The problem with young people today is that they think they know everything.

When I was a lad, young people were ignorant – and we were smart enough to know it.

We understood that wisdom came with experience, maturity and age. Knowledge was the purview of the educated, the wealthy and the gainfully employed, not feckless pinheads with an over-inflated sense of self-worth and Wikipedia book marked on their laptops.

In my day young people didn’t presume to understand important issues let alone have an opinion on them. If my old dad told me the piano teacher from down the road was a communist sympathiser, I didn’t offer up some lukewarm retread of the First Amendment in response – I shunned the man in public, pelted his house with crab apples and joined with a mob to run him out of town.

And even if we did think we knew better than our parents we kept our mouths shut. Contradict my father? I may have been ignorant but I sure as Hell wasn’t stupid.

But nowadays, every blowhole of a 15-year old thinks they have the answer to everything from healthcare reform to global warming to the pitching needs of the New York Yankees. And all based on their extensive experience sitting in their parent’s basement watching Scooby Doo Cartons, Ashton Kutcher movies and stuffing their mouths with Ding-Dongs, Skittles and Baby Ruth candy bars.

I blame television for the whole damned mess.

At first, children’s programs were meant to do little more than stop an unattended sprog from sticking his tongue in an electrical outlet but somewhere along the line they started slipping in nasty messages telling these damned kids they were unique, smart and had opinions worth sharing.

Well let me tell you, that damned Elmo may think you’re special but as far as I’m concerned until you’ve hung up your hoodie, held down a job and paid into the tax system, you’re just some know-nothing teenager who’d be wise to keep your damned mouth shut, your opinions to yourself and let the adults do your thinking for you.

That’s just my opinion. But unless you’re over 40, I don’t want to hear any argument.

They think they know everything. That’s the problem with young people today.

Twitter is a free social networking website were you can write and read messages known as “tweets”, those small messages have the maximum of 140 characters. Twitter is founded by a company named “Obvious Corp” in October 2006 in San Francisco.

Nowadays Twitter is one of the most popular social networking website worldwide, even famous persons and politics are joining this hype. I think this is ridiculous and a waste of your time. First of all I am not interesting in what people are doing every single minute of the day. Secondly you have 140 characters each message that is 2 sentences, so you communicate one thought a time. You know who else communicate one thought a time; 3 year old children, would you like to be compared with a 3 year old kid? Do something useful with your time instead of writing messages and  following other peoples life. For example last year when news channel CNN and actor Ashton Kutcher started a competition on Twitter: “Who has the first million followers on Twitter.” I really don’t understand why those people want to have one million followers. Ashton Kutcher is already famous and CNN is a news channel so I don’t see the point of this competition. This counts for everybody who are using Twitter, why should you want to share everything you do with the rest of the world. People are always complaining that nowadays everything is online and that you can’t hide anything anymore for the world. It is just your own fault if you want to have a private life don’t use Twitter or other public social websites.  

 I think Twitter is just a hype and in a couple of years they will invent a new social networking website, which will be again a hype and everybody will forget  Twitter. Till that time I refuse to register myself on Twitter and I will try to convince other people about my statement: ”If you don’t have anything to say, put it on Twitter” and “If you do have anything to say, don’t put it on Twitter.”  

Get ready to shop till you drop for SFK.

Please stop by Katalyst HQ (Ashton Kutcher’s office) in Hollywood this Sunday (November 22nd) for a fun day of shopping to help raise money for SFK.

SFK is an international non-profit organization, empowering at-risk children and teens throughout the world..

Bring you cash and shop gently used vintage, designer, and brand name clothes from $2-$200! Perfect idea for holiday shopping…

Demi Moore looks golden in Balmain’s leather and metal mesh dress on the December 2009 cover of W Magazine. Here are some interview highlights from the 46-year-old actress:

On being labeled a “cougar” for marrying 31-year-old Ashton Kutcher: “I’m certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl. I don’t know why that is. But I just kind of step back sometimes and say, ‘There is some reason, and what is it that I have to share in a positive way?…I’d prefer to be called a Puma.”

On using Twitter to transform her public image: “People are much more interested in what I have to say directly, and that really changed the whole dynamic I have with fans…I can’t impress enough the difference in how people are perceiving me. They’re getting to see who I am.”

