Macaulay Culkin's Sons Make First Public Appearance

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00:00 I just want to say Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

00:04 Macaulay Culkin gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and his two sons with actress

00:08 Brenda Song are there to make their first public appearance.

00:12 The Home Alone star poses with fiancé Brenda and their son Dakota as he cements his place

00:17 in Hollywood history, and the two-year-old nearly steals the spotlight from his dad thanks

00:22 to his epic baby mohawk.

00:24 And while the name of their younger son has yet to be revealed, we do know he's already

00:28 stylin'.

00:29 The man sports a sweater-vest combo to the big event.

00:32 So cute.

00:33 Macaulay later gets emotional talking about how much his family means to him in his speech.

00:39 Thanks for having me.

00:40 Don't tell me what to do.

00:41 Alright, fine, fine.

00:42 First, I'd just like to thank everyone for coming.

00:43 I just, there's so many people that I've met, and I just want to say thank you to everyone.

00:44 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:45 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:46 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:47 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:48 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:49 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:50 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:51 I just want to say thank you to my family.

00:52 I just, there's so many people that I love, and to feel that love back is just amazing.

01:04 So thank you.

01:14 Catherine and Natasha, thanks for all your kind words and your stories and stuff.

01:20 You know, it's, you made my kid's dad, their papa, look good.

01:29 And the most important thing to me is also that their papa understands that he wasn't

01:32 always his papa.

01:33 Like, there was, he also used to be a kid too, you know.

01:39 Thank you Steve Nissen and Anna Martinez and the Walk of Fame committee for honoring me

01:44 in this way.

01:45 Yeah, no, I mean, I feel such esteem, you know, like from this whole thing.

01:52 There's a couple people I want to single out today.

01:57 Michelle Vega.

02:03 We've worked together for like 20 years, everything from just general publicity to like trips

02:07 to Disneyland and, you know, just dealing with my pizza band.

02:11 You remember that?

02:15 You just always work so tirelessly for me.

02:19 So thank you.

02:21 I love you.

02:24 Next I'd like to thank Emily Gerson Saines.

02:27 There you are.

02:31 The first time I met Emily, I was 13 years old and I had one foot out the door of Hollywood

02:37 and she just stuck around and she stuck around and she stuck around and then, you know, I

02:48 probably quit more projects than I've actually done with you, to be honest, to be fair.

02:54 But you know, you stuck around and you stuck around and you stuck around.

02:58 And so just thanks for sticking around.

03:04 Thanks for believing in me and my family.

03:08 I love you so much, but you're my family and I love you.

03:15 I wish Max was here, but I know he is.

03:21 Also I want to give my love to Ken Weinrib.

03:25 It's not so remarkable that I've had a lawyer since I was 10 years old.

03:29 It's the fact that I've had the same lawyer since I was 10 years old.

03:35 You're my friend.

03:36 You're my advisor.

03:38 You're my family.

03:41 And just thanks for always looking out for me.

03:44 I love you.

03:47 Yeah, lastly, but not leastly, I'd like to thank Brenda.

03:59 You are absolutely everything.

04:05 You're my champion.

04:06 You're the only person happier for me today than I am.

04:11 You're not only the best woman I've ever known, you're the best person I've ever known.

04:17 You've given me just all my purpose.

04:21 You've given me family.

04:25 And after the birth of our two boys, you've become one of my three favorite people.

04:31 You're somewhere in there.

04:34 But I love you.

04:35 I love you so much.

04:38 So yeah, to wrap things up, and in the spirit of the holiday season, I just want to say

04:43 Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

04:46 [APPLAUSE]

04:50 Macaulay's Home Alone mom, actress Catherine O'Hara, is also on hand to gush about her

04:54 co-star.

04:55 Well, I have a little speech to make about you.

04:58 So pretend you're not here.

05:03 After Home Alone opened, I went to see it at a Saturday matinee in a theater packed

05:09 with shiny, happy children and their parents.

05:12 And it was thrilling for all of us.

05:13 But at one point, I saw two boys get up out of their seats, so not wanting to leave the

05:18 movie.

05:19 But after having already sucked back their giant sodas, they really had to go.

05:23 So they started running up the aisle, then suddenly panicked that they might miss something

05:27 great.

05:28 They turned around, looked back at the screen, and one of them said, it's OK.

05:31 No, it's just a mom.

05:33 And they kept running.

05:35 I say, bright boys, bright boys, Home Alone was, is, and always will be a global-- I'd

05:42 love a global sensation.

05:45 The reason, the reason it's that, the reason families all over the world can't let a year

05:51 go by without watching and loving Home Alone together is because of Macaulay Culkin.

05:57 Yes.

05:58 Yes, he had a most excellent script and a wonderful director.

06:04 But it is Macaulay's perfect performance as Kevin Macalester that gave us that little

06:13 every boy on an extraordinary adventure.

06:16 I know you worked really hard.

06:18 I know you did.

06:19 But you made acting look like the most natural thing in the world to do.

06:22 It really was as if we had ambushed the home of this real little boy named Kevin to make

06:27 a movie.

06:28 And he just went along with it for the fun of it.

06:31 He's the dearest thing.

06:33 OK.

06:34 Oh, the scene where I had to drag him upstairs to sleep in the attic because he'd misbehaved.

06:41 And he says, you know, he's mouthing off about the family.

06:45 And I say, well, you'd be pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and you had no family.

06:50 And he said, no, I wouldn't.

06:53 And I was supposed to say, then say it again.

06:57 Maybe it'll happen.

06:58 And I can't tell you how much that killed me.

07:00 I could not wrap my head around saying something so horrific to this beautiful child.

07:06 Of course, I was not yet a mother at the time.

07:09 And I had no idea the kind of things that would come out of my mouth with my own two

07:15 sons.

07:16 Macaulay, a 10-year-old boy, this 10 beautiful, dear little 10-year-old boy was called a superstar,

07:25 a moneymaker.

07:26 One of the hottest leading young men in Hollywood by the world over.

07:33 How does anyone survive that?

07:35 Well, I believe you'd have to possess a certain quality, a gift that dear John Hughes obviously

07:41 recognized in you, Macaulay, your sense of humor.

07:45 It's a sign of intelligence in a child and a key to surviving life at any age.

07:50 And you have, from what I see, you have brought that sense of sweet yet twisted, yet totally

07:58 relatable sense of humor to everything that you have chosen to do since Home Alone.

08:04 Macaulay, congratulations.

08:06 You so deserve your star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

08:09 And thank you for including me, your fake mom who left you Home Alone not once but twice

08:15 to share in this happy occasion.

08:16 I'm so proud of you.

08:17 God bless you.

08:18 [APPLAUSE]

08:18 Kevin MacAllister, you did good.

08:23 Thank you.

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08:34 (dramatic music)

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