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Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Shop With Us. Sell With Us. About Us. Find Help. Other AbeBooks Companies. Follow AbeBooks. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Greg and Ford on the return of Still Game - and why they owe it all to a packet of crisps. Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill were once as close as two men could be - who haven't bought denim shirts, a two-man tent and headed for Brokeback Mountain. While they worked together on the likes of Chewin' The Fat and Still Game, the pair ate together, holidayed together with their families and lived out of each other's pockets and homes. But then in 2008 they fell off the mountain that was monumental success, in Scotland at least, when Hemphill decided he wanted out: out of their writing partnership, their production company, and in effect, out of each other's lives. The result was seismic; new BBC sitcoms were cancelled, the expected Still Game series was still born, and the pair didn't speak - except for business or legal reasons - until a few months ago. Today, however they're sitting in a comfy room of a swish Glasgow hotel talking about their return to Still Game in the form of a 21-night stage show at The Hydro in the city. And while they are not quite wearing matching stetsons again, metaphorically, the laughs are flying around like lightning bugs at a campfire. Cynics, however, will suggest the partnership is a marriage of convenience, with the minister being the agent who's pulled together The Hydro deal that will see them play to almost quarter of a million fans, grossing more than £10 million. "That's sh***," says Kiernan, straight-faced. "We didn't come back for the money. We wanted to see if people still wanted us." Hempill agrees: "Everything's fine between us. We're back in the right place. And if people understood our friendship they would know that it never did get that bad." For the next hour the pair reveal why this friendship was a third party so strong they simply had to reconnect. And surprisingly, a packet of Walker's beef crisps, "wi' the corrugated ridges", played a symbolic role. "Both of us hold receipts for payments from 1989 when we appeared in Blackfriars' pub [in Glasgow] doing stand-up, and we got a tenner," recalls Kiernan of their first awareness of each other. "Then Bruce Morton, who was my best man, introduced us. Not long after, me and Greg turned up at Morty's flat at the same time to celebrate his 40th. But as he opened the door, the chain was on, and he indicated he was 'indisposed'. So me and Greg decided to go to Cottiers bar for a pint." That was a defining moment in the relationship. "Greg offered me one of his crisps. But I'm no' disposed to taking somebody's crisps out of their poke - it's just something I don't like - I'd never take food off someone's plate, but something in my mind let me take one of these beef corrugated crisps." Hemphill wasn't aware of his new chum's minor OCD, but he did realise there was a connection. "We got on like a house on fire," he recalls. "And we talked about the comedy business of the time. We both loved Jewish humour, movies, American culture." The new pals, on paper, had little in common. Kiernan grew up in the east end of Glasgow in a single-parent family, living under a glass ceiling as close as the thin walls. "The careers teacher said to me: 'Kiernan, your options are plain and simple; the egg boxing plant, Marshall's Chunky Chicken, or you could try humphin' coal'." Hempill grew up, for the most part in Montreal, Canada, in a middle class family and attended a school that looked like the one in Glee. "My teacher at high school said I should do more acting," he recalls. Kiernan sped through a variety of jobs on leaving school, from warehouse worker to car exhaust recycler while Hemphill returned to Scotland to take an honours degree in theatre, film and television at Glasgow University - where Kiernan had once been a barman. Yet, while both loved the laughter business, they didn't become a comedy couple straight away. Kiernan formed a double act with John Paul Leach while Hemphill had two partners in the Trio Bros act. The pair did come together, so to speak, when they became involved in the sex industry. "I was running a call centre at the time which handled sex chat lines," Kiernan recalls, smiling. "Comedians and actors such as Bruce Morton, Stu Who? Jenny McCrindle and Greg all did stints." Hemphill grins as he recalls the unlikely world. "Our job was to monitor the calls to make sure the callers didn't exchange phone numbers, and phone each other independently. And make sure things 'didn't get too out of hand'. We were professional eavesdroppers." The pair's attempts to break into comedy saw them leap through several hoops; writing for other people, quiz shows for television. In 1994, Hemphill