Month: November 2022

In his rap about the hip electric bicycles that are also rapidly advancing inNoord, Massih Hutak (30) processed a sample of the penetrating alarm signalfrom a VanMoof. In a video clip, ‘selfie experience’ Wondr is defaced. As inhis columns in this newspaper, he opposes the gentrification of his beloveddistrict.

He affectionately calls the neighborhood where he grew up PVG, also on therecord that he presents on Wednesday in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ. Close tothe rental flat in Plan Van Gool, where his family who fled from Afghanistanended up around the turn of the century, he points to the wing of theBuikslotermeerplein shopping center that was added in 2009. “Suddenly we had aKFC and a MediaMarkt opposite our house. That was something! ‘The neighborhoodis doing well, isn’t it,’ I said to my father.”

His father responded with a lesson that has always stuck with him: “He said,’Oh yes? Who is that good for then?’ On the other hand, we lived in poorlyinsulated houses, the rent went up and fire safety had deteriorated.” At thesame time, Hutak learned from the movie Boyz n the Hood the concept ofgentrification. “That’s when I started to become aware of what was going on.”

Research method

He uses his record and the video clips he made with it as a research method.“Brooklyn, Berlin. Buikslotermeerplein,” he sings in the song DesignerBicycle. He sees the same mechanism occurring all over the world: neglectedneighborhoods become popular with a new, affluent public that makes theneighborhood more prosperous, but also more expensive, too expensive for theoriginal inhabitants.

“The differences are getting bigger because many houses have been sold,” hesays in Noord. “In neighborhoods where there was a great sense of community.Everyone was in the same shit.”

Readers of The parole will mainly know him from his columns, but it is themusic that started it all for him. He then went to the theatre, wrote a bookand until mid-January, an exhibition of Verdedig Noord, the residents’movement of which Hutak is the face, can be seen in the Amsterdam Museum untilmid-January.

He often comes across as stern in his columns, he concludes. “In my music Idare to take the space to be myself even more.” The songs are mostly cheerfuland light-hearted. “It is a fine seducer. I introduce people to an ugly wordlike gentrification in a very accessible way. Hip-hop is a candy with amedicine in it.”

Declaration of love

It took a while before his first album was released. Since 2019, single songsand video clips have been online every now and then. The self-produced clips,just like the music, complete the declaration of love to Noord. “It is typicalof hip-hop to sing about the city in such a specific way. You make it hyper-personal and hyper-local and therefore universal,” says Hutak. “Even before hementioned Brooklyn or New York, Jay-Z was talking about Marcy Projects. Thatwas his Plan Van Gool.”

North is colored on it. “It is not a set piece as in many films and seriesthat come to film here. It’s a character in itself, as in Baltimore The Wire_it.” With his own perspective here too: in _Slippers Ray-Ban a girl danceshappily everywhere in Noord, but not in three places. “There she looks seriousand takes off her sunglasses. Then she stands at self-build plots. That is nocoincidence.”

Uterus

The fear that North will slip through his fingers is actually quiteunderstandable. “I fled at a young age, through different countries, throughdifferent azc’s. I didn’t know any better than that we went somewhere elseevery three months and that’s why I didn’t dare to get attached to friends orneighbors. In Amsterdam we went from Osdorp to Noord and it was only therethat I felt safe for the first time. Here I was looked after, I feltprotected. That made it a home for me.”

Does the fear of gentrification go to Hutak’s throat like no other because hehas already lost his home? “It is the nail on the head, but now it is gettingvery personal. I lost my mother at a young age. I did talk about that withRené Gude, the philosopher who was then a thinker of the nation. He said: Themoment they are taken away from their mothers, people look for conditionsclosest to the womb. He said: ‘North is your womb’.”

“That safety, that sense of security, that warmth has become North for me. I’mnot going to be motherless again. I will defend, protect, guard that with allmy life.”

The presentation of Welcome to the Northside is Wednesday evening inMuziekgebouw aan het IJ. The album can be listened to on all streamingplatforms from Friday.

