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Express Tribune
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Macaulay Culkin crowns ‘Home Alone 2' as the better film
Macaulay Culkin has settled the age-old debate over which of his iconic Christmas films reigns supreme and for him, it all comes down to the paycheck. Appearing on the latest episode of Hot Ones, the actor was asked to choose between the 1990 hit Home Alone and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Without hesitation, he chose the sequel, quipping, 'I got paid more. I think I own five percent of the net. And also 15 percent of the merchandising. So, if you buy a Talkboy I'm like, yeah, I'll take 15 percent of that. Thank you very much. By the way, buy a Talkboy this Christmas.' Both Home Alone films remain festive staples and box office legends, but Culkin's affection for the sequel is also rooted in fond memories of working with the cast. Catherine O'Hara, who played his on-screen mother, spoke warmly of him at his 2023 Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, saying his effortless charm was what made the films so beloved worldwide. The actor has embraced his holiday legacy in recent years, touring the country with A Nostalgic Night With Macaulay Culkin, where he hosted screenings followed by Q&As. One viral moment from last season came when he recalled Joe Pesci accidentally biting his finger while rehearsing a scene, allegedly to make himself more menacing to the young star. Culkin laughed about the incident, joking that Pesci once told him he hadn't been home in three years, prompting the actor to quip about the unexpected competition. Despite the playful rivalry and the on-set mishaps, Culkin clearly holds affection for his time as Kevin McCallister, especially when it comes with residuals and merchandising checks decades later.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How Home Alone's Macaulay Culkin built a king-size empire. Here's what he earned from the blockbuster film
So how did he do it? Let's break it down. Stepping away from spotlight Every year during Christmas, we watch the cheeky blonde kid who outsmarted two burglars with homemade traps in our all-time favourite film, Home Alone . Do you remember that kid? He is none other than Macaulay Culkin , who went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful former child stars, not just on screen, but financially as well. Today, Culkin has a king-size fortune and he built most of that before he even turned Culkin started acting before most kids could even read. He was performing in local theatre and doing TV roles by the time he was five. His first big paycheck came in 1989 for Uncle Buck, where he reportedly earned a huge sum of amount and stole scenes from comedy legend John came 1990. Culkin landed the lead role in Home Alone, which became a global box office sensation. But that was just the Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York was released in 1992, Culkin's salary jumped to a staggering $4.5 million (Rs 394,774,875). The sequel was another blockbuster, and Culkin was now one of the highest-paid child actors in the when Hot Ones host Sean Evans asked him that what makes Home Alon 2 better than the first one. Dismissing all the rumours, Macaulay Culkin replied with a smile, "I got paid more." He added, "I think I own 5 percent of the net, and also 15 percent of the merchandising. So if you buy a Talkboy, I'm like, 'Yeah, I'll take 15 percent of that, thank you very much!'"Between 1989 and 1994, he starred in a string of successful movies like Richie Rich, The Good Son, and Getting Even with all that money, Culkin didn't have full access to his fortune until he turned 18. His parents managed his career, and his bank account, during his early years. But when he became an adult, Culkin took legal steps to remove his parents as financial guardians and appointed a professional to manage his just 14, Culkin decided to step back from Hollywood. Burned out from fame, he took a break from acting to focus on living a normal life. That decision may have saved his mental health, and his recent years, Culkin has quietly grown his fortune through smart business moves. He founded Bunny Ears, a satirical lifestyle brand that pokes fun at celebrity wellness culture. He's also made savvy real estate investments, including a home in Toluca Lake, California, with partner Brenda renowned actor's self-aware humour and low-key lifestyle have kept him relatable. In fact, he once changed his legal name to Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin as a joke voted on by fans, proving he doesn't take himself too seriously.
