And what's more . . .

London Film Festival's Buff of the Year is bookseller Douglas Wood, who has blown pounds 970 on cinema tickets: 'Last year I saw 80 movies. I'm trying to break my record. The film I'm most looking forward to is Wayne Wang's The Joy Luck Club' . . . C4's adaptation of Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger will cost close to pounds 10m, the risk spread among European co-partners who have now approved the script; major expenditure will be building a slave ship - Peter Hall directs (despite The Camomile Lawn) . . . The long haul to Christmas: Arista Records released Home Alone Christmas yesterday, featuring songs from the Macaulay Culkin movies . . . The Duchess of York hosts an Ann Summers sex party in the Spitting Image team's Having It Off - The Bonker's Guide video . . . Following in the jerky footsteps of the Tracy family, the revived Captain Scarlet has proved a ratings hit and spawned a comic book version . . .