presented sports show Off The Ball and both worked on Channel Four's quiz show, Space Cadets, with Star Trek's captain, William Shatner. "We both enjoyed working with him," says Hemphill, grinning. "But every time he bent his head down to read the script we'd look at his head to see if we could see the weave." In 1995, the pair heard of The Comedy Unit's plans to pull together a team of performers to write and perform a new sketch series, Pulp Video. "TV shows were like the last helicopter out of Saigon," says Hemphill in dramatic voice. "We were all waving our passports in the air. We had to be on it." The likes of Jane McCarry (the future Isa in Still Game), Julie Wilson Nimmo ( the future Mrs Hemphill), Gavin Mitchell (the future Boaby the Barman in Still Game) were among the passport wavers. "The show was hugely populated, and it was tough," says Hemphill. "Everyone was fighting to stay in it, to get noticed. There was no camaraderie, we would all have slit each other's throats to get on that helicopter. Yet Ford and I were never in competition. I guess it was because we did different things." Kiernan concurs: "We were tight as a drum, bevvying together, and in each other's pockets," he says. "We formed a real big friendship. And during the run we wrote some sketches together." One of the sketches featured Hemphill and Mitchell playing two old men. "This sketch set something off in me," Kiernan recalls. "I remember going to director Ron Bain and saying I'd really like to play an old man in the show. I mentioned it to Greg and it was then we came up with the Still Game characters, Jack and Victor, with Gavin [Mitchell] playing Winston. Somehow, we knew we could write for these characters." They just knew that when Pulp Video was broadcast they would be in demand from every corner of Televisionland. "We were in the pub that night the show went out, assuming we were all ready to be stars and actually having this hypothetical conversation asking if EastEnders or Coronation Street offered us a part would we take it," says Kiernan. "We both said 'Naw!' We'd hang out for the big comedy stuff." Hemphill sums up what happened to Pulp Video. "Nobody watched it. It wasn't a bad show, but we'd figured Pulp would last four or five years. We thought we'd arrived but the journey had only just begun." The show didn't work, but the shared experience, even the pain of disappointment solidified the friendship. But Pulp Video gave them more; they believed they could go it alone. "We felt our stuff was the best in it," says Kiernan, being honest rather than arrogant. "We felt we could do our own show." Meanwhile, they were more skint than a clumsy schoolboy's knees. What to do? To paraphrase Dr Johnson, 'the thought of being hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully to come up with a play.' The comedy pair returned to the well that was their old men characters, developed during chats about Hemphill's uncle Sammy and Kiernan's uncle Barney. "We wrote it in ten days," says Kiernan of the play. "When writing we spoke as the characters and then wrote down what we were saying." Hemphill continues; "We called it The Bunker, because this little council flat seemed like a bunker. Then we asked Karen Koren, who runs the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh, to put it on at the festival, and she agreed, but said 'The title is s***, guys. Call it Still Game." The summer of 1997 was a hot one as Kiernan, Hemphill and Paul Riley as Winston (Gavin Mitchell was in another festival play) pretended to be old men huddled around a one-bar electric fire in the middle of winter. But as the white make-up ran down their faces, tears of laughter ran down the faces of the audience. The show was such a success, Karen Koren produced it in Toronto. So it was only a matter of seconds before BBC Scotland took their Pulp Video performers and turned the new stage show into a sitcom? "That never happened," says Kiernan with a shrug. "But LWT came to the festival and bought the rights to it. They had the idea of starring Derek Jacobi and the Irish actor David Kelly as the old guys, with us writing it." (Network wouldn't take a chance on three younger unknowns playing old guys.) After three years, the rights expired. "We got a couple of grand for the rights, and we were pleased someone had loved it." Another false dawn? "Yes," say both in unison. However, when the Comedy Unit heard BBC Radio Scotland were looking for a laughter show, they suggested Kiernan and Hemphill. The result was Chewin' The Fat. The duo heard the fantastic news when they were at the airport, set to take off to Faliraki on holiday with partners Lesley and Julie. "What a f****** great flight that was," recalls Kiernan, grinning. But why drop the series after four seasons? "We had begun to dislike it," says Hemphill, honestly. "It was tough to keep it fresh. We also knew we wanted to write a