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'Brat Pack' gang to reunite for Andrew McCarthy's Hulu doc

Explore More Remember them? The ’80s-era “Brat Packers” are reuniting for a new Hulu documentary called, appropriately enough, “Brats.” Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez, among others, will all be featured in the new project. It will be “a revealing look at the cultural phenomenon they became in the 1980s and how that has impacted their lives ever since,” according to Deadline. The documentary will premiere later this year and will be written and directed by McCarthy, whose 2021 memoir was titled “Brat: An ’80s Story.

'Deep River,' by Karl Marlantes book review

A decade ago, American fiction writers had finally begun to reckon with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, packing their observations into taut, gemlike and ironic short stories and novels. Karl Marlantes didn’t get cc’d on that itinerary for post-9/11 fiction. Instead, in 2010 he delivered “Matterhorn,” a heaving 600-page epic about the Vietnam War that was largely about the plodding, crushing effort of a company of Marines to reclaim control of a mountaintop base.

A link between fish and four-legged animals

Scientists have discovered the pelvis of Tiktaalik roseae, which suggests the creature had strong, mobile hind fins. Remains of a 375-million-year-old fossil with front appendages — which had fins but also hefty shoulder and wrist bones — were first found in 2004. The new discovery suggests that hind limbs first developed in fish, not in land-dwelling animals.Read related article. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7uK3SoaCnn6Sku7G70q1lnKedZLuiwMiopZqkX52yorjToWSsm5mau6SxjppkpaGeoHqjsdOwnJ6mXZu2tLSMmqWdZZakwrN5y56eoJ2UYq6vtcyao6xnYmV%2BdXuPamZqa1%2BXfaV9l25rb2VnmK96eZBqnGxlaWiwcnmPnm9xcGFsfaODkWyWoKqRpbWqr42hq6ak

Actress Lani O'Grady Dies at 46

LOS ANGELES -- Lani O'Grady, 46, who played Mary, the strong, self-confident eldest daughter on the television series "Eight Is Enough," was found dead Sept. 25 in her home in Valencia, Calif. Authorities say Ms. O'Grady apparently died of natural causes. The coroner's office said a post-mortem examination is pending. Ms. O'Grady, a talent agent at the time of her death, was the daughter of Mary Grady, one of Hollywood's top children's agents.

Bills' Jerry Hughes confronts refs, says one called him 'bitch'

Explore More Thirty-one tackles on the year, and Jerry Hughes wanted to make it 32. The Bills defensive end fumed after a 21-17 loss in Miami on Sunday, confronting officials in the tunnel under Hard Rock Stadium and accusing one of calling him a derogatory term. “You called me a bitch. I’ll catch you. I’ll catch you,” he shouted as he was pulled away from the officials, in video from Spectrum News Buffalo.