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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “That’s the problem when you talk about John,” says Bill Murray in the opening of John Candy: I Like Me, “people don’t really have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Brian Lutz / For The Times) If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not ...

Paul Myers was touring Canada as the frontman of the alt-rock band The Gravelberrys when he heard the news about John Candy. It was March 1994, and the band had landed in Whistler, B.C. for a few days ...

More or less a standard-issue celebrity documentary, the movie lets us enjoy archival footage that might otherwise not be seen. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

If there's a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it's not necessarily from his time on the sketch-comedy series "SCTV" or from movies like "Stripes" or "Uncle ...