sitcom, but the Comedy Unit weren't keen." Their determination paid off and BBC Scotland paid out for a Still Game pilot. But it sat on a shelf for a year due to budget restrictions before being aired. "Aye, but you could get it at the Barras," says Kiernan, laughing at the ingenuity of Glasgow's market stall entrepreneurs. "Somebody had bootlegged it and sold it and punters were watching the new TV show before it was even announced." During the wait, the pair were still rubbing Germolene into their knees so they came up with a flash of entrepreneurial genius themselves. They filmed a performance of Still Game, the theatre show, at Cottiers in Glasgow and put it out as a video. They sold 13,000 tapes straight away. It was another indication Still Game was comedy gold. And so the sitcom ran for six great seasons. And the nation laughed 'till it hurt. But then Hemphill, citing the pressures of business and deadlines, announced he did do walking away. The divorce had its share of acrimony. Right now, it's awkward. The pair go silent, reflecting. And it's understandable. However, Kiernan lightens the moment. "Trial separation!" he says, smiling, recovering. "Love is always lovelier second time around." Hemphill joins in, grinning; "Burton and Taylor - that's us." Maybe not a great example, given they failed ultimately but. but if they could go back in time, what would they have done differently? "Probably go slower," says Kiernan. "At the time we were looking at everything; new formats, new shows. And we were completely in a phone box. We couldn't get away from each other, plus the output was so heavy." Hemphill nods in agreement: "It was also to do with frustration. We had a hit show but it wasn't treated well by network." Was there a sense they'd also become so big they were affected by their success? "It wasn't that," says Hemphill. "I felt if we'd done series seven of Still Game it wouldn't have been a great show. And the demands of TV would have caused us to burn out." Kiernan thinks for a moment then says: "You know, that's right. It's the first time it's been said but it's true. We'd gone down the route of setting up our own production company, to try and follow the likes of Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys Jones, and sell it. But we tried too hard." After the split, Kiernan locked himself in a room and wrote a play for Glasgow's Oran Mor theatre, partly because his partner had already written one. Did Hemphill go see his ex-partner's effort? "Naw, he never came," cuts in Kiernan, laughing. "Because we weren't talking at the time. Although there was a man at the back of the hall with a moustache and glasses I think might have been him." Hemphill laughs: "It wis' me, with the Groucho Marx outfit!" The years passed. The pair talked. The awkwardness dissolved. "Time helped," says Hemphill. "And I was frustrated at seeing inferior programmes come out of London." "Yes, we had dialogue," says Kiernan. "Bits and bobs. Then one day last year Sanjeev (Kohli, Naveed in the show) was asked to do something in character, and we owned the character, so we discussed that. Then we got to talking about The Hydro, and we agreed we wouldn't want to end our careers not having stood in front of a Hydro audience." He muses: "And comedy these days is a stadium gig." The death of Kiernan's 12-year-old son, Sonny, later reinforced the belief that life is all too short for grudges. (Hemphill and his wife flew straight back from LA where they were living on hearing of the tragedy.) Kiernan was devastated by his family's loss and, almost unbearably sadly, he took to Twitter in June on what would have been his son's 13th birthday to write: "Happy Birthday Sonny! A teenager today!" In the midst of all that, while putting together the show, his mother Frances passed away. But what of their future. The pair reveal they are in talks with the BBC about a new series of Still Game but this time they don't want to be dropped on to BBC2 at a time when people are putting the cat out. They also want a deal with Australian TV, following the Mrs Brown's Boys lead. "We'd love to take this new stage show and tour Australia with it," says Kiernan. "We think it's good enough." This time around though they'll go about it differently. "We feel we can be in control of what we were doing," says Hemphill. "Plus, we really missed the characters. They were people. We wanted to see them again, to take up where they left off." How was it sitting down together to write for the first time after their years apart? "It was a bit odd," Hemphill admits, with the awkward 'Hi, how are you?', and all of that." Kiernan cuts in, smiling: "Yes, but I brought a packet of Tunnock's Tea Cakes and we got tore into them. Then we watched the old episodes of the show to get back into it. And when we hit the keyboard, the words came out like an explosion." What of the new stage play? What's the