Life is full of disappointments and the bedraggled heroine in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s sweet-yet-slight comedy has suffered her ample share.

ANYONE who has ever known anyone with an Irish wolfhound declares an Irish connection for St Patrick’s Day.

Shane MacGowan was so drunk while filming the video for 'Fairytale of New York' that Matt Dillon had to hold him up.

Cameron Diaz has been spotted on a date with a mystery man.

Cameron Diaz has been spotted on a date with a mystery man.

As ambassador for this year’s Flora pro.activ cholesterol roadshow, fitness expert Pat Henry was nervous before he got his cholesterol level checked earlier this year, but — at 3.9mmol/l — it was well below 5mmol/l, the maximum number recommended by health professionals.

Sharon Stone is set to star in 'Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story'.

Cameron Diaz is reportedly set to wed Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez.

The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ actress Cameron Diaz – who is currently dating baseball player Alex Rodriguez – loves watching sex videos in hotel rooms, and is particularly pleased at the discretion staff use so that no one would ever know she has paid to see it.

“We’re takers. That’s what we do … we take!” Nobody in this quite ordinary heist movie gives.

Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Roman Polanski's 'God of Carnage'.

Cameron Diaz doesn’t believe in sharing her bed with the same person for her “whole life”.

Cameron Diaz went on a secret lunch date with Alex Rodriguez.

AS the stars gathered for the seventh annual Irish Film and Television (IFTA) awards, one of the most charming and amiable turned out to be the surprisingly charismatic Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, and acclaimed actor in his own right.

Cameron Diaz says the world doesn't need any more children.

Actor Matt Dillon's love of speed has cost him more than $800.

Matt Dillon pleaded not guilty today to a speeding charge after police claimed they spotted the actor doing 106mph (170kph) on an interstate highway on December 30.

Actor Matt Dillon has been charged with speeding at more than 100mph on a US interstate highway.

Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz has given up her search for the perfect man - she is convinced he doesn't exist.

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella who died yesterday at the age of 54.

Don Cheadle is to turn Oscar-winning movie 'Crash' into a TV series.

Beyonce Knowle is set to play famed blues singer Etta James in new movie 'Cadillac Records'.

British movie star Kate Beckinsale was hospitalised in Memphis, Tennessee, over the weekend after complaining of numbness in her left arm and leg.

Francis Ford Coppola will follow-up his directorial return “Youth Without Youth” with a vaguely autobiographical film, the director said.

Longtime pals Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro will reteam for a movie about their lives.

Actor Matt Dillon refuses to date anyone famous, because the intense media scrutiny puts too much pressure on the relationship.

We’ve had plenty of stories just like this in the long history of the cinema So Wilson, a decent enough comedian, offers us very little that’s new in what is merely a passable affair.

Hollywood funnyman Owen Wilson was left red-faced at last night's London premiere of new movie You, Me and Dupree, when a female fan flashed him.

HOLLYWOOD is heading for Cork — again.

Movie star Matt Dillon has hinted his romance with Cameron Diaz failed because she wasn't ready to settle down and start a family.

Nicole Richie is reportedly making her romantic dreams come true following her split from fiance DJ AM, enjoying dinner dates with her lifelong crush Jeff Goldblum.

Matt Dillon found himself staring down the barrel of a cop's gun when he was mistaken for a knife-wielding criminal while riding the subway in New York recently.

Crash star Matt Dillon has become a real-life hero after saving a woman from two thugs.

Factotum (Icon, €21.99) brings Matt Dillon to our screens yet again, this time as Henry Chinaski, whose spare time, when not chasing women, drinking and gambling, is spent writing stories, except publishers don’t want to know.

Like many residents of Cernobbio, a quiet northern Italian town, restaurant owner Holmes Sitta was unimpressed by rumours of a weekend wedding here of Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Matt Dillon realised his drunken antics had gone a step too far after he locked himself out of his hotel room in his underpants.

DEREK Ward’s personal photo album is straight out of Hollywood.

THE ensemble drama Crash pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture over cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, which had been the front-runner.

It was snubbed by the Golden Globes, the Baftas, and the Oscars – but film-goers have nominated the blockbuster King Kong for five film awards.

Matt Dillon found his Oscar nomination bittersweet on Tuesday - because he is the only member of the Crash cast to be nominated for a performance in Paul Haggis' acclaimed deconstruction of racial tension in Los Angeles.

The cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain led the Academy Awards field today with eight nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

CILLIAN MURPHY and Pierce Brosnan were nominated in the best actor category yesterday as gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain swept the boards at the Golden Globes with seven nominations.

Irish actor Cillian Murphy has been nominated for a Golden Globe award.

Based on the writings of Charles Bukowski this somewhat rambling; but otherwise quite excellent; film is about hanging around, womanising, drinking, gambling; and writing about it.