Unfortunate Son

Liam Aiken just missed being the most famous child actor in the world. Twice. Then his house burned down. His future has never looked brighter.

• By Logan Hill

(Photo: Ann Weathersby)

On a cold Jersey day, not so far from the maw of the Lincoln Tunnel, Liam Aiken, the 14-year-old star of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, clomps down the creaky stairs of his old home (which will catch fire just a week later). He passes his sticker-splattered guitar cases and a beat-up skateboard (thoroughly smoked-up in that same fire), with hands plugged deep into the pockets of a worn denim jacket (one of the few articles he’ll save from his soon-to-be-uninhabitable bedroom).

If the gleefully macabre narrator Lemony Snicket were telling this tale, the happy dog yapping at Liam’s scruffy Chuck Taylors (and who survives the fire) might instead be a symbol of the nagging misfortune that follows this brilliant young actor around, and of how coolly he bears it. After all, he twice missed being the most famous child star in the world: first by passing on the The Sixth Sense part that went to Haley Joel Osment, and then being touted as Harry Potter, only to be dumped in the end.

So it’s no wonder that Liam says the role of Klaus Baudelaire—the indefatigable bookworm orphaned by a house fire at the outset of A Series of Unfortunate Events—is “more like me than any role I’ve played.” But it is surprising that he says this one week before his own house burns down.

On November 23, Liam and his mother, Moya, were in Los Angeles to promote the film with co-star Jim Carrey when a friend called to tell them that their house was in flames. They caught the first flight back to JFK. It will take six months of rebuilding before they can move back in.

here i shared infoabout klaus(liam) here

liam padraic aiken

birth:  jan. 7 ,1990

age:17

hair: brown

eyes: green

lives in: new jersey

born in: new york

and now for emily jane browning

birth: december 7, 1988

hair: brown

eyes: green

lives in new jersey

born in melbourne, victoria, australia

now the two twins that played… sunny

kara and shelby hoffman

birthday august 2, 2002

hair :blonde

eye: blue

born:coming soon

lives: coming soon

there’s a sequel!!  

sooooo cute! especially when he played “klaus” in Lemony Snicket’s Series of unfortunate events movie!!!!…. i hope they make a sequel. here’s a few more pics ok?   

Adore no puede ser esparcido y las canciones no pueden ser dichas pero el timoteo me hace me siento como yo lo puede hacer pero yo me siento una desconexión entre mí y tim. Un minuto es suficiente para mí decir o tener el valor para ser apenas amigos. Una hora es gran, pero mi vida entera entera es perfecta con él.

Su tan hermoso necesito el mundo para ver… su mi milagro toma apenas el tiempo que usted necesita… respirar… y nunca tener inconveniente en las cosas que he hecho usted me hace me siento como soy el sol creciente que usted me se baña en su luz y me muestra soy bien y sé que su el uno y usted siempre será, usted siempre será el uno. Y usted siempre será usted siempre será el uno.

él está en el equipo de fútbol y tiene gran pelo y es chistoso y guapo¡!!! un tiempo, yo thnk él dijo que el gato está ardiendo whch me es! !!… que pienso¡Todo empezó cuando estuve en un grupo. el curso ..of que él fue conmigo y mi amigo que su apodo es cristal y me llamo que es el apodo es se Mofa y él nos hizo toda risa y desde entonces él ha estado mirando o ha estado actuando coquetamente en mí sooo EEEEEEEPPPPPPP! !!!!!!! Así que mi papá dijo que puedo tener a un novio tan yo ya escogí a timoteo y en español es timothy! !!! yo tengo un sentimiento GRANDE que él me quiere que apoye… por qué no consigue juntos. de todos modos yo ya tengo un erizo de mar para él como un presente. Pero adivino que él quiere también a esta otra chica pero ella es vivaz pero beatiful y yo piensan atlético. Pero hay este otro timoteo yo odio y hay esta otra chica de mi escuela vieja y yo pienso que ella doesnt tiene que ser o merece a un tipo horrible como él. ¡Significo que ellos casi besaron en la mejilla!!! Su nombre no es gabrielle y yo pienso que ella necesita a un hombre dulce un payaso de la clase y él son la grasa de kinda. me confía yo lo quería hasta que averiguara que él fue un tirón total!! pero este otro timoteo es chistoso y pienso a un payaso de la clase también pero no muy mal y yo soy un payaso de la clase también en una manera buena… lo que una pareja perfecta Si usted piensa tan que plz va las estrellas de la tasa this5 pero o cualquier estrella le gusta. And all this is froma spanish translator ya.¿Soy una media sangre española pero yo realmente no soy la persona de philipino un español que conseguí de mi Grammy y de ella doesnt sabe aún que español le puede cree eso???

On lunch today i was playing soccer and Tim went in the because i was behind the goal so he says in Spanish that the cat is on fire only to me and i said “what!!!” then he translated me that it was the cat is on fire and i said ” so what!!!!” then ya. O and if  you can plz just tell your friends that i have a very interesting blog it would be cool for once to have a five star story plz just tell them.

today was depressing because Tim wasn’t there but on the bright side i see why he didn’t go… because the lord almighty didn’t want my true love seeing me cry SO much because of my mood swings{ technically}.  I was pressured today because of my soccer playing i mean cut me some slack it was my first game i didn’t know Wat to do. Plus I have this petition running so i was hoping you can give me a name or at least a nickname to get to karate. i just want to be courageous and flexible soo i would at least pass P.E. if you mind telling you friends also, thank you very much for your potential. IOU. ( oh and if you say omg just say omb for o my buda SO you wont be cursing Jesus Christ plz?

today was depressing because Tim wasn’t there but on the bright side i see why he didn’t go… because the lord almighty didn’t want my true love seeing me cry SO much because of my mood swings{ technically}.  I was pressured today because of my soccer playing i mean cut me some slack it was my first game i didn’t know Wat to do. Plus I have this petition running so i was hoping you can give me a name or at least a nickname to get to karate. i just want to be courageous and flexible soo i would at least pass P.E. if you mind telling you friends also, thank you very much for your potential. IOU. ( oh and if you say omg just say omb for o my buda SO you wont be cursing Jesus Christ plz?