premise? Kiernan replies, laughing: "You can f*** right off! We're no' even telling the cast until they come to rehearsals. We want it to be a surprise for the audience." And his chum agrees with the plan, the pair off them now laughing like a couple of drunk cowboys telling jokes over a bottle of Jim Beam and a mountain campfire. Extra seats have now been released for the shows, running from September 19 for 21 nights, at The Hydro, Glasgow. Rich The Kid Throws Money to Fans in the Street, Gets Ticket for Littering – Report. Rich The Kid recently learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished after reportedly being ticketed by police for making it rain on fans in the middle of the street. The strange incident occurred on Thursday (April 22) in Beverly Hills, Calif. outside the Burberry store on Rodeo Dr. In video captured by TMZ, Rich rolls up in the back seat of a Mercedes Maybach and begins throwing cash into the air. People in the area scramble to grab the money as more and more men and women see what's going on and run over to fill their pockets with money as well. Coincidentally, it happens to be the birthday of one of the women who is scooping up cash. RTK wishes her a "Happy Birthday" while continuing to let the dollars fly. Toward the end of the clip, two motorcycle cops pull up behind the rapper's vehicle. After taking a selfie with a fan, Rich pulls off and the police officers follow with their lights flashing. According to the celebrity news site, Rich was ticketed for littering. A littering charge in L.A. comes with a $200 fine. XXL has reached out to Rich The Kid's team for comment. Though this incident is on the smaller side, this is Rich's second run-in with the law in the last month. That arrest came with a much bigger charge. In March, he was reportedly arrested after getting caught with a gun in his carry-on bag at Los Angeles International Airport. On Friday (April 23), the Rich Forever head honcho released his new song and video for the track "Richard Mille Patek." The release serves as his first offering since he inked his new partnership with Rostrum Records and BMG in mid-April. See Wildly Expensive Hip-Hop Songs Based on Prices of Luxury Items Mentioned. Inside Kieran and Macaulay Culkin's Uneasy Relationship With Fame. Child stardom wasn't something they ever asked for. The Culkin kids didn't want to be famous. But before any of the seven children among the brood whose last name would come to be synonymous with that of the child actor could decide what they did want, they found themselves thrust into the spotlight as a Hollywood dynasty in the making whether they liked it or not. Born to father Kit Culkin , brother to actress Bonnie Bedelia and once an aspiring actor himself, and mother Patricia Brentrup , Shane, Dakota, Macaulay, Kieran, Quinn, Christian , and Rory were born into a family of modest means. For the first nine years of middle child Kieran's life, the entire family resided in a railroad apartment in a tenement building on East 94th Street and Second Avenue in New York City, "barely suitable for a couple," the Golden Globe-nominated star of HBO's hit Succession told Vanity Fair in December 2018. "It was just a hallway, and there were no separating doors, except for the bathroom, which didn't have a lock. They raised seven kids in that apartment—for years! They just kept bringing babies home to this little space." "I guess we couldn't afford doors or something," Macaulay, who celebrated his 39th birthday on Monday, Aug. 26, joked to New York Magazine in 2001. With mom working as a telephone operator and dad working at the Catholic church, seemingly dreaming of ways to get his kids famous, home life was a bit unorthodox. "Some of us would go to school," Kieran told VF . "Some would not. We used to watch wrestling. I remember watching Macho Man versus Brutus ‘the Barber' Beefcake, and then me, Shane, and Mac would imitate those matches." For Macaulay, some of his earliest memories were helping Kit at work. "I'd help him set up Mass and stuff like that," he recalled to New York . "It gave me a very tainted view of religion because I saw the man-behind-the-curtain sort of thing. You see your father taking the body of Christ and the blood of Christ down from the tabernacle or whatever, and everybody's believing it's, you know, a big holy thing, and you're like, 'It's just a bottle of wine and some crackers from a box in the back!' " Eventually, though, the large family caught the eye of friends in the theater. "My parents' friends were running a little theater, the Light Opera of Manhattan, and whenever a production needed a kid, they were like, ‘What age and what gender? We've got seven of them right over here,'" Kieran told VF , adding that, more often than not, the Culkin children were used as nothing more than onstage props. And by the time Mac landed his first acting gig at the age of 