At the height of the financial crisis back in 2013, Rich Ricci was described by one newspaper as “the poster child for the excesses of the investment banking industry”.

Billionaire playboy lives a life of lust and luxury goods

Marilyn Monroe's love letters are going up for sale.

Cosmopolitan now has a guide to sex positions for lesbians. Have celebrities like Michelle Rodriguez helped a new generation to ‘come out’? Paula Burns reports.

ALTHOUGH the greater Bristol area has a population similar to that of Dublin, its centre is far more low-key but with a delightful buzz where the up-and-coming appears around the corner from the sedate and elegant.

Paul Merton holidayed in Ireland as a child. He visits again this week to perform his improv show at Vicar Street, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

The death of Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule), made Declan Burke consider the monikers that just had to be changed

A massive €102.5m in jewellery has been stolen from an exhibition at one of the French Riviera’s top hotels.

The massive €40m jewellery theft in Cannes happened at a hotel that featured prominently in Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief,” which starred Cary Grant as a reformed burglar chasing a jewel thief.

Nostalgic TV has had a positive effect on men’s fashion, says Dave Kenny, who visits Louis Copeland to hear plans for an Irish tailoring academy

Bruce Willis used to call big film stars just to let them know he is a "huge fan".

TO say he’s making a comeback would be misleading, because he never went away.

Hundreds of photographs of blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, including famous ones of Monroe in bed and as a ballerina, were sold for more than €588,000 at an auction in Poland.

The nipped-in waist gave Kelly Osbourne a petite frame on a Hollywood red carpet last week. A flattering choice. It’s a shame we can’t say the same about the hair.

Brad Pitt wants to make movies like "fine wine".

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.

Italian movie star Marcello Mastroianni, David Bowie, Steve McQueen, Bob Dylan and George Clooney have been named among the 50 Most Stylish Men in the Past 50 Years by men's magazine GQ.

If you want to know what the famed Cote D’Azur looked like in its heyday in the ’50s, check out ‘Riviera Cocktail’ (Soda Pictures, €21.99).

SIDNEY Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world’s most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.

Check out the Screen Legends (Universal/Sony €35.49), each a four-disc collection on Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Robert Redford, James Stewart and Orson Welles.

The Empire State Building celebrates its 75th birthday today.

Scots heart-throb Ewan McGregor has signed up to appear in a new film based on the life of Alfred Hitchcock.

Samuel L Jackson, whose new movie 'Freedomland comes out next month, has left his mark in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Leonard South, the camera operator on such classic Alfred Hitchcock films as The Birds and North by Northwest, has died. He was 92.

GOODFELLAS has topped a list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.

Goodfellas has topped a list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.

BRIDGET Jones is untying the knot.

The palace in Monaco has announced that Prince Rainier has died.

Tom Cruise has been named the top living movie icon in Premiere magazine's new Top 50 Stars Of All-Time list.

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

A new film about the life of movie star Cary Grant had its premiere in Cannes today.

Two pensioners were today celebrating the news that their first movie is going to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

THOSE of you who are late night political anoraks may have come across a BBC 2 television programme called This Week.

The Coen brothers - Joel and co-writer and producer, Ethan - move into the mainstream with this highly-enjoyable comedy romance.

If you must re-make one of cinema's great classics - in this case the delicious Sharade, which was directed by Stanley Donen and starred the brilliant Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - why make such a dismal hash of it?

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.

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.

Few would expect to see intense English actor Ralph Fiennes in a typical Hollywood romantic comedy. So his depiction of a jaunty charmer who sweeps Jennifer Lopez off her feet in Maid in Manhattan was quite a departure for the edgy 40-year-old.

A bronze statue of Hollywood legend Cary Grant has been unveiled in the late film star's home city as part of a festival to celebrate his life and work.

James Bond star Pierce Brosnan, 48, has been named the Sexiest Man Alive by the top selling US magazine People.