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Thursday, May 30, 2002
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Macaulay Culkin's New Movie
You probably wouldn't recognize him, but adorable "Home Alone" kid Macaulay Culkin is all grown up and making a startling movie comeback as an infamous real-life killer known as the "Party Monster."
It's been almost a decade since Macaulay retired from showbiz a multi-millionaire at age 12, and his "Home Alone" and "Richie Rich" fans are in for a shock when he returns to the big screen as the star of "Party Monster."
It’s a movie that shares the name of this acclaimed documentary about the life and crimes of Michael Alig. Alig was once the pied piper of a bizarre band of New York party animals who called themselves "the club kids" and shocked America with their drug-fueled all night revelry. In a 1999 interview, Alig told "Extra," "It was a house of cards that was bound to, you know, implode."
Implode it did when Alig and a friend bludgeoned 25-year-old Angel Melendez to death with a hammer during an argument over drugs in 1996. The two drugged out killers then dismembered the body stuffed it in a box, and threw it in the Hudson River, only to have the grizzly evidence wash up on shore nine months later.
"When I was arrested, it was the beginning of the closure for me and it was a weight off my shoulders," Alig told "Extra."
But now the weight of being Michael Alig falls on the young shoulders of Macaulay, now 21. He's apparently taking the role so seriously, he reportedly visited Alig in prison last weekend and Alig's mother is said to have been taken aback by how much they look alike. It just adds to the intrigue of one of the most anticipated comebacks of modern Hollywood.
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