Andrew McCarthy's Wildest Hollywood Stories

Andrew McCarthy sat for a round of Celebrity True or False, and the answers came back wilder than the prompts. The 1980s leading man stayed loose, self-deprecating, and alarmingly willing to confirm stories that sound like tall tales until you hear them in his own voice.

First up, his arrival in Los Angeles at 18. Too young to rent a car, he crashed with his Class co-star Jacqueline Bisset and her then-partner, Russian ballet star Alexander Godunov. She drove him to auditions in a Cadillac convertible. One casting director went to the window to confirm it was actually Bisset sitting at the curb. McCarthy didn't get the job. He didn't really mind.

The Sammy Davis Jr. story is the one Rich flagged as maybe the best answer in the show's history. Rob Lowe invited McCarthy to dinner at Spago during St. Elmo's Fire. Liza Minnelli was at the table. After dinner she asked if everyone wanted to head to Sammy's. McCarthy assumed it was a club. It was Sammy Davis Jr.'s house. He ended up splitting cigarettes with Sammy, catching a ride home in Liza's Rolls-Royce, and, drunk and desperate not to throw up, started singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow to distract himself. Liza joined in at a red light in West Hollywood.

He confirmed the Pretty in Pink reshoot wig, too. Test audiences hated the original ending, so the studio reshot it after McCarthy had already shaved his head for another role. He calls the result bad wig acting and says once you see it in the prom scene, you can't unsee it.

The Mannequin true-or-false about Dudley Moore being the original lead caught him flat. He'd never heard it. He noted that he and Kim Cattrall did become, technically, the first Sex and the City on-screen couple via Mannequin. He also admits he hated riding the Harley.

On Weekend at Bernie's, he confirmed most of the iconic beats were invented on set. The Monopoly scene he calls his greatest professional move. Jonathan Silverman added the fishing-line hand wave. Everything else, throwing the body off the balcony, stapling a toupee on, was improv.

The closer is a legal wrinkle. Jonathan Silverman's father, a rabbi, officiated McCarthy's wedding. He signed the wrong line on the marriage license. For 24 hours, New York City had McCarthy's wife legally married to Johnny's dad before they untangled it.

That's five decades of Hollywood compressed into one segment, told by a guy who seems genuinely amused he lived through it.