On how age is stifling her career: “The frustrating part is that the type of roles I’d be interested in are not really coming to me. I hate to say it’s a function of my age [47]—but yes, I think in some ways it is. The majority of [female] roles are geared between 25 and 35.”

Check out Demi’s full cover story on WMagazine.com!

Everyone knows by now that magazines extensively airbrush the stars on their covers, and usually the celebs appreciate a little touchup and wouldn’t want it any other way. But imagine Demi Moore, 47, getting her first look at the latest (December) cover of W and finding that a huge chunk of her hip has been digitally removed? That’s what the folks at Boing Boing called attention to yesterday. The mistake hardly needs to be pointed out. If you look at Moore’s left hip (our right), it seems that what used to be flesh is now a great deal of white space. But, don’t worry, Mrs. Kutcher’s thigh still seems normal, though now it appears to bulge out below her sarong.

Magazine covers go through an exhaustive process of approvals, so it’s puzzling that this one made it to press with a mistake so obvious it’s visible a few yards from the newsstand.

Check out the close-up view.

i still like her though. she still looks stunning at 47, even without the photoshop

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Film care te poate relaxa în cele mai tensionante momente. Nu chiar un film genial dar este o comedie drăguţă cu scenariu în care se implică multe lucruri care i-ar plăcea oricărui bărbat. Multe scene cu fete sexy, cam porno de altfel, nişte petreceri şi ceva maşini tari. Cam tot ce emană sexuliatate.

Toate astea puse cap la cap, fac o comedie sexy care trebuie văzută de orice bărbat. În fine, Ashton Kutcher prestează un serviciu pe care fiecare din noi şi l-ar dori să-l facă. Pentru că face sex, primeşte în schimb haine scumpe, o maşină şi locuieşte într-o vilă luxoasă alături de o bogătaşă sexy. Păcat că Nikki(Ashton Kutcher) încearcă să pară mai matur şi îşi ia o atitudine mai versată dar din păcate tot nu-şi poate face uitate rolurile semi-retardate din Punk’d.

Ashton Kutcher joacă rolul unei curve masculine, venit cu un bagaj de vise în Los Angeles ajunge să trăiască de pe o zi pe alta din corpul său închiriat sau vândut doamnelor trecute de 35 de ani, divorţate şi cu averi mari. Samantha, una din ţintele lui ajunge să vrea mai mult de la el, iar el nu vrea sa strice şi una dintre ultimele lui şanse de a rămâne in stilul lui de viaţă exclusivist, cu toate cele intamplate Nikky ajunge să se indragosteasca de o tipă care are exact aceeaşi meserie ca şi el, trăieşte de pe urma altor bărbaţi celebri. În final rămâne.. să-l vedeţi voi.

Nota mea pentru această comedie este 8.5. Aş vrea să ştiu fetele ce părere au despre el..

I realize that there are larger issues at hand — such as health care coverage and wars in Iraq. This blog however, has always and will continue to fulfill one purpose — to entertain. With that in mind, I will go over my take on who the most attractive are in Hollywood, don’t judge.

10. Taylor Kitsch- There’s something about his rugged look, and his character in Friday Night Lights that just does me in. He’s from the South, he can whip up a good steak I’m sure, and isn’t too sore on the eyes.

9.  James Franco- I mean, he’s our generation’s James Dean. He’s sexy, talented, and has a college education. What more could you ask for?

8. Robert Pattinson- I really didn’t want to put Mr. Pattinson on my list, as attractive as I find him, merely because every other girl alive will agree with me on this which bothers me. His flannel shirts, Ray Bans, and unwashed hair just lures me into him, unfortunately his acting does not.

7. Penn Badgley- So, he’s been taken for quite a while now…. which makes me less interested in him. But I like him with Blake Lively — I can’t lie, I would like to take her place on their daily strolls through Greenwich while eating ice cream cones

6. John Legend- I really don’t even need to make my remarks, you already know…. <3

5. Justin Timberlake- He can sing, he makes clothing, he runs successful restaurants, and did I mention he is beautiful? I think he has the total package — I would love nothing more than to go for one of those early morning LA runs in the mountains with him, just substitute me for JBiel.

4. Tom Brady- He’s flipped flopped with the ladies, but that’s ok, I forgive him. He’s now with Giselle, making them the two most envied people in America. I’m sure their child is going to be ungodly … isn’t that how it always works? Keep repping Massachusetts in football and I will reconsider the duration of my stay.