“Por su personalidad avasalladora, no tiene techo, no se conforma, no sepermite errores. Cuando se marchó a vivir solo, de las primeras cosas que lepidió a su representante fue un gimnasio dentro”, cuenta al otro lado delteléfono Esquivel, que se lo encontró en La Recova (su club de infancia) y noparó hasta llevárselo a River. “Me sorprendió su inteligencia y su liderazgopese a lo pequeño que era. Encontré a sus padres, hablé con ellos ya los mesesme lo trajeron”, recuerda.

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No tardaron en apodarle el “músico”, por su dirección del equipo. Y tampoco“gordo”. The hecho, los compañeros de toda la vida aún se lo llaman. “Nuncaquiso mostrar fotos de los 10 años porque estaba todo inflado. A través de unamigo, lo metí en un centro de alto rendimiento, bajó cinco kilos en un mes yya no paró más”, apuntaba estos días su padre, Raúl, en medios argentinos. “Miseñora (Marta) lo llevaba a entrenar en colectivo [autobús urbano] porque noteniamos vehículo. Se iban al mediodía y volvían a las seis o siete de latarde, según lo que tardara el 28″, relataba ahora desde La Perla, una de laszonas más lujosas de Doha.

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En los últimos días, de Enzo Fernández no solo ha sorprendido su capacidadpara aportar profundidad a una Argentina plana. De el tambien ha hablado lahemeroteca. En 2016, con apenas 15 años, se soltó en dos publicaciones enFacebook que estos días se han desempolvado con ganas al otro lado del océano.Primero habló de él y de las dificultades del camino, con esa vehemencia de laadolescencia y hasta con aires literarios. “Nadie sabe el sacrificio que hago,el barro que piso, las lluvias que sufro, el frío que paso, el calor que mesofoca, la tierra que me raspa. Nadie ve a ese que cuando tiene un error sepasa todo el día pensando en eso. Me podrás criticar, pero no te escuchoporque estoy entrenando”.

Cooking & EatingWhat can we learn from the ups and downs of large families interms of shopping and cooking? Smart shopping is a must when you have so manymouths to feed. Especially in times of extremely high prices. AnnemarieGeerts, known from the TV program What do they do it from , has eightchildren. How does she look after the little ones?

Annemarie Geerts does all the shopping online since the family has reallygrown. ,,Before that time I went to different shops and to the fruit andvegetable market. But at some point those ten liters of milk, seven loaves ofbread and all the other groceries just didn’t fit in my car anymore. Moreover,shopping became something of a nuisance. I wasted so much time on it.”

And extra money, says Geerts. The trips to the store and still takingsomething that is not on the shopping list with each visit ticked nicely. “Ino longer had the overview. At one point my husband said: ‘Then just stop anddo the shopping online’.”

“That was in 2012, when it was still decadent to shop online. I was ashamed,only companies did it, not families.” But in her own words, her family hasbecome quite like a company. The argument for switching. “A world opened upfor me when I did that.”

Quote >>> I never buy sliced ​​vegetables, they are gone after a few days>> Annemarie Geerts

How do you choose your groceries?

“Every Friday I sit down for it. First I throw my standard shopping list intothe online cart. Then I look at what’s left, I know exactly what’s in myfridge and look up recipes for it.”

“I always look at the offers. Is the minced meat on offer that week? Then weeat something with minced meat. The same goes for kale, for example. I alsocook with the season. In the summer the tomatoes cost almost nothing, then Imake my own pasta sauces, for example. It saves you money and it is a lothealthier than all those packages and bags.”

“I also pay attention to vegetables that can be stored for a long time. Wealways eat chicory at the end of the week because you can keep it good for along time. I never buy sliced ​​vegetables, they are gone after a few days.You can save so much money with fresh vegetables.”

Does everyone also eat along with everything?

“I decide what we eat and everyone eats what they eat. You don’t have to emptyyour plate, if you don’t like it, you don’t eat. Desserts are the solutionwhen it comes to picky eaters. If you see everyone eating a nice dessert, thennext time you just eat along. They eat anything for dessert with me. Inaddition, I make sure that they are always hungry at mealtime. At 3 p.m. it’sfruit with a treat and then nothing more. That way, the evening meal istasty.”

