Still hot from Home Alone (now on video), Macaulay Culkin reportedly got $1 million to befriend newcomer Anna Chlumsky in the November movie My Girl. "I think it's for kids 8 and up, because there's death in it," says Anna, 10, who plays the child of a widowed mortician (Dan Aykroyd).
Fall fads for the thoroughly modern grade-schooler: After spawning hundreds of licensed products, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have created a demand for the real thing: pet box turtles....
Plaid is fall's ubiquitous fashion statement for girls and boys....
Even trendier jeunes filles will catch the latest rage from Paris: clusters of pins (these by Rosecraft) worn on hats or jeans jackets....
"Wow! A doll with hips and a waist!" has been the reaction from moms to the $9.95
Happy to Be Me Doll (High Self-Esteem Toys Corp). She'd measure a rounded 36-27-38 if she were life-size, while the wasp-waisted Barbie would come in at an anatomically improbable 36-18-33....
State-of-the-art Super Nintendo (which has the capacity for 32,768 color combinations and 3D graphics) might break the piggy bank at $199.95, but kids can still use their old equipment with new games, such as Tom & Jerry ($44.95) and, yes, Barbie ($44.95) and, yes, Barbie ($44.95).
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
