IT WAS fairly dark in Holmfirth Picturedrome last Saturday night, but I think I counted five Amy Winehouses.

Considering the poor girl is dead, this is a remarkable achievement by any standards. One would have been enough.

Natalie Holdsworth was celebrating her 30th birthday and had decided we should all turn up as Hollywood characters.

This gave guests a huge amount of scope. Most took up the challenge handsomely.

I’m not sure how Amy Winehouse figures in any Hollywood lineup, but maybe if Lady Gaga gets to play her in a biopic, she will qualify retrospectively.

Part of the fun was trying to work out who was playing whom.

Some were instantly obvious – Marge Simpson, Mrs Doubtfire, the Blues Brothers, two excellent Dorothys from The Wizard of Oz and a Hagrid from the Harry Potter films.

There was an unbelievably sophisticated Queen of Hearts – the character played by Helena Bonham Carter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland – and a terrific Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Sam and Dobby were almost unrecognisable as characters from Cool Runnings, the comedy about a Jamaican bobsleigh team.