This Hollywood star’s real-life story is far more gripping than any of his movies

This Hollywood star’s real-life story is far more gripping than any of his movies

He grew up feeling like an outsider, then woke up one day as the face of a decade. Andrew McCarthy’s rise from lonely New Jersey kid to Brat Pack royalty looked effortless from the outside: starring roles, magazine covers, screaming fans. Yet the attention that made studios rich made him recoil. Alcohol dulled the fear, then slowly took everything else with it. By his late twenties, he was shaking, broken, and terrified of the person he’d become.