Ashton Kutcher

"Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher has bought a home in the heart of the Hollywood Hills for an undisclosed amount. The house had most recently been listed at $10.8 million. The modern-style house, completed in 2007, has views of the Hollywood Reservoir and the Hollywood sign. Kutcher had been leasing the property when reports surfaced that Justin Bieber had toured the house and might be an interested buyer. It can be weeks or months before the sale price appears in public records.

Demi Moore has dipped her toes back in the Twitter ocean after more than three months away, and though she's using same handle, the actress may very well be hinting at a new incarnation of @mrskutcher on the horizon. Actually, what might be most revealing about the self-portrait that heralded her return -- with the simple caption, "Testing ... " -- is how unrevealing it was. Classic @mrskutcher could be seen tweeting herself out to the world in all her bikini-clad glory, or sharing a peek at her back view unclad in the bathroom, naked down to her waist.

Ashton Kutcher, actor and Twitterer extraordinaire, is heading to space. According to a blog post by British billionaire Richard Branson, Kutcher is the 500th person to sign up for a Virgin Galactic flight that will take up to six passengers at a time on a sightseeing trip to suborbital space. The trip costs a cool $200,000, but can you really put a price on seeing the curvature of the Earth and enjoying a few moments of weightlessness? It is still unclear when Kutcher's flight will happen.

"Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher has bought a home in the heart of the Hollywood Hills for an undisclosed amount. The house had most recently been listed at $10.8 million. The modern-style house, completed in 2007, has views of the Hollywood Reservoir and the Hollywood sign. Kutcher had been leasing the property when reports surfaced that Justin Bieber had toured the house and might be an interested buyer. It can be weeks or months before the sale price appears in public records.

I hadn't thought through that "yes we can" and "we are the change we've been waiting for" stuff. Now that Barack Obama is president and serious about this, though, someone might expect me to actually do something. I just didn't expect that person to be Ashton Kutcher. Here at the Sundance Film Festival, Kutcher asked celebrities to make a "presidential pledge" of what they'll do to help the country.

Actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher were married Saturday, capping their celebrated two-year-long older woman-younger man relationship, two celebrity magazines reported Sunday. Representatives for Moore, 42, and Kutcher, 27, could not immediately be reached for comment, but Us Weekly and People reported on their websites that the couple were married at a private home in Beverly Hills.

Ashton Kutcher's suspenders-wearing stud in "Spread" arrives in Los Angeles dreaming of the good life, which, for Kutcher's Nikki, revolves around Amazon women, beaches, Amazon women on beaches and designer underwear. "Damn you, Van Halen!" Nikki bitterly laments in what passes for character revelation late in the film. Nikki, you see, thought life here really mirrored the images in music videos that he would have been too young to have watched in the first place. Nikki realizes -- too late, of course -- that, in the immortal words once sung by David Lee Roth, he's just a gigolo and life goes on without him. If only "Spread" were half as entertaining as a Van Halen video.

Ashton Kutcher was in the lobby of the Chateau Marmont last Wednesday in his "Punk'd" garb -- trucker hat, gas station attendant shirt over T-shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. But he was there not to orchestrate pranks on his fellow celebrities but to discuss his latest foray into reality television, the summer rollout "Beauty and the Geek," which he is executive producing, on the WB. (The network is partly owned by Tribune Co., publisher of The Times.

WALKING up the dusty Hollywood canyon in 100-degree heat, inhaling great gulps of smog, I begin to wonder if I'm being punk'd. It's not that I'm famous or anything, it's just that my hiking partner is Ashton Kutcher, who created the MTV show where people are subjected to elaborate, ego-puncturing practical jokes -- they're punk'd. He's also well known for starring as the dumb brunet on "That '70s Show," headlining such cinematic milestones as "Dude, Where's My Car?

Ashton Kutcher may look like a corn-fed pretty boy but he comes from a place that prides itself on turning out tough guys. And if it weren't for some extraordinary breaks, he might still be Chris Kutcher, hanging out with the farmers and factory workers in this isolated, rural town (population 100) where he grew up.

Robert DeNiro co-owns restaurants and Jennifer Lopez sells perfume and clothes, but the most coveted job for multihyphenate celebs these days is something a bit less glitzy and a lot more geeky - tech entrepreneur. Thanks in large part to the success of Ashton Kutcher, a prolific angel investor who has funded dozens of start-ups and plugs them to his nearly 10 million Twitter followers, stars are looking beyond Hollywood for business opportunities. Now A-listers are leveraging their considerable celebrity clout and finances to form their own start-ups, launch mobile applications, fund companies or serve as creative directors to major tech brands.

Ashton Kutcher, actor and Twitterer extraordinaire, is heading to space. According to a blog post by British billionaire Richard Branson, Kutcher is the 500th person to sign up for a Virgin Galactic flight that will take up to six passengers at a time on a sightseeing trip to suborbital space. The trip costs a cool $200,000, but can you really put a price on seeing the curvature of the Earth and enjoying a few moments of weightlessness? It is still unclear when Kutcher's flight will happen.

Twitter is a dangerous place for movie stars, famous athletes and other public people. The average person might feel shame after impulsively tweeting a borderline insane rant against an airline after being asked to stop playing Words With Friends during takeoff - but when a celebrity does it, (Alec Baldwin), it becomes a national news story, and an official, publicist-approved apology must be issued. We've been seeing a lot of those official apologies over the last few months as public people from across the entertainment spectrum have found that despite the 140-character limit, the tweeting of a dumb joke, a thoughtless observation or an impulsive rant can have a big effect.

It's officially over. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are splitsville. Moore, 49, and Kutcher, 33, had been married six years. Moore released a statement in which she said , "As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life. " Divorce is a heavy subject to contemplate, and it comes with health consequences as well. According to a 2006 study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, middle-aged women who are divorced are 60% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than their married counterparts.

The results of the first couple of weeks of the fall TV season are in, and there are some surprises. For the first time in its 25-year history, Fox won premiere week among young adults, which cements the network's dominance in the main demographic that drives ad spending and programming decisions across the industry. It looks like it has a good shot at taking the second week as well, thanks in part to a youth-oriented sitcom sleeper hit, "New Girl," with Zooey Deschanel — already the first new show to get a full-season order.

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Thursday: Rumors about a Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher breakup swirl on Twitter. ( Los Angeles Times ) A witness who said he helped hide drugs for Michael Jackson's doctor will testify in the Conrad Murray trial today. ( Los Angeles Times ) After her nude photos circulated the Internet, Scarlett Johansson stands up for her privacy. ( Los Angeles Times ) Theater owners are not pleased with Sony's decision to stop paying for 3-D glasses.

"Brevity," wrote the Bard, "is the soul of wit." Just ask anyone who has ever sat through a rambling Oscar speech. There's an art to creating a haiku of narcissism. Perhaps that's why many in the industry are flocking to Twitter, the social-networking site that lets stars -- and wannabe stars -- communicate directly to fans in 140-character messages transmitted in real time over the Internet. Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears and band members from Coldplay are among the techno-savvy celebs who want to tell you what's on their minds.

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Wednesday: Despite record ratings for "Two and a Half Men. ", Charlie Sheen fans aren't happy about Ashton Kutcher. ( Los Angeles Times ) Meanwhile, Charlie Sheen is working the apology circuit. ( Los Angeles Times ) The first celeb was booted from "Dancing With the Stars. " ( Los Angeles Times ) "The X-Factor": "American Idol: Part 2"? ( Los Angeles Times ) Gordon Ramsay is getting another reality show: "Hotel Hell.