Episode Details

“I had a great day in Cambodia, and I was like, ‘Oh my god I’m so happy right now.’ I had no idea what I was doing, or what I would discover, and I just trusted that I would be OK.” –Andrew McCarthy

In this episode of Deviate Rolf and Andrew discuss his relationship with interviews and the origin of the Brat Pack (3:30); fear and journaling in the time of pandemic, and treasured possessions (12:30); regrets, and artistic truth (23:00); writing as a way of thinking, and what Andrew values in his friends (29:00); and happiness, quarantine-reading, The Great Gatsby, and coming to terms with ones youthful success (38:00).

Andrew McCarthy (@AndrewTMcCarthy), who rose to fame as a teen actor during the John Hughes 80’s era, is a television director and writer of such books as The Long Way Home and Just Fly Away. 

Notable Links:

• Proust Questionnaire (set of interview questions)
• Confession album (19th century autograph book)
• Pretty in Pink (1986 film)
• St. Elmo’s Fire (1985 film)
• Camino de Santiago (pilgrimage route)
• Weekend at Bernie’s (1989 film)
• “Hollywood’s Brat Pack,” by David Blum (article)
• Brat Pack (group of young actors in the 1980s)
• Mannequin (1987 film)
• Emilio Estevez (actor)
• George Carlin on “stuff” (comedy routine)
• Off the Road, by Jack Hitt (travel book)
• Joan Didion (American author)
• The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr (book)

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