[m i a o w] the cat

Last night we ventured out to ACMI to see Richard E Grant introduce a screening of the original print of Withnail and I. He was hilarious, swore a lot and was happy to answer a few questions here and there - even when one of the questions was ‘can you autograph this for me?’ - he was accommodating - and effusive on the quality of her ‘luggage’.

Although I’ve probably sat in front of the film at least twice, it’s always been late and at a party, so I’d never really got the whole thing in its entirety. The Withnail fans that I was there with (sorry) said that the version we saw last night had extra bits in it that they, in all their hardcore fanishness, had never seen before. Yah!

I now see why my dad used to say that he imagined Christine and I swathed in Deep Heat rub to keep warm in our little house in Geelong West where we would have to trawl the alleys for bits of old furniture to burn and had no phone or television. Ah, the joys of 1991.

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No comments about the amazing ‘withnail & i’? sheesh! either yr readers are culturally bereft or a maybe just slow to catch on. What a great film!!!! I would love to see the extra bits as well…when I was squatting in London in the heart of winter I often thought of THAT Deep Heat scene…timeless & brilliant…& I have to also admit to going to London zoo outside the lions (or was it monkeys?) enclosure to re-enact the ending of the film…true to form it was rainy & miserable at the time…yes, sad I know…

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