Scotty Bowers, now aged 88, is unveiling what he claims were the antics of the Hollywood elite including Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn and even the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. He claims that he set up Hepburn with “over 150 different women” and other stories in his memoir relate to Spencer

                 One of Betsy's newer lickspitles signs the pledge. The list, which covers anyone who snubbed an honour from the Queen between 1951 and 1999 and has since died, was released by the Cabinet Office. It also includes details of honours rejected by Trevor Howard, the actor, Alfred Hitchcock, the Hollywood director, Aldous Huxley, the au...

Did Barack Obama's decision to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline project with TransCanada make any sense beyond pandering to environmentalists and to his Hollywood base for campaign support and money? The Keystone XL Pipeline was to be a 1,700 mile long 36 inch pipeline that would bring 800,000 barrels of oil a day into the United States. So did the decision to kill it actually have a sound found...

The Iron Lady cast a steely shadow over the Westminster village last week. Memories of Baroness Thatcher’s reign of heavy metal terror still strike fear in those who inhabited the place in the days when she would mercilessly handbag anyone who dared to cross her path. Last week, of course, her major Hollywood biopic was

Michel Hazanavicius’ black-and-white movie manages to be both a homage to Hollywood’s past and wittily original.

We have the directors and creative talent but not the big budgets that US film-makers enjoy, says Joan Bakewell.

Britain should aim to rival Hollywood and produce more blockbuster films such as The King's Speech, David Cameron will suggest today.

Britain should aim to rival Hollywood and produce more blockbuster films such as The King's Speech, David Cameron will suggest today.

PM wants film-makers to shift their focus from art house movies to more ‘commercially successful pictures’ that can rival Hollywood

Tony and Cherie Blair are renowned - some may say notorious - for enjoying the largesse of wealthy friends. But even by their own standards, their closeness to one of Hollywood's best connected couples may take some beating.