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...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...
...dealmaking, of course, remains in the hands of Culkin's agents -- and his father, former actor Kit Culkin. Mack seems oblivious to his box-office worth, playing pranks on his teachers and giving his favorite answer to most interview questions: "Maybe." As for his future, he doesn't give it much thought. Says he: "I think about, like, tomorrow we get to leave school early. We leave early on Tuesdays and Fridays." But this is a little boy whom major studios desperately want in their futures -- at almost any price...
...deliver Mack for the sequel to Home Alone, which is now before the cameras, Kit Culkin reportedly extracted from 20th Century-Fox a contract worth $5 million, and a guarantee of $2.5 million for a cast-against-type part for his son in a thriller, The Good Son. Written by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Innocent), The Good Son is about good and evil doppelganger siblings. The money will be paid out whether or not the film, which has the boy playing the psychotic brother, gets made. Did the elder Culkin want The Good Son because Mack already...