Kitchen Confidential

Andrea guest starred in this Fox comedy pilot about Jack Bourdain, a once famous chef who hit rock bottom and is climbing his way back up. In the episode: Exile on Main Street (Pilot), Andrea played Jack's current girlfriend, Suze. Suze leaves Jack by the end of the episode so there's no telling if Andrea will have any more guest appearances on the show which will premiere in the fall.
Here are some pics courtesy French fan Amanda.






Check out more screen caps at Amanda's site: http://missandreaparker.free.fr/

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Andrea Parker DVD Collection

I've started mine, you should start yours too! Even if she has smaller roles in many of these, you have to appreciate the calibre of shows that Andrea has appeared in. I'm impressed. Some of these are the longest-running shows on primetime TV. She knew how to pick a hit! At least it certainly seems that way...the Pretender is one such except of course, it was cancelled before its time, but that was just NBC being Nasty By Choice! lol On to the DVDs!

The Starring Roles

The Pretender Season 1 and Season 2 DVD
Andrea plays Miss Parker and Catherine Parker and her acting is superbly brilliant.

The Other Roles
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996)
Andrea's role: Det. Eileen Burke, a tough, independent, risk-taker who has a taste for sting ops. She helps take down a serial rapist.



ER Season 1 and Season 2
Andrea guest stars as Linda Farrell in several episodes, mainly in S1, but worthy of mention is the Emmy-winning episode: Hell or High Water from Season 2.

Ellen Season 2 DVD (1994)
Andrea guest stars as Joanna in the premiere episode of Season 2: The Dentist, hailed as one of the funniest of the season set.

Body Shot (1994)
Another small role for Andrea in this one. DVD is currently unavailable except at a very high price!

The Naked Truth (1992)
Andrea has a small part in what has been described as an uproariously funny movie. Completists have to have it. At $3.29 you really can't go wrong!

Seinfeld Season 4 (1992)
Andrea plays a nurse in the Emmy-winning episode, The Contest, from Season 4. This is the season which brought Seinfeld it's first Emmy for best comedy series.

Married...with Children (1989)
Andrea is a Go-Go Dancer in episodes 52 and 53: "Married... with Prom Queen: Part 1 and the Sequel" from Season 3.

Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
In this movie, starring Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum, Andrea has an uncredited role as a dancer.

The Pretender Season 2 DVD

The Pretender Season 2 Region 1 DVDs are coming!

Release date: September 20, 2005

Special features
Making-of featurette: comments by Craig Van Sickle, Steven Long Mitchell et al.
Commentary: Bloodlines episode commentary with Steven Long Mitchell, Craig Van Sickle, Michael T. Weiss and Andrea Parker. (yay!)

Cover Art as seen in the new Pretender S2 icon: Picture of Jarod/MTW (No Andrea Parker or Jamie Denton)

Pre-order The Pretender Season 2 DVD now at Amazon.com

Join the Official Online Team and win S2 DVDs.

Andrea's Global Fan Base

How global is Andrea's "celebrity"? Can you guesstimate the number of countries with active fans who surf the net and browse sites related to Andrea? I knew she was popular but I could not guess just how popular!
A check on site stats for Andrea Parker Portal reveals fans coming from over 39 different countries:
Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Unknown (that's probably the Caribbean i.e. me! lol)
Therefore, this Globaldust fan map should be peppered with red dots!!! Go add your locations, fans!

Andrea Parker - Fit Magazine

Andrea appears in Fit Magazine's July, 2005 cover. The magazine also features an article on how Andrea stays fit.


Excerpts and another pic can be found here:
Spotlight on Andrea


Photo courtesy: Andrea Parker Fan Club

All About Andrea

Her role model (NBC Live Chat 11/16/98)
My mother. She is intelligent and strong - and independent!

Favorite play
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

Favorite opera
Carmen ("which I just saw.... with Pavarotti.)

Time capsule moment
1998: These days I am feeling closer to Miss Parker than ever before.

