Halloween Tips for Bar-Goers Oct 29, 2009
This keeps people from getting lost from the group, ending up having to find their way home alone (or with the wrong person), and without help if they need it. It's also a way to pool money and IDs together. (Suite101.com)
Swine Flu Etiquette: Should families self quarantine? Oct 29, 2009
So the sibling issue isn t one I can weigh in on, and the parent issue doesn t come up often since the baby (toddler) can t exactly stay home alone ... Once my daughter got older, she stayed home alone when she was sick, as long as she wasn t throwing up. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
'Zoey' pal gets own show Oct 27, 2009
American Idol," the original songs heard during the series will be available for download on iTunes right after each episode airs, thanks to a partnership with Sony Music. Unlike "iCarly" and "Zoey," where parents were mysteriously absent, Victoria will have an on-screen mom and dad. "We have to make it realistic," says Justice. "It'd be a little weird if we were always at home alone ... " Like "Glee" and "American Idol," the original songs heard during the series will be available for download... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Missing 9-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Oct 24, 2009
Posted by: Amy Location: Tx on Oct 23, 2009 at 02:33 PM When are parents going to learn, you cant let your childern walk home alone. There are a lot of sick people out there anymore. (KWTX.com, TX)
A Womans Nation: A new report from Maria Shriver tells us just how much womens lives have changed Oct 22, 2009
Never letting my kids walk home alone. FCM. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Yes, its been that long Oct 22, 2009
Home Alone * Ghost * Dances with Wolves * Pretty Woman * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles * The Hunt for Red October * Total Recall * Die Hard 2 * Dick Tracy * Edward Scissorhands, * The Godfather Part III. Popular Musicians. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Caltrain fatality identified as Gunn junior William Dickens, 16 Oct 21, 2009
You might as well take that sentiment to the extreme and say that because you aren't keeping your kid in a bubble until they're 18, you are employing them to kill themselves due to all the access you provide in your home alone. As soon as they wake up in the morning there are a multitude of opportunities to kill oneself, I am floored by the ignorance of some of these postings. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Childbirth Is Not Burger King. You Cant Always Have It Your Way. Oct 20, 2009
With my second, a successful VBAC. With my third, I told everyone - friends, relatives, doctors - that I would give birth at home alone rather than have another c-section. At 36 weeks when I finally found a doctor I trusted, I listened to his advice and ended up having a cesarean. (Slate)
C4 'home alone' show broke rules Oct 20, 2009
Page last updated at 10:44 GMT, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:44 UK. Channel 4 said the ruling vindicated its welfare considerations. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
ABCs of child safety involve everyone Oct 18, 2009
According to , the locations away from the school campus are the most dangerous, such as a park or the walk home alone. The child safety Web site indicates that when a child is singled out riding a golf cart or bicycle alone, a skating rink or movie theater, waiting alone at the mall in a crowd of people he is more likely to be abducted. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Sleep drug killed Smith, but who gave it to her? Oct 16, 2009
If you sit at home alone, then of course you are less likely to hit a troubled streak. But even if you are sitting at home, anxiety can still pop up in your day and you may even feel like throwing caution to the wind and rebelling for no other reason except - you can. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Letters for Thursday, October 15,2009 Oct 16, 2009
Leave children at home alone. Have no idea. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
A new learning curve on Jon & Kate Oct 14, 2009
The rest of the episode was dominated by Kate home alone, obliged to talk to the camera as though narrating her morning to herself. She did the laundry, some paperwork, and there was a slightly frightening moment when she went up to Mady and Caras room. (MSNBC -- News)
Alvord: 'There's something I must confess' Oct 7, 2009
Because you were a single working mom, I always stayed home alone when I was sick. The only option would have been for me to come to work with you at Hump s Restaurant, where a free chocolate milkshake at lunch time sure would ve beaten the fish sticks at school. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Death from above: Woman flings billiard balls at robbers Oct 6, 2009
