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Week of Jan. 7, 1991
A string of box-office successes, led by Macaulay Culkin's "Home Alone" and geared to the braces-and-pigtails set, signals the multibillion-dollar potency of "kid power" in Hollywood and at the shopping mall.
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Week of Jan. 7, 1991
A string of box-office successes, led by Macaulay Culkin's "Home Alone" and geared to the braces-and-pigtails set, signals the multibillion-dollar potency of "kid power" in Hollywood and at the shopping mall.