No money is worth a camera crew causing such disruption and inconvenience.
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Too bad people can’t copyright their homes. She got money for two days of on site shooting, but nothing for having her home duplicated . It would cost a lot of money for someone to design a home as nice as hers. For $15,000 they not only get to shoot in her home, but the right to use her interior decorating skills and taste in art. It doesn’t seem fair.
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I grew up in Park Slope 'on' President Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues -- a very different place in the late 50's and the 60's, and very different then and now from the block … surely between 8th Ave and PPW … where it is here revealed that the Martin-Duddy kitchen serves as the model for Tea Leoni's in "Madame Secretary" -- with this one thing in common, for a while, with Ms. Martin and Mr. Duddy: We had no television until 'around' 1960 (at which point a 13" Motorola made my 'house' my friends favorite attraction).
In my time, 'folks' named Kapinski (like the author here, but hers might not be the surname on her birth certificate) would more likely have LIVED in Greenpoint (and 'gone to' St. Cecilia's) -- where her home has been 'duplicated' for a T.V. show's set -- than in Windsor Terrace, where her home actually is, where my Dad grew up 'going to' Holy Name (as the i at the end of Kapinski predicts a Kapinski would be born to do).
P.S. The Martin-Duddy's … whatever their faith(s), if any … are in one of two parishes -- St. Francis Xavier ('mine,' in my days of faith commanded) or St. Saviour's.
The entire interior of the Madam Secretary McCord home was not based on the the Architects home, just the notion of glass cabinets. The set is an exact replica of the east side home of recently deceased Clinique co-founder Dr. Norman Orentreich. I’ve been there many times. Every aspect of the real home and its details were painstaking documented to have the set built on stage.
I find it interesting the design changes the set designers made. Generally I prefer them to the original
If the house cost $1 million and the set cost that much to build, why would it not make sense to buy a house and shoot there, then resell?
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For how much money?
BTW, love all that Fiestaware!
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I wonder if that is the same Helene Staplnski who wrote “Five Finger Discount” about growing up in Jersey City.
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Loved the "you're Helen Hunt" comment. Years ago I worked for HBO, early 80s, when Dick Cavett was hosting "Time Was." Some of the halls at HBO were winding, and as I came around a curve one day, a new employee, there he was. I piped up, "You're Dick Cavett." He smiled, I took a few steps more past him, then turned back and said, "oh, but you know that." LOL.
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Broadway Stages does good PR here where I live in Greenpoint.
The old timers especially do not like the changes in the area, ie no parking, not their demographic, sky high rents etc. etc.
However Broadway Stages gives a lot to charity and the community with many parties, other community support.
This cannot be said for other movie type companies. A few yrs. ago Greenpoint became the outdoor filming capital of the USA with scores of movie shoots every day.
At first it was cool, you would occasionally see A list stars since they all filmed here but soon with noise, traffic, loss of parking, leaving a mess, not being able to walk down your block or even get into your house and no community support, it became so bad the locals demanded of their leaders to get rid of them and by and large they have.
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Twenty or so years ago, my family had a similar experience when our Chelsea loft was used in a pilot for a detective series. We watched every subsequent episode, for which they replicated the space in a studio. The show didn't run for more than a season. Forget the star and the plot—we just wanted to see "our" apartment!
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@susanwest I had similar experiences here is Greenpoint. Just about every major film and TV program is partially filmed here but you are lucky if you see three seconds of the thing you want to see after watching a one or two hour show. Same with the stars, you can wait two hours near the set waiting for them and never see them but you can walk down the street doing your normal routine and bump into them.
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Great story and charming home!
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Copying someone’s home is hopefully handsomely compensated since it’s akin to using someone’s elaborate design.
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I lived on that stage set for three months until I figured out it wasn't a real home.
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