WE HAVE all seen posters of classy girls with horses or glasses of champagne; gossip pages filled with pictures of the great and good at play; the same teeny percentage of people living the high life at vast expense. That's how many of us would define the round of English summer events referred to as "the social season".        

CANNES, May 26 — Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said on Friday. With online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by producers who look to action sequences or special effects to ...