And what's more ..

The British director Alastair Reid (Tales of the City) is off to America to shoot Henry James's The Wings of the Dove . . . Anthony Minghella (Truly Madly Deeply) is to adapt and direct last year's Booker Prize-winner The English Patient . . . Fresh from her ecstatic reception at the Stonewall Benefit, Joanna Lumley is to star in ITV's suitably titled drama series Class Act - she's said to be very good indeed . . . A Royal College of Art post-graduate student, Alun Harris, has produced the first-known doctoral thesis on Clint Eastwood . . .