Maureen O’Hara has been tipped as the leading contender to win a prestigious lifetime achievement award at next year’s Oscars ceremony.

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.

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

If the latest generation of tobacco industry managers make money by flogging something that doesn’t kill people, it’s somewhat surprising to find them being condemned for it. Wasn’t the objective to stop or prevent people from smoking, rather than further demonise the despicable?

ACTRESS Lake Bell is on a mission to eradicate a pandemic ‘disease’: ‘sexy-baby’ voice.

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&.

ALISTAIR Darling, Groucho Marx and Denis Healey share the defining attribute for fashionable faces this season.

THE fashion world welcomes fabulous eccentrics. Attention is vital for survival, so those who strike a dramatic, individual, colourful presence get media space and transform column inches into lucrative fashion roles.

Diana Vreeland in her office at Vogue magazine. The editor’s famous phrase was “Give ’em what they never knew they wanted.”

AS FRANCE’S first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy styled herself on Jackie Onassis, acted in a Woody Allen film and had a folk-music career.

A Tootsie Royale satin and lace jewelled hat, Pat Whyte jet beads, a J by Jasper Conran silk-top dress from Debenhams, suede gloves from Accessorize, Agent Provocateur seamed stockings and Barratts stilettos.

THIS year, please God, we will celebrate the 90th birthday of that gracious and lovely lady, Maureen O’Hara, one of Ireland’s national treasures.

Lauren Bacall has been given an honorary Oscar.

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as 'Hud', 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'The Colour of Money', has died, a spokeswoman said today. He was 83.

Natalie Portman today explained why she had turned her hand to directing, saying there was not always acting work which fulfilled a creative need.

A screening of the movie marking Natalie Portman’s debut as a director opened the short films section of the Venice Film Festival today.

The 65th Venice Film Festival gets under way today, with the premiere of a film starring heartthrobs George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

IF you want to start the year off with a decent political thriller, seek out 'The Walker' (Pathé; €24.99). Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) is a professional “walker”, who spends his time escorting the wives of an elite too uninterested in attending social functions.

Michael Parkinson fought back tears as he brought down the curtain on his talk show career.

Michael Parkinson fought back tears as he brought down the curtain on his talk show career tonight.

Harrelson is excellent as the camp walker of the title – that curious animal who earns a living escorting ladies of a certain age around town – in a film strong in character and with a memorable cast.

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.

HOLLYWOOD legend Audrey Hepburn has topped a list of the 100 most beautiful women of all time.

Set in l930s Alabama, on a plantation of the title's name, this tale of slavery veers into such modern arguments as whither American 2006 society, the Gulf Wars and race relations.

Melissa Etheridge, Kanye West and Martha Stewart are among the list of stars set to give lectures on college cable network mtvU.

Screen legend Lauren Bacall has taken a caustic swipe at Tom Cruise, chiding the Hollywood star for his "vulgar" behaviour and questioning his acting ability.

Screen siren Lauren Bacall has blasted Tom Cruise’s erratic behaviour over his relationship with Katie Holmes.

Hollywood veteran Lauren Bacall is keen to work with hunky Clive Owen - and has saucily announced she "has her eye on him".

The final Star Wars film will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, it was announced today.

Film legend Lauren Bacall has sparked controversy by insisting Hugh Grant doesn't have to be a good actor - because he's charming and good looking.

Kate Beckinsale failed to capture Ava Gardner's "ravishing" quality in The Aviator, according to Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall.

Alfred Hitchcock has topped a poll of directors never to have won an Oscar.

Nicole Kidman has defended her controversial new movie ‘Birth’, in which she plays a woman who believes her dead husband is inhabiting a 10-year-old boy’s body.

Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for hit Broadway musicals including Chicago and Cabaret, as well as the big-city anthem, New York, New York, has died of a heart attack.

NICOLE KIDMAN yesterday denied a nude scene she shared with a 10-year-old boy in her latest film, Birth, had paedophile overtones.

Nicole Kidman put on a brave face at the premiere of her new film in Venice tonight, despite a hostile reception from critics and a dressing down from co-star Lauren Bacall.

Screen veteran Lauren Bacall has balked at suggestions Nicole Kidman is an acting "legend" - preferring instead to dub the Australian beauty a "beginner".

Nicole Kidman put on a brave face at the premiere of her new film in Venice tonight, despite a hostile reception from critics and a dressing down from co-star Lauren Bacall.

Nicole Kidman will grace the Venice Film Festival tonight for the premiere of her new movie, Birth.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford has dealt a blow to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) movement by becoming spokeswoman for fur giant Blackglama.

Hollywood actors Mel Gibson and Danny Glover's partnership in the Lethal Weapon series has been crowned the best crime fighting duo in movie history.

Bosses of Nicole Kidman's latest movie Birth are defending the decision to include the actress in a bathtub scene with a 10-year-old boy.