Tony Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘Once you mess with your face you can’t get it back’

Freakier Friday, which reunites the Oscar-winner with Lindsay Lohan, is good clean fun. But its themes mean a lot to an actor who has had her share of personal trials

Sun Aug 10 2025 - 07:11

Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants

Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 17:40

Joan Collins’s star-studded home movies: What they show of Hollywood’s golden age

Paul Newman, Tony Curtis and Sammy Davis jnr in footage for actor’s ‘roller-coaster story’

Wed Sept 01 2021 - 11:35

Passing the baton – how Parnell’s walking stick became a literary totem

An Irishman’s Diary

Tue Dec 29 2020 - 19:30

Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar

Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103

Thu Feb 06 2020 - 10:46

Jim Savage obituary: A generous and passionate artist and educator

The Manchester-born drawing specialist had a major impact on the Irish artistic landscape

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00

Nobody’s perfect. But ‘Some Like It Hot’ is

Billy Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00

Leo Varadkar and Donald Trump turned me into the Prince of Lies

Patrick Freyne: As Leo Varadkar was siding with Trump on the media, I thought: How did I get here?

Sat Jul 07 2018 - 06:15

From Canada to Clifden: The aviators who trumped Lindbergh

The feats of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown will be celebrated in June 2019

Wed Jun 13 2018 - 12:26

Last convict ship of Irish prisoners arrived in Perth 150 years ago

Ten-day 'Fenians, Fremantle and Freedom Festival' celebrates connection between Ireland and Perth

Thu Jan 04 2018 - 11:45

Paddy McKillen’s son Tyrone has plans for €154m LA estate to the stars

Tyrone McKillen’s Plus Development company is involved a number of high-level residential projects in LA

Thu Jul 27 2017 - 19:19

Obituary: Miriam Colón

Theatre founder and ‘Scarface’ actor who played Pacino character’s mother

Thu Mar 09 2017 - 17:58

Roger Moore: ‘I was too smooth, before time rolled its evil tracks across my gob’

The ex-007 talks movies, marriages and how Aidan Turner would look good as Bond

Thu Nov 10 2016 - 06:00

Ten great movie bromances

Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre

Wed Feb 10 2016 - 06:00