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Top 5 – Tearjerkers

Date: Thu, 9 Feb, 2012 at 12:14 PM | Author: Spencer Fornaciari | Category: Audio Extras, MacGuffin Content, Top 5's, Web Exclusive

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 tearjerkers.

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Top 5 – Doomed Romances

Date: Thu, 22 Dec, 2011 at 12:47 PM | Author: Spencer Fornaciari | Category: Audio Extras, MacGuffin Content, Top 5's, Web Exclusive

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 doomed romances.

This segment is also available on Stitcher and iTunes. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here. After you’ve watched the video please vote in our poll and share which one you think is the best.

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Bird Watching – An Open Letter to Penny Marshall

Date: Mon, 11 Jul, 2011 at 05:04 PM | Author: Brandi Sperry | Category: Bird Watching, MacGuffin Content, MacGuffin Spotlight

Dear Ms. Marshall,

Charm is a very hard thing to achieve. Charm is borderline undefinable, yet when someone is reaching for it and not getting there, everyone can tell, and the result is awkward and painful. As I write this, I’m watching, probably for the fiftieth time, your wonderful film Big (1988). Not only does the film itself exude charm, its very storyline relies on it. We have to understand how Elizabeth Perkins’s character, Susan, can’t help but be drawn to Tom Hanks’s Josh, both despite and because of his 13-year-old boy behavior. His sincerity is crucial, and the rest of the film has to balance around that. Tom Hanks’s brilliant performance would have been wasted without the sure mood that surrounds it. That came from you. The combination makes for a film that charms completely, and is one of the few films to come out of the 80s to feel somehow timeless.

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