Famous Parker

As many of you are aware we are having a mini reunion this weekend, in keeping with that theme I decided to check off one more thing from my bucket list.... phoned an old time neighbor and friend from my days in the Terraces.

He wished us all a good time at the mini reunion and we traded many fond memories of days gone by. While Kevin is 6 years my junior he was a fun kid to have follow me around. His mom and dad were close friends with my parents and when Roz and Dave were married I slept over at his place.

Kevin is the writer and producer of Canada's most successful and largest grossing movie in film history.... Good Cop, Bad Cop.

We had a great phone reunion and he wished us all a good get together this weekend.

So lets party on.....

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/kevin-Tierney

Kevin Tierney is an admired figure on the Canadian film scene and is an enthusiastic supporter of Canadian filmmaking (photo by Lois Siegel).
















Tierney handled television mini-series, feature films and documentaries, some of them made for American cable and pay TV outlets like A&E and Showtime. The Life of P.T. Barnum (1999), a mini-series, collected 2 Emmy nominations while Bonanno: a Godfather's Story (1999) was a six-hour mafia epic that humanized its mob characters and earned GEMINI AWARD nods. Other shows included Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City (1998), nominated for 5 Emmy Awards including best mini-series, and a 1994 A&E biography of Pierre Elliot TRUDEAU. Tierney also produced a documentary series about the charismatic prime minister; it aired on CBC and Radio Canada.

He was executive producer for the Gemini-nominated Choice: The Henry Morgentaler Story (2003), about the doctor whose advocacy led to a Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in Canada. Tierney's One Dead Indian (2006), about the fatal shooting of an Aboriginal man during a land-claims confrontation between residents of an Ontario reserve and the provincial police, won a Gemini Award for best TV movie.   At the beginning of the new century, Tierney decided to produce movies on his own, debuting with a co-production involving US and UK partners. Written and directed by Lionel Chetwynd, Varian's War (2001) stars William Hurt as the real-life American intellectual who rescued European Jewish artists and thinkers from Nazi-occupied France. \  Tierney's other credits include Twist (2003), his son Jacob Tierney's take on Charles Dickens' street-kid saga; Bon Cop, Bad Cop, the megahit Tierney co-wrote with actor-writer-director Patrick Huard; Guylaine Dionne's Serveuses demandées (2007), about the sex trade exploitation of young immigrant women; and the co-production Love and Savagery (2008), John N. Smith's feature about a Canadian poet who falls for a young Irish girl devoted to the church.