USA Today
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
GOP lawmaker proposes renaming Kennedy Center after Trump
Rep. Bob Onder, R-Missouri, introduced a bill that would designate the Kennedy Center as the 'Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts.' WASHINGTON - A House Republican is proposing to rename the iconic John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after President Donald Trump. Missouri Rep. Bob Onder has dubbed his bill the 'Make Entertainment Great Again Act" and would re-designate the District of Columbia institution that was named in remembrance of Kennedy, the 35th president who was assassinated in 1963. Onder's plan would change the building's name to the 'Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts" and comes after a key House panel also voted to put first lady Melania Trump's name on the Kennedy Center's opera house. Onder in a statement said Trump has 'entertained audiences for decades,' referring to the two-term Republican president's prior run as host of the reality TV show "The Apprentice" and appearances in films such as "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." More: Made-for-TV presidency: How Trump's celebrity past shaped his first 100 days 'I cannot think of a more ubiquitous symbol of American exceptionalism in the arts, entertainment, and popular culture at large than President Trump,' added Onder, a freshman GOP lawmaker who represents a central Missouri district that includes the suburbs of St. Louis, Columbia and Jefferson City. But the proposal quickly received pushback from critics. Maria Shriver, a niece of former President Kennedy and also the former first lady of California, said it makes her 'blood boil.' 'It's so ridiculous, so petty, so small minded. Truly, what is this about? It's always about something. 'Let's get rid of the Rose Garden. Let's rename the Kennedy Center.' What's next?' she wrote on X. With House lawmakers out for their annual summer break, there won't be much action taken on the bill until after they return. In February, Trump appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center and pushed out billionaire philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, who previously served in the role. He also dismissed individuals part of the chair's board of trustees. Trump complained of "woke" programming at the Kennedy Center, citing "drag shows" held there as one of the reasons for taking command of the center and vowing to stop such performances. The Kennedy Center, affiliated with the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, hosts more than 2,000 performances a year. It is described as the "living memorial" to Kennedy on its website. USA TODAY reached out to the Kennedy Center for comment. Contributing: Joey Garrison and Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY
West Australian
19-05-2025
- West Australian
Kate Emery: Forget about Apple, put your money in dumbphones
Mark Zuckerberg does it. Zoe Foster-Blake does it. A Melbourne private school wants its parents to do it. And, if you have young kids, you probably want to do it too. The wisdom of withholding smartphones from kids is a conversation that started when Apple's Steve Jobs and his black turtleneck stood onstage and claimed to have reinvented the phone. (Silicon Valley has more hot air than Marble Bar but Jobs was right.) In 2007 — a simpler time when Microsoft had just released Windows Vista, Serbia's Marija Serifovic had just won Eurovision and Donald Trump's worst crime was assumed to be his cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — the effect of smartphones on young brains was not known. Nearly 20 years later, smartphones and kids is a subject so fraught with judgment, fear and guilt that bringing it up with other parents is akin to trying to discuss peace in the Middle East with your supermarket checkout operator. At a certain point, you have to mutter some version of 'it's all very complicated isn't it?' and move onto something less controversial, like footy teams or religion. If you bought a lot of Apple shares in 2007 you're not reading this: The West Australian doesn't deliver to your private island. But if journalism was a career that delivered riches, in 2025 I'd be investing mine in dumbphone technology. Maybe this is why I'm no longer this paper's stockmarket reporter. But maybe it's also because the trend of withholding smartphones from children is going mainstream, particularly as generation Z — our first digital natives — become parents themselves. (My sincere apologies if that last sentence caused you to spontaneously age like that nazi at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.) There's a reason tech titans like Zuckerburg, Bill Gates and Jobs — graduates of the same Do As I Say Not As I Do school that is a proud alma mater to so many of Australia's political class — restricted their kids' access to smartphones. They were the first to figure out a crackpipe might be the safer option. The rest of us are just catching up. Last week a Melbourne private school rolled