DOLLY PARTON is as American as apple pie, and her country songs seem to have spread to a new wave of millennials — check out the Jennifer Aniston-starring Dumplin’ on Netflix for a feel-good film set to the ultimate Parton playlist.

Where once TV was all about quality, now, thanks to the Netflix model, the focus is on quantity. After the glory days of The Sopranos, is there anything worth watching anymore, asks Ed Power

If online posts are to be believed, I’ve reached the age of ‘invisibility’ to men. I’m not buying it. Not only do I still get catcalled, but I’m confident enough to like it, says Aileen O’Reilly.

When it comes to television, we are surely living through a golden era of entertainment.

Apple plans to roll out the Apple TV+ movie and TV subscription service by November, part of a drive to reach $50bn (€45bn) in service sales by 2020.

Tiger, eh? I have to confess I didn’t echo the calls for his canonisation last weekend. I’m not a golf man, for one thing, and I find Tiger Woods a fair turn-off, to put it mildly.

Boxing isn’t just good cardio – it’s also a workout for the mind. Suzanne Harrington dons her gloves to report on the latest A-list craze

Spare a thought for single belles this Christmas as they navigate intrusive questions about their love life. Suzanne Harrington offers some helpful suggestions for family and friends

They’ll need to score if they want to win. That would have been a goal if it had gone in the net. To win a game, you can’t lose. They’ll want their best players on. At the end of the day. Make no mistake, mistakes will be made.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

Irish women are increasingly turning to ‘hairapy’ to get their heads right, discovers Deirdre Reynolds

An ex-BBC presenter who denies child sex offences in public woodland and claimed she was body-conscious posed nearly naked for a "Naughty But Nice" charity calendar, a court has heard.

Why do we swallow the latest slimming crazes when we all really know that slow and steady is the only way to go, asks Deirdre Reynolds

Andrea Mara says we have moved on from the stereotype of the downtrodden mum chained to the kitchen sink.

Forbidden love is often ignited under the heat of the cameras, but it rarely lasts the course, writes Ed Power

A stork and a human have to find a way to deliver a baby to its rightful family.

Storks is a new movie from Warner Animation, the folks who brought you the hilarity of The Lego Movie.

In case you thought those Dan Brown adaptations had gone away, Tom Hanks is back with another one this week. There's also the very indie American Honey and some animated fun with the Storks.

However you want to classify them, Stars of the Lid are always interesting, writes Don O’Mahony

Angelina Jolie has signed up Hollywood’s most fearsome divorce lawyer, writes Suzanne Harrington

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

The theories on what led to the celebrity divorce of the year have been coming in fast from ‘sources close to Pitt’ and ‘sources close to Jolie’, but beyond knowing that there were “irreconcilable differences’, we know little else for certain.

"Stop the clocks"

Actress Courteney Cox has admitted that she regrets succumbing to the pressure to look young in Hollywood.

Jennifer Lawrence is the world’s highest-paid actress, according to Forbes’ latest rich list.

Thanks to ‘Hiddleswift’, the slogan T-shirt is very much back in vogue, says Ciara McDonnell.

It’s time to shout stop and to fight back against  the pressures  heaped upon all women,

Jennifer Aniston has unwittingly become a projection of what we expect from women, writes Claire O’Sullivan

The Friends actress married husband Justin Theroux last year and yesterday pictures emerged from recent pictures of the couple on the beach in the Bahamas with Jennifer sporting a neat bump.

Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) is The Boss (15A) from hell: an aggressive egomaniac, she torments her long-suffering assistant Claire (Kristen Bell).

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Another week and more movies are on the way. There are no major blockbusters to be seen so you'll have to check out some documentaries, dramas and a gorgeous animation instead.

"You speak English, but you can’t even rap, your rhymes are non-existent like my inner thigh gap!”

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Steam already has more games than you could comfortably play in a lifetime, and now it's looking to increase its movie offerings.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL has admitted to a long-time crush on one of Hollywood’s top actresses: JENNIFER ANISTON.

The Friends era seems like only yesterday, but this interview will take you back over twenty years to when these six stars ruled the TV world.

The cast of NBC’s hit sitcom Friends is scheduled to come together next month for the first time on the network since the series ended in 2004 for a tribute to TV comedy director James Burrows.