Word: culkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MACAULAY CULKIN The real-life Richie Rich. The 16-year-old wins access to his $17 million bank account...
...Dennis Miller's "I'm outta here" and Dana Carvey's "Isn't that special?" fed a hunger for a renewable supply of ironic put-downs. But what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from Bob Dole to Macaulay Culkin (who gave I don't think so its big push by uttering it twice in the top box-office hit of 1990, Home Alone). The militia code name for a possible counterattack on the feds? "Project Worst Nightmare." The would-be zinger in the G.O.P.'s last-minute ads warning...
...phrase Christmas movies summons candy-cane memories of Jimmy Stewart chatting with an angel, Natalie Wood on Santa's knee, Macaulay Culkin giving Joe Pesci a splitting headache. It also suggests another fantasy: the family setting off for the local movieplex and seeing a film together instead of having to go to two different features, one for Mom and Dad, the other for the kids. Surely, somewhere under the holiday sky, there must be a film the whole family can stand. Mustn't there? Surely...
There are four Batmans and two Supermans, so can there be more than one cute Home Alone kid? The producers of Home Alone III think so and will proceed without Macaulay Culkin, who's 16 and reportedly living alone. One benefit: they don't have to choose which of Culkin's feuding parents to deal with...
...MACAULAY CULKIN was onstage at four, on TV at six, a star at 10. Now, at 15, he wants to bail out his feuding parents. According to court papers, Culkin has asked to be allowed to spend $2 million of his estimated $17 million trust fund on an apartment for his family. With legal fees mounting and Mac and his siblings not acting, the Culkins will soon be unable to pay the rent on their three Manhattan apartments (one for Mac, one for mom Patricia Bentrup and five kids, one for dad Kit). Mom likes the plan; Dad doesn...