December 19

• Istvan Szabo's Sunshine is now exclusively showing in Toronto at the York Theatre.  Molly Parker stars in this movie with Ralph Fiennes.  Sunshine received 14 Genie Award nominations.  Unfortunately Miss Parker did not receive one.  The movie follows a Hungarian family of which Ralph Fiennes, who received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor,  plays three characters from each generation of the family.  Molly Parker's character can be found in the second instalment of the movie's stories.

• Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses has already opened.  In the movie, Molly Parker plays the character Anna Lee who is a teacher and a mother of a 3 year old girl.  The daughter goes missing in the movie and all the characters in the movie are directly influenced by the loss.
• Sunshine directed by Istvan Szabo has got a Canadian release date.  The movie in which Molly Parker stars in will be released on December 17th.  In time for the holiday season.

• Rock legend and fellow Canadian Bryan Adams has been moonlighting as a photographer after his last album, On A Day Like Today.  This has resulted in a collection of photographs celebrating the 20th anniversary of Flare Magazine.  In this collection, Molly Parker is featured as one of the 89 celebrated Canadian women.  This book is Flare Magazine Presents: Made In Canada, Photographs by Bryan Adams and published by Key Porter Books.  The collection is 136 pages and goes for $29.95 CDN.  Royalties enjoyed by the book will go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

• Added article and images of Molly Parker's interview from Thursday's, September 10th, 1999 issue of Toronto weekly NOW magazine.  This week has a special issue celebrating the Toronto International Film Festival.  The article and images can be found in the Articles section of the web site.

• It's official, Molly Parker will be in three movies at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.  The three films are The Five Senses, Sunshine and Wonderland.
• An image of Molly Parker from Wonderland has been scanned and is online.  It can be viewed here.

For those of you that are able to watch Twitch City, don't forget to start watching it on Monday, September 6th, 1999 at 8 pm for back to back episodes on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

• The first six episodes of Twitch City will be aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  It all starts on Labour Day Monday (September 6th, 1999) at 8 pm EST.  All of the six episodes will air Monday through Wednesday.  There will be two episodes aired each day at the same 8 pm - 9 pm EST time slot.
• The only US cities that can receive the CBC signal are the cities close to the Canadian border.

No word yet when the next seven episodes will air.  An announcement will be made in the coming days.

• The Molly Parker Tribute Site has turned ONE YEAR OLD!  Want to thank those who have visited, supported and contributed to this web site.  Without it, the site wouldn't be where it is today.  This next year will be a great one for Molly Parker and this web site dedicated to her.  In the fall, Miss Parker will be seen in four movies.  Of course, you can expect the latest news, articles and images from this web site.
• June 21st - July 22nd is the astrological sign of Cancer.  That is the sign of Miss Parker. So I would like to wish Molly Parker on behalf of her fans a very Happy 27th Birthday!
• Finally the web site has been updated.  The opening page has a newer and sleeker introduction.  Also added two articles.  The first article is from the National Post that appeared on Friday, May 21st, 1999.  In this article Miss Parker is interviewed at the Cannes International Film Festival.  The last article is from Friday, April 3rd, 1998 which appeared in the Ottawa Citizen.  This article is similar and written by the same columnist that appeared in the Montreal Gazette on Tuesday, March 31st, 1998.  Both articles are found in the Articles section of the web site.

• Added two images to the web site.  The first image is the one that accompanied the Molly article in the Toronto Star from Friday, April 2nd, 1999.  This can be found in the Articles section.  In the second image, it's with Molly and Don McKellar on the set of Twitch City.  You can view the image here.  Both images were given to me by Elaine Hsu and want to thank her very much.  She has a Don McKellar web site.  Check it out at : http://www2.crosswinds.net/~dmckellar/

• The short film From Morning On I Waited Yesterday in which Molly Parker stars in will be shown at the 5th Annual Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival.  This was screened previously at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 1998.  It will have three screenings :
  
  

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2:15 pm at the Uptown Backstage 1.
Thursday, June 3rd, 8:15 pm at the Uptown Backstage 1.
Saturday, June 5th, 4:15 pm at the Uptown Backstage 2.


