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| | Macaulay Culkin has an idea for a Home Alone sequel where he's the dad | | Added 3 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Home Alone turns 35 this year. This is one of the first movies that I can remember seeing in theaters when I was six years old, and now I watch it with my kids every year. Sometimes, we even watch both the first and second movies multiple times because we all love them so much. There are now six films in the franchise, but only the first two are centered around Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O?Hara, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. We?ve watched all of them, but we don?t f-ck with the non-Kevin McCallister ones because the magic just simply isn?t there.
Last year, Macaulay began a holiday season tour called ?A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin,? where he screens Home Alone and does a Q&A. At one event last year, he confirmed that Joe Pesci accidentally bit his finger during a rehearsal, and that left a scar. This year?s tour has brought even more juicy news. At a stop this past weekend in Long Beach, CA, Macaulay revealed that he?s finally down to play Kevin McC again, but there would have to be specific ?conditions.? He even shared his own idea for a plot: This time, he?s in the Marv/Harry position while his own fictional child is setting the booby traps.
?I wouldn?t be completely allergic to it,? the 45-year-old star of the 1990 holiday classic said at his A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin tour on Sunday, Nov. 22. The event, held at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, Calif., celebrated the 35th anniversary of Home Alone.
?It would have to be just right,? Culkin said of a follow-up to the 1990 comedy and its 1992 sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, in which he starred as abandoned youngster Kevin McCallister. (Third and fourth installments and a 2021 Disney+ reboot have followed, all with different casts.)
?I kind of had this idea,? he revealed, explaining how Kevin?s story might continue decades later. ?I?m either a widower or a divorcee. I?m raising a kid and all that stuff. Im working really hard and Im not really paying enough attention and the kid is kind of getting miffed at me and then I get locked out.?
Kevin?s son, he continued, ?wont let me in.? Instead of robbers like Joe Pescis Harry and Daniel Sterns Marv, ?he?s the one setting traps for me.?
Furthermore, ?the house is some sort of metaphor for our relationship,? added Culkin, a ??get let back into his heart? kind of deal. Thats the closest elevator pitch that I have. I?m not completely allergic to it, the right thing.?
Also at A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin, the actor discussed legally changing his middle name for a comedic bit and how his two sons, who he shares with fiance Brenda Song, don?t recognize him when they watch Home Alone. ?They have no idea that I?m Kevin,? he shared.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Home Alone?s original director Chris Columbus weighed in on another potential sequel. ?I think Home Alone really exists as, not at this timepiece, but it was this very special moment, and you can?t really recapture that,? the filmmaker said. ?I think it?s a mistake to try to go back and recapture something we did 35 years ago. I think it should be left alone.?
[From People]
I shared this article in a group text with two other friends who also watch the first two Home Alone movies every year, and we debated Macaulay?s idea. Friend #1 shut it down immediately, proclaiming, ?I?m with Columbus. It?s a funny idea, but it?s better left alone.? Friend #2, however, said that she was intrigued and wanted to hear more. Personally, I go back and forth. I like Macaulay?s idea in which he plays the guy trying to get into the house. After 35 years of identifying with the kid who defended his home with broken ornaments, a blow torch, and a tarantula, its intriguing to turn the tables. I?d also be open to hearing pitches in which Kevin becomes his mother and is simply trying to get back after realizing that he left his own kid home alone. That may be unoriginal/cliche, but it would also bring things full circle.
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| | Did Princess Kate invite Princess Beatrice & Eugenie to her Christmas concert? | | Added 3 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Next week, the Princess of Wales will ?host? her annual Together at Christmas concert at Westminster Abbey. The concert will be recorded on December 5th (two Fridays from now), and it will air on Christmas Eve. If the past is prologue, the ratings will continue to be in the toilet for this event. You can really tell that no one watches the program because the British papers are very careful to never report on the ratings. Now, all that being said, people will talk about the photos from the event on Dec. 5th. They?ll talk about what Kate is wearing and who Kate invited. There will be some kind of stunt involving the Wales children, and the women might try to coordinate coats again to ?attack? the Duchess of Sussex. Well, one of the pre-Together stories is now ?did Kate invite Princess Eugenie and Beatrice?? The York princesses attended the event in years past, but that was before their father was so dramatically un-royaled.
Kate Middleton is reportedly extending quiet invitations to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie for her annual Christmas celebration ? a move that speaks volumes about her desire to keep the royal family close and connected this holiday season.
The claim comes from royal commentator and broadcaster Neil Sean, who says the Princess of Wales is making a deliberate effort to present a united front amid lingering controversies surrounding ex-Prince Andrew.
