A Note on Sources

INTERVIEWS

Among the people interviewed for this book about their association with John Candy:

Peter Aykroyd

George Bloomfield

Garry Blye

Gerry Boyle

John Brunton

Martyn Burke

Scott Carmichael

Brian Cooper

Lawrence Dane

Trevor Evans

Lorne Frohman

Bret Gallagher

Gale Garnett

Walter Gasparovic

Bill Glassco

Tarquin Gotch

Joel Greenberg

Kay Griffin

Dan Hennessey

Walter Hill

Bill House

Mary Kerr

John Langley

Vivienne Leebosh

Andy Lipschultz

Catherine McCartney

Michael Moore

Charles Northcote

Peter O’Brian

Jonathan O’Mara

Monica Parker

Sheldon Patinkin

David Perlmutter

Paul Quarrington

Rosemary Radcliffe

Carolyn Raskin

Carol Reynolds

Toby Roberts

Tony Rosato

Perry Rosemond

Bernard Sahlins

Gerry Salsberg

Jason Shubb

Joyce Sloane

John Stocker

Bill Sussex

Maria Topalovich

Bryon White

Kevin Cook (who followed the misdeeds of Bruce McNall for GQ) spoke to me about McNall and the L.A. Kings.

Beryl Fox and Michele Landsberg filled me in on the Pritikin Longevity Center.

Jack Crane, Peter Herrndorf, Ivan Fecan and Roman Melnyk discussed the CBC’s association with “SCTV.”

Martin Lynch told me everything I always wanted to know about True Davidson. Stephen Trumper briefed me on East York sociology.

Elaine Waisglass provided background information on the Jolly Jesters.

BOOKS

For information about the complicated business of professional hockey, the book Net Worth (published by Penguin Books), by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, proved helpful.

For details on the life and career of Wayne Gretzky, I turned to Gerry Redmond’s biography Wayne Gretzky: The Great One (published by ECW Press).

Something Wonderful Right Away, a book of oral history edited by Jeffrey Sweet (and published by Avon Books), provided a fascinating history of the Second City and the Compass Players.

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Among the hundreds of articles I read, several were especially enlightening:

Pauline Kael’s review of Splash from the March 19, 1984, issue of The New Yorker.

“The Great Hollywood Mermaid Race” from the March, 1984, issue of Esquire.

Gene Siskel’s interview with Candy in Las Vegas, published by the Chicago Tribune on March 30, 1986.

Parade magazine’s interview with John Candy, from the May 3, 1992, issue.

“Oops!,” Kevin Cook’s investigative look at the affairs of Bruce McNall, in the June, 1995, issue of GQ.

Judy Steed’s article on Bruce McNall in the April 21, 1996, issue of the Sunday Star.

LIBRARIES

In Los Angeles I spent many fruitful days at the amazing Margaret Herrick Library operated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In Toronto the library of Cinematheque Ontario provided invaluable resources, as did the Metro Toronto Reference Library at 789 Yonge Street and the archives of the CBC.