MACAULAY Culkin, child star of the 1990 box-office hit Home Alone, has given up acting until his parents resolve their bitter custody battle over him and five other children, the New York Daily News reported yesterday.
The newspaper said Culkin's lawyer and accountant had also asked a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to approve a plan to save estranged parents, Christopher (Kit) Culkin and Patricia Brentrup, from financial ruin.
Culkin, who turns 16 this month, needs court approval to carry out a plan for him to spend $1.9 million to buy a new home for his family in Manhattan, the lawyer said.
President Jacques Chirac led most of the French government yesterday in a funeral tribute to Gaullist former prime minister, Michel Debre, founding father of the country's Fifth Republic.
The funeral was at the Saint Denis Church in Amboise in the Loire valley where Debre was mayor from 1966 to 1989.
Terry Anderson, who was held hostage by Iran-backed militants in Lebanon for six years, brushed aside years of torment and said yesterday he wanted to live permanently in Beirut.
"I am very happy to be back," Anderson kept on repeating as be arrived at Beirut International Airport to an emotional and warm welcome from his Lebanese wife, Madelene, and his daughter Salome, who had preceded him to Beirut. Anderson is in Lebanon for 10 days to make a short film for CNN.
Rock superstar Bruce Springsteen is heading for a British High Court confrontation over what he claims are bootleg copies of his hit double album Unearthed.
Springsteen has issued a High Court writ against Flute International Ltd, of Oakfield Road, Clifton, Bristol, and Robert Tringham, of Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, seeking damages.