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Article: The Littlest State's Big-Time Film Role; As a Movie & TV Setting, Rhode Island Is Now a Player
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 9, 2006
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Hollywood has discovered Rhode Island. And eager Rhode Islanders,
to invoke the local dialect, are "wicked psyched."
"I work right in the city and basically whenever you go to work,
you never know where they're filming," said an enthused Anthony
Paola, 38, a Woonsocket resident who works as a computer operator in
Providence. "We've had a few movies here and there throughout the
years . . . but now, it's just constant."
Tonight, the gritty Irish mob show "Brotherhood," on which Paola
worked as an extra, debuts on Showtime. The show -- whose 11-
episode season was filmed entirely in Rhode Island -- is one of six
screen projects that have wrapped recently or are being shot in the