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The critically-acclaimed and much-awarded show Damages, starring Glenn Close, is filming today in the vicinity of Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights (so north of Atlantic, south of the bridge).  Thanks to the frequent tipsters at Carrot Creative!

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Filming In Brooklyn reader Lauren has spotted signs for Monday and a blocked road in the vicinity of Clark and Henry Streets for Parks and Recreation, starring Amy Poehler.

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FIB reader AllMyBlogs tipped me off to a listing on Celebsessions that says Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon‘s Dr. Kevorkian movie, You Don’t Know Jack, will be filming today in the vicinity of Clinton and Pierrepont.

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Law & Order will be filming on Thursday in the area south-east of Henry and Orange streets in Brooklyn Heights.  I can’t tell from the “no parking” sign if cars need to be moved by 5am or 5pm, but the fact that they don’t have to be moved the night before may suggest that this production won’t be filming until later in the day.

Thanks so much to Carrot Creative for the picture and the tip!

UPDATE: Carrot Creative has sent “honeywagon confirmation” that Law & Order is indeed setting up this morning.  Thanks!

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Fringe

Fair Game, a movie about the Valerie Plame debacle, is shooting in Cobble Hill Park, between Congress Street and Verandah Place.  Written by Valerie Plame and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne trilogy), Fair Game stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn.

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Glenn Close and William Hurt starred together in the seminal 80s movie The Big Chill, and with Hurt coming back for another season of Damages, Glenn Close seems very pleased to be working with him again.   According to ET Online:

Glenn will only tease us about the upcoming storylines, but she does weigh in on how happy she is to be working with her longtime friend and ‘Big Chill’ co-star, William Hurt.

“It is really great because we have authentic history,” she says. “I have known him for a long time. A bunch of us started together in New York in the ’70s.”

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Damages In Fort Greene [Filming In Brooklyn]

UPDATE: According to On Location Vacations, Lipstick Jungle is filming near Franklin and Kent in Williamsburg.  The NBC show was recently canceled, and this is reportedly the last episode being filmed.

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Here are Kelly Rutherford (Lily van der Woodsen) and Robert John Burke (Bart Bass).

You can see the rest of “Carrot’s” pictures here (today’s Gossip Girl pics start in the fourth row down).

Thanks Chris!

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A week ago Friday was a busy day in Brooklyn, with two different 30 Rock shoots as well as a small Fringe shoot.  I got some great pictures of the 30 Rock shoot in Cadman Plaza Park, but was less successful with the nighttime shoot in Brooklyn Heights, despite the fact that I was very close to the action.

Tina Fey and Peter Dinklage were filming a scene on a street in Brooklyn Heights that I now can’t remember.  I wasn’t going to post the pictures because the quality was so terrible, so I didn’t make a note of where they had been taken.  And now that I’ve changed my mind, the best I can remember is that it was somewhere in the area of Pineapple and Henry.  I’m sure someone who lives in the area will be able to tell the exact location by the pictures.

When I arrived on the scene I was kept back by a P.A. saying that nobody could get any closer, but I noticed that there were tons of people standing closer watching.  So I said “What about if I’m going to one of those restaurants?”  And he said just to make sure my flash was off.

I sat down at a table outside of a restaurant very close to where the scene was taking place, and was warned by the other people at the table that we were in the shot and had to make sure not to watch the scene as it was being filmed.  So while I did get to watch while they reset for each take, I couldn’t take any pictures while the scene was actually being shot.  Which sucked, because Tina Fey ended each take walking right towards me and it would have been a great picture.

This would be a great time to mention (again) that my camera sucks.  It actually takes decent nighttime pictures with a tripod, but I don’t carry one with me, so every picture I tried to take in the dark was totally blurry.  I had to take all of these shots with my cell phone, which has much better image stabilization (but doesn’t zoom).

Here’s Tina Fey, barely visible in the center of the frame, wearing a black coat, standing to the right of a bald man.

Here’s a blurry picture of Tina Fey getting her make-up touched up between takes.

Here are Peter Dinklage (on the left) and Tina Fey (on the right, back to the camera) about to shoot another take.

And here’s the crew resetting for another scene.

That’s when I took off, and ran into Peter Dinklage, on a break, walking his dog.  I asked him if I could take a picture of him, and at first he said yes but then changed his mind when I told him it was for my blog.  I can respect that, although it would have been a great picture.  So once again I lost out on a great picture by being nice and doing the right thing, despite the fact that there were at least half a dozen cameras flashing away behind me as we were having our little exchange.

