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Watch Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in biopic trailer

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:00:00 +0000

The highly anticipated biopic about Steve Jobs is out, starring Ashton Kutcher as the Apple creator. "Jobs," not to be confused with the "Funny or Die" biopic "iSteve," chronicles the tech innovator's rise from obscurity through the founding of Apple. It opens Aug. 16.

Leaked job listing: Ashton Kutcher recruiting Ivy Leaguers for tech company

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:50:00 +0000

Ashton Kutcher isn't letting the delay of his Steve Jobs flick keep him down -- he's staffing up an unnamed tech company with Ivy League English majors who share "[c]reativity and taste for aesthetic beauty."

A member of a Columbia University undergraduate English major listserv passes along a recruitment email that doesn't mince words. "Ashton Kutcher is looking for a writer to join a small team of designers and engineers who are cofounding a consumer-oriented technology company."

That writer will end up writing "daily creative pieces that will form a core part of the product" as well as screening "a larger editorial team." The email on behalf of Kutcher's start-up is very optimistic: "Your writing will be a centerpiece of the company?s product [sic] and will reach millions of people."

“Jobs”: That’s the Steve I knew

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Ashton Kutcher nailed the portrayal of Steve Jobs in the new film "Jobs."

I feel particularly qualified to review this film since I had been a friend of Steve's for 30 years and had worked with him during the period covered by the film except for the very early days of Apple I and Apple II. I was surprised that I had personally known, and worked with, nearly all the people who were portrayed in the film.

If you are interested in what motivated Steve Jobs, one of the great entrepreneurs of our time, or what he was like, or how he dealt with the people around him, then I highly recommend seeing the movie "Jobs." Director Joshua Michael Stern and his team did exhaustive research into the history of Steve's involvement with Apple, and reviewed hundreds of hours of film featuring Steve. I am convinced that the slight omissions or inconsistencies in the film were only due to the need to keep the flow and pace of the story intact, and not due to errors in research.

Kutcher files for divorce from Demi Moore

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:45:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ashton Kutcher filed court papers Friday to end his seven-year marriage to actress Demi Moore.

The actor's divorce petition cites irreconcilable differences and does not list a date that the couple separated. Moore announced last year that she was ending her marriage to the actor 15 years her junior, but she never filed a petition.

Kutcher's filing does not indicate that the couple has a prenuptial agreement. The filing states Kutcher signed the document Friday, hours before it was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Kutcher and Moore married in September 2005 and until recently kept their relationship very public, communicating with each other and fans on the social networking site Twitter. After their breakup, Moore changed her name on the site from (at)mrskutcher to (at)justdemi.

Kutcher currently stars on CBS' "Two and a Half Men."

Messages sent to Kutcher's and Moore's publicists were not immediately returned Friday.

Does Ashton Kutcher pass for Steve Jobs?

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Sundance has released the first promotional photo for the Steve Jobs biopic, "jOBS." The movie aims to depict the "defining 30 years" of the late Mac inventor's life; the titular role has been awarded to 34-year-old actor Ashton Kutcher -- a far cry from the Hollywood star's rom-com and "Two and a Half Men" typical characters. On the surface, at least, Kutcher manages to pass as the young tech luminary.

The movie premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.

Ashton Kutcher’s brownface fail

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Somewhere, Charlie Sheen is laughing and saying, "At least I never did that." This week, we learned what's even less funny than Ashton Kutcher: Ashton Kutcher in brownface.

In an ill-advised Popchips ad spoofing online dating that launched Wednesday, the "Two and a Half Men" star appeared as a variety of love-hungry "World Wide Lovers" vying for your affection. In a spectacular display of racial tone-deafness, one of them included "Raj." Raj, all darkened skin and heavy accent, is "a Bollywood producer looking for the most delicious thing on the planet." He's looking for something "Kardashian hot ... I would give that dog a bone." He brags that he once won a milking contest, and he does a little dance that will haunt your nightmares.

Why shouldn’t Demi Moore be “stressed”?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:58:00 +0000

At 10:49 Monday night, a 911 call summoned an ambulance to the home of actress and producer Demi Moore. Within half an hour, a team was on the scene, had assessed her condition, and taken her to a local hospital. That's about double the amount of time it took for Internet critics to take aim at her.

In a cryptic statement Tuesday, a spokesman for Moore announced, "Because of the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health. She looks forward to getting well and is grateful for the support of her family and friends." She has since dropped out of the biopic "Lovelace," where she was set to play Gloria Steinem.

You don't have to be wearing a tinfoil hat to suspect there's more to the story than "exhaustion." Exhaustion doesn't usually merit a 911 call. And an anonymous source who claims to have seen the incident report told E! Tuesday that Moore was "shaking" and otherwise "acting like she was suffering from a seizure," which certainly sounds like something serious went down – and may have been part of a larger problem.

The best and worst tweets of the year

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000

One hundred and forty characters can make or sink a career. They can start a movement. They can make history. We've witnessed for years now the power of social media – from bearing witness to the protests in Iran to providing a ringside seat to MIA's feud with Lynn Hirschberg. But in 2011, Twitter once again didn't just offer a bite-sized window into the news of the day – often enough, it became it. Whether they were funny, harrowing, or just plain ill advised, these were the tweets heard round the world.

"It's always wrong, that's obvious, but I'm rolling my eyes at all the attention she'll get."

While covering the Egyptian protests back in February, CBS reporter Lara Logan was separated from her crew and endured a horrifying sexual and physical assault. And when the news filtered out from Tahrir Square, New York University Center for Law and Security fellow Nir Rosen fired off a torrent of scathing tweets about the attack, admitting "She's so bad that I ran out of sympathy for her," and adding "it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson [Cooper] too." In the wake a furious backlash, Rosen swiftly deleted the tweets, apologized for his words, and resigned from NYU. Today, he's back on Twitter after a brief sabbatical, but as he wrote for Salon last winter, "with 480 characters I undid a long career."

Ashton Kutcher’s massive Twitter fail

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0000

It's really not Ashton Kutcher's month. First, the actor best known for playing lunkheaded stoners found himself embroiled in tawdry accusations of an unprotected extramarital boots knocking with a 22-year-old blonde. Then on Wednesday evening, he committed epic tweet fail by tossing off an outraged response to the dismissal of embattled Penn State coach Joe Paterno. "How do you fire Jo Pa?" he wrote. "#insult #noclass as a hawkeye fan I find it in poor taste."

As headlines across the world have made clear, the legendary 84-year-old was not ousted this week because of his age or his job performance. Instead, he was fired for his lackadaisical response to charges that former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly sexually abused a young boy in a campus locker room. Though Paterno related the alleged incident to his superiors, he did not report any wrongdoing to the police. On Saturday, Sandusky was charged with multiple counts of sex abuse involving eight boys over the course of several years.

Ashton Kutcher’s lessons in unsafe sex

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:03:00 +0000

You can't be a married celebrity without being haunted by rumors of infidelity. But on Tuesday, the tawdry frenzy surrounding Ashton Kutcher's alleged recent indiscretion got a novel twist – with the casual allegation that the encounter wasn't just extramarital, it was downright unsafe.

It was only a matter of time before the blonde who purportedly romped with Ashton Kutcher on the eve of his wedding anniversary last month sold her story to the tabloids. And sure enough, this week, Sara Leal spilled her account of a night of forbidden passion with the married star of "Two and a Half Men" to Us magazine. But along with the uninspired details that "We had sex twice," and the underwhelming report that "He was good, but it wasn't weird or perverted or creepy," what's troubling about Leal's account is her bold brag that Kutcher didn't wear a condom.