It must be difficult, being famous, particularly if it’s for consistently playing people who are beautiful and sexy, but about as intelligent as a hemorrhoid. It’s understandable that a person in such a position would want to make sure people knew he was about more than simply losing cars with dudes or looking ruggedly disheveled while wearing a beanie. Becoming involved in charity is a good place to start! Take, oh…. Ashton Kutcher for instance. The star of Two and a Half Men and various creepy camera commercials is involved in spreading awareness about human sex trafficking. Noble! Commendable! Hip! However, one must always be careful not to negate one’s charitable work by, say, undermining the trauma experienced by victims of rape and sexual abuse. We realize that’s a difficult thing to remember, so let’s give you an example.

Were you guys aware that noted thespian Ashton Kutcher had an (alleged) extramarital affair? I know! I too was so shocked I dropped my (soy) pumpkin latte all over my Us Weekly. The woman he (allegedly) slept with, an administrative assistant named Sara Leal, is offering details about her night with the married Two And [...]

Leave it to David Letterman to make Two and a Half Men kind of funny. (/Snarky elitist New York media joke!) The show’s new star, Ashton Kutcher, stopped by Letterman’s show recently to discuss how the sitcom will change now that he’s taking over for Charlie Sheen.

Kutcher explained that he’ll be playing “a billionaire internet entrepreneur” (“Like a Steve Guttenberg?” Letterman wanted to know.) trying to get over a painful divorce.

As you know, former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen‘s character, the perpetually bowling shirt-clad Charlie Harper, has been “terminated,” and the show’s new season will open with his funeral.

TMZ was able to obtain leaked images from that funeral, which looks like it will promptly feature the character’s iconic shirt. The death paves the way for Ashton Kutcher‘s character to take Sheen’s place and, producers hope, keep up the popular show’s momentum.

A long time ago, Comedy Central stopped airing the New York Friar’s Club Roasts and started doing their own, doing away with the spirit signified by the classic motto “We only roast the ones we love.” Instead, the network has found it much easier to choose celebrities that all of the comedians are already making fun of anyway. Following the recent mocking of Donald Trump, the comedians will now be going through their Twitter archives to dish up their best jokes about Charlie Sheen. What’s interesting though is that the network plans to air the special the same night that CBS is premiering the new, Sheen-less Two and a Half Men.

It’s a holiday weekend, so we’re sure most of you are about to hunker down after a day of grilling and beaching and watch a nice romantic comedy. Maybe that one about those friends who decide to sleep together noncommittally. You know, the one with that actress from Black Swan and that other guy that was really famous in the early Aughts, who get into a sticky situation because they fall in love in the process? Yeah, that one. Wait– what?

Actor Ashton Kutcher recently decided that it was best to go after The Village Voice in 140-character increments, blasting the publication for its less-than-glowing post on PSAs for Kutcher’s anti-sex trafficking initiative as well as for “selling girls” through its backpage ads.

Now, he’s taken to Twitter once again, this time involving American Airlines in his war against the Voice. “Hey @AmericanAir,” he Tweeted Friday afternoon, “are you aware that you are advertising on a site that supports the Sale of Human Beings (slavery)?” Uh oh. Selling people is Really Bad (negative).

Last night, Ashton Kutcher, the actor who’s soon to be one of the “full men” on Two and a Half Men, used his immensely popular Twitter feed to go on a lengthy tirade against none other than the Village Voice. In just an hour, Kutcher launched an angry volley of 11 tweets at the New York publication. The reason? This recently published article in which the Voice accuses the anti-sex trafficking campaign begun by Kutcher and his wife, the actress Demi Moore, for “reek[ing] of frat boy humor” and, more importantly, being based entirely on a lie.

Charlie Sheen continues to make headlines even though he’s no longer the star of a hit sitcom. His Two and a Half Men character, Charlie Harper, is set to wear his signature bowling shirt on that great comfy couch in the sky.

