His latest work, "John, Paul, George & Ben" (Hyperion; $16.99), a freewheeling parody of the patriotic children's books that once made America great, is a portrait of the Founding Fathers as young brats.
He made a mark for himself in 2009 when he played Sid, a young, spoiled brat in "Wake Up Sid".
The tone of Less Than Zero was a zombified monologue, in which the narrator, a young, rich brat called Clay, described encounters with sex, drugs and violence in an affectless present-tense: "I'm sitting in my pyschiatrist's office the next day, coming off from coke, sneezing blood".
If history is any indication, it's either an adorably precocious young stage-school brat who also happens to be wise beyond his years, or it's Sandler himself dressed up like some kind of horrific toddler.
As the director Agnieszka Holland did in her nervy 1995 film, "Total Eclipse," in which a young Leonardo DiCaprio brought Brat-Pack impudence to portraying Rimbaud, Mr. Duffy focuses on the headlines of this poet's eventful life.
It's no different than a sibling calling his younger brother "a little brat" but leaping to his defense when the bully down the street uses it.
When the Occupy Wall Street protests began, some critics dismissed the protesters as privileged brats, mostly young and mostly white, but Ramirez, who is from the Dominican Republic, said she was impressed by the diversity of the crowd.
That election has a special relevance today because David Cameron was one of the "brat pack" of young Tory apparatchiks working for Mr Major.
He won only once that season, but his sixth-place finish in the point standing served notice to the rest of Nascar that he belonged among the brat pack of young drivers taking over the sport.
