Macaulay Culkin Watches Home Alone With His Kids Who Don’t Realize He’s Kevin

On tour for the 35th anniversary of Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin said his kids love the movie, but don’t know he’s Kevin. They’re only three and four years old, so this makes sense, but it’s still hilarious.

And while they will even get excited when they see the young character in montages on Disney+, where the film is available to stream, Culkin said, “They have no idea that I’m Kevin.” “They’re only three and four years old,” continued the actor, adding that he wants “to keep up that illusion as long as possible.”

But also, did you know Angels With Dirty Souls isn’t a real movie? I didn’t.

Since we’re here, how about a Home Alone oral history from 10 years ago?

Mark Radcliffe

Chris wanted to do snow dressing as part of the background of the movie. Budgetwise, we couldn’t really afford it. On the second day of shooting, we had a blizzard. From then on, we pretty much had to bring in snow machines after it started to melt and match it for the rest of the movie. I remember that whenever the snow melted, we were spraying ice, and then they had problems with ice. The next thing, they were literally laying bags of ice to try and create snow.

James Giovannetti Jr., second assistant director

We had refrigerated semitrucks of shaved ice coming to the set. There must’ve been about 15 guys dumping tons of ice in the yard every day. We may have even got water in the house, because when it started melting, it started seeping into the basement.

Jacolyn Bucksbaum

The morning when Catherine O’Hara pulls up and finally gets home, it was gorgeous, real snow. The biggest snowstorm in years, and it was Valentine’s Day. Mother Nature really helped us out with that one.

There are actually quite a few Home Alone oral histories.

And most importantly, in my opinion, please read this thread about Die Hard vs Home Alone from two people with “philosophy” in their bio which includes the line, “The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.”

I wonder if they could make Home Alone again now or does the ubiquity of cell phones preclude a lot of the dramatic tension the film relies on?

• Home Alone
• Macaulay Culkin
• movies

It’s Self-Portraits All the Way Down

Artist Seamus Wray is painting a series of self-portraits of himself painting previous self-portraits, Inception-style. Here’s the first painting:

And then the most recent one (cats are increasingly involved):

You can see the full progression so far on his Instagram. The influence of MC Escher is obvious here, but the two things that sprung to mind more immediately for me were Annie Wong’s “time-tunnel artwork” (she takes periodic photographs of her and her son with the previous photograph in the background) and Macaulay Culkin wearing a t-shirt of Ryan Gosling wearing a t-shirt of Macaulay Culkin. Oh, and the Droste effect.

• Annie Wong
• art
• Macaulay Culkin
• Ryan Gosling
• Seamus Wray