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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS MORE THAN THREE DECADES AFTER ITS RELEASE, WINNETKA’S HOME ALONE HOUSE CONTINUES TO FASCINATE. THANKS TO AIRBNB, FOUR LUCKY PEOPLE GOT TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN THIS PIECE OF MOVIE HISTORY ON DECEMBER 12, JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
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Tourists continue to make visits to the Home Alone house in Winnetka, more than 30 years after the movie premiered.
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BY MITCH HURST THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
By chance or not, sometimes the setting for a film develops into a character all its own, as much as the human actors who inhabit it. One is hard-pressed to forget the Stanley Hotel in in Estes Park, Colorado—renamed the Overlook Hotel—in Steven King’s book and subsequent movie, The Shining. “Redrum,” anyone? Or the hallways of the old Maine North High School in Des Plaines that the writer/producer John Hughes deftly used to capture teenage angst in The Breakfast
Club. Or the old house that was the backdrop for the movie The Big Chill, ostensibly set in Michigan, but is actually located where the film was shot, in Beaufort, South Carolina. But movie sets for films with a holiday theme somehow stay with us. Home is for the holidays. There’s the Parker family home in Cleveland, Ohio, now a museum, that served as the setting for A Christmas Story, where Peter Billingsley’s character, Ralphie, did indeed almost shoot his eye out with his Red Ryder BB Gun. And who can forget Nakatomi Plaza, setting aside the ongoing, occasionally hostile, debate about whether Die Hard is really, really a Christmas movie?
So, it was with great fanfare earlier this month that Airbnb listed the iconic Home Alone house, 671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, to be precise, available for one night only to four lucky Home Alone fanatics at the irresistibly reasonable price of $25. While the names of those who spent the night there were not disclosed by Airbnb, the home was aptly listed by Buzz McCallister, the abandoned Kevin McCallister’s prickly older brother. Surrealism at its finest. “You may not remember me as particularly accommodating,” Buzz wrote in the listing. “But I’ve grown up, and I’d be happy to share Continued on PG 10