6, things for the family were rather dire. "They were so poor I had to use my own money to make sure that he got to and from rehearsal," Billy Hopkins , the casting director who gave the future child star his first job, told New York . "Macaulay would crawl under the bleachers at the theater to look for change that had fallen out of people's pockets. They were like the Beverly Hillbillies." Trending Stories. Erika Jayne's Attorneys Withdraw Representation After Documentary. Lauren Burnham Asks for Prayers for Baby Who Has to Stay in Hospital. Leona Lewis Defends Chrissy Teigen, Alleges Designer Embarrassed Her. Macaulay quickly began racking up film credits, appearing in films like Rocket Gibraltar and Uncle Buck , and by the time he starred as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone , which premiered in 1990, he was a bona fide star. The film, which also featured Kieran as Kevin's bed-wetting cousin Fuller, became the highest-grossing live action comedy of all time until The Hangover Part II in 2011, earned its young star a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and made Kit a very powerful man in Hollywood. By 1993, two years after Mac became the youngest actor to ever earn a $1 million payday for My Girl, Premiere magazine rated the Culkin patriarch as the 48th most powerful person in the industry, behind the likes of Michael Douglas and Eddie Murphy . Quickly, however, he began making enemies. Working alongside Patricia as Mac's managers—they both quit their jobs to oversee their kid's future—Kit soon began making demands left and right. He barred Mac from promoting My Girl , he demanded his The Nutcracker co-star Jessica Lynn Cohen not share his son's top billing, he wouldn't approve a single candidate for director on Richie Rich , and he forced Mac and his sister Quinn be cast in The Good Son , despite the director wanting neither. While those in the industry debated whether Kit was just looking out for his son or exacting some sort of revenge for his own career never taking off, Mac was simply growing weary of a lifestyle that had him film 15 movies in seven years. "I just remember the exact point when I was growing a little more tired—during The Good Son . I had already done one or two things that year, and I just said to Kit, 'Listen, I'm really getting tired and I'm not at school as much as I'd like to be; I really need some time off,'" he recalled to New York . "He said, 'Yeah, sure,' and the next thing I knew I was on the next set doing the next thing, and it just kind of clicked in my brain: Okay. There's basically nothing I can do to make this stop. " As Mac explained, Kit seemed to always need to teach his son a lesson. "I was making God-knows-how-much money, and Kit was making me sleep on the couch, just because he could," he said. "Just to let you know who's in charge and just to let you know if he doesn't want you to sleep in a bed, you're not going to sleep in a bed." While Mac told Marc Maron during an interview on his WTF podcast in 2018 that life with Kit was "sour from early on, even before the fame stuff," alleging that his father was abusive "physically and mentally," he believed that much of their animosity stemmed from resentment over his son's success. "He was jealous," he told the comedian. "Everything that he tried to do in his life, like, I excelled at before I was 10-years old." Though Mac's intense work schedule meant that Kit was often away from the family home with him, keeping his siblings from having to endure his wrath, they weren't sparred entirely. "He's not a good dude, but he wasn't really a big part of my life after the age of 15," Kieran told . "Sometime in the 90s, he went away and disappeared for two, three weeks, and the babysitter remarked to my mom, 'You know what's funny is their father's been gone for three weeks, and not one of them has said, Hey, where's Dad?' Nobody cared, actually. My mom was the parent, so when he wasn't there it was nicer and better." By the time Richie Rich tanked in 1994, Mac had had enough of the fame that made it so he couldn't walk down the street without being accosted and a life that precluded him from any adolescent normalcy. And when his parents decided to split (despite never actually being married, legally), he saw his way out. "I was able to walk away from the business," he told Maron. "I was able to say, 'I hope you made all your money, because there's no more coming from me.'" He wasn't aware of just how much money had been amassed until the custody battle over the seven Culkin children began in earnest. "My father would hide newspapers from me so I wouldn't read the stuff about him or find out how much I was making. I can understand why they did that; they didn't want me running off to my friends saying, 'I just made $8 million!'" he told New York . But when, at 16, he learned he was worth around $50 million, he decided it was time