Withnail Auction Raises £90,000

Big thank-you to Empire Online readers says Richard E Grant


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Well the great and the good and the plain old ornery film fans turned up in droves to London's Leicester Square last night to the charity 'premiere' of Withnail and I. The point of the evening was to raise lots of cash for the Waterford School in Swaziland - birthplace of the film's star Richard E Grant - and it succeeded in spades, raising a whopping $90,000. 'Richard Griffiths called me this morning,' said Richard, 'and said that in religious terms, last night was like a revival meeting. We raised

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