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Sat 02 Feb 2007Lethal weapons in a sleepy parishSimon Pegg and Edgar Wright are following up the success of Shaun of the Dead with Hot Fuzz, a celebration of US action flicks (with a little Miss Marple thrown in), they tell Donald ClarkeThe first time Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, two ordinary Englishmen, came to Dublin was 10 years ago. A few years out of college, still finding their way in the world of television comedy, the pals had travelled across the Irish Sea to see Radiohead in concert. Now they sit in adjacent rooms in the Morrison Hotel, fending questions from the ladies and gentlemen of the press.