26 MAY 1973, Page 17

Will Waspe

I have good news for Bernard Delfont. A projected follow-up to Hitler — The Last Ten Days, called The Last Days of Dr Goebbels has been abandoned, or at least postponed, producer Wynn Wills having decided against further fostering of the Nazi cult at this time.

Incognito

Incidentally I hear of a very ingenious method of avoiding the stigma of bad London notices when a film goes out on release: it is simply to change the title. That, anyway, is what I presume to be the reason for the fact that British Lion are releasing an ' unknown ' picture called The Love Ban, which happens to be the one seen in London as It's a TwoFoot-Six-Inches-A hove-theGround World.

No draw

The suggestion that Derby County manager Brian Clough may be lured from the BBC to LWT (as a replacement for BBCbound Jimmy Hill) is hard to take seriously. The commercial sports ; programmers have a long-term envy of the BBC's consistently higher audiences for soccer coverage whenever the two channels are in direct opposition, but' whatever the reason for that may be (and it may be no more than the advantage of having no inter.. ruptive commercials), Waspe':1 view is that the droningly loqua cious Clough is not it. Thougl there is often something to 13, said, of course, for having somei one the viewers " love to hate."