And what's more . . .

Filth] comes to the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 24 April: the two X-rated benefit concerts are for the Terrence Higgins Trust; Ben Elton, Jo Brand and Julian Clary headline . . . Prepare for BBC 2's Operavox, a pounds 3m series featuring puppets performing such operas as Rigoletto, The Magic Flute and The Barber of Seville . . . The biggest Oscar flutter at William Hill: a pounds 5,000 gamble from a regular punter on Schindler's List at 1-5 . . . 'British banks have a strange idea that the movie business is about prancing around in make-up and going to night-clubs. British governments have never thought about it. They have just destroyed us with their tax laws': Michael Caine on the native film industry . . .