Looking For Andrew McCarthy
Strangely enough, the title of this post is also the name of a book by Jenny Colgan, which was published back in 2001 in the U.K. The 30-year old heroine in the novel (which just screams "chick lit" to me) travels to America to find out what happened to one of her movie idols from the 1980s.Brat Pack star Andrew McCarthy was in some of the biggest films of the decade: St. Elmo's Fire, Class, Less Than Zero, and Kansas. My favorite was his role as Blane, the nice, rich kid Blane in Pretty In Pink, opposite Molly Ringwald. He played opposite Philadelphia department store dummy Kim Catrall in Mannequin. And, to this day, I still laugh when I watch Weekend At Bernie's.
In 1996, he starred as Rockefeller Center gardener Richard Reilly in The Christmas Tree. On his official website, there's a picture of him with co-star Julie Harris and director Sally Field, along with a brief anecdote about the role. Just click here and scroll down to find and click on the movie title.
Since then, he's had a lot of stage roles, moved into directing, and still acts on the big & small screens, most recently in two TV series, "E-Ring" and "Kingdom Hospital". The gal from that British book likely found him alive, well, and, I hope, happy.
(Photo courtesy of Mary at Andrew McCarthy.net-thanks!!)
posted by Paul Bobnak @ 12:46 PM
6 Comments:
I was soo excited to find this site. I played Sister Margaret in Tree. I still keep in touch with some of the cast and crew. I will forward this on to them. I would love to see this air again. It was an amazing project to work on.
Kathleen McEntee
Kathleen:
I would appreciate any help you can provide, and thank you for letting others know about this quest!
I am so thrilled to see that
Sister Margaret responded to this
Free "the Christmas Tree website!!!
as I said I watched the movie in 1996 and loved it!! I expected I'd be able to see the movie every year
and my mother and I check the TV listings EVERY year hoping to see
"the Christmas Tree". It was a beautiful movie and I truly hope it is someday a yearly tradition
on the 25 days of Christmas TV airings. But the best will be when it is released on DVD! It is
a must have for any holiday library.
Helen Leicht
I too love "The Christmas Tree". I'm fortunate that my husband found it for me on eBay - just someone's video cassette recording of it. I watch it at least once a year - commercials and all. I DO hope that it'll be on DVD SOON!!
I saw this movie on TV and have been searching for it ever since. I'm so glad to see that I didn't just imagine it :) I hope that it eventually comes out on DVD. It's one of the best Christmas movies ever made!
I have also been looking every year. I only caught it on t.v once and before we had pause on t.v so tried my best to watch it without intruptions which was almost impossible with young children now grown adults who remembers me reading them the book.
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