Three politicians in Virginia have brought a new meaning to the phrase “succession planning”. In addition, they have changed the harmless school year book into a ticking career timebomb, writes Terry Prone.

At the height of Jo Malone’s success, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It left her temporarily unable to smell properly, a cruel blow for one of the world’s best-known fragrance gurus. But it led to her making some of the biggest, and ultimately the best, decisions of her life, she tells Esther McCarthy.

The late Danny la Rue would have been 90 today. Dan Buckley recalls a memorable encounter with the Cork-born entertainer.

ACTRESS Charlotte McCurry, from Belfast, is playing Grace Farrell in Cork Opera House’s production of Annie. It will run from July 30 to August 20.

The personal archive of Peter O’Toole, one of the great actors of stage and screen who died in 2013, has been bought by the University of Texas for $400,000 (€373,000).

Des O’Sullivan admires the treasure trove of big-screen jewellery which has just opened in Newbridge.

Actor and singer Debbie Reynolds died barely a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, with her final words being: “I want to be with Carrie,” writes Francesca Gosling.

Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell has been crowned the queen of the literary put-down in a new poll.

Vivien Leigh’s archive — including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star’s death — have been acquired by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum&.

There’s nothing like getting an Academy Award to bring on a bout of verbal diarrhoea but it’s all part of the Oscars fun, writes John Daly

An average of 10,000 people a year send letters to the Italian city of Verona, asking romantic advice of Shakespeare’s tragic teenage girl, the personification of young love, says Richard Fitzpatrick

As Casablanca turns 70 years old and with just days to go to the Oscars, film critic Philip French picks the finest pay-off lines of all time

Cartoon character Jessica Rabbit has been named the top screen siren ahead of real-life stars such as Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, according to Lovefilm.

ALMOST all her contemporaries from Hollywood’s Golden Era have passed away.

Catherine Zeta-Jones has turned down a role in a new Marilyn Monroe movie so she can be with her sick husband Michael Douglas.

THOUSANDS of photographs from a collection belonging to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be made available to the public online.

A SKIBBEREEN-BORN actor who once scaled the heights in Hollywood, starring alongside such immortals as Vivien Leigh and Burt Lancaster has died.

Kate Moss has been voted the most stylish British woman of all time.

MARLON BRANDO was a contender in the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from US movies, but No 1 was Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

The film seen by more cinema-goers than any other in UK movie history was revealed today – the classic, Gone With the Wind.

IF A holiday home within easy drive of 12 golf courses doesn't fit you to a tee, how about a woodland hideaway by one of western Europe's finest salmon angling rivers?

You talkin’ to me? – the question asked by Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver - has been voted the most memorable movie line of all time.

MARLON Brando’s Mafia boss Vito Corleone has been voted the greatest movie character of all time.

Marlon Brando’s Mafia boss Vito Corleone has been voted the greatest movie character of all time.

Movie classic Gone With The Wind was voted the greatest epic of all time today, by the video-renting public in the UK.

Godfather star Al Pacino has been named the greatest film star of them all - just ahead of his co-lead in the movie, Robert De Niro.

THE immortal Arnold Schwarzenegger line “I’ll be back” has been named by film buffs as the best parting shot in movie history.

New photographs of Kate Moss and Vivien Leigh are to be unveiled as part of the Unseen Vogue exhibition.

Oscar nominee stars Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft will be in Ireland shortly.