A holiday favourite has collided with an unfestive reality: Daniel Stern, the 68-year-old actor best known as Marv the Wet Bandit in the first two Home Alone films, was cited on December 10 at a Camarillo motel for allegedly soliciting a prostitute and formally charged Monday with misdemeanour prostitution in Ventura County.
For fans who only ever revisit Stern when the Christmas reruns roll around, the news lands with a jolt. For Stern himself, it threatens to turn a largely private, post-Hollywood life into a public legal fight with serious consequences.