Between his Tumblr followers and his Twitter audience, more people see Anthony De Rosa‘s updates than attended that Mets game. That’s what you call a platform. Who is this once and future king of social media, and why should you be following him on Twitter?

The recent release of thousands of emails from the period in which Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska amounted to no surprises or scandals, and while the request was from 2008, the mainstream media is receiving plenty of heat from observers who considered the excitement over the release overkill. Among the unlikely supporters of Palin in this battle are stars Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, who took to Twitter to decry the email review as “repulsive.”

In a world where Lady Gaga has nearly 11 million Twitter followers, it seems almost quaint now that in 2009 CNN entered a playful contest with actor Ashton Kutcher to see who could reach a million followers first (Kutcher won by a thin margin). CNN’s Twitter account in question, @cnnbrk, had only been recently acquired by the network; it was created a few years earlier by a London web developer named James Cox. He had just been looking for a way to get CNN’s breaking news alerts sent to his phone and so spent a few hours hacking a script that would push these alerts through his Twitter account. Because Cox had entered so early in the game, the account took off and grew much faster than any of the official handles CNN eventually opened, and so it’s not surprising the company worked with Cox to bring the account under its control.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, along with all their many, many celebrity friends, would like to gently encourage you not to buy girls (In case you weren’t aware: Sex trafficking is pretty bad.) by letting know that, if you do, you are a mere husk of a man, your masculinity laying in tatters like to many used bottles of Axe body spray. Such is the aim of Kutcher and Moore’s new campaign against sex trafficking, which consists of various PSAs featuring celebrities like Eva Longoria and Justin Timberlake, and media types like Pete Cashmore, Robert Scoble, and Piers Morgan.

As Deadline Hollywood’s Nellie Andreeva says, “This is news that will probably make Twitter explode”—dreamy teen heartthrob and noted lesbian lookalike Justin Bieber is reportedly about to finalize a deal to become the host of a new version of MTV’sPunk’d. This, apparently, is not a joke.

Yesterday morning, I was up early with big plans for knocking out a few Twitter Lists, boom boom boom. Ha. As if. I could NOT believe how what a time-waster it was — not only do you have to add everyone one by one, but you can’t even type a name in quickly – you have to type in the name in the search box, search, then click on a drop-down menu to select the applicable list. Really? How about just go through your list and CLICK A BOX? But no, multi-adds aren’t possible and won’t be for a while.

A new law in California will allow residents of the state to sue any media outlet that first publishes a picture that violates a “reasonable expectation of privacy” or was taken forcibly. The amendment also introduces civil fines of up to $50,000. What does that mean for the celebrity press and the rest of a star-obsessed nation?

It’s not like we aren’t already okay with replacing body parts. I don’t know too may Hollywood actresses with their real boobs anymore, and as if your iPhone isn’t almost already part of your body.

How much is your Facebook page worth to Facebook? Probably a few hundred dollars, according to a Facebook app, Viral Loop, that’s collecting data as it is promoting a book of the same name. How much are celebrities’ pages worth? For many, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.

My colleague across the aisle, Matt Lewis of Politics Daily and Townhall.com, has taken issue with my post about how crazy the uproar about President Barack Obama‘s address to schoolchildren is (“President Obama Is Coming For Your Children“). Well, he sorta thinks President Obama is coming for your children. With the worst kind of propaganda ever: Celebrities.

According to Twitter’s own status blog, the social media service was down for roughly two hours this morning causing a serious interruption of viral promotion, breaking stories as well as an immediate shortage of #firstdraftmovieline jokes. While they’ve since reported this was due to a denial-of-service attack, we surmise that there may be other reasons for the Tweet-free morning…

Journalists, if you are going to spout off about Twitter, I beg you: Do some research. This has occurred to me frequently since Twitter hit the big time earlier this year, mostly because there have been frequent glaring errors on the part of “mainstream” journalists who write precious little articles about the microblogging service. On [...]