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Candy (2006 film)

Candy is a 2006 Australian drama directed by Neil Armfield, adapted from Luke Davies's novel, starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, and Geoffrey Rush as Sydney lovers destroyed by heroin addiction.

Candy (miniseries)

Candy is a 2022 Hulu five-episode true-crime miniseries starring Jessica Biel as Candy Montgomery, who killed Betty Gore in 1980 Texas; created by Robin Veith and Nick Antosca, later followed by Love & Death.

Candy and the Pizza Ggirl

Candy and the Pizza Ggirl is a 2026 Hindi dark comedy directed by Akkhil Kapur, starring Ninad Kamat, Priya Banerjee, and Dara Sandhu, released April 10, 2026 on Amazon Prime Video; CBFC certified it category A.

Candy Barr

Candy Barr (Juanita Dale Slusher, 1935-2005), Texas striptease star of Dallas's Colony Club and the 1951 stag film Smart Aleck; imprisoned for marijuana, pardoned, and questioned over Jack Ruby.

Candy Bleakz

Candy Bleakz (Akiode Blessing Mariam, born Blessing Akiode) is a Nigerian rapper from Lagos who raps in Yoruba and Pidgin and broke out with "Owo Osu" in 2019.

Candy Boy

Candy☆Boy (キャンディ☆ボーイ) is a 2007-2009 Japanese yuri original net animation by AIC, the first Anime 2.0 project, about twin sisters Yukino and Kanade Sakurai and underclassman Sakuya Kamiyama; seven episodes plus a manga by Hiro Touge.

Candy Candy (キャンディ・キャンディ)

Candy Candy (キャンディ・キャンディ), 1975–79 shōjo manga by Kyoko Mizuki and Yumiko Igarashi in Nakayoshi, 9 volumes; 115-episode Toei anime; subject of a 1997–2001 copyright dispute.

Candy cane

Candy cane: a hooked hard candy with red and white stripes, traditionally peppermint-flavored and tied to Christmas. Also called sugar stick. Origin uncertain; 17th-century white sticks, US debut 1847 in Wooster, Ohio; ~1.76 billion made yearly in the US, 90% sold Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Candy Clark

Candy Clark (born 1947, Norman, Oklahoma) is an American actress, Oscar-nominated for American Graffiti (1973) as Debbie Dunham, also known for The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and her Polaroid book Tight Heads.

Candy corn

Candy corn: tricolored American mallow-cream candy shaped like a corn kernel, invented in the 1880s by George Renninger at Wunderle, mass-produced by Goelitz (Jelly Belly) as Chicken Feed from 1898, and a Halloween staple since the 1950s; Brach's makes about 88 percent of US sales.

Candy Darling

Candy Darling (James Lawrence Slattery, 1944-1974), American transgender actress and Warhol superstar of Flesh and Women in Revolt; inspired Lou Reed's "Candy Says" and "Walk on the Wild Side"; subject of Carr's 2024 NBCC-winning biography.

Candy Dulfer

Candy Dulfer, Dutch alto saxophonist (born 1969, Amsterdam), daughter of Hans Dulfer; funk-jazz crossover star behind Saxuality (1990), the hit Lily Was Here with Dave Stewart, and long collaboration with Prince.

Candy Ken

Candy Ken, born Jakob Kasimir Hellrigl, is an Austrian rapper, model, and TikTok personality who began releasing music in 2014 and became Austria's most successful TikTok influencer.

Candy making

Candy making, or sugar confectionery production, converts sucrose syrups into boiled sweets, toffees, fondants, fudge, and gummies by controlling boiling temperature, moisture, and crystallization; distinct from chocolate making, which relies on cocoa butter tempering.

Candy Moore

Candy Moore (Candace Lee Klaasen), American actress born 1947 in Maplewood, New Jersey; played Chris Carmichael, Lucille Ball's TV daughter, on The Lucy Show 1962–1965, later in Raging Bull, then became an East Los Angeles English teacher.

Candy Shop

Candy Shop is a 2005 hip hop single by 50 Cent featuring Olivia, from The Massacre. Produced by Scott Storch, originally meant for Fat Joe, it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped charts internationally.

Candy Spelling

Candy Spelling (Carole Gene Marer), born 1945, is an American author and Broadway producer, widow of TV producer Aaron Spelling and mother of Tori Spelling; her The Color Purple revival won the 2016 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.

Candy-O

Candy-O is the Cars' second studio album, released June 1979 on Elektra, produced by Roy Thomas Baker at Cherokee Studios; it peaked at No. 3 on Billboard, went 4x platinum in the US, and its single "Let's Go" reached No. 14.

Candyman (1992 film)

Candyman (1992) is Bernard Rose's supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's "The Forbidden," starring Virginia Madsen and Tony Todd, set in Chicago's Cabrini-Green, with a Philip Glass score, a $23.5M US gross, and two sequels plus a 2021 spiritual sequel.

Candyman (2021 film)

Candyman is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, a spiritual sequel to the 1992 film set in Chicago's gentrified Cabrini-Green.

Candyman (character)

Candyman, born Daniel Robitaille, is a fictional hook-handed supernatural killer summoned by saying his name five times into a mirror, first appearing in the 1992 film Candyman.

Candyman (film series)

Candyman is a four-film American horror series (1992-2021) adapted from Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden" (Books of Blood, 1985), centered on a hook-handed ghost summoned by saying his name five times into a mirror, set at Chicago's Cabrini-Green.

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), also called Candyman 2, is Bill Condon's horror sequel to Candyman (1992), set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras, starring Tony Todd and Kelly Rowan, revealing the Candyman's real name Daniel Robitaille; grossed $13.4 million and scored 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Canelé

Canelé (also cannelé, Occitan canelat): small fluted cylindrical pastry from Bordeaux with a caramelized crust and custardy interior, baked in beeswax-coated copper molds; one-n spelling trademarked in 1985.

Canglang Shihua

Canglang Shihua is a work of Chinese poetry theory by Southern Song critic Yan Yu, written in the early thirteenth century and highly influential in later criticism.

Cangming Ji

Cangming Ji (滄溟集) is the collected works of the Ming dynasty writer Li Panlong, the foremost poet of the Later Seven Masters, in thirty juan plus a one-juan appendix.

Cảnh khuya

Cảnh khuya ("Night Scene") is a four-line Vietnamese poem written by Hồ Chí Minh in 1947 at the Việt Bắc resistance base during the war against the French.

Canibus

Canibus (Germaine Williams, born 1974, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-American battle rapper. Known for the LL Cool J feud, "Second Round K.O.", the 1998 debut Can-I-Bus, and a long independent career including Mic Club and Rip the Jacker.

Canillita

Canillita is a one-act sainete by Uruguayan playwright Florencio Sánchez, first staged in Rosario, Argentina, in 1902; it gave the Río de la Plata the word canillita for a street newspaper seller.

Cannabis edible

Cannabis edible: food or drink infused with THC or CBD, taken orally. Also called edibles or cannabis-infused foods. Low 6–20% bioavailability, 30 min–2 h delayed onset, up to 24 h duration, 10 mg THC package limit in Canada.