Ollie, a mother of three, was at home alone. "I heard something outside, and I went to the front door, where I heard these two men talking quietly," said Ollie, who had been cleaning the house. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Report: Texas Officials Left 3 Children With Troubled Mother Oct 5, 2009
Citing CPS records, The Dallas Morning News reported that the agency decided in May that Keashia Dyon Matthews, 37, should retain custody of the children, even though she had been leaving them home alone. Matthews is free on bond after she was charged with injury to a child in the Sept. 3 death of her 17-month-old son. (KWTX.com, TX)
Mad Men, Season 3 Oct 5, 2009
I enjoyed the montage of Pete taking his shirt and tie off over his head, eating cereal while watching children's television, and dozing on the couchPete Campbell is Home Alone. but I wasn't much taken with this subplot. (Slate)
Parents loosen reins on kids Oct 4, 2009
Last year, New York City columnist Lenore Skenazy created a stir when she wrote a piece about letting her 9-year-old son ride the subway home alone. A couple days later, she appeared on major TV shows, one titled, America s Worst Mom. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Rough justice Oct 4, 2009
She did, she collected, he went home alone. Many of my girlfriends are not that cheap. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Hurt by dollar? Take a holiday Sep 26, 2009
GOOD sex should start with a mirror and some quiet time at home alone. SYDNEY'S real estate agents are anxiously gearing up for today's record. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The Young Pro Sep 23, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009 2:28 PM EST. Harkins is The Citizen's innovation coordinator, an active member of the IGNITE young professionals group in Cayuga County and is always happy to hear from fellow young pros. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Home alone: term break no holiday for children Sep 20, 2009
One-third of children aged five to 15 will be left at home alone during the school holidays in two weeks time while their parents have to work. With about 12 weeks of school holidays each year, even if both parents take their full leave entitlements at different times there are weeks in which working parents have to rely on relatives and friends to care for their children, enrol in holiday-care programs (which cost between $45 and $100 a day), hire a babysitter or leave the children at home... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Life never the same for kidnapped girl's friend Sep 18, 2009
Her parents stopped allowing her to be home alone in the afternoon, instead putting her in after-school care. Three years later, she said, her parents divorced, in part because of fractures that opened after the abduction. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pedestrian struck, killed crossing road Sep 17, 2009
SOMERVILLE Boy, 6, follows mother home during class A 6-year-old boy slipped out of kindergarten class in Somerville earlier this week and walked home alone, a school official said. His mother dropped him off in the cafeteria. (Boston Globe)
Elderly Women Attacked In Their Homes, Investigators Look For Possible Connection Sep 11, 2009
Just last week, an elderly woman reported receiving a phone call asking if she would be home alone that night. She said yes, saying she didn't think about it. (KWTX.com, TX)
Michael Jackson reaches 'final resting place' Sep 5, 2009
Macaulay Culkin, the "Home Alone" actor who spent time with during his Neverland Ranch days, was there with his girlfriend, actress Mila Kunis. Don't Miss. (CNN -- US)
In pictures: Jackson funeral Sep 4, 2009
Former Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin attended the funeral with actress girlfriend Mila Kunis. Jackson's son Prince Michael was seen leaving the cemetery in a bus with family members. (BBC News -- Americas)
Lodi Muslim Mosque welcomes new president, Khan Afsar Sep 4, 2009
A: "Home Alone." It's a funny movie. Contact reporter at. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
All Men are Liars: Sep 1, 2009
Hughes, whose films included The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Home Alone also helmed my All Time Rewatchable Film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. As a hats off to a massively talented director, I'm republishing one of All Men Are Liars' most popular-ever blog posts about that very movie and how it contains almost unfathomable wisdom. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Troops react to possible smoking ban Sep 1, 2009
Its not the best time now the stress of being here, and her being home alone, he said. Tobacco costs the Defense Department more than $1. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