Likes about Miss Parker
I appreciate her sarcasm more than any of her qualities.

sees herself in future
[both] in front, or behind the cameras

Advice to dreamers
Follow your dream and don't ever give up.

Working with a costar you hardly see
The perfect marriage


How do you imagine, the very last scene of the very last Pretender? The two of you kissing? (Monaco Interview 2001)

"Ah, we’re riding off on a white horse, together somewhere.."
"...kissing on the Eiffel Tower"

Quotables (TV Guide Chat 9/27/99)
On Miss Parker
I'm paid to shoot guns, drive like a bat out of hell and deliver the best one-liners on TV. It's liberating, what can I say? Especially for a chicken at heart!

Nature lover
You can't beat fresh air and sunshine.

Would love to be....
Emma Peel's part in the Avengers.

Recommendation to aspiring young actors
Train.

Admires Miss Parker's
Diligence. Tenacity.

Relates to Miss Parker
More than I would care to admit.

Admires
Christopher Walken, Madeline Kahn, Tyne Daly. Carol Burnett. John Turturro.

Tough Character
I broke my finger, continued to shoot for five hours, and drove myself to emergency.

On her co-stars: (The Pretender Sn 4 DVD Episode Commentary: Til Death Do Us Part)
Patrick Bauchau and Jon Gries: "We were like the three musketeers."
Jason Brooks: "He made me laugh..."
Michael T. Weiss: "We had so much fun."
Jamie Denton: "One of the sexiest men on TV these days, and still such a genuine kind-hearted soul."
Harve Presnell: "Beautiful singer." "...so much fun."

I'm troubled by the randomness of life, where some are blessed while others are burdened. - Andrea Parker, 1997

Less Than Perfect - Fourth Season!!

Less Than Perfect will return to ABC for a fourth season. Congrats to the cast and crew! "Good job!" to the fans who wrote in or called to support the show!

Now for the "good news, bad news": Only 13 episodes have been ordered and LTP is not on the schedule for the start of the season so this means we won't get to see them till somewhere in midseason, hopefully before! Look out for more great camaraderie and cattiness come 2006 (hopefully earlier)!! The upside? Ms. Parker will have free time to seek out other roles: maybe a Pretender movie? Yes!! There is also speculation she will be doing guest spots on Fox' Kitchen Confidential.

Links:
LTP HDTV Vidcaps Scroll down the list and look for Sara Rue & Andrea Parker etc. Please download but do not hotlink. Send the webmaster a 'thank you' email!

Chicago Sun Times bats for Less Than Perfect

They give us three reasons to bring it back!

Fine acting, writing less than likely to save sitcom

April 14, 2005

BY PAIGE WISER Staff Reporter

No, it's not perfect, but "Less Than Perfect" does not deserve to die.

This week's episode of the office sitcom (8:30 p.m. Friday on WLS-Channel 7) may be its last. For three seasons, redheaded Sara Rue has played Claude, the less-than-perfect beauty of the title ("I have 3 percent more body fat than other people in this area," she admits). We've watched her move up, from working as a temp on the fourth floor to a position as an executive assistant on the famed 22nd floor, right outside the office of network anchor Will Butler (the historically nasty Eric Roberts).

Oh, maybe we missed an episode or two. This year the show switched from Tuesdays to Fridays, and the occasional happy hour does cut into our viewing schedule. But "cancellation" is such a strong word. It seems so unfair, when even "The Bachelor" is alive and necking.

"Less Than Perfect" pits Claude and her dorky friends against their cutthroat, comely colleagues. And Claude is starting to win. "If you don't focus," advises office-supplies clerk Owen (Andy Dick), "Baby will never get out of that corner, you know what I'm saying? I think you do."

TELEVISION REVIEW 'LESS THAN PERFECT' / ** When: 8:30 p.m. Friday on WLS-Channel 7 (ABC Network) Starring: Sara Rue, Andy Dick, Eric Roberts, Patrick Warburton, Andrea Parker, Sherri Shepherd

The writing is sharp and original. The actors are funny. There's even a fabulous wedding in the works. Then again, the best moments on the show are little ones -- while Claude is talking, for instance, Owen might be in the background scratching his eye with a stalk of celery.