Quote >>> Eggs, they are always gone. I can buy infinite quantities of it. That’s why> I created an ‘adolescent’>> Annemarie Geerts

Have you lost more or less money since you did your online shopping?

“I have cut costs enormously. Because I do much more targeted shopping. I nowalways have food in the house for seven days. They arrive with almost a wholebus full in front of us. Often it is six crates, four bags and some stuff forthe freezer. I sometimes get the comment ‘Do you have a company?’, ‘No, lotsof children’.”

“I am lucky that we can also lose everything at home. If you don’t have thatspace, my tip is: don’t overcrowd your cupboards with equipment, such asblenders and mixers. Make sure you can save offers. I am also very happy withmy large freezer, I have six drawers. I can put seven loaves of bread in itand meat for a week.”

Some of your children are going through puberty. Doesn’t everything gofaster with teenagers in the house?

“Everything is on all the time. So on Sundays we eat chicory with ham, butthat ham always disappears one way or another. I tend to hide the suit. Oreggs, they are always gone. I can buy infinite quantities of it. That’s why Icreated an ‘adolescent’. Every week I throw in everything that those teenagerslike to eat. In addition, I make sure that there is always enough bread andcheese in the house for toasted sandwiches.”

“I’d rather they snack here than go to McDonalds. The rule is also ‘on is on’.I don’t refill the drawer until the end of the week. This way they learn torespect each other. Fortunately, I have very sweet children and that often

Ever since Daniel Craig announced that No time to That was his last Bond film,speculation about his successor is no longer silent. After five other Bonds,the British newspaper drops The Sun a new name: Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Closeassociates of the Bond films told the newspaper that Taylor-Johnson went toaudition in September at the Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, near London,where the interior shots of the Bond films are made.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson was barely six when he took the stage in London in aMacbeth-production. At the age of thirteen he played his first film role: theyoung Charlie Chaplin Shanghai Knights (2003) alongside Jackie Chan. In frontof The illusionist (2006) he was cast because he was the best ball juggler ofall the teenagers who auditioned.

Slowly Aaron Taylor-Johnson made some name for himself. Also with the makersof the popular British police series The bill, who cast him for the role ofJack Clough in the tenth season. And that resulted in the role in the BBCseries casualty.

Read more below the trailer of ‘Nowhere boy’.

But Aaron Taylor-Johson held off the TV series requests. “It’s too fleetingfor me. I prefer to bite into a film role, which I can fully empathize with,”he said in interviews. At the age of eighteen he got the chance to sink histeeth into a character, a mythical character: Aaron Taylor-Johnson wasselected for the role of John Lennon in the biopic Nowhere boy. Taylor-Johnsonrealized very well “if I fail there, I can put my career away. The Britishpublic will not accept that a young actor tarnishes the icon John Lennon.”Taylor-Johnson did not disappoint. “Surprisingly good actor,” wrote TheGuardian. “Played subtly,” said Rollingstone.

Older wife

The British tabloids also wrote extensively about Aaron Taylor-Johnson, buttheir focus was elsewhere. At the premiere of the film, the actor appearedhand in hand with director Sam Taylor-Wood. “We fell in love during theshooting,” said the director. And also: “Love is blind.” She made thataddition to silence critics. Sam was then 42, Aaron was 19.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen in Avengers: Age of Ultron. — © JayMaidment

But the couple believed in his love, married and merged their family names:from now on she was Sam Taylor-Johnson (she is also featured as a director onthe bill of Fifty shades of grey) and he Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

In the meantime, the couple had two daughters and now live with the twodaughters from Sam’s first marriage in the US. When the couple had beentogether for ten years, Sam posted on her social media: “Ten glorious years.My incredible husband. I love you. Love conquers all.” She was referring toher double (bowel and breast) battle against cancer.

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Sam and Aaron Taylor Johnson. — © Abaca Press Photo

Aaron’s convincing portrayal of John Lennon immediately landed him a starringrole in the blockbuster Kick asswhich in turn was a ticket to a slew ofHollywood movies including a few Marvel productions like Captain America: Thewinter soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron. He can currently be seen in thenew Brad Pitt movie bullet trains.

