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March 29, 2007

TV politico hosts party at Beacon Rock / Photo

Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl
Extra Adria Cicilline, of Lincoln, breaks for lunch during the shooting of a new TV pilot at the Beacon Rock mansion.

NEWPORT – Beacon Rock, the former home of the late sculptor Felix de Weldon, was transformed today into the suburban Washington, D.C., mansion of fictional Rhode Island Congressman Noah Benjamin Foxworthy.

Congressman Foxworthy has a young, idealistic aide named Paige Armstrong, and she’s the heroine of a new pilot for The CW network called I Am Paige Armstrong, being filmed in Rhode Island this week.

The production is scheduled to be in Newport tomorrow, then move to the State House in Providence over the weekend.

Beacon Rock, now owned by attorney Brian Cunha, sits atop a small peninsula of land jutting into Newport Harbor.

Today’s scenes involved a casino-themed cocktail party and fundraiser being held by Foxworthy, so several rooms on the ground floor were outfitted with roulette wheels and blackjack tables.

The entry way was crammed with the equipment needed to make a TV show — cables, cameras, lights. Extras emerged from the interior of the house into the brisk spring sunshine in formal wear — tuxedos for the men, gowns for the women.

I Am Paige Armstrong was created by Rod Lurie, the man behing the film The Contender and the Geena Davis TV show Commander in Chief. The basic plot of the show has Armstrong, played by Jaime Ray Newman, becoming so disgusted with the sleazy political maneuverings of her boss that she decides to run against him.

-- Journal staff writer Andy Smith

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