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Everyone has their favorite John Candy moment. Whether it be “Spaceballs,” “Stripes” or “Uncle Buck,” Candy stole the screen with his charisma, humor and heart. As a kid, I remember watching “Home ...

In the 1984 Ron Howard comedy “Splash,” Tom Hanks and John Candy play lovelorn Manhattan brothers—one tidy, one rascally—whose lives are upended when Hanks falls in love with a mermaid. On a recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had a chance to speak to Candy's children, Jennifer and Christopher, ahead of the documentary's release, and asked about which of his iconic roles reminded them the most of who he was in real life.

This is FRESH AIR. John Candy, the comic actor who rose to fame in the sketch comedy series "SCTV" and such films as "Stripes," "Splash" and "Spaceballs," died at age 43 in 1994. Now, 31 years later, ...

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 ...

My favorite John Candy moment is just a blink in a semiobscure skit. It’s from “SCTV,” the Canadian sketch comedy series, and Candy, wearing a suit and a fluffy blond wig, is playing drums for a gawky ...