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Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Bullet Train. — © AP

Prefer younger Bond

Soon Aaron Taylor-Johnson may be the next James Bond. He’s 32, which isrelatively young to debut as Bond. “We’re looking for someone with enoughexperience who is still fresh for the audience,” said producer Michael G.Wilson recently. If the idea of ​​a younger Bond is retained, then Tom Hardy(45) and Idris Elba (50) will be dropped, and the Bridgertonstar René-JeanPage (34) in running. Or will it be a first female 007 with Claire Foy (playedElisabeth in the first The crownseries) in the leading role?

No hay case. Llevo un rato intentándolo pero no lo logro. No consigo titular,como querría, Varvaridades. A ver si alguien me ayuda. Por ahora, mi máquiname dice que eso no existe, que el título, si acaso, debe ser Barbaridades yque no joda más, que ese palabro que quiero poner es un invento chino. Mimáquina se cree que sabe más que yo. Debe ser cierto: con sus megamilimillonesde chips y links y wikis no puedo competir. Pero me gustaba la idea de lasVarvaridades y, sobre todo, no me gusta la idea de que un complot de unos yceros se arrogue el derecho de decirme qué está bien y qué mal, qué debohacer.

Y no te creas que desvario, Tu Excelencia. Te lo digo porque, una vez más, teme has adelantado. Es lo que nos sucede desde hace solo trainta años, así queya me voy acostumbrando. En esta fue a propósito del VAR: decías, ayer, que elVAR es el intento de la FIFA de mostrar que es más buena que Lassie, honestacomo un pollo. La tentativa tiene, es cierto, todas las trazas de una maniobraFIFA: las mil y una maneras de escupir para arriba. Yo no sé cómo haces elamor ni cómo contestas el teléfono ni cómo te las arreglarías parasimultanear, pero sí sé que el VAR destruye el corazón del fútbol: la emocióninmediata, barata, arrolladora. Hemos dicho tantas veces que lo mejor delfútbol es el gol, ese estallido: el VAR lo vacuna, inocula, castra. Hastaaquí, cuando una pelota entraba en un arco y el lineman no había levantadola bandera, era el polvo y la llamada y todo lo demás al mismo tiempo, yagritar ya saltar ya saber que algo ¿importante? habia sucedido. Lo que veíasera lo que era –y eso es algo que no pasa en casi ningún ámbito, habituadoscomo estamos al engaño, al secreto, a la escondida. Con el VAR nada es lo quees: cuando entra la pelota se abre un período de deliberación, de nervios, deno saber qué hacer; si después te dicen que fue gol no es lo mismo ese gritodemorado –“recalentado”, dices – que el presente de la pelota entrando; si tedicen que no lo fue te sientes un idiota que se alegró por error, por unerror, por creer en tus ojos.

Eso es bastante malo para el futbol. Pero,además, el VAR es malo para lahumanidad –si me disculpas la grandilocuencia. El VAR es mi computadorcorrigiéndome palabras pero a lo bestia y sin vuelta atrás: gran triunfo delas dizque inteligencias artificiales sobre las naturales. Nadie podría habervisto el orsai de Lautaro contra Arabia; la maquina, si. La máquina impone susreglas contra la percepción de los humanos –y le creemos más a ella que anosotros. Después que digan que la Singularidad es un peligro.

And fin, que ya vale de VAR, que disfrutemos del fútbol mientras lo siganjugando personitas de carne –y no, por el momento, hologramas tanto másperfectos. Ya vendran; aquí, por ahora, perfecto no es ninguno. Se termina laphase de grupos y el único que se perfila como gran jugador es Mbappé, ytodavía nadie lo marcó de veras.

Mientras buscaba más candidatos escuchaba a Scaloni: el hombre tiene laventaja de no querer disertar en esdrújulas como Bielsa ni esculpir en mármolel lugar común como Bilardo ni posar de revolucionario tras trabajar para losdictadores como Menotti; Scaloni habla simple, sin vueltas, y el otro día,tras el partido con ustedes, dijo algo que de tan simple es complejísimo: queun partido de fútbol es solo un partido de fútbol, ​​que no puede ser que selo llene de tantos sentidos y tantas expectativas, que así se hace dificilhacer nada. Y pensé, siguiendo sus palabras, si el problema de la selecciónargentina no sería la Argentina. ¿No será ese país que se jacta de vivir elfútbol tan intensamente el que paraliza a sus supuestos representantes porqueson solo jugadores de fútbol y la argentinidad herida pretende convertirlos enSalvadores de la Patria?

