Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Overexposed Underachiever Bart Simpson, the caustic cartoon kid who starred in a hit prime-time series, got his bug-eyed mug on everything from T shirts to key chains. Bill Cosby, eat his shorts...
...like little land mines, a blowtorch becomes a flamethrower, and a hot iron is transformed into a ballistic missile. Home Alone director Chris Columbus notes that all the dirty tricks can be rigged up by a 10-year- old with simple household supplies, and all have what he calls "kid logic...
Despite his seasoning, Culkin was by far the most natural of the hundred or so boys Columbus auditioned for Home Alone. "The others seemed to be playing to the moon and the stars," says Columbus. "Mack was very real and very honest. He seemed to be a real kid, one that you wouldn't be annoyed with if you had to spend two hours with." To induce Culkin to learn his lines, Columbus rewarded him with a game of Nintendo after each day of rehearsal in the Chicago studio where the picture was shot. Culkin was also entranced by Columbus...
...executives were apprehensive that their little story of a kid and two Keystone Kriminals would be lost in a season awash in such high-profile films as Rocky V, Kindergarten Cop and Godfather III. They were even more apprehensive about competition from Three Men and a Little Lady, a sequel to one of 1988's big hits, Three Men and a Baby, which opened five days after Home Alone. But, says Sherak, "by the time Three Men opened, we were already positioned. Our momentum just kept going...
SHOW BUSINESS: This kid -- left Home Alone...