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   _{There is a small tragedy in the fact that now, twenty-five (twenty-nine) years since the New York “Brat Pack” article changed those actors’ lives, writer David Blum says, “I wouldn’t do it today.” He explains, earnestly, “If I thought it was going to harm them on a personal level…or that I was being really cruel, I would have never done it.”  Blum now teaches journalism, and he says he talks about his article “as a cautionary tale.” He reveals that he has said to his students, “You want to think twice before you pass judgement. It’s fun, and it’s easy, and it’s glib to come up with an expression to describe people. But it can be hurtful.” Looking back on the friendships that disintegrated after the article ran, Judd Nelson says, “I miss those people, and I tell you, I don’t know those people anymore. I think about them.”}