ROBERT PASTORELLI, who played the screwball housepainter Eldin on the hit US TV show Murphy Brown, has been found dead in his Hollywood Hills home from a suspected drug overdose.

Robert Pastorelli, who played the screwball housepainter Eldin on the hit US TV show Murphy Brown, has been found dead in his Hollywood Hills home from a suspected drug overdose.

US critics today hailed the remake of cult British film The Italian Job as a “vast improvement” on the original.