Word: brat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elmo's Fire with the film's director, Joel Schumacher. We attempted to show what life is like for people in their early 20s, when many of them come to grips with their adult identities. The actors who starred in that movie did not become the so-called Brat Pack until after the movie was made and the media had labeled them as such. I did not fully realize the harm of this term until I read your article on new young stars, with its chart updating the careers of the stars of St. Elmo's Fire. What...
...current decade really will be venerated by future chroniclers of pop culture, it may well be because the '90s have produced an appealing stable of new actors who stand in smart contrast to the so-called Brat Pack of the '80s, the cliquish band of young stars that included Nelson, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and various sons of Martin Sheen. The '90s newcomers also provide a downtown alternative to married-with-children superstars like Demi Moore or Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and a handful of others, all in their 20s and early 30s, share...
...kids have successfully styled themselves away from comparisons to the Brat Pack, they have also distinguished themselves from prior generations of movie stars. They don't have the smoldering rebelliousness of '50s stars like Brando, Clift and Dean. Nor are they throwbacks to the glamorous Hollywood stars of the '30s and '40s. What this generation has done is create its own kind of understated, unaffected sophistication-Bette Davis and Cary Grant in mussed bobs and basketball sneakers. These actors have nothing against grownups; they're just not ready to be them...
Maxwell is, quite simply, another spoiled brat that today's sports-craving society built. As the media whirlwind that is the O.J. Simpson trial has made painfully clear, we manufacture our sports heros to be larger than life, and we don't expect them to falter...
...Chicago-based alternative-rock quartet Veruca Salt is named after a character in the children's book Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, a spoiled brat who is thrown down a garbage chute by 99 angry squirrels. It's a provocative name because there are a lot of whiny alternative bands that deserve to be disposed of the same...