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Earlier that same day I found a small Fringe crew filming scenes inside a moving limo in Prospect Park.

The staging area was at the Center Drive entrance off of Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace.  I didn’t actually get to see any filming, because the limo would drive up, cameras and lights would be reset, and it would take off again into the park.

Since I was the only one there not with the crew, I stood out like a sore thumb.  But when I introduced myself to Anna Torv she was very nice.

There was also an actor in the limo with Anna Torv named Billy Burke, playing a character named Lucas.

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And last, another “production” was filmed in my house, but this one was much smaller than the TV show that filmed there.  My son and I were interviewed for a piece on MSN.com about kids and money.  You can read more about it here.

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I finally found the set in Cadman Plaza Park.  It was made up to look like a party, with a pinata and a big cake.

I’m guessing based on this actress’ costume that it’s supposed to be a quinceanera celebration.

I had no idea that Salma Hayek was going to be there, but when she arrived, even from afar it was unmistakeably her.

The scene that she was shooting started with the party-goers doing the Macarena, so they all rehearsed the dance a few times:

I wanted to get closer, but they were keeping the fans back.  It was lunchtime on a beautiful day downtown, so there were a lot of people trying to watch.  I did notice, though, that the paparazzi were right up next to the set.  So I walked closer, and said that I was paparazzi.  When asked to go back to the sidewalk I actually heard myself say, “Just because I have a small lens doesn’t mean I’m not paparazzi.”  I feel dirty.  But I did get to watch from a few feet away for a while.

Soon after that Alec Baldwin arrived.

Once shooting started the paparazzi started jockying for position.  I’ve never stood with them before and soon realized that it was a blood sport.  Each time one got in a good position another one would get in front of that one.  There was pushing and shoving and two guys almost came to blows.  The phrase “Don’t fuck with me man!” was uttered right before someone from the show came over and told them all to cool it, that they were distracting the actors.

It was a long scene, starting with the Macarena and ending with Salma Hayek making some sort of announcement involving Alec Baldwin, and then Mr. Baldwin walking out of the scene with this little cutie:

The scene was shot four or five times.  In the beginning the Macarena music was played so that the actors would all be in sync while dancing, but then as soon as the Macarena was over the music was turned off and the actors continued to dance around in the background without music.  During the dialogue on the first couple of takes the group of photographers was constantly reprimanded for making shutter click sounds, since they were so close, but eventually they settled down.

In between shots, Ms. Hayek hung around with the other actors and crew and had her make-up touched up, staying under an umbrella most of the time to protect her from the unusually strong October sun, while Mr. Baldwin alternated between taking a rest and socializing with some of the babies on the set.

It was around that time that I made the fatal mistake of approaching Mr. Baldwin.  I stood patiently beside him for a minute while he fussed over a baby (he really was being sweet with the kids), and just wanted to give him a business card and tell him that I appreciated that the show was filming in Brooklyn.  But before I got a chance a P.A. came over and asked me to leave him alone.  And once I had left the pack of photographers I wasn’t able to get back over there.  Oh well, I had gotten just about as many pictures as I could anyway, so I left to try to find Fringe in Prospect Park (which I did, and will be posting about later).

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Looks like it was a ton of fun!  I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing two different Muppets in the past couple of months, and the logistics were intense.  Not only is it hard to position the Muppets and humans together in the shot without showing the Muppeteers, but the Muppeteers also have to be able to see the video feed from the camera that’s on them at all times.  I was just doing it with one human and one Muppet at a time, so I can’t imagine the logistics of fitting five or six Muppets into a shot.  But I guess after all these years they’ve got it down pretty good.

There’s a comment on the post saying that they will be back in Brooklyn on Wednesday, in Prospect Heights.  Anyone know the location?

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Thanks Chris!

UPDATE: It’s filming tomorrow (Monday). Gossip Girl and Entourage on the same day? Can’t wait!

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A Brooklynian poster thinks she saw some Real World: Brooklyn cast members joining the Crunch gym on Flatbush in Prospect Heights.

And in more Real World: Brooklyn exercise news, NewYorkology got some pics of some cast members working out for the cameras on Pier 41 in Red Hook.

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