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The larger-than-life Canadian with a heart to match was known for his family-friendly fare, appearing in nearly 40 films before his untimely death. Learn more about the comedic icon, in this documentary from Biography.

Former President Donald Trump criticized the director of the 1992 Christmas movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York for claiming that Trump bullied his way onto the set. Before Trump was president, he was a well-known New York City real estate power player who made special appearances in iconic '90s TV shows and movies set in the Big Apple, from a cameo with Samantha Jones in Season 2 of Sex and the City to a run-in with Kevin McCallister in Home Alone 2. Chris Columbus, the movie's director, said that Trump's cameo in the movie was not initially the...

After being left alone for the holidays, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister famously went grocery shopping in the 1990 classic "Home Alone," purchasing a large haul of food and everyday household items for under $20. With today's prices, however, McCallister would need a lot more in his piggy bank and Americans are taking notice. Items including a half gallon of milk, a half gallon of orange juice, a TV dinner, bread, frozen mac and cheese, laundry detergent, cling wrap, toilet paper, a pack of army men and dryer sheets cost the character, played by Macaulay Culkin, $19.83. Last year, the same grocery...

Macaulay Culkin publicly backed a petition Wednesday to have U.S. President Donald Trump excised from Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. “Excuse me, where’s the lobby?” asks the young actor Culkin in the movie as he enters the historic Plaza Hotel, gazing at the chandelier and the Christmas decorations.

After being permanently banned from Twitter and Facebook, US President Donald Trump will now also be digitally removed from Home Alone 2: Alone In New York where he had a cameo. Actor Christopher Plummer is expected to replace him. The announcement was made from the verified Twitter account of Dan Slott, who is the comic writer for Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Spider-Verse. "BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump to be digitally replaced in HOME ALONE 2 with actor, Christopher Plummer," Dan Slott wrote on Twitter. https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/1347751813890650114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1347751813890650114%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.co.in%2Ftrump-be-digitally-removed-home-alone-2-cameo-scene-after-twitter-ban-831960 Donald Trump, who was then a prominent personality in the US had appeared in a cameo...

The most valuable lessons of 'Home Alone' require a little living first. The film offers much more than just Kevin McCallister vs. The Wet Bandits.Finally, after putting in our time, we were released to the basement. Through what little childhood patience we possessed, me, my sister, and my cousins had satisfied The Rule in force at every family gathering at Grandma and Grandpa Lawson’s house: Before you can leave the table after dinner, you first have to sit quietly for at least 15 minutes or talk about “boring” things with the adults. That was The Rule — for all we...

After morphing Timon and Pumbaa into terrifying hellbeasts for the new Lion King and turning Genie into a blue Will Smith-ian monstrosity for 2019's Aladdin, Disney is continuing its unceasing, ruthless quest to ruin our childhood memories with yet another attack: Those monsters are going to remake Home Alone. According to CNN, Disney's CEO Bob Iger announced this affront against common decency on Tuesday, telling investors in an email that the company would be raising Home Alone from the dead for its new streaming service, Disney+. There's no word on who might star, or what the "reimagining" will look like,...

Macaulay Culkin asked his fans to pick a new middle name for him in time for Christmas as part of a bizarre publicity stunt. [Snip] On Christmas Day the actor revealed the results of the poll announcing that from now on he will be known as... Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.

Stoned Alone, an R-rated Home Alone re-imagining, is in the works from Fox and Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds, who just released Deadpool 2 with the studio, will produce the comedy about a 20-something stoner who, after missing the plane for his holiday ski trip, gets high and becomes paranoid that people are breaking into his house. While high, he tries to thwart the thieves who have actually, really broken into his house. Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider wrote the feature that will be directed by Augustine Frizzell, whose Sundance feature Never Goin' Back will soon be release by A24. Burrows and...

