00:00Well, I have a little speech to make about you, so pretend you're not here.
00:07After Home Alone opened, I went to see it at a Saturday matinee in a theater packed with shiny, happy children and their parents, and it was thrilling for all of us.
00:18But at one point, I saw two boys get up out of their seats, so not wanting to leave the movie, but after having already sucked back their giant sodas, they really had to go.
00:27So they started running up the aisle, and then suddenly panicked that they might miss something great.
00:32They turned around and looked back at the screen, and one of them said, it's okay, no, it's just a mom.
00:38And they kept running.
00:40I say, bright boys, bright boys, Home Alone, was, is, and always will be a global, a beloved global sensation.
00:48And the reason, the reason it's that, the reason families all over the world can't let a year go by without watching and loving Home Alone Together, is because of Macaulay Culkin.
01:01Yes.
01:02Yes, he had a most excellent script and a wonderful director, but it is Macaulay's perfect performance as Kevin Macalester that gave us that little every boy on an extraordinary adventure.
01:20I know you worked really hard, I know you did, but you made acting look like the most natural thing in the world to do.
01:27It really was as if we had ambushed the home of this real little boy named Kevin to make a movie, and he just went along with it for the fun of it.
01:36He's the dearest thing.
01:38Okay.
01:38Oh, the scene where I had to drag him upstairs to sleep in the attic because he'd misbehaved, and he says, you know, he's mouthing off about the family, and I say, well, you'd be pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and you had no family.
01:55And he said, no, I wouldn't, and I was supposed to say, then say it again.
02:01Maybe it'll happen.
02:03And I can't tell you how much that killed me.
02:05I could not wrap my head around saying something so horrific to this beautiful child.
02:11Of course, I was not yet a mother at the time, and I had no idea the kind of things that would come out of my mouth with my own two sons.
02:22Macaulay, a 10-year-old boy, this beautiful, dear little 10-year-old boy, was called a superstar, a moneymaker, one of the hottest leading young men in Hollywood.
02:35By the world over.
02:37How does anyone survive that?
02:40Well, I believe you'd have to possess a certain quality, a gift that dear John Hughes obviously recognized in you, Macaulay, your sense of humor.
02:48It's a sign of intelligence in a child and a key to surviving life at any age.
02:54And you have, from what I see, you have brought that sense of sweet, yet twisted, yet totally relatable sense of humor to everything that you have chosen to do since Home Alone.
03:07Macaulay, congratulations.
03:11You so deserve your star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
03:14And thank you for including me, your fake mom who left you home alone not once but twice, to share in this happy occasion.
03:21I'm so proud of you.
03:22God bless you.
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