Sean Penn film set at Suffolk's Dennison building(Valerie Plame story)

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-pofilm2412576022mar24,0,3562018.story


The office building that houses Steve Levy's offices won't win any architectural beauty contest, but that makes it perfect to double as the CIA headquarters, the Suffolk County executive said Monday.

Levy announced that the county plans to rent the lobby of the 12-story H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge to the producers of "Fair Game," a planned film based on the memoir by Valerie Plame, the CIA operative who was outed after her husband Joseph Wilson cast doubt on claims that Iraq maintained weapons of mass destruction.

The movie, which Variety reported will star Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, will shoot in the Dennison building for several days, although Levy said he did not yet have a schedule. Suffolk will receive $14,000 in fees to allow use of the facility, Levy said.

"Hopefully with this film, typecasting can pay off, and we would welcome future producers to consider the Dennison Building for their films, whether as a CIA building, government building or corporate office structure," Levy said in a statement