The Dearborn Inn is playing host to the entire CBS television crew, in town this weekend to bring millions of TV viewers the NCAA basketball tournament from Detroit.

While the Final Four college basketball tournament is bringing big business to Detroit, there seems to be a good amount of business coming Dearborn’s way, too. The Henry Ford is expecting to see a slight pickup in business on Sunday for fans looking for something to do ahead of Monday’s championship game, where we are betting Michigan State will be again.

Fans from both North Carolina and Connecticut have filled the Dearborn Inn, along with the CBS team. We also spotted some Michigan State fans there, which was a good thing to help keep those pesky University of Connecticut Husky fans in check.

“Any big event in Detroit always brings us business,” said one employee. “Given the state of the economy, we’ll take it.”

Just three weeks ago, the Dearborn Inn was the site of filming for the upcoming Hilary Swank movie, “Betty Anne Waters”.  The Ten Eyck Tavern was used to film a scene in the movie that takes place in Boston. The décor of the restaurant brought that Boston atmosphere to Dearborn for the crew without having to film in Boston.

Hilary Swank and actress Minnie Driver and crew stayed at the Dearborn Inn during filming for the movie, which is based on a true story in which a single mother goes to law school to defend her brother, who has been wrongly convicted of murder. The movie was shot in Southeast Michigan for several months and wrapped up in April.

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