“Se pierde, se gana y mañana sale el sol igual”, dijo Scaloni. Curiosamente,si nuestra selección pudiera entender eso, ganaría mucho más a menudo. Peroesos muchachos cargan sobre sus hombros el peso de la Patria. Y la Patria, túbien lo sabes, es un chicle de plomo.

La Patria: cualquier patria. Hace unos días hablábamos de la tristeza de ver aMessi convertido en propagandista de la dictadura saudí por unos cuantosmillones. Hoy me encuentro con que Xavier Hernández hace el mismo trabajo parala qatarí: tu quoque, Xavi, me haces esto, si por tu calidad yo siempre dijeque Messi era el mejor jugador del mundo y el segundo mejor del Barcelona.Ahora este hombre, que vivió y jugó allí, que es amigo –dicen– de su familiareal, arguye que “hay un prejuicio muy grande y mucha crítica hacia la culturaárabe”. A mí me sigue gustando –¿a ti también?– learn a Omar Khayyam ya IbnBatuta ya Naguib Mafuz, o escuchar a Umm Kalsum; lo que no me gusta, estáclaro, es que estos reyezuelos discriminate y writs y mates. Ni que losmejores futbolistas los defiendan: ¿será el precio de jugar tan bien?

Mientras tanto, hoy se acabaron los primeros grupos. El querido Ecuador sequedó afuera a manos senegalas, Holanda pasó volando bajo como si fuera unpaís ídem y el más bajo de todos fue Qatar, ni un punto. En el otro grupo, losdos imperios –el actual y su madre– se impusieron: Inglaterra con autoridad,Estados Unidos sufriendo –como hace tanto– con Irán. Era raro: por momentos yoquería que ganara Irán y me preguntaba por qué alentar a un régimen brutal yno quería decirme que para que rebajaran a los americanos y me contestaba queera por esos jugadores que se habían callado su himno –pero volvieron acantarlo tras las amenazas– y así de seguido. Uno de estos días deberíamosdebatir por qué queremos que gane tal, que pierda cual: las razones suelen sersinrazones y caprichos, mentiritas menores. Mientras tanto, mañana tenemosfecha grande: se deciden los destinos de los nuestros y, por supuesto, te tocaa ti escribirla.

Al descanso, entre los galeses solo Allen sabría acertar el color de lacamiseta de Pickford, portero inglés. De hecho, ningún colega de Allen lohubiera adivinado antes del minuto 55. Para entonces, Inglaterra ya ganaba0-2. En el intermedio los datos eran abrumadores. Un 74% de posesión inglesa(64% already final), 365 pases de los de Gareth Southgate por apenas 131 delos de Rob Page, que contabilizaron un total de 330. No muchos menos se dan enlos rondos de un calentamiento. Para la versión británica de un Real Madrid-Rayo Vallecano, Gales no disimulaba su único destino: la resistencia.

En Qatar, Bélgica vive en un paraíso lejos de los murmullos de los hinchas quebuscan cervezas en los hoteles y en las fan zones de Doha, en un lujosocomplejo en la costa oeste, al borde del mar en Abu Sarma, el Hilton SalwaBeach : bungalows, jardines, caminos recorridos por cochecitos de golf que novan a jugar al golf y la costa saudí a golpe de vista al otro lado del agua.Pero el fútbol envenena paraísos, y el de Bélgica vive taciturno desde ladecepcionante victoria against Canada (1-0) y preocupado tras la derrotaagainst Marruecos (0-2). El lunes por la noche ardió. Y Hazard y Courtoissalieron este martes a echarle agua.

El dia habia sido placido. Después de la derrota del domingo, elseleccionador, Roberto Martínez, dio fiesta a sus jugadores, que estuvieroncon sus familias hasta las 21.30. Entonces, el chispazo que prendió la llama.L ‘Equipe publicó que al acabar el encuentro contra Marruecos, en elvestuario Hazard y De Bruyne habían mantenido una intensa disputa en la quemedió Lukaku.

