WE FIRST catch a glimpse of the Seabank Bistro last summer — the sun is beaming down, we are driving by wishing we had a convertible; there are diners in summer clothes languishing by outdoor tables, dipping into the al fresco food and sipping on chilled white wine.

Al Pacino considered changing his name to "Sonny Scott" when he started acting.

Angelina Jolie has revealed footage from her upcoming survival saga Unbroken, which she directed and produced.

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

The 40th anniversary of the death of one of our truly great female writers will be remembered at the 2014 Limerick Literary Festival from tonight until Sunday. Many well-known names will participate in the festival which honours Limerick-born novelist and playwright Kate O’Brien.

Harrison Ford was told by an unknown movie executive that he didn't have what it takes to make it in the industry at the start of his career.

PRESIDENT John F Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today. The day after the assassination, an invitation was sent to the 37th Cadet Class of the Irish Defence Forces by Kennedy’s widow, Jackie, to perform a drill at his funeral in Washington.

Gina Lollobrigida, the 1950s and 1960s sex symbol once referred to as the most beautiful woman in the world, is threatening legal action in a real-life bizarre case that would appear fit for the big screen.

HATS off to Jodie Foster.

'Pink Panther' actor Herbert Lom has died aged 95.

The Dubious Salvation Of Jack V.

Jennifer Garner will play sleuth Miss Marple in a new movie.

ACTOR Tony Curtis was buried on Monday with some of his prized possessions – a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favourite novel, Anthony Adverse, a book that inspired his celebrity name and launched a robust film career that spanned decades and genres.

Tony Curtis has been laid to rest today.

Jamie Lee Curtis has paid tribute to her Hollywood legend father Tony Curtis who died on Wednesday.

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.

DUBLIN might regard itself as one of the party capitals of Europe, but it is the last place you would expect a find a bunch of Premier League footballers who had just suffered a sixth straight defeat, their team five points adrift of safety, and manager on the brink of being sacked.

Veteran actor Tony Curtis credits his sixth wife with dragging him back from the brink after a bout of pneumonia left him near death.

Film legend Tony Curtis is walking again after months in a wheelchair following his near-death experience in December.

A SKIBBEREEN-BORN actor who once scaled the heights in Hollywood, starring alongside such immortals as Vivien Leigh and Burt Lancaster has died.

JAMIE Lee Curtis has blamed plastic surgery for getting her hooked on drugs.

JANET Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.

Janet Leigh, the beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.

Prison drama The Shawshank Redemption has come top of a poll of great films to miss out at the Oscars.

Veteran film star Kirk Douglas and wife Anne said “I do” for the second time in 50 years at a hilltop mansion, renewing the marriage vows the couple first took when they eloped to Las Vegas in 1954.

Police have arrested two people for making purchases with money and account numbers found in the lost wallet of Hollywood star Tony Curtis.

A recent story revealed that Colin Farrell's 'Phone Booth' took 30 years to reach the screen.

ENTERTAINER Donald O’Connor, who combined comedy and acrobatics in the show-stopping Make ’Em Laugh number in the classic movie Singin’ in the Rain, died on Saturday, his daughter said. He was 78.

A steamy encounter between David Hemmings and supermodel Veruschka in cult sixties film Blow-Up was today named the hottest sex scene ever.

Marilyn Monroe’s comic caper Some Like It Hot was named the favourite film of all time today.

Classic cross-dressing comedy Some Like It Hot has been acclaimed by American film experts as the funniest film ever made.

Russell Crowe has had some heavyweight backing in his bid to win the Best Actor Oscar.