3. Eric Dane- Granted, he’s gotten into his fair share of deep water this year (cough a threesome cough) but I will say this much — he looks DAMN good in surgical scrubs. Rock on Eric Dane, rock on.

2. Shia LaBeouf- Ok, so maybe he bugged the shit out of me in Even Stevens — the curly hair, the fart pranks, I just didn’t dig it. Something happened, when he went through puberty, he became unbelievably hot. Maybe it’s his chain smoking, or the slovenly dress, or perhaps the broken arms from car crashes – I don’t know what it is, but I am in love. Shia, call me.

1. Ashton Kutcher- I follow him on Twitter… I follow Demi on Twitter…. I look at their Twitpics and envy her more than I should. He is breathtaking, philanthropic, and innovative. He tops my list, without a doubt.

A recent twitter post from Ashton Kutcher caught my eye … I could even go as far as saying, it actually jumped out and shouted at me. It was a quote from D Shwartz:

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

I think to myself “great quote”, then immediately go into planning mode. Planning how I’d get my life, job, finances sorted out.

Now isn’t that crazy?!

I guess I need to start out by identifying those things that I need to act upon … even as I type, that list is getting longer & longer. One thing at a time eh?!

La scorsa settimana, riporta Fox News, Ashton Kutcher è stato al centro di una rissa verbale durante un party a cui ha preso parte oltre che la moglie Demi Moore anche l’attrice e amica Jennifer Aniston. Gli attori erano seduti a un tavolo nell’area vip del Crest Lounge Opera Ballroom, quando un ragazzo ha iniziato a prendere in giro Demi Moore e il marito a causa della differenza di età. All’inizio Kutcher pensava che si trattasse di uno scherzo – l’attore è al contempo produttore del forma Punk’d che è una sorta di Scherzi a parte molto più crudele. Forse avrà pensato di essere vittima del suo stesso programma -. Quando però ha compreso che l’estraneo stava parlando sul serio, Kutcher è andato su tutte le furie e ha inveito contro l’uomo che stava insultando la moglie. Demi Moore, secondo alcuni testimoni, è apparsa molto imbarazzata. I tre si sono allontanati dal locale utilizzando un’uscita secondaria.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091115161847AAbWBsq&cp=3

Haha, I never saw that movie.

But I empathize with Ashton Kutcher and his faulty memory.  Sometimes I get off the bus and head into the vast sea of automobiles, only to realize that I cannot remember where I parked.

I hope that nobody sees me confusedly wandering down each endless row of banged-up clunkers with stupid “Choose Life” stickers.  I just can’t find my Darwin fish ornament and smashed taillight.

I don’t want to be “That Guy” who has the same problem and hits the “panic” button to solve the issue.  Half the time, his car is 20 feet away, but he lets the ear-splitting alarm go off for a good 30 seconds before he turns it off.  Smooth.

My car was built before “panic” buttons were invented, so I’ve got to do it the old-fashioned way.

I wish Ashton were here to help me.

I’ve recently gotten into (Besides the BBC channel) Teen Nick. Is that lame since I’m not a teen anymore(22) ? Well, I have been watching a ridiculous amount of Degrassi and that 70’s show(Eric Foreman is my hero): Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama . The funny thing is, I never watched that 70’s show when it was actually on. Degrassi on the other hand I did watch a little junior year of highschool.

This season of Degrassi has been  intriguing, I think it maybe the newbies on the show, some of which who have already hit the two season mark, and have had  pretty convincing performances: Argiris Karras, Samantha Munro, Raymond Ablack, Melinda Shankar…etc.

The show has been touching on issues, that teens and adults  both deal with.

Check it out sometime.

~Nicole

I remember when I watched this as a kid and thought it was the funniest thing. Now I don’t even know what I was thinking.

Jesse Montgomery (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester Greenburg (Seann William Scott) are hard-partying pizza-delivery dudes who wake up one morning with no recollection of what happened the previous night — including where they parked Jesse’s car! As they try to retrace their steps, they get mixed up with latex-clad transsexual strippers, a pot-smoking dog, invading aliens … and angry ostriches!

I look at this film and all I have to say is wait “Dude”, sounds like a Lebowski sequel. Sadly it is not and and to be truly honest it should’ve been cause with this story there was nowhere to go with this story.

