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And to add to his wonderful legacy, he was also the little known extra at the center of one of the most famous movie myths of all time. Kevin makes a 911 call from an Upper West Side phone booth and tells the dispatcher that the thieves who robbed Duncan's Toy Chest will be in the park at 95th Street. "Look for fireworks. They've got a gun." Then he slips on ice, and the dastardly duo walks him into the park. Ultimately, the Pigeon Lady throws feed onto the very sticky Sticky Bandits, swarms of pigeons peck away, and Kevin is able to set off fireworks to alert the police to their presence.
Home Alone actor Senta Moses Mikan spoke on how long the O'Hare Airport scene took to film and how chaotic the experience was. Kevin springs by the Van Cleef and Arpels store on Fifth Avenue, and hurriedly stops to buy a few necklaces off a street vendor. At the Miami airport, security tells Kevin's parents it's unlikely he'll be anywhere but still stuck in Chicago. The camera pans to the South Street Seaport's erstwhile Fulton Fish Market . A backpack-toting Kevin crosses the street; meanwhile a white truck makes a turn, honks at him, and rolls up the back to reveal Harry and Marv. They're recently out of prison and stowing away with a shipment of seafood on ice.
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Everything about the film, including the hilarious performance of villainous duo Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, the charming Macaulay Culkin, and the memorable soundtrack by the legendary John Williams is iconic. It is a testament to the film’s timeless appeal that ‘Home Alone’ held the record for the highest grossing live action comedy film of all time for over two decades until it was finally dethroned by ‘The Hangover Part II’ in 2011. The entirety of the story line of ‘Home Alone’ takes place in and around the McCallister family house and neighborhood in a suburb in Chicago. While the vast majority of the scenes take place in the McCallister house itself, certain other scenes also take place in numerous other locations including a church, a skating park, and a grocery store. It tells the story of eight-year old Kevin McCallister who is accidently left behind when his family heads to Paris for a Christmas vacation.
The story line of ‘Home Alone’ follows the mischievously resourceful little boy Kevin McCallister, who has a proclivity for creating trouble, much to the chagrin of his harried mother and absent-minded father. Kevin’s entire extended family is taking a vacation to Paris, France. However, trouble is afoot in the neighborhood as a couple of robbers start casing the houses, with their eye on the McCallister house next. Little do they know that Kevin is no ordinary kid, and they are about to walk into a whole new world of pain inside Kevin’s heavily booby-trapped home in some truly uproarious sequences. A Google search on “Elvis in Home Alone” returned about seventeen million results—a bit more than I wanted to explore, but I had to start somewhere.
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The DC-10 that flew the McCallisters to Paris in the first film was a -10 series, identified by only two central landing gears, which in real-life is only used on domestic flights. The -10 series has a range of only 3500 miles, making it impossible to do transatlantic services. The DC and -40 series are the only DC-10s that have a transatlantic range. The McCallister family flew on Paris on the airline's McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
After a short text conversation, we made arrangements to speak later that night. The Plaza Hotel is most prominent in the sequel, Home Alone 2, as the film showcases the concierge lobby and Suite Room 411, where Kevin stayed, though the room has since been remodeled. While it depicts the Plaza Hotel as where the family reunites at the end of the film, the suite was actually shot at the Conrad Hilton Suite in Chicago. The 5,000-square-foot suite is two floors and costs more than $7,000 per night. To celebrate the film's 30th anniversary, Home Alone star Senta Moses Mikan spoke about what it was like filming the holiday classic. Kevin is coming from the park, headed to his accommodation for the night.
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A detailed account of Radford’s exchange can be found in the January/February issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine . The man to the right of Catherine O’Hara in the back of the line is believed by conspiracy theorists to be Elvis Presley, alive and well. Mikan revealed that the short yet memorable scene took days to film in the busy Chicago airport.
This man, many believe, is Elvis Presley—despite that fact that Elvis passed away thirteen years earlier, in 1977. Kevin's uncle Rob and aunt Georgette have a townhouse on 95th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. He finds the address in his dad's contacts, which were in the backpack, but after seeking refuge there earlier, realizes that no one is home and the house is undergoing a gut renovation. This brownstone is where Kevin leads Harry and Marv the night of the toy store robbery in order to test the limits of physical comedy for a PG movie by enacting all kinds of bodily harm upon the hapless villains. The airport sequence where Kevin’s family hurries to make their plane and the subsequent scenes at Paris Airport were all filmed at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Filming for certain scenes in ‘Home Alone’ also took place on location across various venues in Illinois.
Freeform is owned by Walt Disney Television, and in December 2020 the channel scheduled back-to-back showings of "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2" on 12 different days, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. As the couple prepared to board their flight, Kate offered to Irene two first-class tickets to return home the following Friday, along with a ring, a watch, a pocket translator, and $500. Ed approached Irene and tells her to come because the passengers on the flight were boarding, to which Irene told Ed about the offer Kate had given them. Kate also added her earrings into the offer, to which Ed said that Irene had her own earrings at home and pulled his wife along to the plane. I decided to track down Gary’s family and attempt to confirm whether or not he was the mysteriously famous actor believed to be Elvis. I found his son, Roman, through social media and reached out to him.
The comment, posted by Kathryn Rydz, states “Sorry I knew this extra and still friends with his ex. ” A major point the commenter focused on, all other issues aside, was “Who was the actor if not Elvis? “Elvis” was, after all, an extra with no speaking lines, so he wouldn’t be listed in the credits of the film.
Roman spoke with great admiration and love about his father, which was also reflected in the many comments from Grott’s friends. I read all of the comments on Grott’s Facebook page after it was announced he had passed. He was a fan of the White Sox, loved playing golf, and reading the work of Ian Fleming. He was described as a friend that was only a phone call away, no matter what you needed.
Upon first touching down in New York, Kevin has to hit all of the iconic sights from the city, which obviously includes Radio City Music Hall, located in the heart of Midtown. It isn't until Kevin officially lands at LaGuardia Airport that he realizes he’s not in Miami, Florida. Today, the view looks a little different...and we’ll never know why. To tell you the truth, there are no views like this from any New York airport, so please don't go searching for the bench where Kevin McAllister sat. "And we ran at full speed. Sometimes we’d bump into each other, like a multi-car pileup on the expressway, and just crack up laughing. I can’t speak for anyone else, but as a kid, I loved it," she added.
Kevin finds the address in his dad's contacts when he quickly realizes that the house is undergoing a full renovation; it's also where Kevin leads Harry and Marv on the night of the toy store robbery. At the airport, Kevin looks out at Long Island City's Pepsi-Cola sign and the East River skyline, and the screen flashes to and from various cityscape shots. We get a sense of the enormity of the place and the tiny-ness of this child.
Grinning, Kevin leans out the rear window in his striped winter hat, and you get the feeling that his Ferris Bueller's Day Off is about to begin. Touched by the plea, Ed and Irene decided to take her up on her offer and decided to wait to go home on Friday while Kate took their flight to Dallas, where she hoped to find a flight home to Chicago. Rows of AA aircraft at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (filmed at O'Hare). Kate McCallister abruptly stops at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Airport on a DC-10. The largest planes to land at Scranton are Boeing 737's and Airbus A320s. Scranton has never had regular service from a DC-10 by any airline and that DC-10's are too large for the airport for non-emergency situations.
