A scene from Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time. Photograph: 20th Century Fox One was the year of A Clockwork Orange and decimalisation. The other was that of Avatar and the shattered economy. But while 1971 and 2009 were wildly different in terms of the technological limits of... 

(Photo: Pamela Springsteen) Sheriff’s detectives in Los Angeles are checking extortion allegations against Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore says the agency is looking into whether Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva may have tried to extort the Academy... 

‘One of those divisive, Marmite presenters’ … Robert Elms. Photograph: BBC Robert Elms (BBC London 94.9) is one of those divisive, Marmite presenters, and always has been. My favourite comment about him, on a radio discussion forum, goes as follows: “He has been annoying... 

Selena Gomez was spotted having lots of fun as she shot her Dream Out Loud commercial ad. The 17-year-old beauty, accompanied by other female models, filmed her clothing line ad in a grassy field in Old Westbury, New York on Saturday afternoon, July 10. In one shot, Selena, in a blue and white...