to wrest control of how own finances by emancipating himself from both Kit and Patricia. "Basically, I had millions and millions of dollars in the bank and my mother couldn't pay the rent because she was spending all of her money on lawyers," he said. "We were about to get evicted from our apartment. The only way I could get access to that money was to take my father's name off it, but I didn't want to make it messy, so I figured I'd take both their names off." Kit never showed up for the last day of trial. Communication with all of his children ceased. And suddenly, there was a sense of freedom. Mac went to high school, married Rachel Miner at 18, separated from her at 20, dated Mila Kunis for eight years, toured with his band The Pizza Underground, acted when he felt like it, defended his controversial friendship with Michael Jackson in a way Kit wouldn't allow when allegations against the musician were first made in the early '90s, moved to Paris, launched a comedy website and podcast called Bunny Ears, began dating Brenda Song ; basically, he did whatever he wanted. "I felt like some kid worked really, really hard and I inherited all his money. I had kind of no real sense," he told Ellen DeGeneres during a rare talk show appearance—his first ever on her show—in April 2018. "It allows me to treat everything like a hobby. I do nothing for my dinner, nowadays. So I can just do all kind of projects that I want to do whether its writing or painting or a new website or whatever it is." As for his relationship with Kit, or lackthereof, he told Maron, "I haven't spoken to him in about a quarter of a century. It's the way it has to be." (For his part, an ailing Kit told the Daily Mail in 2016, "I don't consider him a son anymore.") For the rest of the family, Mac's retirement meant they could step out from under the shadow of their ultra-famous brother and figure out who they were on their own. "I've even been called 'MacCulkin,' like I'm a collection of Culkins," Quinn told VF. "As much as we may look alike, we're all very different. Mac has his way that he carries himself, and Kieran, and Rory. You see it even in the way they stand. It's very telling of who they are individually." As the family's longtime manager Emily Gerson Saines told the publication, there's also the complication that Kieran or Rory, the two foremost actively working actors in the family, are touted as "Macaulay Culkin's brother." "There's this public perception of them that they're one person— or Macaulay's brothers," she explained. Life after Kit wasn't easy, however. There was the 1998 tragedy when a fire originating in Patricia's apartment days before Christmas robbed them of everything and killed four people, resulting in a lawsuit against her for $80 million. Mac's siblings moved in with him and then-wife Miner. "I had a place that was way too big for me and my wife anyway," he told New York. "It was a nice Christmas other than the fact that all their presents got burned. and their house. It made me feel good that we brought it all together and made it work. It was awful, of course -- people died -- it was awful." 10 years later, tragedy would strike the family even more intensely when their sister Dakota, only 29 at the time, was struck by a car outside Brennan's, an Irish bar in Marina del Rey, California and rushed to the hospital with massive head trauma, only to succumb to her injuries the next day. For Kiernan, being Mac's brother meant that he had a front-row seat to the trappings of fame, telling VF he sees it as "not a nice thing." "I think well-adjusted, smart people that experience it first- or secondhand would not pursue it," he added. "I'll totally take personal happiness over success, absolutely. If I'm miserable, then what's the f--king point?" And that meant that, after his breakthrough work in 2002's Igby Goes Down , he, too, would walk away from a career that he'd had thrust upon him at a tender age. "I realized I'd been doing it for 14 years and I never once made the decision 'Hey, I want to be an actor,'" he told The Guardian earlier this month. "So I flipped out and – you can check my IMDb – I didn't work for years. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life." So while Rory, who's appeared in Scream 4 , as well as TV shows like Waco, Castle Rock and City on a Hill , continued to make headway in his own career—"Neither Macaulay nor Kieran chose to act. It was, to a large degree, chosen for them," Gerson Saines told VF . "For Rory, on the other hand, it was always his choice"—Kieran worked sporadically until returning in a big way with Succession last summer, marrying British model Jazz Charton in 2013. They have a baby on the way. As he told The Guardian , it wasn't until landing the role of Roman Roy, the spoiled, entitled heir to the media conglomerate at the center of the hit HBO tragicomedy, that he began to feel comfortable with