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie received personal invitations for this year?s ?Together at Christmas? from Princess Catherine?s office, Sean claimed to Fox News Digital. This is Catherine?s project, and she has the final say ? very similar to the way Prince William operates Earthshot, said Sean. Above all, yes, the royal family wants to be seen as united amid what has been a very difficult year.
This puts the sisters in a very difficult dilemma, Sean pointed out. If they don?t attend, it looks like they?re snubbing a prestigious invite. If they do attend, they know there could be a media circus with them at the center of attention.
Fox News Digital reached out to Kensington Palace for comment. It?s understood there?s no official confirmation from any royal offices regarding attendance at this year?s festivities.
[From Fox News]
Honestly, it will be notable if Kate invites them and if Beatrice and Eugenie show up. While King Charles has been making it clear that he still wants B&E inside the institution in some way, Kate?s husband clearly disagrees. Scooter King William is already making eager plans to strip titles left and right, and I can only imagine how rude he is to his cousins behind the scenes. It will be tricky for B&E to navigate all of this, not just the concert. Oh, and it?s cute that anyone thinks that Kate would allow anyone to upstage her at the concert. Please. God knows, she?s probably organized another piano recital.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Instar, Cover Images.
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| | Sydney Sweeney on her jeans-ad controversy: 'the reaction definitely was a surprise' | | Added 3 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sydney Sweeney covers one of GQ?s Men of the Year December covers she?s GQ?s Woman of the Year, basically. Love her or hate her, you can?t deny that she had a huge breakout year and she was in the middle of several pop culture/political stories. Her American Eagle jeans ads went viral for their eugenics-y vibe (?Sydney Sweeney has good jeans/genes?) and then JD Vance used Sydney as a symbol for Why Democrats Are Bad, and then Donald Trump even commented on Sydney favorably. Add to all of that, it turns out she?s a registered Republican. Oh, and she scored like a dozen other side-gigs, and she?s promoting a potential awards-bait movie with Christy, and she produced and stars in The Housemaid. You can read Sydney?s GQ profile here. A lot of it is about the American Eagle stuff! Some highlights:
Christy & The Housemaid are both about domestic violence to varying degrees, and Sydney works with domestic-violence charities: ?It does [mean something to me]. I always speak out about something that is important to me. And for me to speak out, I use art. Through my characters in my movies, it?s a way for me to be able to do my part and spread awareness in different ways through my characters. That?s how I?ve always learned to communicate, and it?s really important.
Being swept into political conversations: ?I?ve always believed that I?m not here to tell people what to think. I?m just here to kind of open their eyes to different ideas. That?s why I gravitate towards characters and stories that are complicated and are maybe morally questionable, and characters that are?on the page?hard to like, but then you find the humanity underneath them.
She?s single: ?I?m single. I don?t think I?m looking for a man right now. What I?ve learned this year is that I have a really, really amazing group of girlfriends and I am strong and independent and that I?m going to be okay. If love finds me, love finds me. I?m a hopeless romantic, so I hope love finds me, but I?m not the type of person that wants to go out all the time. And I do believe in true love and wanting to be with someone for the rest of my life. So I?m not going to?you won?t see me jumping around a lot of places?[like] guys.?
She?s not trying to narrate anything about her private life for public consumption: ?The professional benefits for me of being private is for my own health and sanity. I think that if I let everybody in all the time, I have nothing for myself. I?m just a 28-year-old woman who?s trying to figure it out, and I?m still learning and I?m going to make mistakes and I?m going to grow. And I think that it?s important to be able to do that without having to say every single thing all the time. I mean, I?ll vent to my girlfriends. But other than that, no. I know who I am. I know what I value. I know that I?m a kind person. I know that I love a lot, and I know that I?m just excited to see what happens next. And so I don?t really let other people define who I am.?
The American Eagle ad: ?I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I?m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.
How it felt when Vance & Trump defended her: ?It was surreal?I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day. I?m filming Euphoria, so I?m working 16-hour days and I don?t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So I didn?t really see a lot of it.
Whether she wants to clarify anything about eugenics: ?I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.?
[From GQ]
I sort of feel the same way about Sydney?s fakakta jeans ads that I feel about the outrage-cycle over Bad Bunny as the Halftime performer. They were both twenty million dumb scandals ago, and the outrage simply cannot be sustained. Were Sydney?s ads really dumb and offensive? Yes. Were they offensive on purpose, to create a controversy? Also yes. And all of these months later, I don?t blame Sydney for shrugging it off either if she is what I think she is (a MAGA Republican), then she?s keeping silent on purpose, to play footsie with the authoritarian fascists without ever confirming that she?s one of them. It?s literally the only thing that makes sense, given her behavior.
Sydney Sweeney on the reaction to her American Eagle campaign: ?It was surreal.? https://t.co/nXrhkNTGcz pic.twitter.com/deqbdN9bD5
GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) November 4, 2025
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