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Mon 02 Feb 2010Hollywood comes to Dublin with filming of 'Knockout'

THE WORDS “Hollywood” and “glamour” are commonly associated with one another.

But fame, fortune and the endless rounds of red carpets and award ceremonies really belong to showbusiness. The process of making movies, as any early bird in Dublin’s Grafton Street witnessed yesterday, is a tedious one of shooting and reshooting and mostly hanging around.