PAPER: Macaulay Culkin is mystery dad of Michael Jackson's son Blanket... Aug 31, 2009
Home Alone Culkin is dad of Blanket ... The Home Alone film star is said to have donated sperm to help Jacko create his seven-year-old offspring - real name Prince Michael II - with an unknown surrogate mum. (The Drudge Report)
Patient neglect Aug 28, 2009
"When she arrived at Wexham Accident and Emergency following her stay at St Marks, the doctor thought she must have been at home alone and neglecting herself. He couldn't understand how should could've become so dehydrated.". Berkshire East Primary Care Trust chief executive Dr Lise Llewellyn said: "At no point did the Healthcare Commission criticise the quality of care provided to this frail, elderly patient. The focus of the HCC's concerns was around record-keeping. Since this case we have... (BBC News -- UK)
US healthcare debatesick to the heart Aug 19, 2009
Most prominent among them was 1990's Home Alone, at the time the third highest, and number one comedy, grossing film of all time ... The US Congress is scheduled to be on vacation until September 8, but, sometimes it seems like, in all their preparations, they've forgotten something important, just like in Home Alone ... If so, is what we are seeing in the raucous mouths now showing up at congressional "town meetings" only a natural outgrowth of the American people being too long "home alone?". (Asia Times Online)
From all us misfits, geeks and outsiders, thank you, John Aug 18, 2009
He wrote and produced the adult comedies Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck, and presumably made his fortune with the Home Alone films. But it is for his high school films of the '80s that he'll be most fondly remembered by those of a certain demographic - Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Lloyd Garver: The porn industry seeks a bailout Aug 14, 2009
Are you home alone, Mrs. Jones. " Considering that we get so many spam e-mails about porn, how could the porn industry be losing its shirt ... and pants? Almost every day, I'm invited, courtesy of the Internet, to watch videos of men and women doing things that I never even thought were possible. It turns out that porn is not a recession-proof business. It makes sense that some fans of the genre have decided that their money should go elsewhere these days, even if the videos are shot in high... (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Parents guide to new movie releases Aug 13, 2009
Good lessons/bad lessons: Mom's a reckless driver who leaves her kid home alone during a typhoon. But kids are more resourceful than you think, is the implication. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Hughes mourned at private funeral Aug 13, 2009
As a scriptwriter, he also penned films including Home Alone, Pretty in Pink and National Lampoon's Vacation. In a statement released after Hughes's death, Ferris Bueller star Broderick said: "I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes. "He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Actor Yao Wenlong harassed by loansharks Aug 13, 2009
" onclick="Next();" src="/images/butt_next. They must think we are hiding him that's why they refuse to give up, so I have no choice but to make a police report to show that I really cannot find him. (Channelnewsasia.com)
All About Pets- Home alone Aug 13, 2009
Wed Aug 12, 2009, 03:38 PM EDT. It feels as if summer has only just arrived, but the newspaper is already loaded with ads for Back to School Savings. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Hughes film set for world release Aug 12, 2009
Hughes, who died at the age of 59, made hit teen movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Austin-Sadowski, who starred in the Power Rangers: SPD TV series, said Hughes' films had a huge impact on him when he was in school. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
John Hughes: an appreciation Aug 11, 2009
In the dozens of scripts he wrote, either under his name ( 101 Dalmatians, Home Alone, Baby s Day Out, to name but three) or under the pseudonym Edmond Dant. s ( Beethoven ), adults became inconsequential, impotent, or villainous. (Boston Globe)
St. Louis' hip neighborhoods have much to offer Aug 11, 2009
So instead of sitting at home alone, get out of the house, call your best friend or that guy or girl who's number you got last week and go out and experience something new and exciting. The Central West End (CWE) is one of the most trendy and stylish zones of the city, where it almost seems like a city within a city. (The Current Online, MO)
Heart Attacks Like Hughes' Can Be UnexpectedA heart attack is often the first symptom of heart disease. Aug 9, 2009
