From: Celestina Groeberhorst
Category: Amis
Date: 8/2/99
Time: 11:44:29 AM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.93
FROM PANDORA'S GOSSIP COLUMN IN *THE INDEPENDENT* [AUGUST 2, 1999]:
Carrie Fisher told Steve Martin that Martin Amis pumped her about Lithium over supper so a character in his next book can o/d on it.
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James Brown looked a tool on C4's *Withnail Weekend*. Brown's crew at Loaded was credited with inventing the Withnail drinking game "I Demand To Have Some Booze". Utter yarbles. Fact: the game, where viewers simultaneously enjoy beverages identical to those consumed by characters on screen, was introduced by a journalist on the Evening Standard's *London Life* section in the mid-1980s. It ran under the slug *Drinking With Dallasty* (Dallasty = Dallas + Dynasty). He got the idea from his upbringing in north London, where the stunt was first devised, and widely played during *The Power Game* in the 1960s.