Get Your Hands On Liam’s Lightsaber

Liam Neeson, in his role as a Special Patron of children's charity UNICEF, has announced a fundraising project, Movie Action For Children, which will collect together film props, costumes and memorabilia to be auctioned at Sotheby's next year. Neeson himself has donated the lightsabre he used as Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace. The auction will be the biggest ever movie memorablia sale with lots including Mel Gibson's sword from Braveheart and Julia Roberts' dress from Runaway Bride. All the proceeds from the auction, which will be held at Sotheby's in New York on March 6 2001, will go to UNICEF's campaign to prevent mother to child HIV transmission in Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast. Neeson said "it seems somehow appropriate that the world of make-believe will provide a very real future for thousands of kids through UNICEF's work."