For more information call the Hotline at (416)535-4457 or e-mail them at twsff@idirect.com.

• Two of Molly's films are confirmed to be showing at the Cannes International Film Festival next week.  As expected, Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland.  The other film showing in which Molly is in, is Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses.  An article in the Toronto Star from Friday, May 7th, 1999 has an article with the director of The Five Senses, Jeremy Podeswa.  Nothing is known about the plot of the movie.  It's being kept very secret.

• Added an article on Molly Parker from the Toronto Star which appeared Friday, April 2nd, 1999.  This can be read in the Articles section.

What is revealed in the article are three of Molly's movies.  The only known date for any of her movies is October 14th, for Waking the Dead.  The other films Wonderland and A Taste Of Sunshine will wither premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival which takes place next month and the Toronto International Film Festival in September.  However, both films might appear at both film festivals.

• Two new images of Molly were added which she appeared in Canada's fashion magazine Flare in July 1997.  They can be found in the Articles section of the web site.  If you ask me, I think they are pretty interesting :)  It is an issue where they showcase the hot & cool Canadians.  Which she is no doubt!  Along with these attractive images, the caption that appears beside these pictures are included.  The company in which Molly is in includes Jill Hennessy (Law & Order), Callum Keith Rennie (Due South) and Mia Kirshner (Exotica).

• Got some bad news for Canadian fans and for those of the site.  Unfortunately the luminous Miss Molly Parker will not be presenting at this year's Genie Awards.  It was speculated on December 2nd, 1998 in the Mississauga News.  It was confirmed Friday, January 29th, 1999 in the Toronto Sun and Tuesday, February 2nd 199 in the Toronto Star that Miss Parker would not be one of the presenters.  A reason could be a project that she is currently in Montreal for The Intruder.
• Speaking about the project, Angela Lee from the Kissed by Molly mailing list sent an article on what Molly is working on currently.  Here is an excerpt from the article that appeared on January 18th, 1999 in the Montreal Gazette.  Thank you Angela!

 

 

The latest addition to the bustling local production scene is The Intruder, a big-sceen thriller staring french actor Charlotte Gainsbourg (Merci la Vie), Nastassja Kinski (Cat people, Paris, Texas), Molly Parker (Kissed) and John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral).  The Canadian-U.K. co-production, which kicked off shooting on the west island Saturday, marks the feature-film directing debut of renowned British photographer David Bailey. ... "this is a film that deals mainly with two women, and if there's anyone that gets women to open-up and understands them, it's Bailey," said producer Pieter Kroonenburg.  The script for The Intruder was penned by former Telescene executive Jamie Brown who left Montreal to set up shop in england several years back, and the flick is produced by Brown and Kroonenburg. the executive producer is Gary Howsam, Kroonenburg's partner is Montreal-based GFT Kinsborough Pictures.  The film is a Hitchcock-flavoured thriller about a woman (Gainsbourg) haunted by the ghost of her husband's first wife, who was murdered. it is being shot by seasoned Quebec cinematographer Jean Lepine, whose credits include Robert Altman's The Player, and, at the very least with Bailey and Lepine abroad, this will be one stylish picture.

• It's 1999 and I want to wish all of you a very Happy New Year.  This year will be a busy one for Molly fans and the web site.  She'll have at least Waking the Dead and A Taste of Sunshine on the silver screen.  Even Molly's appearance in the 1998 Genie Awards in my hometown Mississauga during the month of February.  You can be assure that we'll have all that here on the web site.  So be sure to drop by and look for updates.
• A new year and a clean slate for the News page.  If you want to see what happened in the year of 1998 then click on News from 1998 at the bottom of the page or here.