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By MARK McLAUGHLIN THE long arm of the law turned out to be very long indeed for a retired police inspector who successfully circumnavigated the globe thanks to the hospitality of dozens of international police forces.

Peter Mullan may be reluctant to talk about his gangland history, but with politics, a new crime drama and fatherhood to embrace it's little wonder the past is a foreign country, finds Aidan Smith THERE are hugs and there are hugs, and then there are full-on, full-nelson Peter Mullan grapples.

After his acclaimed portrayal of a drug-addict in director Danny Boyle 's Trainspotting, the British actor became a Hollywood star, playing a young Obi-wan Kenobi in three Star Wars movies.

The traditional feature-film release cycle is to start on movie screens and then move to television via DVDs, cable or network broadcasts.

ROBERT CARLYLE has revealed how he turned down a milliondollar offer to repeat his Full Monty striptease for a TV advert.

Ewan McGregor's next films are surrounded by controversy. There's Roman Polanski's unfinished film "The Ghost," a thinly veiled indictment of Tony Blair.

It certainly sounds juicy: A British starlet makes her Broadway debut opposite her ex-fiance's best friend in a play about a doomed love triangle.

RESPECTED Scottish actor Peter Mullan has agreed to become patron of the Paisley Film Society.

The heroin and crack cocaine addicted Britons of the 1980s and 90s, memorably depicted in Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel, " Trainspotting ." Reporting for The Times of London on the latest British drug addiction data, David Rose noted : Officials heralded the end of the "Trainspotting" generation as the number of 18 to 24-year-olds seeking treatment for ...

Though he comes from a long line of actors, Jonny Lee Miller was never an extrovert.

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2009-10-13 04:36:06 - EWAN MCGREGOR has never recovered from a spooky experience on his 20th birthday - insisting a ghostly encounter left him scared of the supernatural.

Despite playing an essentially straight role, The Men Who Stare at Goats is Ewan McGregor's second comedy role this year.

Actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman braved the specter of armed kidnappers and fierce hyenas when they set out on a motorcycle journey in Africa but what they encountered was quite different: little violence and curious kids.

Very brave of the Beeb, a mere three weeks after the Roman Polanski hoo-ha, to screen a sex comedy on Sunday nights in which Sick Boy from Trainspotting plays a rich, ramrod, old suitor, who fell in love with the heroine when she was a mere 13 years old.

Caption: EWAN MCGREGOR at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Canada .... MCGREGOR'S SPOOKY ENCOUNTER EWAN MCGREGOR has never recovered from a spooky experience on his 20th birthday - insisting a ghostly encounter left him scared of the supernatural.

The number of young people addicted to cocaine has nearly doubled in four years as dependence on heroin or crack declines, NHS figures suggest.

The countdown pace picks up as I'm going to start posting them three at a time: 36.

THE antics of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie in Trainspotting won Scottish writer Irvine Welsh worldwide fame.

Robert Carlyle is so slight he looks smaller than his 173cm, his hair is long and greying and his Scots accent is strong - not exactly the first person to come to mind when casting the successors to SG-1, those gung-ho space explorers who made the Stargate series a sci-fi staple.

TRAINSPOTTING star Robert Carlyle has blasted the British film industry because a movie he'd filmed in Port Talbot in 2007 has yet to be released.

Scottish actor Robert Carlyle urged the Government to help out the British film industry, which is struggling in the wake of the financial crisis.

Robert Carlyle is the latest British actor to play a doctor in a US TV series, Dr Nicholas Rush in Stargate Univers David Hayles Following in the footsteps of Hugh Laurie and Tim Roth , Robert Carlyle is the latest British actor to play a doctor in a US TV series.

Those who've been following the development of "Stargate," ever since the concept was introduced in the 1994 movie by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, will have a chance to explore new worlds aboard the starship Destiny with the premiere episode of the new series "SGU: Stargate Universe" on Syfy starting Friday, October 2. Following on the heels of ...