John Hughes, prolific director of such culturally significant films as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris... John Hughes, prolific director of such culturally significant films as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Home Alone" died suddenly of a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to Manhattan to visit family. (WireImage/Getty Images) Hughes, 59, had been in Manhattan visiting family when he had the fatal heart attack during a... (ABC News)
'80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC Aug 9, 2009
He was director of such movie hits as "National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Home Alone" and its sequel "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." ... Hughes also directed "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and wrote "Home Alone." He lived in Illinois and set many of his films in the Chicago area. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Actors Remember John Hughes As 'Regular Guy' Aug 9, 2009
Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s, captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," ''The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, spokeswoman Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.Jake Bloom, Hughes' longtime attorney, said he was "deeply saddened and in shock" to learn of the director's death.A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set... (KIRO TV, WA)
Hughes 'made teenagers real' Aug 8, 2009
Among his credits were "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Pretty in Pink," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Home Alone." ... The top-grossing films of the 1980s included "Beverly Hills Cop," "Back to the Future," "Top Gun" and "Three Men and a Baby." Only "Home Alone" (1990), which Hughes wrote and produced, was an out-and-out blockbuster on that level. (CNN)
Hughes' memorable film moments Aug 8, 2009
Page last updated at 10:49 GMT, Friday, 7 August 2009 11:49 UK. Film director and writer John Hughes, who has died at the age of 59, made some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Molly Ringwald and More Pay Tribute to HughesMolly Ringwald remembers Hughes as an important part of her life and career. Aug 8, 2009
Hughes also scripted the phenomenally popular "Home Alone," which made little-known Macaulay Culkin a sensation as the 8-year-old accidentally abandoned by his vacationing family, and he wrote or directed such hits as "National Lampoon's Vacation," "Planes, Trains obiles" and "Uncle Buck." ... Devin Ratray, best known for playing Culkin's older brother Buzz McCallister in the "Home Alone" films, said he remained close to Hughes over the years ... "Nineteen years later, people from all over the... (ABC News)
Tapped teen spirit Aug 8, 2009
Hughes would go on to write the "Home Alone" movies, write and direct "Curly Sue" and "Beethoven." These had much softer centers. For a look at a harder edge, seek out "Vacation '58," the short story in "National Lampoon" that he based the "Vacation" script on. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
1980's film icon Aug 8, 2009
Among his other credits were "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983), "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), the Thanksgiving classic "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987) and "Home Alone" (1990). "He was such a great writer who created so many enduring characters for film, both as a director and a writer. His real gift was in creating these identifiable characters," actor, writer and comedian Steve Martin, who starred in "Planes" with John Candy, told CNN.. (CNN -- US)
John Hughes Said He 'Stumbled Into Teen Films' Aug 8, 2009
In a 1992 interview with MTV News for 'Home Alone 2,' the late director explains his unintentional specialty ... In 1992, while promoting "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," legendary director of a heart attack at the age of 59, spoke to MTV News about how he wound up ... specializing in like "Pretty in Pink" and later kid-friendly movies, like "Home Alone.". (VHI.com -- Music News)
Prolific film director John Hughes dead at 59 Aug 8, 2009
A prolific screenwriter and director, Hughes was the creative inspiration behind a series of teen-oriented films throughout the 1980s before penning the screenplay for the smash 1990 Macaulay Culkin film Home Alone ... He also penned a less successful 1992 sequel Home Alone 2 ... Yet it was 1990's Home Alone that cemented Hughes's reputation as one of the most successful talents of his generation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Life Moves Pretty Fast: A John Hugh... Aug 8, 2009
He went on to write the hugely successful Home Alone films (yet another story about a young one running amok without adult supervision) and direct Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which contains some of the finest work John Candy ever did. And some comedy lovers will always remember him as the mastermind behind the National Lampoon series. (Suite101.com)
