Word: culkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home alone, and I think someone's in the house," the nine-year-old boy was saying in a shaky, squeaky voice on the telephone. "I'm hiding under the bed right now. I've got pillows piled all around." The boy under the bed is no Macaulay Culkin ready to outwit buffoonish burglars. His fear is real, and he is addressing it in a very '90s way: dialing a telephone hot line...
...only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics to his '50s chugger Reelin' and Rockin': "I set my watch and it was quarter to eight,/ You know, Bill...
...subtitle, Lost in New York, tells much, but not everything, about their strategy. They don't just leave little Kevin (bold, vulnerable Macaulay Culkin) at home this time. They contrive to get him on the wrong airplane and land him in a place we all know is a lot more daunting than the average suburb. Soon his parents are frantic in Florida while he settles himself in the Plaza Hotel and starts ordering room service. Soon too, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), the goofily overconfident burglars of the earlier film, are maneuvered into place. And a couple...
...holiday season's most successful family pictures is Columbia's My Girl. Macaulay Culkin plays a sweet kid who falls in love with daughter-of-a-funeral-director Anna Chlumsky. All through the movie (so I'm told--I won't pay money to the oppressors of the workers), Chlumsky obsesses about death--an 11-year-old who's already into angst...
...course, Mac (you can't call him Culkin; he's America's Cutest Pre-Teen Guy) dies at the end of the film...