The Home Alone Curse

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The "Home Alone" Curse is all too real. The big-budget movie is in peril, and only one actor can save it. Not Macaulay Culkin. Not Joe Pesci. It's the goofball cop, Larry Hankin, with one iconic glazed donut.

This story contains strong language, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Thank you, Larry Hankin, for sharing your story! From Escape to Alcatraz to Friends to Seinfeld and Breaking Bad, Larry has left an indelible mark on your TV screens over the last five decades. Yes, Llarry has a book, entitled, That Guy: A Cautionary Memoir.

Special thanks to Sam Shaw for sharing Larry’s story with us. Sam is working on a documentary on Larry’s improvisational theater company, The Committee. A special shoutout to The Crow Comedy Club in Santa Monica for hosting Larry during one of their unforgettable storytelling nights.

Engineering by Pat Mesiti-Miller & Miles Lassi. Artwork by Teo Ducot.

Happy Holidays Snap Nation! Thank you for your support over the years -- we couldn't run this Snap train without you.

Season 15 - Episode 55

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0:00.0	Snap Studios.
0:02.0	Harvard is the oldest and richest university in America.
0:11.0	But when a social media-fueled fight over Harvard and its new president broke out last fall, that was no protection.
0:20.0	Claudine Gaye is now gone.
0:22.3	We've exposed the DEI regime, and there's much more to come.
0:25.6	This is the Harvard Plan, a special series from the Boston Globe and WNYC's On the Media.
0:30.7	To listen, subscribe to On the Media, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.6	Ah, snappers.
0:41.7	Tis the season.
0:43.1	And in celebration, we're going to break format a bit.
0:46.4	We want to travel back to a simple time, a time before iPods, before cyber trucks, a time
0:52.6	when computers didn't talk back. Larry Hankins. Larry remembers these magical days with a story about how he came this close to landing the role of a lifetime. One of the most iconic Christmas movies of all time. Now, spoiler alert, Larry doesn't get the gig, but what happens next to become Home Alone
1:16.8	History.
1:18.2	So grab a glass of egg nod, because here's Larry, live from the Crowe Comedy Club.
1:26.5	Snap Judgment.
1:28.1	By a show of hands, how many people are seeing Home Alone? Anybody?
1:34.2	Okay. All right, this is about the curse on Home Alone.
1:40.0	First of all, this is in 1990 when Home Alone was first bought and they started filming.
1:47.0	So this is about 1990, 1991.
1:49.0	I was looking for rent. That was the whole point. I was looking for rent.
1:53.0	And trying to learn guitar. Two things.
1:56.0	And in between that, I was trying to audition.
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