John Hughes film clips Aug 8, 2009
Home Alone writer John Hughes has died in New York of a heart attack. He directed favourites such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. (BBC News)
Champion of teenage angst who owned the '80s Aug 8, 2009
Young at art John Hughes (centre), flanked by scenes from two of his films, Sixteen Candles starring Molly Ringwald (left) and Home Alone , with Macaulay Culkin ... JOHN HUGHES, the Hollywood director, producer and screenwriter who inspired a genre of teenage angst films and comedies about young outcasts, including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and who wrote the popular Home Alone series about a resourceful boy with very careless parents, has died in New York after a heart... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
John Hughes: Hero To The Misfit Aug 7, 2009
For the generation that gave way to an environment where nerds and geeks can be cool, the stars of "Office Space" and "The Office" had to grow up somewhere before they got jobs, and Hughes' fictional world of kids left home alone to defend their houses with m 0000286D akeshift booby traps, and high school kids forced to establish disjointed social alliances, built that incubator ... Hughes was a writer and director with the ability to pitch scenarios to his characters' strengths and bring them... (VHI.com -- Music News)
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Neighbor: Pa. Gunman Ogled My Daughter Aug 7, 2009
" And this woman is just naive. Everybody should remember the lesson of Bundy and other sociopaths--bright, friendly chirpy men who would rape then bludgeon or strangle a woman--or maybe kill them first, then rape them. The lesson of a sociopath is that they know how to 'be' friendly and ask the right questions, but the eyes--usually give them away. Supposedly, they are cold and empty. A key sign would have been that the man did not have contact with other people outside of work. That is only... (CBS News)
Hollywood film director John Hughes dies at 59 Aug 7, 2009
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood film director and writer John Hughes, who made a series of adolescent comedies like "Home Alone" and "The Breakfast Club," died Thursday of a heart attack in New York City ... Hughes's greatest commercial success came with "Home Alone," a film he wrote and produced about a child accidentally left behind when his family goes away for a Christmas vacation, who has to protect himself and his house from a pair of inept burglars ... "Home Alone" would be the top... (Xinhuanet, China)
Read the story Aug 7, 2009
Highlights from director/writer John Hughes' career includes "Home Alone" and "The Breakfast Club". (AP) Writer-director , Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said ... He also scripted the phenomenally popular "Home Alone," which made little-known Macaulay Culkin a sensation as the 8-year-old accidentally... (CBS News -- Evening News)
John Hughes; filmmaker captured teen heartbeat Aug 7, 2009
The filmmaker found success in the entertainment industry by working his way through younger and younger protagonists, culminating in 1990s Home Alone, still the most commercially successful live-action comedy of all time ... Then he hit pay dirt with Home Alone, the story of a moppet in suburban Chicago whose parents accidentally maroon him when they leave for vacation ... Mr. Hughes did not direct Home Alone - Chris Columbus did - and after 1991 s Curly Sue, he stepped away from the director s... (Boston Globe)
Director John Hughes Dies Of Heart Attack Aug 7, 2009
NEW YORK -- Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," ''The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.Jake Bloom, Hughes' longtime attorney, said he was "deeply saddened and in shock" to learn of the director's... (Click2Houston, TX)
- Inked! Kids today need a John Hughes 0 Aug 7, 2009
Everybody deserves the chance to have their own Ferris Bueller s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful or Home Alone. John Hughes gave me and my friends and hundreds of thousands like us that opportunity. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
The movies that defined a generation Aug 7, 2009
Site Presented By Friday, Aug 7, 2009. Video of the late John Hughes' most beloved films, from "The Breakfast Club" to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". (Salon)
more. Friday, Aug. 07, 2009 Aug 7, 2009
But that failure was really just the beginning of another kind of success: Hughes had already written and produced the 1990 megahit "Home Alone," and from there he went on to rack up a number of writing and producing credits. Most recently, he cowrote and both credited to the pseudonym he frequently used, Edmond Dantes (a nod to "The Count of Monte Cristo"). (Salon)
