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'Home Alone' star Macaulay Culkin turns 40
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Macaulay Culkin, co-founder of lifestyle media Bunny Ears, is the honorary bell ringers of the Nasdaq Closing Bell from the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center on August 6, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (AFP/Kimberly White)
It was a day of reckoning for many who grew up on the classic Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990).
On Wednesday, Macaulay Culkin - the former child star who was synonymous with the film - turned 40.
He tweeted: "Hey guys, wanna feel old? I'm 40. You're welcome."
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Hey guys, wanna feel old?
I'm 40.
You're welcome.
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) August 26, 2020
Well aware that many still think of him as a child star, he added in a follow-up tweet: "It's my gift to the world: I make people feel old. I'm no longer a kid, that's my job."
In the three decades since Home Alone, Culkin has tried his hands at other things: he became a musician and is now the publisher of a satirical pop culture website and podcast called Bunny Ears.
The wildly successful film - about a young boy who was mistakenly left at home alone by his parents for the holiday season - spawned an entire franchise complete with video games and five films.
Culkin was in the first two films and later reprised his role of Kevin McCallister in a commercial titled Home Alone Again With The Google Assistant in 2018.
He recreated famous scenes from the 1990s movie as an adult and the ad quickly went viral.
This article appeared on The Straits Times newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