out a new program to convince parents to withhold smartphones until at least Year 7. More countries are banning smartphones during school hours, as Australian public schools largely already do. The market for dumbphones — phones without internet access — is tipped by Statista to be worth $16 billion this year. School bans are helpful but no panacea. In news to disappoint every mum or dad hoping to outsource their parenting, research suggests school phone bans alone do not correlate with better student mental health or grades. The study's authors suggested kids attending schools with bans may simply make up for lost time. In other words — and academics are advised to look away as I attempt to condense a 15-page study into one sentence — banning smartphones from schools does bugger all if students are greeted at the school gates by the loving embrace of their iPhone. That's where parents come in and people like Foster-Blake, arguably best-known to women for her beauty empire and to men for her equally famous husband, Hamish Blake, are being increasingly public about their decision not to give their kids smartphones. The struggle is real, as I was reminded in a very minor way at a recent birthday party. Having played party games for hours, my eight-year-old and her friends were flopped in the grass listening to music (courtesy of some parents' phones). When my daughter asked to borrow mine, I was conflicted: the optics bugged me but it seemed harmless. Then she sealed her fate by adding: 'Everyone else has one!' With those four words, my personal Rubicon appeared and I saw a glimpse of her tween and teen years: hand over the phone now and she'd surely be on Only Fans by age 14. 'Not today,' I said. Later, as I mentally awarded myself the 2025 Tough Love Mother of The Year Trophy, I looked across the park at my daughter. Happily ensconced with her mates she had her father's smartphone in one hand and was having, it must be said, a blast.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump diplomats to Turkey, UK confirmed as Houston Rockets owner awaits late Senate vote
Two of President Donald Trump's diplomatic nominees were confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, as a prominent NBA team owner awaited a late evening vote on his own confirmation. Investors Tom Barrack and Warren Stephens were up for ambassadorship posts to Turkey, and the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland respectively. Tilman Fertitta, owner of the Houston Rockets and CEO of Landry's Restaurants group will face a confirmation vote later in the evening in the upper chamber to be President Donald Trump's ambassador to Italy and San Marino. Barrack's nomination passed by 60-36. Stephens was confirmed 59-39. Houston Rockets Owner: 'Our Great Capitalism Will Come To An End' If Dems Pass Unrealized Gains Tax Fertitta is a GOP donor and has spoken fondly of Trump's business sense. Read On The Fox News App During Trump's first term, Fertitta told CNBC the president was doing "a fantastic job for the economy." "Businesses are booming, unemployment is low. He understands what drives this country," Fertitta said in 2018. Fertitta's praise of Trump often steers more toward business-focused than overtly-political, as in the CNBC interview. Trump's choice of Barrack played into two different aspects of the investor's history. Before he was a friend of the future president's, Barrack served as an undersecretary in the Reagan Interior Department, focusing on energy policy including Middle East oil. David Perdue Confirmed As Trump's Top China Diplomat After Key Senate Vote Barrack, who is fluent in Arabic, would therefore fit well with a Turkish ambassadorship. Later in that decade, Barrack helped Trump secure financing for his short-lived ownership of the Plaza Hotel – during which time the future president famously told a lost Kevin McCallister its lobby was "Down the hall, and to the left" in 1992's Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. The two real estate moguls remained friends in the years after Trump ultimately gave up the Midtown landmark. Barrack was a strong supporter of Trump's first presidential campaign and raised millions for his first inauguration's events. Stephens' family bank has a footprint in London, and he is a noted fan of the Tottenham Hotspurs Premier League soccer team, which draw parallels to his ambassadorship nomination. The billionaire will be the eyes and ears for Trump in London, where the president has a cordial relationship, albeit one wherein lies a politically contrasting view of global politics, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the Labour Party. Stephens has a history of donations to Republican causes and many Arkansas candidates, per OpenSecrets. Recipients have included former Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Bob Dole, R-Kan., ex-Arkansas Govs. Asa Hutchinson and Mike Huckabee, and media executive Steve Forbes' presidential run in article source: Trump diplomats to Turkey, UK confirmed as Houston Rockets owner awaits late Senate vote
