Mickey Rooney’s approach to life was simple: “Let’s put on a show!” He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage, and in his extravagant personal life.

Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died at the age of 93.

He may have been one of cinema’s greatest directors, but Orson Welles’ opinions show how little he thought of some of the biggest stars from the other side of the camera.

In the end, it wasn’t even a close shave.

His acclaimed performances in the likes of My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood have already led many to believe Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the finest actors ever to grace our screens.

Cast adrift on the Pacific Ocean after surviving a shipwreck, Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma) realises he has leapt into the proverbial frying pan when he discovers a starving Bengal tiger sharing his lifeboat.

Film star Ernest Borgnine, who has died at the age of 95, was best known for villainous roles, despite winning best actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in Marty.

Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine has died at the age of 95.

Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in Marty in 1955, died yesterday.

THERE she was in an ad for a chair.

ELIZABETH Taylor’s acting career began in 1942 in the comedy There’s One Born Every Minute when she was just 10.

WHILE Eamon de Valera was dreaming of comely maidens dancing at the crossroads, young boys were being flogged and buggered by a sordid assortment of perverted clergy and depraved Christian Brothers.

Richard Gere is in talks to reunite with his 'An Officer and A Gentleman' co-star Debra Winger on Broadway.

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.

The Empire State Building - the skyscraper that King Kong scaled while holding tight to Fay Wray - yesterday dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in honour of the actress who died on Sunday.

Fay Wray, who won everlasting fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 film classic King Kong, has died at 96.

An auction selling off possessions that belonged to screen legend Katherine Hepburn has made an incredible €4.5m.

A BRONZE bust of Spencer Tracy sculpted by Katharine Hepburn sold for €260,00 on the second day of an auction of the late actress’ estate.

Brosnan's latest non-Bond film, Laws of Attraction, has stumbled into a weak fourth place in the Stateside Box Office on its opening week-end with vastly contrasting reviews.

Hollywood couple Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were the best on-screen lovers, according to a study by the British Royal Society of Chemistry.

Lists can be made to mean anything, but it's interesting to see that one 'Irishman' - Daniel Day Lewis - has made a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of all Time, in at Number 33.

The Coen brothers - Joel and co-writer and producer, Ethan - move into the mainstream with this highly-enjoyable comedy romance.

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?

Spencer Tracy once hit Katharine Hepburn in the face during a drunken row, a new book claims.

KATHARINE HEPBURN, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, was the Hollywood icon once labelled “box-office poison” but became one of the 20th century’s greatest actresses.