Hazard y Courtois lo negaron todo. Primero el atacante, que llegó al barracónde prensa con el semblante grave y cuando alcanzó la mesa con el microfonoguiñó al tendido. “No discutí con Vertonghen en el vestuario después delpartido contra Marruecos. Alli no paso nada. Solo hablo Roberto Martinez. Nono peeamos. Y tampoco lo haría, porque Jan es más alto que yo”. Y se rio.

Cuando los jugadores se despidieron de sus familias el lunes, se juntarondurante una hora con Martínez para hablar del punto en el que se encontraban,en una reunión constructiva conducida por el seleccionador. Allí se decidióque en lugar de que comparecieran Carrasco y Theate, como estaba previsto, lohicieran Hazard y Vertonghen. La federación lo comunicó por mail a las 2.23 dela madrugada. Para cambiar de nuevo dos horas antes del acto: saldría Courtoisen lugar del defensa, por “problemas prácticos”.

Sin llegar al punto de rozar la pelea, el bajo nivel de juego ha provocadotensiones en el grupo. Después del estreno contra Canada, De Bruyne fue muycrítico con cómo habían jugado y con cómo lo había hecho él: “No sé por qué medan el trofeo [de mejor jugador]. No he jugado bien. Quiza me lo dan por minombre”.

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Después de perder contra Marruecos, Martínez lamentó que estuvieran jugandocon miedo a perder, porque eso no les permitía tomar los riesgos necesariospara generar ocasiones de gol. Otro foco incómodo lo generó Hazard cuando dijoque sabían que suscentrales no eran los más rápidos, algo a lo que ayer quisoquitar hierro: “Jan [Vertonghen] me preguntó si había dicho eso. Le dijeriéndome que ya no es tan rápido. Y estuvo de acuerdo conmigo. Fue una broma”.

updateJessie Jazz Vuijk (27) withdraws for the time being. After announcing amiscarriage earlier today, she now shares the news that her father has passedaway. The former Miss Netherlands, who has a relationship with presenter KajGorgels (32), thanks everyone on Instagram for the sweet messages.

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This morning Vuijk wrote about her lost child. This afternoon she shares aphoto with her father. ‘Dad you made me who I am now, you are no longer herebut closer than ever’. Ben Vuijk, who was a councilor in Vlaardingen, turned65 and had been ill for some time.

Vuijk described the miscarriage earlier today as ‘violent and sad’. Her bodythrew everything out in no time. She was surrounded by people with whom sheworks closely. “I have never felt so behaved and connected. (…) I had tovomit, defecate and bleed at the same time, but after an intense hour therewas peace, confidence, love.’

She wrote that she still feels ‘the soul’ close by. ‘Pregnancy is a completesurrender from moment one. It has already changed me. With tears in my eyesand a heart full of love and trust, I feel you close.’ The former MissNetherlands, who is now an influencer with more than 300,000 followers onInstagram, does not experience the miscarriage as ‘a failure’. ‘As if this hadto be done to make room in advance. And I can’t say anything else, it set alot in motion.’

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Vuijk experiences a lot of support from her friend Kaj Gorgels, who was thepresenter of until this season Expedition Robinson. “There isn’t a man onearth man I’d rather go into this with. Not a man I’d rather see as the fatherof my child. I fell even more in love with you than I already was. Our babywill come, I’m 100 percent sure.’

The couple, who have been together since 2018, have been living in Ibiza sincelast year. It is not known how long Vuijk had been pregnant. She had alreadyshared the news with a number of people around her.

Turns out that even Wet Bandits are susceptible to serious burns. In a newinterview with People magazine, Oscar-winning Goodfellas star Joe Pescishared details about some of the injuries he received during the making of theChristmastime classics, HomeAlone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. “Itwas a nice change of pace to do that particular type of slapstick comedy,” theactor said via email about the blockbuster sequel, which celebrates its 30thanniversary this year. “But the HomeAlone movies were a more physical typeof comedy, therefore, a little more demanding.”

