John Candy's family opens up about the beauty and pain unearthed by Emmy-nominated doc

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Set us as preferred Rosemary Candy married John Candy all the way back in 1979, but even she learned something new about her late husband in the documentary “John Candy: I Like Me.” In an archived TV interview, John said he didn’t think his blind date initially liked him, adding, “But I was going to show her — ‘How dare you not like me?’”Rosemary, in her first interview for the Emmy-nominated Prime Video documentary, confessed she had never seen this before the film.“It was so funny, this idea of ‘I don’t think she liked me, but I was going to make her like me,’” she said.

“As soon as I started to get to know him, I was head over heels for him.”As was the world.The star of “Uncle Buck” and “SCTV” was so beloved that the film’s director, Colin Hanks, was concerned that too many people would want to participate.

Ontario-born Candy was such an icon that when the film was selected to open last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a surprise appearance to introduce it.To put it in terms Angelenos will appreciate: He was so legendary that during his funeral procession, the LAPD and California Highway Patrol shut down portions of the 405 Freeway.Candy died of a heart attack in March 1994, at 43; the service was held just around the corner from his Brentwood home, where Rosemary still resides and her late husband’s presence still fills the house.

Personal photos are displayed throughout, his beloved leather-bound books fill the library, and a wide range of memorabilia occupies the office.But the largest reminder of his legacy are his children, Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan, who not only bear a striking resemblance to their parents, but also exude their warmth and spirit.The Candy family are a tight-knit group, so the choice to part...