The one thing I will give this film is that it is great to see with a bunch of friends. A lot of the dialouge is very quotable, though it’s stupid as hell. When I watched this with a bunch of my friends we we’re laughing cause it was stupid and some of it, but not too much of it was actually funny.

So the most annoying thing about the party is the protagonists of this film played by Kutcher and William Scott. They have good performances, but are really annoying and I didn’t find any of their lines hilarious at all. They sort of overdo the fact that they are a bunch of stoner to the point of where their just frickin stupid.

The plot goes from bad to worse in a total of 10 minutes into the film. By the end it really does get out of hand as it starts to do these lame-ass parodies of science-fiction films, and to be truly honest I found this not funny nor amusing, and just totally stupid to have.

The production value of this film just looked really cheaply made. I felt like I was in a really bad canceled in 3rd week TV sit-com. I know this is a minor complaint but I had a feeling that the film could’ve branched out rather than just staying in the same place doing nothing interesting at all.

One more note that if you actually watch this film and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, you will see so many similarities. However, Bill and Ted’s was good this is not.

Consensus: This is a dumb, cheaply made, and idiotic film that features unlikable characters and a bunch of stupid stoner jokes that aren’t the least bit amusing.

2/10=SomeOleBullShitttt!!!!

Non-twit-oholics always ask me, “What’s the point? Why Twitter?”

I’m sorry. That’s like asking me, “Why chocolate?”

My answer, “Take the first bite, then we’ll talk.”

But, some still need convincing. I mean really. You know those types. The ones who look at the chocolate cheesecake with swirls of whipped cream…and walk away. Yeah, those guys. They need a bit more convincing.

If you’re one of them, here ya’ go. Maybe you’ll see what NASA sees out in the social space frontier. Feel free to join us there.

Social media offers new ways for NASA to interact with non-traditional audiences in a dynamic, viral conversation about space, the merits of exploring the unknown, and its relevance to every day life here on our home planet. For the first time, citizens of this planet can talk to scientists, engineers, policy-makers, and space travelers.

Of all the new media tools available to us, Twitter offers the most intimate, immediate 24/7 access through mobile devices, laptops, and/or traditional keyboard access.

In 140 characters or less, breaking space news pings around the world and back again.

STS-125, the Space Shuttle mission to repair Hubble, marked the first NASA mission where we actively engaged global citizens through social media – Twitter, blogs, Facebook.

Mike @Astro_Mike Massimino became the first astronaut to use twitter before, during, and after his mission.

In four short months, he broke one million followers — making him a Massimillionaire! His willingness to tweet during the complex Hubble repair mission captivated media and non-media alike, and propelled @Astro-Mike to superstardom.

Name of the game: access. Through @Astro_Mike, NASA granted outsiders access into an elite insider circle.

Twitter offers us a simple new tool to help make space popular within the non-space crowd, and see traction on our goal to elevate “space” within pop culture. One measure of success: Twitter featured @Astro_Mike as one of Twitter’s top accounts on their front page, along with the likes of Hollywood’s Ashton @aplusk Kutcher who tops 3.9 million followers now.

NASA made it to Twitter’s Top 10 trending topics a number of times during the mission, and in subsequent missions. For the social media generation, @Astro_Mike gained hero-status akin to John Glenn or Neil Armstrong of the “Right Stuff” generation. Now others at NASA have followed his footsteps into the Twittersphere.

And you can too.

Here’s a list of current Astronaut Twitter Accounts (in no particular order): @NASA_Astronauts 10,238 followers

@StationCDRKelly: Scott Kelly 1,973

@ShuttleCDRKelly: Mark Kelly 1,844

@Astro_Jeff – Jeff Williams 3,447

@Astro_Nicole – Nicole Stott 6,253

@Astro_Sandy – Sandy Magnus 3,769 (no longer active)

@Astro_Jose – Jose Hernandez 59,241

@Astro_Tim – Tim Kopra 8,720

@Astro_Mike – Mike Massimino 1,157,551

@Astro_127 – Mark Polansky 40,581 (no longer active)

@Astro_Bones – Bobbie Satcher 1,761

@Astro_Flow – Leland Melvin 992

@CFugelsang – ESA/Christer Fuglesang 3,905

@Astro_Ron – Ron Garan 1,197

@Astro_Soichi – JAXA/Soichi Wakata 677

@Astro_TJ – TJ Creamer 58

STS-129 Mission will blast off the planet on Monday, November 16 with Twitternauts @Astro_Bones and @Astro_Flow. PLUS, we’re hosting our first Launch Tweet-Up at the Kennedy Space Center. More updates as time allows.

