FROM the MIRA Observatory, which named a lightning-bolt-shaped constellation of stars in David Bowie’s name, to a church in the Netherlands that delivered a bell-tower rendition of ‘Space Oddity’, the singer’s death, on January 10, has furnished 2016 with a glut of retrospectives, outpourings on social media, and musical tributes.

Irish designer Joan Bergin tells Ellie O’Byrne the secrets of working on some of the most celebrated films and TV shows of our age

USA: Jeanette and Alexander Toczko were each eight years old when they became smitten with one another. 

Dresses worn by Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Greta Garbo are among items of Hollywood memorabilia expected to sell for huge sums when they are auctioned off tomorrow.

Agnes Bernelle is remembered in Ireland as an artistic director of the Project Arts Centre, in its early days, but she played many more parts in an extraordinary life.

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

Suzanne Vega

RELAXING into the ritual of a soft-boiled egg on Sunday morning I was astonished, actually envious, to read in several newspapers that RTÉ paid out €85,000 to named people ostensibly libelled when called homophobic by Rory O’Neill aka the drag-artist Panti Bliss on the Saturday Night Show.

Michael Moynihan asked Donal Lenihan and Charlie Mulqueen for the history of the Six Nations in 20 objects.

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

Hundreds of photographs of blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, including famous ones of Monroe in bed and as a ballerina, were sold for more than €588,000 at an auction in Poland.

Film festival celebrates its 65th birthday with typical glamour and glitz, says Don O’Mahony

THE spring face is minimalist. Super- clean and super-bare. Almost like a 1990s Calvin Klein ad – stripped back, androgynous, nude.

The Nine Lives of Otto Katz

BEFORE Joe Kennedy went to Hollywood for his short-lived affair with the movies in 1926, he was well off.

THERE is great sadness in the world of horse racing and in the world of show business after internationally acclaimed horse trainer Dr Vincent O’Brien and female impersonator Danny La Rue died.

Mike Tyson talked about the “miracle” that he is still alive today.

Pop superstar Madonna upset her fans in France on Tuesday night after turning up to a concert more than two hours late.

ABBY MANN, writer of socially-conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg, has died aged 80. The cause of death was not given.

AMERICA FERRERA, star of the US television show Ugly Betty, has had her smile insured for $10 million (about €7.3m), insurance marketer Lloyds said.

The daughter of screen legend Marlene Dietrich has slammed Gwyneth Paltrow for accepting the role of her mother in a forthcoming movie - insisting the star is "too thin".

Supermodel Kate Moss has been voted on to Vanity Fair magazine’s top list for the best dressed people in the world.

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.

Gwyneth Paltrow is to star in a new biopic of actress Marlene Dietrich.

The Agatha Christie estate has agreed to allow MGM to remake the author’s classic mystery Witness For the Prosecution.

PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Miller’s participation is one of the highlights of the 2003 Dublin Theatre Festival, running from September 29 to October 11.

Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn appears on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Cliff Richard – but he almost walked on as Ozzy Osbourne.

Marlene Dietrich's daughter is going to court over a nude photograph of her mother.

Ten years after Marlene Dietrich’s death, her native Berlin today named her an honorary citizen of the city.

Berlin today honoured film legend Marlene Dietrich on what would have been her 100th birthday.