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Many of Candy’s most popular and famous characters have a charm that makes the viewer feel like he’s your own father. “I think he kind of was recreating the relationship that he might not have had ...

Paul Myers said years later, John Candy saw Mike Myers in a restaurant and stopped to tell him how much he loved the then-new ...

OUR old friend Alan Ladd shows up in “The Iron Mistress” as the man who supposedly invented the bowie knife, a project that would hardly tax the ingenuity of a child of three. It taxes the ingenuity ...

It’s an incident that tells you a lot about John Candy. He was hard at work on Only the Lonely, the 1991 film that would help affirm his credibility as a dramatic actor. But it also marked an occasion ...

For many fans, the death of John Candy represented childhood’s end. The actor was not especially childish or childlike, but he projected an indefatigable, unthreatening jolliness in movies such as ...

Interviews Martin Short Gave Colin Hanks A Warning Before He Started Work On The John Candy Doc, But He Decided To 'Lean In' Anyway Streaming News I Paused John Candy: I Like Me With 15 Minutes Left ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT In the best scene of John Candy's best movie, "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," Steve Martin's Neal Page berates Candy's Del Griffith, exasperated by their pre-Thanksgiving travel ordeal ...

Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being. This is FRESH AIR. John ...

Chris Candy revealed “heartbreaking” details about his father that he learned while making the new documentary ‘John Candy: I Like Me.’ Chris Candy revealed his late father's struggles with weight and ...

John Candy’s son, Chris, said during a recent event promoting the new documentary “John Candy: I Like Me” (via People) that it was “heart-wrenching” to see resurfaced press interviews in the film ...