Once, the world met a girl to learn about life, in which you can never wear enough blue eyeshadow.
Her name was Wada Sultanefus, a quick-witted and apparently 11-year-old living in a funeral parlor with a widowed father who struggled with hypochondria, revolving around her best friend, her schoolmate. Crushing the teacher and generally living life on the tail. Of femininity. She was, of course, the star character My DaughterStarring the hit coming-of-age film VeepOf Anna Chelski And home aloneOf McLaw Culkin Together Dan Akroyd And Jamie Lee Curtis.
With Klumsky as Vlad and Culkin as his beloved sidekick Thomas J, the '70s set film served as a moving story of growing up and experiencing puberty, friendship, change and loss. For a generation of film-making youth in the 90s, it was a constant in the VCR player.
Now, as Friday, November 27 marks the 29th anniversary of its release, there is no better time to revisit the world of Vada - and everything we have learned from it.
