ACTOR Tony Curtis’s life could have come straight from one of his Hollywood scripts: rising from the streets of the Bronx to become a matinee idol who boasted of sleeping with 1,000 women.

Jean Simmons, the stunning beauty who sang with Marlon Brando in 'Guys and Dolls' and was Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, died today.

THE sunshine made the photographs of Jaycee Lee Dugard’s prison look better than it was.

American film director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie 'Never On Sunday' and six more of his films, has died in Athens at 96.

ABBY MANN, writer of socially-conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg, has died aged 80. The cause of death was not given.

DEBORAH KERR, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, has died aged 86.

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

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.

The television studio that hosted hit shows such as The Office and Pop Idol was rescued from administration today.

Dolly Parton only confesses to bad behaviour if she is caught in the act - and avoids responding to reports of her sexual encounters with male co-stars.

Janet Leigh’s shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has been voted the best film moment of the last 50 years.

Novelist Arthur Hailey, the best-selling author who plucked characters from ordinary life and threw them into extraordinary ordeals, died in his home in the Bahamas, his wife said today. He was 84.

Michael Caine’s role in movie classic Get Carter has earned the title of nastiest screen character of all time.

Brad Pitt is being lined up to produce and star in a film based on the true story of the psychiatrist who treated the "Birdman of Alcatraz".

Catherine Zeta Jones is being lined up to appear in the West End stage version of From Here To Eternity.

Rod Steiger, the beefy, intense actor who won the Oscar as best actor of 1967 for his role as the unrelenting Southern police chief in In the Heat of the Night, died today. He was 78.

John Frankenheimer, director of such Hollywood classics as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Birdman of Alcatraz," has died. He was 72.