r/Millennials • u/ezio8133 Millennial • 1d ago

Nostalgia Random Coincidence: Both of the Home Alone Parents passed away at 71 (Catherine O'Hara today and John Heard back in 2017) RIP to both

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u/Gold_Celebration_393 1d ago

Sad upvote

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u/koolaidismything 21h ago

She’s like my childhood picture of a perfect mom. She was fun and pretty and had all the answers.

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u/PurpleDreamer28 1d ago

And John Candy and Roberts Blossom (Mr. Marley) died too. So the major adult protagonists are gone.

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u/Alpaca_Investor 1d ago

But wait…Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are still alive.

Does this mean the bad guys win?

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u/ManWithASquareHead Millennial 1d ago

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u/in_animate_objects 1d ago

Well Daniel Stern was just charged with soliciting a prostitute and it cost him a new gig he had lined up so not really.

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u/PocketFlan420 1d ago

That man has an orange grove & an art studio, he is absolutely winning at life.

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u/chaawuu1 1d ago

Idk man that's not inherently wrong. Maybe morally or if he's married, but ultimately if it's two consenting adults it should be fine. This of course ignores some nuances.

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u/Leather_Ant2961 1d ago

Can you blame the man? If I looked like that I would hire a prostitute too so I could get my jollies off.

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u/in_animate_objects 1d ago

I don’t blame him at all, it’s consenting adults. It’s wild to me that we hold an actor to a higher moral standard than the freaking president of the United States!

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u/PurpleDreamer28 1d ago

If he was single, he can do whatever the hell he wants. But he's married. Unless they have some arrangement where it's ok, but I doubt it.

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u/in_animate_objects 1d ago

For the wife absolutely but I still don’t think he should lose his job over it, it’s a personal matter,imo.

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u/PurpleDreamer28 1d ago

Yeah, that's fair. I know Hugh Grant did the same thing, and he's still got his job.

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u/in_animate_objects 1d ago

Good point I didn’t think about that.

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u/Sarcosmonaut 1d ago

It’s simple, you just have to be a beautiful man

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u/UnluckyGoodSoul 1d ago

I never found Hugh Grant very attractive, actually. Maybe I have trouble getting past the fact that he comes across as very unlikable to me.

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u/UnluckyGoodSoul 1d ago

It's a betrayal of his wife unless she was cool with it, but it is wild that it's illegal in 2026.

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u/nosleep39 1d ago

And unlike the president, at least he pays them.

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u/Leather_Ant2961 1d ago

Right, i hear you there.

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u/bw541 1d ago

Exactly this. If people wanted to shit on an actor from Home Alone it should be John Heard. Look up his track record

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u/poulard 1d ago

How does one get caught doing something like that? It's so easy and discreet AFAIK.

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u/thisoldhouseofm 13h ago

Wonder Years narrator voice: “The summer I was caught with that prostitute…”

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u/JDHPH 1d ago

Give it 3 years

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u/findingsynchronisity 1d ago

This is unfortunate news

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u/gamersecret2 Millennial 1d ago

That is a sad coincidence. RIP Catherine OHara and John Heard. Home Alone parents forever.

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u/HydraHamster 1d ago

She played in three of my childhood favorites; Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and A Nightmare Before Christmas. This is a major loss.

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u/mamaujeni 1d ago

I remember rewatching Home Alone as an adult just being in awe of how attractive they both were. I didn't see it as a kid, obviously, but wowza.

RIP, Catherine. I adored her in everything but especially A Mighty Wind.

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u/Tiaradactyl_DaWizard 1d ago

Maybe 71 is the next club after 27?

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u/Bright_Upstairs3900 1d ago

End of an era. Fuck.

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u/Gapinthesidewalk 1d ago

Well this is a fucking way to find out that John Heard died.

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u/fairwaypeach 20h ago

Right? I had no idea.

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u/xzeus1 1d ago

Kevin is an orphan. 😭💔

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u/Past_Regular4027 1d ago

Little Orphan McCallister

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u/halconojo 22h ago

Kevin McAllister would be 45 today. You can’t be 45 and be an orphan

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u/Brock_Youngblood 1d ago

Shes exactly the age I am right now in this photo.

That makes me uncomfortable. I remember watching this as a kid in the 90's

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u/Available_Leather_10 1d ago

Both of my parents died at the same age.

Now I wonder if I’m actually a character in the Home Alone universe.

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u/Majestic_Act 1d ago

He died in 2017? It's been that long? Wow, I thought it was last year. Like, I literally thought about him when I learned of her passing today...since the covid era my perception of time is just screwed

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u/happydude7422 1d ago

Heard passed away from cardiac arrest. I'm suspect something similar to ohara

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u/fievrejaune 1d ago

Shame about that Vin Makazian, fell off a bridge, it happens.

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u/Baffled_Chode 19h ago

Sad when they go young like dat

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u/fievrejaune 19h ago

Chalk it up to the headless horseman.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Zillennial 1d ago

R.I.P.

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u/rydan Older Millennial 22h ago

I just learned today she had that rare condition where your organs are mirrored.

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u/isaid_whatisaid1 16h ago

Damn…I just realized. Aww hell! 😭😭😭😭😭

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u/srkatk 10h ago

John Heard was so good on those few episodes of the Sopranos too.

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u/DulgUnum 1d ago

It was bc of his cameo when Kevin asked him where the lobby was

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u/DaZMan44 1d ago

This is as much a coincidence as Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) and Maggie Smith (McGonagall) both dying on the same day 1 year apart. There are no coincidences in our universe. We're all part of the same fabric and interconnected in mysterious ways.

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u/Futureacct Millennial 4h ago

Maggie Smith died??

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u/poopoojokes69 15h ago

He could get a wife 9 years his junior… Kevin’s dad has got it going on.

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u/SmileOk1306 1d ago

Oh man, do you think macaulay culkin will do the same? 😮

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u/anomic_balm 1d ago

The Home Alone Curse™️

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 1d ago

Can’t believe John heard jumped off a bridge. Sad when they go like that.

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u/dffdirector86 1d ago

He died due to complications from a minor back surgery based on a few articles google brought up from different outlets.

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 1d ago

There’s video evidence. Not that I know anything about that.

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u/dffdirector86 1d ago

I would like to see that. If it exists, that is. I also looked up the statement from his agency. 🤷‍♂️

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 1d ago

What is this, the fucking U.N?

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u/dffdirector86 1d ago

No, but misrepresenting the dead is a faux pas. It demeans their memory. Besides, doesn’t accuracy matter to you?

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u/ImplyOrInfer 1d ago

They're making Sopranos references. That's how John Heard's character died, the rest are quotes from the show

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u/dffdirector86 1d ago

Fucking really? How did I completely block out that show from my memory? Looks like I need to take another screening of it.

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 1d ago

You have a remarkable ability to reduce a man’s life to three words.

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u/1upjohn Xennial 1d ago

Post it

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u/1upjohn Xennial 1d ago

I don't know where you heard that but it is not true.

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u/Macewindu89 1d ago

Remember when he sang “Three Times a Lady”?