Learn more about the mission and NASA. You can fan UP on NASA’s facebook too.

Cross post on GovLoop.

Un pedazo de cartón tiene más personalidad que esos 3 mezclados

Alguien quiso poner a los 3 artistas que más me gustaría aventarle un gas en la cara, y casi lo logra, solo ocupaban  cambiar a Demi Moore por Madonna y con gusto volaria inmediatamente para hacerlo. Ashton Kurcher y su esposa Demi posaron junto a Jennifer Aniston en una fiesta en NY. Si todavía están despiertos, miren la candente sesion de fotos que le tomaron a Moore para la revista W, tiene un increible cuerpo a cualquier edad, sabra dios cuantos millones le ha invertido.

Uh-oh! Turns out some shows are being canceled! Shows such as ‘Hank,’ ‘Dollhouse,’ and ‘Eastwick’ are getting the red light! Not only that but shows such as ‘Trauma,’ ‘The Beautiful Life,’ ‘The Cleaner,’ ‘Southland,’ and surprisingly ‘Monk’ will be cancelled. Now, I kind of predicted the cancelation of ‘Eastwick,’ especially since I’ve been watching it and all I have to say is that I’m not quite surprised.  Actually, come to think of it… I’m not quiet surprised that any of these shows are canceled. First off, I’ve never heard of Ashton Kutcher’s ‘The Beautiful Life’ since now, ‘Trauma’ seemed like a bore, ‘The Cleaner’ didn’t have great reviews, never heard of ‘Southland,’ and ‘Monk’ had a good long run. I’m just quite sad because I did happen to go to ‘The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’ and Kelsey Grammer was a guest.  Unfortunately, his interview was a bit of a bore and I’m sure ‘Hank’ is too but it seems this actor has had his run in the business… time to retire that ‘Frasier’ persona!

Is it me or are shows being canceled left and right? If anything, if they even think of canceling Flash Forward, Modern Family, or even Cougar Town, they’ll have me to answer to!

Here’s the skinny.

Don’t start freaking out that Demi and Ashton have gotten nasty and invited Jen to join their love nest.  Ashton and Jen were among the celebs taking part in the 24 Hour Plays in NYC, a charity event.  And Demi was there because, hey, she and Ashton and surgically joined at the hip.  I do appreciate the color coordination among the three and the way Demi’s a buffer, just in case Ashton decides he’s like a younger cougar.

Brinks! Mas imagina? Hoy!

Dans la vie de tous les jours, il y a beaucoup de trucs qui me font m’exclamer intérieurement (pas à voix haute: je ne suis pas encore complètement dément) “Wow, c’est vraiment overrated!”.  Donc, en plus de lancer un appel à tous nos lecteurs pour savoir comment traduire “overrated” (“coté trop haut”?), je vous présente mon Top 5 des choses les plus overrated.

1- Robert Pattinson

Premièrement, j’ai toujours pensé que c’était “Pattison” et non pas “Pattinson”.  Pourquoi ce N de trop vient s’immiscer dans le milieu du nom de ce soi-disant “sex symbol”?!  De plus, en tant que mâle-alpha hétérosexuel, je peux tout de même avouer trouver certains acteurs sexy, lors de soirées arrosées où moi et mes confrères divaguons sur le sujet.

Par exemple, si j’étais une femme (ou Alex Perron), je me taperais volontiers Christian Bale, Nathan Fillion ou Johnny Depp.  Par contre, je frapperais Robert Pattinson avec ma sacoche en hurlant “Au viol!”.  Sa tête démesurée, son regard vitreux, ses cheveux qui semblent avoir mutés en matière vivante à cause du gras et son apparence générale du Roi des Douchebags me répugnent.  Mesdames (et mesdemoiselles), montez vos standards vers quelqu’un qui se lave.

2- Les pommes

“Une pomme par jour éloigne le médecin pour toujours.” Faux. Avec une pomme par jour, tu t’enlèves des petits bouts de pelure des dents jusqu’à ta mort.  Et tu vas finir par être constipé en tabarnak.

