I would like to offer you a two-week holiday, or longer, at our house
14-year-old Richard E. Grant writes to his idol
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When he was fourteen years old, many years before his big-screen debut in Withnail & I, Richard E. Grant borrowed his father’s typewriter and composed a fan letter to his favourite Hollywood star.
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