Older women are increasingly happy to go grey but their hair will need a sharp style and the right products to look its best, says Margaret Jennings.

Halloween is the ideal time to scare yourself with a good horror movie. Happy to oblige, Declan Burke lists the best horror movies of all time and, for good measure, throws in a list of the five most cursed film sets and five best scary movies for kids.  

Gone are the days of feeling past it when you hit 45 — just look at the long list of celebs revelling in their new-found youth, says Dave Kenny.

Grey hair is hot as hell and we should embrace it says Suzanne Harrington

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

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‘Silver’ is sexy now that prominent women like Jamie Lee Curtis and Olivia Tracey are eschewing hair dye and embracing the natural look, but I’m still too vain to join them, says Annmarie O’Connor

Jamie Lee Curtis helped save a woman's life earlier this week.

As grey power takes hold, Rose Mary Roche wonders why so many women are happy to go silver and even more are seeing it as a fashion.

MUCH sport is to be had watching a celebrity unravel — until it is obvious they are headed for a sticky end. While Justin Bieber is no Amy Winehouse, he is a young man in trouble.

In honour of Halloween, movie critic Declan Burke picks the best horror films of all time

Lindsay Lohan met with her "second mother", Jamie Lee Curtis yesterday.

Police want Lindsay Lohan charged with battery over her skirmish with a Betty Ford Centre rehab technician.

BULLIED in High School for being a geek, Marni (Kirsten Bell) has reinvented herself as high-powered publicist by the time her older brother Will (James Wolk) decides to get married.

A bland, disappointing and not very funny rom-com that is saved, though only partly, by its impressive female cast members … all struggling with a screenplay that is the very essence of paint-by-numbers blandness, containing every example in the book of fuzzy rom-com set-pieces.

ACTOR Tony Curtis was buried on Monday with some of his prized possessions – a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favourite novel, Anthony Adverse, a book that inspired his celebrity name and launched a robust film career that spanned decades and genres.

Tony Curtis has been laid to rest today.

Jamie Lee Curtis has paid tribute to her Hollywood legend father Tony Curtis who died on Wednesday.

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.

Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver are to star in new thriller ‘The Cold Light of Day’.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and best pal Tom Arnold are planning to reteam for a sequel to 1994 action comedy 'True Lies', as soon as Arnie gives up his post as Governor of California.

Why did somebody behind their vast Hollywood desk reckon this terrible film would be worth spending money on?

Alec Baldwin has said he realised he was an alcoholic when he found himself drinking wine while driving at 4pm in the afternoon.

BARACK OBAMA, with the help of singer and actress Barbra Streisand, raised $9 million (€6.4m) for his presidential campaign and the Democratic party as he partied with Hollywood celebrities on Tuesday night.

HONDA’s new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line yesterday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.

Screaming horror … but for the wrong reasons as a feeble re-make of the Jamie Lee Curtis l980s bloodfest comes limping to the screen.

Magazine bosses at over-50s publication AARP have hit back at reports Jamie Lee Curtis was unhappy with her "topless" cover shot for the new issue of the publication, insisting comments the actress made on 'Oprah' have been misconstrued.

A pair of old codgers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) swap investor Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) for bluffer Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and get more than they bargain for in Trading Places Special Edition (Paramount, €24.99), an amusing tale of deception and retribution that has some really good moments.

Hollywood actress Jamie Lee Curtis has no intention of making any more movies, and will instead concentrate on her picture book career.

Jamie Lee Curtis said today she has finished her career as an actor.

Jamie Lee Curtis is the latest movie star considering retirement because she can't bear to give up her full-time role as a mother.

ACTRESS Sandra Bullock married her bad-boy boyfriend, Monster Garage host Jesse James, in a sunset ceremony on Saturday on a ranch outside Santa Barbara, California.

Actress Sandra Bullock married mechanic and reality TV star Jesse James at a ranch near Santa Barbara, according to reports.

Jamie Lee Curtis believes giving up alcohol saved her life, because she was heading for self-destruction.

Freaky Friday star Jamie Lee Curtis has vowed to ditch all of her credit cards as part of a New Year resolution.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will return to the big screen next year to make a cameo in a comedy written and produced by friend Tom Arnold.

OK, so it's the season of goodwill, jingle bells, chestnuts roasting; but it's also the cynical season for unloading naff films on us.

Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed she underwent cosmetic surgery to halt the aging process and it was one of the worst decisions she ever made.

JAMIE Lee Curtis has blamed plastic surgery for getting her hooked on drugs.

JANET Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.

Janet Leigh, the beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.

Jamie Lee Curtis believes a celebrity will have to die during plastic surgery to curb the world's growing obsession with cosmetic procedures.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is considering making her upcoming movie her last - because she refuses to have plastic surgery to keep her career alive.

THE 1978 film, Halloween, has been voted the best horror movie of all time.