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Grand Canyon's structure is rewardingly complex, intertwining disparate lives that represent a fair cross section of big-city life. The fulcrum character, discovered in a slightly off-center condition, which will get worse before it gets better, is a mildly depressed, mildly humorous man named Mack (Kevin Kline). The process that will force him to higher consciousness begins when his car breaks down in a bad neighborhood and his life is threatened by a menacing gang, then saved by Simon (Danny Glover), a lonely tow-truck operator. The episode is Mack's first lesson in just how tenuous...
...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...
...GIRL. Mack is back, but this time he's not home alone. He's an allergy- prone 11-year-old whose best friend, Vada (Anna Chlumsky), is a hypochondriac who lives in a funeral parlor. Dan Aykroyd, Vada's widowed, mortician father, learns about love and the living from his makeup artist, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin), this sweet saga is both hilarious and heartrending. Don't forget the Kleenex...