A field of 16 is set to go to post for tomorrow’s Investec Derby at Epsom.

John Gosden’s Gretchen lived up to her stout breeding with a game-staying performance in the DFS Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster.

Every year provides an opportunity to reach a new height. Once you go past your prime, that’s it. You can never scale those summits again, writes Paddy Heaney.

Considered one of the most talented, sought-after and striking actresses of her time, Suzanne Harrington finds the Anjelica Huston in her autobiography without ego

“To infinity... and beyond” – the line uttered by Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear - has triumphed over some of the most memorable movie classics to be named the best film quote of all time.

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.

Lauren Bacall, the award-winning actress and Humphrey Bogart’s partner off and on screen, has died at 89.

Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall has died aged 89, the estate of her late husband Humphrey Bogart said today.

1. Lauren Bacall was a defining film star of the 40s with an incredible acting career spanning seven decades.

If Fr Ted was still around, he would be readying his placards. Clonakilty in West Cork will become a den of celluloid iniquity next month when it hosts Ireland’s first ‘Banned’ Film Festival.

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Comedian Russell Brand was caught up in a row at a celebrity party after he made a jibe about fashion firm Hugo Boss and its links to the Nazis.

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.

It’s now 70 years since the Bogart-Bergman classic was made, says John Daly

Gina Lollobrigida, the 1950s and 1960s sex symbol once referred to as the most beautiful woman in the world, is threatening legal action in a real-life bizarre case that would appear fit for the big screen.

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV’s The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died, a son said. He was 90.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has terminated the opposition to top a poll to find the most memorable movie line of all time.

Following yesterday morning’s All-Ireland qualifier draws, Offaly being drawn to head for Cork in two weeks to take on the home side for the right to progress one step closer to an All-Ireland quarter-final, Ollie Baker had a touch of the Humphrey Bogart Casablanca blues — “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

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

BEST view of Limerick City? From The Strand hotel’s elevator. Launching from a sleekly-styled lobby, its glass walls zoom upwards to a panorama over Sarsfield Bridge, the mighty River Shannon and Limerick Castle.

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

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HERE’S looking at you kid — again.

AN ACTOR breathes life into a character but a costume can transcend time and language to make it iconic.

As Casablanca turns 70 years old and with just days to go to the Oscars, film critic Philip French picks the finest pay-off lines of all time

SCREEN icon Maureen O’Hara will host what is being billed as Europe’s biggest “classic film” festival in her West Cork retreat later this month.

YOU may have missed the show due to an offer you couldn’t refuse, or frankly (my dear) didn’t give a damn when it was out, but finally your secret has been uncovered.

LET it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Please? When there’s no game, you can always pretend Johnson can pass, Torres is bothered and Skrtel knows what day it is.

The former 'Baywatch' star David Hasselhoff is planning to buy some land close to Kassel, Germany, near the similarly-named agricultural farm Hasselhof to see if he has ancestry there.

Lauren Bacall has been given an honorary Oscar.

Michael Jackson took centre stage for the final time today at a funeral service at which friends and family were given the opportunity to grieve in private.

Michael Jackson will not be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday as originally planned, a spokesman for his family confirmed today.

WHEN we first meet happy loving couple Julien (Vincent Lindon) and Lisa (Diane Kruger) in Anything For Her (France/15A/96mins), they are in a passionate embrace in the elevator up to their apartment, where their young son and a babysitter awaits.

Pop superstar Madonna wants to relaunch her acting career with a remake of 1942 classic 'Casablanca'.

The climax to classic movie 'Casablanca' has topped a new poll of cinema's Most Romantic Moments.

WITH a site on the banks of the Shannon estuary, Asgard Cove in Limerick’s Loughill West is a place to come home to, by car, ferry, boat or by seaplane — the nearby village of Foynes made its name for just such an aircraft.

BURT LANCASTER’S roll in the surf with Deborah Kerr in From Here To Eternity has been voted the most memorable movie kiss.

The Upper West Side brownstone where Humphrey Bogart grew up has long ago been turned into public housing. But the block, like Paris, will always be his.

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.

The Beatles’ enduring appeal was confirmed today when they were named the most important entertainers of the past 100 years.

Classic American stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley are more sexy than today’s Hollywood icons, according to a survey.