Bay State legislators were inspired to subsidize filmmaking last year when Martin Scorsese filmed most of his new crime drama, The Departed, in New York.

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Lohan has since filmed two movies but has repeatedly gotten into trouble, including a pair of arrests in New York that have not resulted in charges.

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It was famously filmed in 1930 with Swedish star Greta Garbo, while Natasha Richardson appeared in a celebrated New York production in 1993 alongside her future husband Liam Neeson.

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The sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for example, is filmed for the most part in studios in even sunnier LA. And several shows focusing on New York City's Manhattan, such as Mad Men, Friends and How I Met Your Mother, are also shot primarily in the City of Angels.

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In New York City, where so many of big-screen favourites have been filmed, life can sometimes feel like a movie.

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He also shared footage he filmed himself with a Super 8 camera when he was working on the patients in the Bronx borough of New York City in the late 1960s.

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Phra Klairung Rujidhammo was recently catapulted to national fame when he was filmed performing suggestive dance moves, known here as coyote dancing after the film "Coyote Ugly" set in a New York dance-bar.

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