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Selena Gomez sheds her wholesome image as a Disney child in her raunchy new film Spring Breakers. The movie,which premiered at the Venice film festival stars Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens as bikini-clad revelers on a drink-and drug-fuelled orgy of beach parties and pranks. The camera zooms in on scantily clad teenagers gyrating to the music,local drug dealers snort cocaine from writhing,topless girls and mobsters cruise the streets of Florida in Lamborghinis in a hedonistic portrait of the American Dream. Gomez plays Faith,the least wild of a group of four young college students on their mid-term “spring break”,and the actress admitted some fans would find the movie shocking.

Robert Redford famously played a reporter hunting clues that led to President Richard Nixon’s downfall in All the President’s Men. In The Company You Keep,he is the one who is hunted by a journalist,this time played by Shia LaBeouf. The Company You Keep is a fictional thriller and follows a former leftwing American militant whose past comes back to haunt him. Redford plays Jim Grant,a respectable lawyer and widower with a young daughter whose life is thrown into turmoil when his secret identity,as a member of The Weather Underground decades earlier,is revealed by a tenacious reporter.

The Rolling Stones will release an album of hit songs in November to celebrate their 50th anniversary,including their very first single Come On. GRRR! will be available in various formats including a three-CD 50 track version,a four-CD Super-Deluxe version with 80 tracks and a 12-inch vinyl box set,the group said. As well as Chuck Berry’s Come On and chart-topping vintage Stones tunes such as Satisfaction,Jumping Jack Flash and Brown Sugar there will be two new studio recordings recently completed by the group in Paris.