In fact, Candy made a point of not removing his shirt during the scene. "It was like, John take off your shirt and roll around in the mud with a bunch strippers," Stripes supporting players Dave ...

The film's director reveals the inspiration for Candy's Gus Polinski character (which came from a different Candy character!) John Candy: I Like Me premieres on Amazon Prime on October 10 What a ...

Hanks says in the new "John Candy: I Like Me" documentary that his late costar filmed the iconic sequence while "fueled by an evening with Jack Nicholson." Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at ...

TORONTO – Most kids don’t get to go to work with their dad and hang out with John Candy. Colin Hanks was lucky in that regard. As a 5-year-old visiting his father, Tom Hanks, on the set of the 1984 ...

In his relatively short career, John Candy created a slew of scene-stealing characters in movies, including several filmed in the Chicago area. There is the orange whip-loving parole officer in “The ...

“That’s the problem when you talk about John: People don’t really have a lot of negative things to say about him,” Bill Murray says in the opening scene of “John Candy: I Like Me,” the new documentary ...

What a difference a day makes. It took less than 24 hours for John Candy to film his entire role in Home Alone. In the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, the film’s director recalls wanting The ...