Screen actress Maureen O’Hara has received her first Oscar aged 94.

Whitney Houston's estate contains a pair of Ginger Rogers' dancing shoes personally signed by the screen icon.

BAMBI, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

MORGAN FREEMAN has been honoured with the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award.

ACTOR Tony Curtis’s life could have come straight from one of his Hollywood scripts: rising from the streets of the Bronx to become a matinee idol who boasted of sleeping with 1,000 women.

Tony Curtis has died.

The Government tonight congratulated former President Mary Robinson on being awarded the highest civilian honour in the US by President Barack Obama.

Former President Mary Robinson is to receive America’s Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama today.

FORMER President of Ireland Mary Robinson has hit back at pro-Israeli critics of her selection as recipient of a US Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Former President Mary Robinson has been awarded the highest civilian honour in the United States - the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Patrick Swayze made his first public appearance since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis to provide a big surprise at the start of America's 'Stand Up 2 Cancer' telethon on Friday night.

TV’s MOST advanced crime-fighting car is back, and fans of the hi-tech, talking KITT driven by Michael Knight (played by David Hasselhoff) in the Knight Rider series have been promised even more thrills this time round.

Tom Cruise is set to be honoured at New York City's Museum of the Moving Image in November.

Oprah Winfrey headed a celebrity line-up that included Tina Turner and Spike Lee at today’s opening of the talk-show queen’s new school for poor South African girls.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber joined a select group of stars from the film, stage and music worlds from Hollywood to Dollywood, Motown to Broadway, at the White House to receive recognition for a lifetime of achievement.

Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda and The Big Heat, has died in the US. He was 90.

France gave actor Sidney Poitier its highest arts honour today at the Cannes Film Festival, where the culture minister praised him for tearing down barriers for black actors in Hollywood.

Feast day of St Guinoch, St Martin I, pope, Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice, St Hermenegild, and St Martius.

Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in the American movie To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at his home after battling pancreatic cancer.

JOHN FIEDLER, a stage actor who won fame as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney’s Winnie the Pooh films, died Saturday. He was 80.

MARLON BRANDO was a contender in the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from US movies, but No 1 was Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Oscar glory went to Clint Eastwood and his boxing movie Million Dollar Baby at the Academy Awards ceremony last night.

Actor Lincoln Kilpatrick, who appeared in more than 40 movies and got his first break when he was cast in the theatrical production of A Raisin in the Sun, has died.

Sean Combs, better known as rap star P Diddy, will make his Broadway debut in a revival of A Raisin In The Sun, the landmark drama about a black family moving into an all-white Chicago neighbourhood.

Rap mogul Sean Combs, better known as P Diddy, is to make his stage acting debut in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun, a drama about a black family moving into an all-white Chicago neighbourhood.

Bernie Mac, who co-starred as Bosley in Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle, is to take the role played by Spencer Tracy in a remake of the 1967 film classic Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

The American Film Institute has honoured Robert De Niro with its 31st Life Achievement Award.

Godfather star Al Pacino has been named the greatest film star of them all - just ahead of his co-lead in the movie, Robert De Niro.

The cross-dressing comedian Eddie Izzard is writing the script for a film about a heterosexual drag queen in which he will star.

Iris star Jim Broadbent led the charge for Britain in the Oscars today as he landed the best supporting actor prize at the glitzy ceremony.

In Los Angeles, Denzel Washington took the Oscar for best actor for his role in Training Day at the 74th annual Academy film awards.

Sidney Poitier is to be given an honorary Oscar.

Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier has received the Living Legend Award at the annual Trumpet Awards honouring black achievements in politics, science and the arts.