Article: Newport film group wants to keep Hollywood coming

Arnold Schwarzenegger danced the tango in the ballroom of Newport's Rosecliff mansion in his 1994 action film "True Lies." The city was a stand-in for Long Island in the 1974 film version of "The Great Gatsby." And Steven Spielberg used Newport's colonial architecture as the backdrop for "Amistad," his 1997 drama about a slave ship mutiny.

Movie crews for decades have capitalized on Newport's cobblestone streets, Gilded Age glamour and oceanfront beauty, arriving through word-of-mouth and more recently with the help of a state film office.

Though Newport has wooed plenty of movie business over the years, a band of local volunteers _ including a documentary producer, antique store owner and ...

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