty-something girl on a quest for answers about life, and why it didn't turn out quite how she had hoped.
Often nostalgic about her adolescant years - the nineteen eighties - she ponders the movies she grew up with and wonders why it is that all the promises they held never quite made it into her life.
I loved her first two novels but Looking For Andrew McCarthy is load of twaddle.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007105533   (829 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The story of Ali G, aka Sacha Baron Cohen, crashing Pamela Anderson's dog's wedding sounds a bit too good to be true, no? Sacha was in his hilarious character of Borat from Kazakhstan, who also nearly caused a riot at a rodeo when he sang the National Anthem last January.
The problem you’ve highlighted (with that nice fellow from the UN coming over to tell you folks how you should run your country) is the same one we dealt with here yesterday, in the context of the Muslim Uighurs from China being held at Gitmo.
Andrew, sometimes analogies are tricky -- so tricky they ought to be avoided simply for the sake of not driving people berserk.
corner.nationalreview.com /05_08_21_corner-archive.asp   (11122 words)

  
 Andrew McCarthy Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr, James Spader, Tony Bill, Nicholas Pryor, Donna Mitchell, Michael Bowen, Sarah Buxton, Lisanne Falk.
Starring Liane Balaban, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Walsh, Nicholas Campbell, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Cathy Moriarty, Sue Dalton, Darren Keay, Cassie MacDonald, Krista MacDonald.
Starring Teri Polo, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Kalember, Greg Evigan, Christine Tucci, David Atkinson, J Kenneth Campbell, David Jean Thomas, Richard Gross.
www.tv-now.com /stars/mccarthy.html   (556 words)

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