Retirement isn’t an option for the many well-known octogenarians living life to the full. Dave Kenny looks at the older people with a spring in their step, who believe age is no barrier to a full life.

So have seen Gone Girl yet? Lots of us have already read the book.

The lines "Bond, James Bond" and "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy" feature in a shortlist of favourite film quotes.

Angelina Jolie paid tribute to her partner Brad Pitt as she was honoured at an early Oscars ceremony.

DOES the camp, cult classic film, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? hold a chilling echo of the gothic drama unfolding in the dear-old Labour Party?

Alan Carr has slammed gay activists for accusing him of being too camp.

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&.

He may have been one of cinema’s greatest directors, but Orson Welles’ opinions show how little he thought of some of the biggest stars from the other side of the camera.

IF IT’S summer, it must be Warners.

Gene Kelly worked her so hard that her feet bled. It was an apt introduction to the sleazy, sadistic side of Hollywood, Debbie Reynolds tells Dalya Alberge.

Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine has died at the age of 95.

Goon Show creator and comedian Spike Milligan’s infamous epitaph, “I told you I was ill”, has been named as the best parting line.

Whitney Houston's estate contains a pair of Ginger Rogers' dancing shoes personally signed by the screen icon.

Meryl Streep wanted to capture the "special venom" people have towards Margaret Thatcher.

YOU MAY have never heard of her, but she’s won more Oscars than any other woman in the history of Hollywood — a total of eight, with 35 nominations.

TV veteran Michael Parkinson has criticised the "foolish ambition" of celebrities who try their hand at fronting talk shows.

Brittany Murphy’s family and friends have celebrated her life at a private funeral in Hollywood.

Meryl Streep has said she can’t believe she’s still offered roles in high-profile movies now shen has reached 60, as she knows Hollywood discriminates against older women.

US actor Al Pacino made grand speeches on screen as Michael Corleone and Tony Montana, but when the actor was honoured with the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, he was practically speechless.

If anyone can remember a TV series called The Time Tunnel, then there are echoes of it in Dead Famous: The Complete Series 2 (Contender, €35.99) Gail Porter and Chris Fleming set their sights on the spirits of everyone from Bette Davis to Elvis Presley and John Lennon.

THE Oscar curse has struck yet another Hollywood marriage.

Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda and The Big Heat, has died in the US. He was 90.

Keira Knightley was terrified when she was offered the role of Cecilia in the big screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's bestseller Atonement - because she thinks the character may turn the public against her.

Vincent Sherman, who directed – and romanced – Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the US in the 1940s and ’50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.

Kilted bagpipers inspired Sean Connery to perform an impromptu jig on the Kodak Theatre stage in Los Angeles as he accepted the American Film Institute’s highest honour.

Cinema Reserve (Fox, €22.99) is a new range of titles that should have serious film fans reaching for their wallets.

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.”

He was the cruel taskmaster who made Harrison Ford hang with snakes and rats, required Robert Duvall to shave his head and turned Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill into Pez dispensers.

The American Film Institute has honoured Robert De Niro with its 31st Life Achievement Award.

Jude Law is being lined up to play Hollywood legend Errol Flynn in a new blockbuster movie.

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.