But the chances for a fourth season are not good. "They are slim," says Patrick Warburton, who plays on-air pundit Jeb Denton. "The network has shown no love for the show."

This is an actor who knows heartbreak. He famously dated Elaine as Puddy on "Seinfeld," and starred on such critically-acclaimed-but-doomed series as "NewsRadio" and "The Tick." He is braced for bad news. "It's really hard to disappoint me at this point," he says, on the phone from a Carl's Jr. drive-through.

Executive producer Gene Stein is more optimistic. "Cautiously optimistic," he says. "I think we have a real shot at coming back." He'd like to see Claude get more responsibilities at work, and what Jeb's married life will be like, and whether there might be plots that incorporate Owen's lesbian mothers (Joanna Kerns and Valerie Harper).
 

But for now, "We just want to get our fourth season," he says.

Here are three reasons why he should get one:

1. The casting

Some of the finest television actors alive are on "Less Than Perfect." And Eric Roberts, of course, is B-movie royalty ("The Prophecy II").

Andrea Parker was a cold, stiletto-heeled operative on "The Pretender" with her own cult following. Sassy Sherri Shepherd, whose chest is a supporting character on the sitcom, also can be seen in "Beauty Shop."

Will Sasso recently was added to the cast, along with Warburton, and is probably proudest of his role in Christopher Guest's "Best in Show." But some of us have a soft spot in our hearts for his mentally challenged pageant judge in "Drop Dead Gorgeous."

Maybe you tune in for Andy Dick. But you stay for the guest stars: Martin Mull, Cindy Williams, Jenny McCarthy, Barry Bostwick, Trista Rehn, Tori Spelling, Danny Bonaduce, David Cassidy; look for Christopher Knight ("The Brady Bunch," "The Surreal Life") in this week's very special episode.

2. The camaraderie

"I've been on sets that are not happy," says producer Stein. "But this happens to be a happy set." The actors even spend time with each other off the set. Rue and Dick, for instance, lobbied to be on an episode of "Trading Spaces" where Dick's home office was redecorated. (He hated it.)

3. The cattiness

Yes, Claude is the show's sweet-hearted center, but there's more than enough mean-spiritedness to satisfy cynical viewers. Some characters are self-centered; others are sincerely cruel.

Everyone is petty -- and that's what we like to see.

Links
Vote for Andrea Parker
ABC.com: Less Than Perfect

LTP HDTV Vidcaps Scroll down the list for links to vidcaps for LTP. Please download but do not hotlink and be sure to send the webmaster a 'thank you' email!

Less Than Perfect - Upcoming Episodes

Upcoming Episodes of Less Than Perfect on ABC:

Casey V. Kronsky (April 8th)
Claude the Expert (Apr 15th) Season Finale

Link:
LTP HDTV Vidcaps Scroll down the list for links to vidcaps for LTP. Please download but do not hotlink and send the webmaster a thank you email!

The Pretender on DVD

The Pretender (Season 1) DVD for Region 1 (US and Canada includes Caribbean) has hit stores since March 22nd. For some people who were smart enough to pre-order early, it arrived as early as March 15th.

The DVD set features a three-part "Making-of" featurette, commentaries on two episodes, by the creators, one of which includes comments by Jon Gries; and original TV spots.

Second season set (already in preparation) will include some kind of interview with James 'Jamie' Denton (Desperate Housewives) among others. Expect a Season 2 DVD announcement within the next months!

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Order The Pretender S1 on DVD

If you are unfamiliar with this show then "The Pretender Starter DVD" set is just the thing for you! You can "try out" the show, practically for free, by ordering the starter set from Amazon.com at $9.95 for the first 2 episodes of Season 1. Then use the coupon you get in the Starter set for $10 off the whole season 1 set!

