‘I want to be alone’: Greta Garbo, sure. Daniel Day-Lewis, maybe not so much after all
The unconvincing retirement has history as a promotional tool in show business. Nobody believes that’s what’s going on with Day-Lewis
Barbra Streisand
Nightmare concerts: Nicki Minaj put on one of Ireland’s most disappointing gigs. Here are nine more disasters
Including gigs by Garth Brooks, Guns N’ Roses, Lauryn Hill, Swedish House Mafia and Barbra Streisand
Actor Ryan O’Neal dies aged 82 as a legend of Hollywood’s post-classical era
Barbra Streisand among fellow actors who recalled ‘funny and charming’ leading man
My Name is Barbra: An undiluted celebration of Streisand
The sheer size of My Name is Barbra confirms an inability to walk away from long-distilled obsessions
Barbra Streisand: ‘I was always the kid on the block who had no father but a good voice’
In a rare interview discussing her music, the star details the highs and lows of her early career
Oscars 2022: Can Jessie Buckley win an award before Saoirse Ronan?
Kerry woman Jessie Buckley has been nominated for best supporting actress
Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist, dies aged 93
Songwriter is best known for her work in film, including The Way We Were title track
Peter Bogdanovich, Last Picture Show director, dies at 82
Oscar-nominated film-maker’s many credits include What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon
Rita Moreno: ‘Was Brando a good lover? Oh, yes! Incredible’
The Hollywood veteran on West Side Story, dating Brando and Elvis Presley, and joy at 90
Don Johnson: Casting Colin Farrell in Miami Vice was ‘a mistake’
The former ‘hottest guy on the planet’ looks back on a career that’s not over yet
Tuning out: The strange case of the apparent death of the film musical
Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre
Jennifer Hudson: ‘I grew up very normal. I wasn’t born into fame’
The Oscar-winning actor on her Chicago roots, fame and playing Aretha Franklin
Will Young: ‘I wanted to do a covers record for a long time but I didn’t want it to be ... sh*t’
Two decades after winning Pop Idol, Young’s latest work is a covers album full of experience
Golden Globes 2021: Nomadland starring Frances McDormand wins best dramatic film
Chloé Zhao becomes only the second woman, after Barbra Streisand, to win best director
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
The Irish woman who wed a Bee Gee: ‘It was like being married to the family’
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, a new film, chronicles the band’s extraordinary career
Stevie Wonder rejects ‘all lives matter’ in first new music in four years
Alongside two politically charged new songs, Wonder hints at first new album since 2005
Inside Joe Biden’s race of a lifetime to be US president
Ageing and gaffe-prone, the Democratic candidate has an empathy that looks almost subversive – and a strong election team
Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
Sarah Silverman, Reginald D Hunter and more on a ‘profoundly stupid, completely brilliant’ comic
‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley
The actor on drugs, his fiery marriage, and being reviewed by Groucho Marx and Muhammad Ali
One World: Together At Home review - Lots of glamour but where was the anger?
It is an evening to suit every taste - musically and also in terms of home furnishings
The Six Billion Dollar Man is the reboot industry’s latest offering
When is a reboot not a reboot? When it’s a new version of Frasier starring Kelsey Grammer
Moving the furniture around: This week’s theatre highlights
Sonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s Call
Diana Ross says Michael Jackson criticism must end
Ross describes Jackson as ‘a magnificent incredible force’, following allegations of child sexual abuse against him
Barbra Streisand: Michael Jackson’s alleged abuse ‘did not kill’ accusers
Actor says Jackson was ‘sweet and childlike’ and his ‘sexual needs were his sexual needs’
Hal Blaine, drummer who dominated midcentury pop, dies aged 90
Drummer on hits by Sinatra, Presley and Beach Boys ‘greatest ever’, says Brian Wilson
When Hitchcock met O’Casey: a forgotten strange colloboration unpicked
Dublin International Film Festival: Composer David Shire on his life in the movies
‘I’d like to offer you a holiday’: Richard E Grant’s childhood letter to Barbra Streisand
Singer responds after actor and superfan shared letter and posed outside her house
David Shire: a Grammy in one fist, an Oscar in the other
The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood
A Star Is Born: Lady Gaga is exotic when she’s ordinary and rooted when she’s fantastic
Review: The first hour is as funny and romantic as any mainstream film this decade
A Star is Born: Bradley Cooper’s film is the third – arguably fourth – remake of the same movie
Will the new Lady Gaga film make as much cash as the Barbra Streisand version?
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’
Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter
Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp
‘Can we do it in bed?’ Cher asks, smiling slyly. Who would say no?
Cher has never been a huge Cher fan. But she loves being Cher
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Election 2024
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices