Twenty-six year ago, John Candy talked CTV News' Sandie Rinaldo into being an extra on one of his movie sets:
I can't believe it has been 25 years since we lost John Candy.
I loved him in "Uncle Buck," "Home Alone," "Summer Rental" and my all time favourite, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"; but I really fell in love with John Candy, in the platonic sense only, when he agreed to be interviewed for a "Biography" segment to be broadcast on the Weekend edition of CTV National News.
I didn't know what to expect, when CTV cameraman Anthony Steward and I arrived at the set, but Candy was disarming, and bowled us over with his charm, his kindness and his down to Earth personality.We talked about our high school years; his interest in journalism; he had enrolled at Toronto's Centennial Community College and we traded stories about the people we knew at university. He went to McMaster in Hamilton, while I graduated from Toronto's York University.
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