"I never would have painted this picture," Parker said.
Although public tours are not commonplace as they are in LA, visitors can catch a glimpse of show business by driving or walking by the backlots of such bustling studios as North Shore Studios (formerly Lion Gate Studios), Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, Canadian Motion Picture Park and Eagle Creek Studios.
- 400ft (122m) Stretch of the 8,980-ft-long 8,980-ft-long 8,980-ft-long the backlot of the Canadian Motion Picture Park studios.
Stage shooting for the film took place at the Canadian Motion Picture Park studio in Burnaby, a nearby suburb of the city.
To the left of the picture, parked next to the zebra crossing, is a white Volkswagen Beetle motor-car which belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio.
Meanwhile, she returned to the theme of passion remembered and rekindled in 1978 with '57 Chevrolet, meticulously recalling nights spent at drive-in picture shows, parking and necking.
But the school's long-haired heyday had passed ("It was after the nude class picture"), and Parker found better furniture-makers elsewhere.
She has created a series of modest, realist pictures of parking lots (empty as well as occupied), overpasses and unkempt fields around a Long Island commuter train station.
The picture perfect park has a reflecting pond, romantic footbridges, triumphal arch, Renaissance castle and art museums.
Ryan Murphy tweeted a picture of Parker on the "Glee" set back in August -- and Colfer seemed to be getting along famously with the "Sex and the City" actress.
