Simon Delaney is one of the finalists on MasterChef Ireland tonight on TV3, alongside Niamh Kavanagh and Oisín McConville. Recent acting parts for the 46-year-old father-of-four from Raheny include The Conjuring 2 and Moone Boy.

Theatre director Breda Cashe says that when she first read the dramatised version of Mitch Albom’s memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, she thought it “might be a little cheesy and sentimental”. But when the actors read the two-hander, the comedy emerged, even though it’s a true story about dying.

GAH! Too late! The message on the page reads: THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED! Now I feel left out. I could have been in at the start but now I’m pressing my nose against the glass as the funders and the fundees smile inside.

Thanks to Angelina Jolie's BAFTA tux, androgyny is back. Get ready for masculine tailoring, cropped hair and brogues.

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.

If I wasn’t an actor, I would love to have been the best saxophonist ever.

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

BLAKE Edwards, the director and writer known for clever dialogue, and belly-laugh gags in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 10, and the Pink Panther farces, has died aged 88.

Stephen Soderbergh has compared Matt Damon to screen legend Jack Lemmon.

A second auction of the marble mausoleum crypt above Marilyn Monroe failed to attract any bids.

BACK in the first week in January four prominent American political figures raised the need for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The issue was followed up this week in an article by Mikhail Gorbachev calling for urgent action.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner wants to be buried next to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe.

Prison drama The Shawshank Redemption has come top of a poll of great films to miss out at the Oscars.

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

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.

Marilyn Monroe’s comic caper Some Like It Hot was named the favourite film of all time today.

IT was just like old times. There they were, Garret, Dessie and Albert, the elder statesmen of Irish politics, as if they had never gone away.

More than 500 friends and family packed the Paramount Studios theatre in Los Angeles for a memorial to Jack Lemmon.

Classic cross-dressing comedy Some Like It Hot has been acclaimed by American film experts as the funniest film ever made.

Actor Jack Lemmon, the two-time Oscar winner, has died at 76.