Mickey Rooney’s approach to life was simple: “Let’s put on a show!” He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage, and in his extravagant personal life.

Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died at the age of 93.

She handled Diana's private collection and sold Jerry Hall's wedding gown. Rose Mary Roche meets renowned vintage dress dealer Kerry Taylor.

Legendary photographer Terry O’Neill will present a major exhibition of his work in Cork in January.

Times are tough, and if there are any heirlooms that you suspect may be of value, now could be the time to sell the family silver.

In the wake of Henry Hill’s death, John Daly reflects on the greatest gangster film of all time, now 40 years old

George Clooney’s quip about the Kerry actor’s manhood sees the Irishman join a long line of well-endowed leading men, says Ed Power

IN A special Millennium edition Time magazine named Frank Sinatra ‘the voice’ of the 20th century.

They’re already here. – Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, 1957.

A top-rated Rome restaurant may have its licence revoked after two tourists complained they were charged €700 for lunch.

SOME WEEKS you just don’t have enough space for everything.

YESTERDAY, at lunchtime, headed for a tiny seafront restaurant, I encountered a group of people in their late 20s or early 30s, accompanied by a couple of toddlers and holding on to the business ends of buggies laden with sleeping babies.

The Valentine’s theme gets a hard edge with some film noir. Femmes fatales are in abundance here, none more so than in The Killers (Universal, €14.99), Robert Siodmak’s classic take on Ernest Hemingway’s story.

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones didn't have to dig too deep to research her new movie project Stompanato - her husband and father-in-law were among the celebrity crowd caught up in the famous scandal.

Movie siren Ava Gardner underwent two abortions in the space of three months, according to Frank Sinatra biographers Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan - and only one of the babies was her husband Sinatra's.

Kate Beckinsale failed to capture Ava Gardner's "ravishing" quality in The Aviator, according to Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall.

Alfred Hitchcock has topped a poll of directors never to have won an Oscar.

Today’s celebrities flash 59% of their body on the red carpet, a new study has found.

Actress Kate Beckinsale said today she was daunted by the task of playing film legend Ava Gardner in her forthcoming movie The Aviator.

Leonardo DiCaprio is mulling his next project now he has finished filming Martin Scorsese’s film biography of Howard Hughes, The Aviator.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese will be taking a short break from filming his Howard Hughes story The Aviator to fly to London at the end of this month for the culmination of a long-in-the-works project.

Martin Scorsese is still hiring for his Howard Hughes biopic , "The Aviator", which is set to start shooting this July.

No Doubt star Gwen Stefani has landed a starring role in Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese’s latest film, it was announced today.