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September 19, 2006

Update: Waterfront takes to RIC campus / Photo

Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl
Actor Joe Pantoliano, right, walks past the car that belongs to his Waterfront character, the mayor of Providence, as the crew for the CBS series filmed at Rhode Island College in Providence today.

The crew began erecting sets, assembling lights and preparing for filming in the K-5 Henry Barnard School on the college campus at 6 a.m. today, RIC spokeswoman Jane Fusco said this morning.

The series plans to be at the school, located at 600 Mount Pleasant Ave., for just one day of filming – in the gymnasium, hallway, principal’s office and one classroom, Fusco said.

One actor in today’s shoot is much more familiar with the college campus and the elementary school than the others. A 1999 RIC graduate who is now RIC’s assistant director of admissions, Jason Anthony plays a Providence police officer in today’s shoot and has also played a city councilman in another episode.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Today, he and other city police officers were scheduled to play basketball against state troopers, he said. Baldwin was to play, too.

Anthony answered quickly and affirmatively when asked if he’s a good basketball player. Then, after saying he played in high school and switched over to volleyball in college, he said, “I hope I’m good, actually.”

In the earlier Waterfront series he filmed, Anthony worked with Pantoliano, who was in one of Anthony’s favorite childhood movies, The Goonies.

“He’s a character,” Anthony said of Pantoliano. “He’s everything you see on TV. He makes everybody on the set laugh.”

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September 19, 2006

Update: Waterfront takes to RIC campus / Photo

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