Word: culkins
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Pound for pound, Macaulay Culkin is the biggest star in Hollywood. Weighing in at a ton less than Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 11-year-old nevertheless is in possession of one of the prized titles of the business: Home Alone, the third highest grossing movie of all time. (Only E.T. and Star Wars have made more money.) The 1990 film has transformed him from a precocious if mischievous New York City child actor into a heavyweight pop icon -- with the negotiating clout to match. And at the moment, no one dares...
...resist him? Mouth agape, face slapped between his hands, Culkin's visage is America's home-sweet-home version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, with the angst pasteurized. In the just-released My Girl, a story about a motherless, hypochondriac tomboy and her best friend Thomas J. (Culkin), he does the unspeakable for a preadolescent (has his first screen kiss) and the unthinkable for a budding megastar (dies well before the end). "It was easy," says Mack. "I just pretended I was sleeping." It could turn out to be the most talked-about movie death since a hunter shot...
...Culkin bobs and weaves around the celebrity circuit like a pro. He opens Michael Jackson's new Black or White video. He is allowed to stay up past his bedtime not to watch but to host Saturday Night Live. Culkin, who was paid only $250,000 for Home Alone, received $1 million for his role in My Girl. Now whatever Mack wants, Mack gets -- video games, trips to Florida, multimillion dollar movie and merchandising deals...
...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...