re: #337 Sherlock Hound

Jackie Coogan

Macaulay Culkin’s dad was notorious in Hollywood for all the sleazy tricks he played to evade this law.

He extorted “producer’s fees” from the studios at every turn, and set himself up as Macaulay’s manager. He was flat-out evil and grasping, and Paramount eventually had to bar him from the lot, because he would just come there every day, wandering around, looking for some way to shoehorn his way into anything where there was any hint of $$ to be extracted.

Let’s not get into the $$ he got from Michael Jackson, or what all that was for …