New Documentary Explores the Cut of Uncle Buck We Never Got to See
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John Hughes’s 1989 film
Uncle Buck has had a particularly fascinating second act. It’s been adapted for television twice! and was remade in India in 1991. The film reunited frequent collaborators writer-director John Hughes and star John Candy; that the supporting cast included Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann, Laurie Metcalf and a pre-
Home Alone Macaulay Culkin doesn’t hurt, either.
Late last year, Joe Ramoni of Hats Off Entertainment offered viewers a detailed look into a longer cut of
Uncle Buck, which turns out to have been
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Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On this date:
In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.