FEWER KIDS HOME ALONE//MORE PARENTS ARE TURNING TO AT-HOME, AFTER-SCHOOL CARE
Call it Home Alone 3: Home with dad and the ``Help Wanted'' ads.The number of children 5 to 14 who were left on their own after school dropped significantly between 1987 and 1991, a new U.S. Census Bureau study has found. That is probably because the country's recession caused some parents to lose their jobs or go from full-time to part-time work, leaving an adult in the house to watch the kids, the Census Bureau says.But even though the economy has...
'HOME ALONE': THE NEXT 'GHOST'? FILM IS A BOON FOR STUDIO AND STAR
The star of the movie is a mere lad of 9, and the story line has been criticized as implausible and excessively sentimental.But Home Alone has overcome those obstacles and others, becoming the first blockbuster hit of the holiday film season and making its young leading man an instant favorite of American children and a potential millionaire. Playing Kevin McCallister, who is accidentally left behind when his parents, four siblings and many assorted relatives leave for Paris from their...
`HOME ALONE' STAR'S ACTS COULD BE DEADLY IN REAL LIFE BASH & SMASH
While "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" is making audiences laugh, some of that laughter seems a little nervous. After all, the tricks Kevin McAllister plays on those befuddled Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, are deadly. Marv is bashed on the forehead by bricks thrown from a rooftop, Harry is burned in a gasoline explosion, and Marv gets a 10-second, 110-volt electric shock. Both fall four stories from a kerosene-soaked rope that Kevin lights, saying "Merry...
Just say `Yessss!' `Home Alone' affirms kids significance
ARLINGTON, Va. - Brandon Price, 8, is indignant at the suggestion the plots of Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York are tiresomely similar. ``They are not the same! In the first one an old man helps Kevin. And in Home Alone 2, an old lady does.'' Speak no ill here of the Home Alone flicks. These third-graders at Oakridge Elementary school are unabashed fans of Kevin McCallister, that prince of pluck whose parents can't seem to keep track of him when...