acting once more. "We were shooting last season when I came home one day and I said: 'I think this is what I want to do.' It took until I was 35 and I had been doing it for about 29 years for me to go, 'Hey, I think I want to be an actor,'" he told The Guardian, adding that, also, "baby needs food." While the tough circumstances of their upbringing could've torn them apart, there's only proof to the contrary for the Culkins. "You know what's really been lovely to see is the brothers," Gerson Saines told VF. "I think no one can understand the lives they've led but them. They have common experiences that are impossible to explain to people. I think none of them think or behave like actors." And believe it or not, wrestling remains an important part of their lives. "We all just recently went to Rory's wedding," their longtime managers recalled, "and it was so incredible, because Kieran was there with his wife, and Macaulay was there with his girlfriend, and the women all get along really well. It just melts my heart to see them all together like that." In fact, Rory's wedding to cinematographer Sarah Scrivener was officiated by the WWE's announced Paul Heyman , "and the reason his wedding was in New Orleans was that's where WrestleMania was at that moment. Everybody's doing what they want to be doing, and they're doing really great work. And they're all happy in their personal lives. 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See full summary » In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past. Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women. A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. Storyline. Don and Bridget Cardigan's upper middle class lifestyle is threatened since Don, who has been out of work for a year, seems to have given up looking for a job, and housewife Bridget has been out of the workforce for most of her life. They are close to $300,000 in debt. Finding out this information, Bridget comes to the conclusion that she needs to get a job - any job - that at least provides them with some benefits. She reluctantly takes a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Almost immediately, Bridget is enthralled with all the old worn out money that is being shredded. She comes up with a plan to get her old lifestyle back by stealing much of that money, which she believes is an easy job since the locks used on the money carts are standard equipment and as she notices that no one ever checks the garbage as she goes about her work. Her plan needs the cooperation of one person who works the shredder and one person who pushes the carts of money. The two people . Written by Huggo. Plot Keywords: Taglines: Genres: Certificate: Parents Guide: Did You Know? Trivia. Goofs. Quotes. Crazy Credits. Connections. Soundtracks. User Reviews. Bridget (Diane Keaton) is a gracious matron with a lovely home. Yet, her world turns upside-down when her husband (Ted Danson) loses his job. Suddenly, bills are piling up and there is no solution in sight. Needing to maintain her lifestyle, Bridget takes a job as a custodial worker for the local branch of the federal mint. Now, she has the health care coverage she needs and the means to pay her creditors. But, she wants more, especially considering the menial tasks she is asked to perform and the smug attitude of the mint's bossman. Being a tough and smart cookie, Bridget hatches an elaborate plot to help herself to some of the worn-out bills that are headed for the shredder. But, in order for the scheme to work, she needs the aid of Nina (Queen Latifah), who operates one of the shredders, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), whose task it is to transport the cart of paper money to and fro. They agree, after some initial reluctance, to become Bridget's partners in crime, for Nina wants to send her two little boys to a fine school and Jackie has a need for some excitement. But, will they really be able to pull one over on the Feds? This is really a fairly funny movie, with a great plot and a nice cast. Keaton, especially, is fabulous as the conniving, high maintenance housewife and the Queen is equally wonderful as a single mother with big dreams. Danson, Christopher McDonald and the lesser players are fine, too. Only Holmes strikes a flat note, as her Jackie is rather forgettable. Since Katie has shown she is a fine actress (see Pieces of April or Abandon), one can only conclude that the director failed her miserably. Then, too, she sports an awful hair style and terrible costumes throughout the film as well. This is most odd, for Keaton and Latifah look great. Although the sets are not noteworthy, they are certainly adequate, as is the look of the film. If you have heard that this film is a bomb, don't believe it. While it may not be a masterpiece, it definitely has its funny moments and zany charm, more than enough, in fact, to make it a worthwhile watch.