"Lipstick Jungle" co-star Andrew McCarthy (Joe) has directed an episode of the NBC series scheduled to air early next month. It's McCarthy's episodic TV directorial debut; he got his feet wet, behind the camera, directing commercials, a short film and some theatrical productions.
"Most of the time the director comes in and is the person least familiar with the show," says McCarthy, who didn't have to worry about that. He was mostly distracted, he said, by having "the makeup and hair people messing with me just before a take."
The episode revolves around the comeback fashion show of Joe's ex-girlfriend, Victory (Lindsay Price).
The night before interviewing McCarthy, I happened across a screening of his 1987 movie, "Mannequin," on Starz (it co-starred future "Sex and the City" gal Kim Cattrall).
I asked McCarthy, now 45, if he "cringes" when he sees his "Brat Pack"-era movies. "I don't watch those movies so I don't know if I'd cringe," he said. "I think they're like old friends at this point.
"I'm not one who has much nostalgia for my past . . . but I think those movies really touch something for a certain generation."