Certainly, the cast and crew of Lost in New York — including returning starMacaulay Culkin and returning director, Chris Columbus — faced the demandingtask of ensuring that the second film would live up to the standards (and boxoffice grosses) of the previous installment. That meant that young KevinMcAllister’s rematch with bumbling burglars Harry (Pesci) and Marv (DanielStern) had to turn up the heat in terms of comedic stuntwork. In one memorablescene, Harry’s head is once again set on fire in a direct callback to thefirst HomeAlone. And Pesci says that scene left a mark on his skull.

“In addition to the expected bumps, bruises, and general pains that you wouldassociate with that particular type of physical humor, I did sustain seriousburns to the top of my head during the scene where Harry’s hat is set onfire,” Pesci told People , noting that he performed the stuntwork for theentirety of that scene. “I was fortunate enough to have professional stuntmendo the real heavy stunts,” he added.

Pesci’s bumbling burglar experiences a burning sensation on his head in HomeAlone 2: Lost in New York. (Photo: 20th Century Fox/YouTube)

When he wasn’t nursing a burned noggin, Pesci remembered having a great timeon set with his co-stars — although he deliberately avoided getting toofriendly with Culkin. “I intentionally limited my interactions with him topreserve the dynamic between his character, Kevin, and my character Harry,”the actor explained, while also calling the then-12-year-old star a “reallysweet kid.” And while sequels can sometimes feel like cash grabs, Pesci feltthat everyone involved was committed to making a great movie. “[ Lost in NewYork had] the same, if not more, energy and enthusiasm as the original.”

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Lost in New York was also the final bow for the original trio of Culkin,Stern and Pesci, even as the HomeAlone franchise continued on for fouradditional sequels and spin-offs — most recently 2021’s Home Sweet HomeAlone. Meanwhile, Pesci took an extended break from the big screen for muchof the 2000s, and only just returned for his first major movie role in MartinScorsese’s 2019 drama, The Irishman. He’s currently set to star oppositePete Davidson in the upcoming Peacock comedy, Bupkus.

Joe Pesci attends the George Lopez 14th Annual Celebrity Golf ClassicTournament in October 2021. (Photo: Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)

Asked whether he’d consider making a grand return to the HomeAlone series,Pesci sounds like he’s not interested in getting another hot scalp treatment.

“While you never say never, I think that it would be difficult to replicatenot only the success but also the overall innocence of the originals,” theactor told People. “It’s a different time now; attitudes and priorities havechanged in 30 years.”

Here’s another sign of the changing times: 30 years ago, Donald Trump’ssurprise Lost in New York cameo made audiences laugh. But three decades —and one controversial presidential administration later — HomeAlone fans arenow finding ways to edit him out of the movie. Speaking with YahooEntertainment in 2020, Columbus said that Trump essentially forced his wayinto the film.

“We wanted to shoot in the Plaza Hotel,” the director said, referring to thefamous property that Trump owned at the time. “We got wind back that the onlyway we could get into the Plaza Hotel was if Donald Trump had a cameo in themovie. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?'” [The manager] said, ‘No, he wants acameo. He wants a line.’ So we devise this thing cause we needed to shoot inthe Plaza. My producers were like, ‘You can cut it. We’ll shoot it. And we’llcut it later where this is the only way we get in the Plaza.'”

“We previewed the movie for the first time in Chicago,” Columbus continued.”And when that moment came up, it [got] the loudest laughter and cheers. Thatwas literally a high point for the audience. I mean, no one had a crystalball. They couldn’t know what was going to happen today.”

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One Tree Hill stars Hilarie Burton and Sophia Bush claim they were pressuredinto doing their 2006 Maxim magazine photo shoot. Burton, Bush and co-starBethany Joy Lenz revealed what went on behind the scenes years ago whilerecapping an old OTH episode on them Drama Queens __ podcast. Lenz claimedshe was left out of the Maxim cover spread as she was deemed to be “toofat.”

The actresses began by explaining how the Maxim storyline was written intothe fourth season as the network wanted to attract more male viewers.

