“I remember John Candy’s presence much more clearly than that of John Hughes,” Gaby Hoffmann told me during our interview in 2012, after I asked her about her memories of filming 1989’s “Uncle Buck” at the mere age of 7. “That movie was playing video games with Mac[auley Culkin] and rejoicing in the extraordinary loveliness […]| Cinema Femme
Among the many great comedic actors who starred in iconic comedies in the 1980s and 90s was John Candy. Candy got his start on the Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV and went on to star in several blockbuster films that became classics, such as Stripes, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and Canadian Bacon to name a few. […]| Flickering Myth