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A three-year-old girl was forgotten at Ben-Gurion International Airport Sunday, when her parents flew to Paris with only four of their five children. Just like in the famous movie Home Alone, in which an eight-year-old boy is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for a Christmas holiday, the two parents from Israel, who were on their way to an annual vacation in Paris, forgot their young daughter. The crying child was found wandering the duty free shops with no adult supervision. Police at Ben-Gurion noticed the wandering child among the thousands of passengers at Ben-Gurion Airport and...

A 10-year-old boy is recovering after a pit bull attack left him with injuries so severe that he had to have his arm amputated.

A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of "The Jerry Springer Show." Shannon Cook, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this week to misdemeanor child endangerment. She also was placed on probation for a year. The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes... Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home Oct. 19 while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later, the two...

WALNUT CREEK - A San Ramon man and his new wife who left his two children home alone while they went to Las Vegas over the New Year's weekend pleaded no contest to criminal charges Thursday. Jacob Calero, 39, and Michelle de la Vega, 32, both received jail sentences in the plea agreement with the District Attorney's Office. Both will apply to serve their time in the sheriff's home detention program, their attorneys said."Sometimes you have to step up to the plate," said Calero's attorney, Thomas McKenna, after the Superior Court hearing. "We admitted full responsibility. I'm asking the public...

A San Ramon couple accused of felony child endangerment for allegedly leaving their 10- and 5-year-old boys at home alone over the New Year's weekend was released from custody today after pleading no contest in Contra Costa County Superior Court. Jacob Calero, 39, and Michelle De La Vega, 32, were facing up to seven years and four months in prison each, prosecutors said as the couple was charged last week. After their pleas today, the couple may serve their nine- and six-month sentences at home with electronic monitoring, prosecutor Dara Cashman explained outside the Walnut Creek courthouse.

Most parents I know weren't shocked to hear that a San Ramon couple might leave their two boys, ages 5 and 10, home alone while they went to Las Vegas for five days. They were shocked to hear that they might leave them alone for five hours. If it's true they went off to ring in the New Year and left their kids to fend for themselves, it's outrageous. Ten years old? Home alone for five days? What were they thinking? In the end, the boys spent one day alone before police discovered them and their grandmother brought them to...

Father's attorney says what couple did was 'not as bad as it looks' A grandmother of two young San Ramon boys left home alone while their parents vacationed in Las Vegas went to court Thursday to get custody of the children, and the father's attorney said what his client did was "certainly not nearly as bad as it looks." The hearing before Contra Costa County Juvenile Court Judge Lois Haight in Martinez came a day after San Ramon police arrested Jacob Calero and his wife of nine months, Michelle De La Vega, when their flight home landed at Oakland International...

SAN RAMON - Police in San Ramon are investigating a case involving a father and stepmother of two boys who allegedly left them home alone while they celebrated New Year's weekend in Las Vegas. San Ramon Sgt. Eric Webb said officers were sent to a Dougherty Valley home late Saturday to check on the 5- and 9-year-old brothers after their grandmother said she suspected they were by themselves. After entering the home around 11 p.m., Webb said, police found a gas fireplace lit and the boys asleep in their beds. The boys were unharmed and had been eating cereal and...

Boy is left behind as his family evacuates Conroe police find lost Pasadena 10-year-old inside convenience store By RENEE C. LEE Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle CONROE - Police are trying to locate the family of a 10-year-old Pasadena boy who was left behind at a convenience store Thursday afternoon as relatives continued their evacuation trek. Conroe police spokesman Sgt. Bob Berry said the family was traveling in a five-car caravan from Pasadena headed to Dallas when they stopped in Conroe. He said the family members went into the store as a group but apparently did not do a head count...

Actor Macaulay Culkin took the stand at Michael Jackson's child molestation trial Wednesday and denied he was molested by the pop star. Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. asked Culkin what he thought of the charges against Jackson. "I think they're absolutely ridiculous," said Culkin, 24. He said prosecutors never approached him about whether he had been molested and he only learned of the allegations that he had been molested by watching news coverage of the trial. "Somebody told me you should probably check out CNN because they're saying something about you," Culkin said. "I just couldn't believe it. ... It...