CBS News Andrew McCarthy: No longer running from his youth If, as the wise man said, you live your life going forward but understand it looking backward, then Andrew McCarthy is understanding a lot more about his life these days. The actor who starred in a string of '80s movies is out with a book ["Brat: An '80s Story," published by Simon & Schuster, a division of Viacom/CBS], examining the years this charter member of the "Brat Pack" was just getting started, hitting it big on the West Coast while still living the life of a starving artist in New York's Greenwich Village.