Pretender Trivia

• Andrea says her favorite episode of The Pretender is one of these three: Keys(S1), Til' Death Do Us Part(S4), Toy Surprise(S2).


• The Pretender has been watched in at least 36 countries around the world.


• Andrea Parker says this about what she wants to see if more movies are made: I want to see Jarod find his family. I want to see Miss Parker leave the Centre and join Jarod. (I think Andrea Parker is a shipper LOL)


• The idea of using PEZ in The Pretender came from Michael T. Weiss himself who wanted "something that Jarod missed when he was a child"


• Rumor has it that both Andrea and Michael T. Weiss called to ask Jamie Denton to come back to the show when he had originally turned down an offer to return.


• The Pretender pilot tested higher than ER


• Andrea Parker was supposed to wear a miniskirt in the pilot scene where she comes off the helicopter but she reminded producers of the cold weather and vowed to wear a miniskirt if they wore one too!! LMAO!


• One of SLM's fave lines in the pilot (which NBC wanted to cut): Miss Parker saying "I did a lot of frat boys in college" (Lmao again!)


• In a chat with fans, Jamie Denton said that both he and Andrea have strongly expressed their interest in returning to do more Pretender movies.

Sources:

http://home.datacomm.ch/oreocookie/MTW_and_AP_2001.html (http://home.datacomm.ch/oreocookie/mtweiss.html)
http://www.jamesdenton.com/chat-number1.html

The Pretender S1 DVD

Win a complete Pretender Season 1 DVD set!

Win a complete Pretender Season 1 DVD set!

If you still haven't picked up your Pretender S1 DVD set....here are some chances to win one!

Join the official online team to promote S1 and enter the contests

Classic TV hits contest (US residents only)

Digitally Obsessed contest (US residents only)

Andrea's Aspirations

Some of the things Andrea has said she would like to do in her career:

...voiceover work, features, television, commercial campaign....

"I would run the artistic gamut."

Andrea's Roles

It's Andrea's Birthday!
Let's celebrate and recall some of her memorable roles!!
Lydia Weston Less Than Perfect (Present)

Miss Parker, Catherine Parker The Pretender (1996-2001)

Caitlin Pike JAG (1995, 2001)

Det. Eileen Burke Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996) DVD


Linda Farrell ER (1994, 1995) (Guest stars in Season 1 and 2 including the Emmy Winning episode: Hell or High Water) DVD S1 S2

Kelly Morgan XXXs & OOOs (1994)




Joanna Ellen (1994) S2 premiere episode: The Dentist S2 DVD

Ex-girlfriend Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story (1993)

Nurse Seinfeld (Emmy Winning episode: The Contest)


Source: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0662042/

World Poker Tour - Hollywood Home Game

Andrea Parker played quite well this time, besting her previous performance on Celebrity Poker on the Bravo Channel. She came in second behind Mekhi Phifer (ER) but I think she really could have won if she hadn't been a bit overly cautious at the beginning. Still that is understandable especially since she said,

"I'm about as good at poker as a poker player is at acting"

LOL I guess she doesn't have confidence in her skills! It was rather enjoyable to watch her play and see how well she could put on a "poker face." I think she was quite good at it...but she could use some tips!

Welcome to my new Andrea Parker fansite!

Hello!

Welcome! Thanks for surfing in. I hope this site will prove useful to fans of Andrea Parker, the exquisite and talented actress of The Pretender, now appearing on ABC's Less Than Perfect!! I know there are a lot of great sites out there but I think the world could stand to have just a few more online pages dedicated to this brilliant actress!

Site links:
Andrea's Roles Pic added - July, 05

Andrea's Aspirations

Andrea @ WPT

The Pretender DVD

What they say

Andrea - Out & About

Andrea's Global Fanbase

Fit Magazine

The Pretender S2 DVD

Andrea DVDs

Kitchen Confidential

LTP Fourth Season

Check out the new Andrea Parker Toolbar

This website will be a complement to my portal page: Andrea Parker Portal and a mirror to the kitehost weblog.