And What's More . . .

Advance sales for Copacabana are around pounds 600,000, about half the projected sum for such a huge show . . . The Arts Council is inviting proposals from towns and regions to host The Year of Photography and the Electronic Image (1997). The favourite is Bradford, home of the National Museum of Photography . . . Angus Deayton plays a hit-man in the film Savage Hearts . . .