Ashton Kutcher

  • Kutcher: Media Turning Back Over to Consumers

    With 3M followers, Kutcher has tried to seize on the social trend and bring TV, feature film and digital content together.

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    Lucas Shaw

  • Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Palin…and Punky Brewster?

    It was all about Punky power couples on Thursday night: (Punky Brewster herself) Soleil Moon Frye and Jason Goldberg — and Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Goldberg’s producing partner.   The latter pair came out to support Frye, who threw a bash at her children’s store, The Little Seed, to launch her eco-friendly line of baby clothes.…

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    Jenny Sundell

  • Diddy’s Famous White Party Heads to BevHills

    For the Fourth of July, West Coasters clamored to get all up in Diddy’s grill: The rap mogul moved his infamous annual White Party from the Hamptons to Beverly Hills.   This time, he teamed up with fellow Twitter addicts mrskutcher and aplusk — that would be Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, for those non-followers…

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  • Twitter: We’re Not Making a Celeb-Stalking TV Show!

    Is Twitter turning on the very celebrities that have made the little, revenue-free web company into an outsized cultural and business-world presence?   It sure seemed that way, after Variety reported Monday that Twitter has partnered with Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment to "develop an unscripted TV series described as putting ordinary people on the trail…

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    Maria Russo

  • Ashton Kutcher’s Web/TV Breakthrough

    "Blah Girls," the animated web series from Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst company, is debuting Wednesday night in its new role as part of the CBS entertainment news show “The Insider.” “Blah Girls” episodes will be one-minute “interstitials,” introducing CBS audiences to the three frisky, often outré teenage cartoon-girls named Krystle, Tiffany and Britney, who trade celebrity…

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    Maria Russo

  • Twitter War Has That Fake Feeling

    I’m embarrassed to admit that I followed the Ashton Kutcher-CNN Twitter war. I’m even more ashamed that I didn’t smell the rat, despite spotting its tail early on. We know Kutcher’s schtick. He combines jock humor, unabashed promotion and giant smug hipness, infused with of-the-moment digital gadgetry. But he manages to bring just enough camaraderie,…

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  • Winners and Losers in the Ashton Kutcher-CNN Twitter War

    Ashton Kutcher won the race to a million Twitter followers with CNN last week — but the postgame analysis reveals a few twists. Let’s look at how the various players fared:   Oprah: When Ashton Kutcher declared the race with CNN, the queen of daytime TV saw an opening to collect for herself some of…

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    Maria Russo

  • Larry King Ups the Kutcher Ante … on YouTube

    UPDATED: The Los Angeles Times’ David Sarno has the strange story behind the @cnnbrk, CNN Twitter account that is nearing a million followers: CNN just acquired ownership of the account from 25-year-old London Web developer James Cox, who’d been running it since January 2007 with CNN’s permission and oversight. UPDATED:  Larry King has made a humorous YouTube…

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    Maria Russo

  • What the Stars Are Tweeting

    Who’s really writing celebrity Twitter feeds — the stars themselves, or their “people”?

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    Amy Kaufman

  • Twitter Breaks Down the Wall Between Star and Fans

    Publicists are striving to make clients understand the power of tweeting.

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    Maria Russo