Life For The Culkins Is An ‘Animal House’ Remake
They used to use the case of child star Jackie Coogan as an example of Hollywood families victimizing their young. But the Culkin saga may just outstrip them all.
Stories are rampant about “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin and his six siblings having gone wild over the custody battles between their parents, Kit Culkin and his common-law wife Patricia Brentrup.
According to her, Macaulay has dyed his hair purple, is throwing beer parties and getting poor grades. One Culkin son was thrown out of an exclusive private school and a daughter has switched schools three times.
Father Kit’s lawyer vows to “rip her to shreds” in court next spring by attacking Brentrup as “an unfaithful drinker and neglectful parent.”
As for Kit himself, the kids refuse to take his calls.
Loose talk
More of Zsa Zsa Gabor on Jean-Claude Van Damme (in Details magazine): “He melts my bonbons.”
That dress she wore to the Oscars? How did it stay up?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus turns 35 today.
So, will this make all the viewers ‘Orphans’?
If you haven’t heard the official word, NBC will cancel the popular sitcom “Sisters” at the end of the season. (Well, sitcom may not be fully accurate. It wasn’t that funny.) Stars Sela Ward and Swoosie Kurtz were in the final years of their respective contracts.
Don’t be counting on that divorce any too soon
That item about apparent trouble between Warren Beatty and Annette Bening appeared after the glam couple failed to show up for a popular Christmas party. Gossip columnist Liz Smith dismissed the rumor of an impending breakup as unfair, unfounded and untrue.
The throat-cutting scene, though, is OK
The violence in Martin Scorsese’s film “Casino” may get it banned in Sweden. But, the director says, he’d rather that happen than see the film cut. “I have never ever made a film or shot a scene simply to test the limit of the audience’s squeamishness,” Scorsese said. Swedish censors object to two scenes, one in which a killing occurs with a baseball bat and the other when a man’s head is put in a vice.
Shouldn’t that be ‘unsportsmanlike conduct’ instead
Julia Carling publicly blamed Princess Diana for the breakup of her marriage to British rugby star Will Carling last year. But when it came time to file for divorce, she declined to name the princess as “the other woman” as Buckingham Palace had feared. Instead, the grounds are said to be “unreasonable behavior.”
Those who can, do, those who can’t…
Former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, temporarily teaching at UCLA, admits to his class that he may be a little fact-shy about the course he is teaching: “The American Presidency.” “If I knew anything about it, I wouldn’t be here,” he joked.
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