Comments Talking to Andrew McCarthy, the star of iconic 1980s movies like Pretty In Pink, Less Than Zero and St. Elmo's Fire is a bit like talking to a teenage bedroom poster that somehow magically answers back. Andrew McCarthy's face is just so iconic, so wrapped up in a particular time and place, that for people who came of age in that totally awesome decade he'll always be a cultural marker, an echo they'll carry with them as long as they live. He knows it too and in recent years the 58-year-old has been calmly making his peace with it, as he makes clear in his beautifully written new memoir Brat: An 80's Story.