“I was specifically pulled aside and told that our male numbers in viewershipskyrocketed when [my character] Peyton got her ass kicked by Derek. So whatyou’ll see, there’s a pattern on our show, where, either violence towardswomen or super sexualized situations, there’s gonna be an uptick in thatbecause they were really hot to capture the male audience,” Burton claimed.”That was really frightening to me, but I had to be a good sport about it …They were trying to get the dudes for sure. They couldn’t do it withbasketball, so we’ll punch a girl in the face.”

Bush added, ”I know they weren’t trying to solicit basement bullies on theinternet, but they saw that a lot of young men were drawn to a violent assaultof women and they went, ‘We should do more of that.’ Not, ‘Uh-oh.’ They werelike, ‘Maybe we should do more! Maybe we should make the girls do Maxim andtell them they’ll get fired if they don’t!'”

In the show, Bush’s character, Brooke, takes photos of Rachel (played byDanneel Ackles) for Maxim ‘s “Hometown Hotties” issue. The episode aired inOctober 2006, one month before Bush, Burton and Ackles appeared on the cover.

“We really did try to make it the best version of it we could, but ya, we gottold we had to do it,” Bush declared.

“Because Brooke had been so sexualized on the show, and the whole idea of​​this ‘Hometown Hottie’ was Rachel’s storyline, I was like, ‘Look, if thegirls want to do it, that’s great. I don’t. I have gone to battle trying tomake Brooke less of this thing that you guys tried to force me into. I don’twant to do it,'” Bush continued. “I literally got told, ‘If you do not go andshoot this cover with your co-stars, we will guarantee you that you will neverbe let out for a press day, a movie, an event, any of your charities. We willkeep you here forever.'”

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Burton remembered getting pulled into a production office when she was given a”soft pitch” by higher-ups: “Look, all the other shows have been on the coverof every single magazine and no one wants you guys. No one wants you. And youfinally have someone that wants you and you’re really gonna turn your nose upat that?”

“It was very much a, ‘No one else wants you, the studio wants to cancel yourshow, if you don’t start to generate some buzz and attract these male numbers,we’re dead and all your friends are going to lose their jobs,'” Burton added.

Bush said she pushed back as she didn’t want to do the shoot, but “was told Ihad to.”

“It was such a profound threat and a threat to being able to — honestly, evento have the ability to escape for a weekend, a place that at this stage, thisseason, I was leaving every chance I got. I would come into work and do my joband I wanted out,” Bush shared. “I wanted to go home, I wanted to be with myfamily. I wanted to be with my friends. I did not want to be on our set, itwas not a safe place for me. This was such a threat to safety. “

Burton, Bush and Lenz accused OTH creator Mark Schwahn of sexual harassmentin 2017. Burton and Bush claimed on Sunday’s podcast that Schwahn showed up onset of the Maxim shoot and made them feel “uncomfortable”

“We were all pitted against each other and here’s a great example,” Lenz said,revealing she was told her co-stars were shooting Maxim and had “replaced”her with Ackles.

“They told me that they didn’t come to me because I was too fat and I justwasn’t a hot girl on the show anymore,” Lenz recalled.

Burton and Bush were shocked to hear their friend’s version of the events.

“They go, ‘Well she said no, so you have to say yes. She said no first,'” Bushclaimed. “They scapegoated you to tell the three of us we couldn’t say no… Weweren’t mad at you but we were pissed about it.”

Lenz insinuated Schwahn was upset when she got married in 2005. She laterremembered getting a script in which her character, Haley, was called “a fatgirl with a little head.”

“I remember reading that on paper and just being like, ‘What? It’s so random.That actually must be what he thinks of me,'” Lenz explained. “Sometimessomeone will say something to you and you’re like, ‘I never, ever saw myselfthat way.’ Now suddenly, every time I look in the mirror, I’m like, ‘Am I fat?I guess I do have a little head? Is that bad? Is that unattractive?’ It’s sodumb, but it really followed me around for a long time in my brain”

Lenz added, “From that point forward, I started getting treated like, ‘Justput Joy in the category of middle-age mom. We’re gonna do the sexy stuff witheverybody else. There’s nothing interesting about Joy anymore because she’smarried’ and apparently, they thought I was fat and boring. That was it. Ijust got kind of replaced with Danneel, who I love … It was just so weird.”