3- Les vinyles (ou “des records” si vous avez plus de 60 ans)

Sauf si tu t’appelles Paul Oakenfold (trouvez c’est qui maintenant), les albums vinyles n’ont pas leur place chez toi.  En effet, à part pour le facteur “méga-nostalgie”, à quoi ça sert d’avoir ces assiettes de rubber qui jouent seulement dans la machine la plus désuète de tous les temps après la baratte à beurre?  Et qui sonnent comme si l’artiste jouait enfermé dans un coffre de char, à côté d’un micro-ondes qui cuit du pop corn?  Et qui sautent aussitôt que tu tousses trop fort?  En plus, la plupart de ceux qui trippent “vinyles”  sont des tits-culs qui sont nés à l’époque des cassettes minimum et qui se pensent cool alors…

4- Star Wars IV, V, VI

Je capote sur la science fiction, mais je n’ai jamais été capable d’embarquer dans Star Wars.  Je suis désolé, mais je me fous de qu’est-ce qui peut arriver à une bande de créatures en latex aux noms étranges (Yoda, Jabba, Chewbacca, Etcetera) ou une bande d’humains aux noms étranges (Leia Organa, Grand Moff Tarkin).  Et la je ne parle même pas des prequels, de la série animée, du film animé, des jeux vidéos, des Legos ou des comics books.

*NOTE: ce paragraphe peut s’appliquer autant à la série Lord of the Rings.  “Il faut jeter l’anneau dans le feu du volcan sinon la Contrée sera éliminée!”…Ok, bonne chance. M’en calisse.  Faites ce que vous voulez, les nains.

5- Twitter

Parlant de “m’en calisse, faites ce que vous voulez”, voici Twitter! Si vous avez toujours eu envie de tenir le monde au courant des moindres détails insipides de votre vie, voici votre chance! Et si vous vous êtes toujours demandé “tiens, je me demande ce que fait Ashton Kutcher à ce moment précis?”, c’est maintenant possible!

leBouCher45_91: mangé un jeello au citron tantot OUACH!1 c tlmt la saveur que jaime le moins de jello! LOL

De la grande littérature.

Carl Fredricksen launches his home into the air in the Pixar adventure “Up.”

This week’s DVD releases include a stunning animated feature from Disney/Pixar and an intriguing Ashton Kutcher drama that earns its R rating.

Up
Four stars (out of four)
Rated PG for some peril and action
Disney/Pixar
Available on: DVD and Blu-ray

Few filmmakers are brave enough to allow a key character in a children’s film to die during the opening moments, but the creative folk at Pixar have always broken the rules. With “Up,” co-directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson don’t even seem to be playing the same game as their peers. First, they use the aforementioned death to establish both the mindset and motivation of the movie’s lead, a retiree named Carl Fredricksen. Second, they dared to place the elderly Carl at the center of an adventure so wild that most directors wouldn’t have even considered using a character over age 35.

Soured because he is a widower and because the modern world has left him behind, Carl decides to launch his home into the air using thousands of helium balloons. His plan is to float his house all the way to Paradise Falls, a South American destination that he and his late wife always dreamed of visiting. Shortly after takeoff, Carl is surprised to learn that a young Wilderness Explorer named Russell has stowed away.

Reluctantly, the grumpy, old man forms a relationship with the boy, and they find themselves on an unexpected journey when the house descends into a jungle not far from Paradise Falls. While wandering, they run into strange jungle inhabitants that include a huge bird that Russell names Kevin and a dog that is able to talk using a translating collar. They also meet an explorer named Charles F. Muntz, an elderly man who was once Carl’s boyhood hero. Alas, time has weakened Muntz’s mind and perspective, and both Carl and Russell find themselves at odds with the man.

The animation in “Up” is gorgeous, but that’s expected in Pixar films. The real treat is the story. Because Docter and Peterson are willing to take chances, they created a thoroughly unique piece of entertainment that is exciting yet packs a powerful messages about what it means to get old and the valuable things senior citizens add to our world. It also reminds us that the gap between adults and children isn’t as big as it first appears. The excellent voice cast includes Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai and John Ratzenberger.

“Up” is available as part of multiple home video releases, including a four-disc set with Blu-ray, standard DVD and digital copies of the film. Extra features vary.

