Discover What’s Streaming On: Macaulay Culkin is opening up about the late comedy legend John Candy in John Candy: I Like Me, the new documentary that just premiered at the Toronto International Film ...

In the film, Culkin, now 45, recalls Candy's protective presence on set during the making of John Hughes’s 1989 hit Uncle Buck, where he played the chaotic but caring uncle opposite Culkin and Gaby ...

Early in the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, there's an excerpt from Candy's 1994 funeral. Saturday Night Live alum Dan Aykroyd eulogized his friend and collaborator. "This is no meager life we ...

Most people have an "Uncle Buck" in their life — someone funny, who makes questionable life choices but has the purest heart. Mine was my late Uncle Bruce, whom we affectionately called "Buck," ...

John Candy was one of Hollywood’s most beloved comedic actors, stealing scenes in classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings. With his larger-than-life presence and ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not necessarily ...

John Candy’s kids are keeping the laughs alive, and they’re not doing it alone. More than 30 years after their father’s passing, Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan have teamed up with Ryan ...

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, ...