Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin

He was a fascist who walked out on the family. No wonder the star had father issues

Dating Game – Frank McNally on writers getting their datelines crossed, from Joyce to Elmore Leonard

'Right now, speaking as an American, we are lacking compassion'

Too much fame, too young, that has been a problem for young actors too – but the articulate, polite Charlie Plummer is unlikely to spin off the rail

Saddle up: The best movies with horses in them

Movie cats are malicious. Dogs can be savage. But horses are always brave, handsome and stoic

Homeless children growing up in poverty just outside Disneyland

The Florida Project is Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, a comedy about children living in budget motels in the shadow of Disney World

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The bamboo ceiling: Hollywood’s problem with Asian actors

Scarlett Johansson in ‘Ghost in the Shell’, Matt Damon in ‘The Great Wall’: even after #OscarsSoWhite the movies still stereotype and whitewash Asian actors

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Friel remembered on Broadway with laughter and tears

Stars pay tribute as famous theatre district prepares to dim its lights for Irish playwright

Mickey Rooney one of last of the Hollywood golden age

The actor, who has died, had a career lasting almost his entire event-filled life

Eight-times married Mickey Rooney on matrimony

Late actor’s weddings provided him with much material for jokes

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Hollywood great Mickey Rooney dies aged 93

Actor became top box-office star at 19, bankrupt in his 40s, comeback kid on Broadway at 60

Obituary: Deanna Durbin

1940s singing sensation who got tired of playing the ‘girl next door’

The witches of Oz

Rachel Weisz, star of Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, talks feminism, witches and Elizabeth Taylor