Spread
2 1/2 stars
Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language
Anchor Bay
Available on: DVD and Blu-ray

Despite the guiding hand of superstar Ashton Kutcher, who both produced and stars in “Spread,” the movie didn’t do much during its theatrical run. Maybe it will have more luck on DVD because it’s a fascinating, if imperfect, look at the personality types willing to sell their souls for wealth and luxury.

Kutcher plays a handsome boy toy named Nikki who has learned to survive in Los Angeles by seducing wealthy older women who are insecure enough to allow men to sponge off of them. Although Nikki is a fascinating character, he’s difficult to relate to because he is selfish, arrogant and often downright cruel, particularly in the way he deals with a middle-aged lawyer named Samantha (Anne Heche).

Because Nikki is a cad, director David Mackenzie is charged with the difficult task of keeping viewers from turning against him. And, thanks to a standout performance from Kutcher, he does a reasonably good job, even when Nikki decides to abandon his womanizing ways for a woman that he develops feelings for (Margarita Levieva). Although the plotting sounds typical, the movie is darker than most relationship dramas, and the film maintains an edge all the way to the end.

“Spread” received an R from the Motion Picture Association of America, but it must have been pushing the limits of the rating because it is filled with graphic nudity and sex scenes that border on soft-core porn. That in itself isn’t bad but it’s something to keep in mind when deciding if and when to watch.

DVD extras include a making-of feature and an audio commentary with Kutcher, Heche and Levieva.

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

“The Ugly Truth”: Unfortunately a review copy of this mainstream romantic comedy was not available at press time. Gerard Butler stars as Mike Chadway, a chauvinistic television correspondent who lends romantic advice to a pretty morning show producer (Katherine Heigl) with guy problems. The film was directed by Robert Luketic, who had success with an earlier comedy, “Legally Blonde.”

“Monsters, Inc.”: Disney/Pixar’s animated classic about friendly monsters is available on Blu-ray for the first time, but this new four-disc combo pack also includes standard DVD and digital copies of the film. Bonus features include a filmmakers’ roundtable, the shorts “For the Birds” and “Mike’s New Car,” plus an audio commentary and several games.

“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” — Season Two: What does it take to make a reality TV show? Apparently not much. This program focuses on the lives of super-rich sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloe along with their brother Rob, mom Kris and step-dad Bruce Jenner.

“Enlighten Up!”: Documentary film that explores the world of yoga from the perspective of filmmaker Kate Churchill, who believes the art form can transform anyone, even the biggest skeptic.

“Greg Behrendt is That Guy From That Thing”: Video of a live, one-hour comedy show by Behrendt, best-selling author of “He’s Just Not That Into You.”

“The Echo”: Psychological thriller about an ex-con who moves into the apartment of his dead mother. Strange things happen with the neighbors, and Walker suspects foul play in his mother’s death. Jesse Bradford and Amelia Warner star.

“Move On: The Movie”: A look inside the grassroots political movement that was born from a single e-mail. The movie considers both those who support the Move On group and those who oppose it. Featured in the film are Senator John Kerry, former Vice President Al Gore and Arianna Huffington.

“Rethink Afghanistan”: Documentary that questions the war in Afghanistan and examines the main issues surrounding it. Produced and directed by Robert Greenwald.

“Doomsday 2012”: History Channel documentary considering the supposed prophecy that the world will end in 2012. The release is timely because the big-budget disaster flick “2012” — starring John Cusak, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, and Thandie Newton — is due to hit theaters Nov. 13.

Forrest Hartman is an independent film critic whose byline has appeared in some of the nation’s largest publications. E-mail him at Forrest@ForrestHartman.com

Y prestame la ropa de tu ropero!, estas seria la frase correcta para cantarsela a Demi Moore, quien a pesar de tener 47, si leyeron bien, 47 años, se ve mucho mejor que cualquier adolescente fanatica de twilight!, es mas, sus hijas la han de odiar por estar mas hot que ellas, y es que no solo no se le nota la edad en la cara, el cuerpo que tiene (cirugeado y todo) esta perfecto, no por nada aparece super hot, sexy and ferosh en la portada de la revista W, hablando de nada interesante realmente, solo que ella no es la primer cuarentona que se anda echando a un “niño” de veintitantos años (aka Ashton Kutcher), mujeres odienla, chicos a disfrutar!

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