CORK’S tenure as European Capital of Culture may be over but the good news stories from the year were in abundance at a conference yesterday on the Culture and Health strand of the Cork 2005 programme of events.

Jack Black is eager to begin filming his role as a Mexican priest who lives a double life as a wrestler, because the project will team him up with longtime collaborator Mike White again.

A fun movie which manages to be old-fashioned - off-beat teacher at a snooty college gets the snooty kids into rock 'n' roll and annoys their snooty parents and snooty teachers - as well as charmingly funny and richly entertaining.

Not all the cast of the long-running sitcom Friends have transferred successfully from the small to the large screen.