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March 16, 2003

Culkin and Kunis House-Hunt

Hollywood couple Macaulay Culkin and Mila Kunis have fuelled rumors of an imminent marriage after being spotted on a househunting stroll in Los Angeles.

Home Alone star Culkin, 22, and his That '70's show belle Kunis, 19, were seen strolling around West Hollywood looking for a new home.

Although Hollywood circles are poised for wedding bells, Kunis's representative insists, "She isn't going to get engaged for a long time!"


March 11, 2003

Was getting hot in here...
by Leslie Gray Streeter, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

The scene was spring break-meets-Maxim-meets-MTV Cribs: Scantily clad hotties frolicked in the brightly lit swimming pool, as pop-punkers the Riddlin' Kids jammed nearby. Upstairs, rapper Nelly gave an interview while Austin Powers costar (Scott Evil) and former TV teen werewolf Seth Green played a casual game of pool, and That '70s Show's Wilmer Valderrama and Danny Masterson chatted up ridiculously attractive party guests.

It was all so South Beach.

But the setting is usually more polo than playa.

"This is all just so awesome, out of this world. We're hanging out with rock stars and movie stars," said Palm Beach Gardens' Morgan McNeely, 19, standing by the pool at the AXE House Party at Wellington's Mida Mansion Saturday night.

The party, a promotion for AXE Deodorant Spray, brought a little MTV to WPB. The gates of the elegant 50-acre estate, which recently served as the set for the ABC reality series The Family, were bathed in neon. Out back -- by the impressive guest house -- was an outside bar. And all around, people were getting their party on with the likes of Nelly, Jamie Kennedy, star of The WB's Jamie Kennedy Experience, musicians Andrew WK and the Riddlin' Kids, several actors, and more spandex and bare skin than you could shake one of the tasty skewered-chicken appetizers at.

"Some of these people don't wear very much," McNeely commented, as the Riddlin' Kids rocked out to REM's It's The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).

AXE is known for its cheeky advertisements and blatant claim that using it is a surefire way to hook the ladies. While the deodorant may or may not be a babe magnet, the party certainly was. Guests included local clubgoers; highly attractive winners of an AXE contest; and, as at any good Hollywood party, somebodies who happened to know somebody.

McNeely, for instance, knows her mom, who works for the Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council. The day before, McNeely said, "she said, 'Hey, you got any plans tomorrow?' "

Actually, she did. But once she found out who was on the guest list, she threw on her most tasteful club wear and headed out to Wellington, where she and friend Kari Kangas, 18, rubbed shoulders with the rich, famous and cellulite-free.

"Oh, Seth Green!" enthused 18-year-old Mei Ieong of Miami, as the casually dressed actor set up a pool shot. "I'm having an awesome time."

Ieong was excited by the famous faces, but, being a hip Miami type who's used to this kind of soiree, she had to look no farther than her own closet for appropriate party wear.

"Girl, do you know how much I go shopping?" she said.

Out by the pool, former Los Angeles resident Mary Bart Houston of the Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission was having flashbacks -- "I feel like I'm back in Hollywood," she said, watching the beautiful people walk by. "But it's a lot friendlier here than in Cali!"

Nearby, Kangas and McNeely were rubbing shoulders with Riddlin' Kids band members and Valderrama (Fez on That '70s Show), who "talked to us about how he got started in television," McNeely said.

"Everyone was so nice!" she said. "They actually have a conversation with you."

They even got to be front and center for Nelly's midnight performance, and then partied on until almost 3 a.m.


March 7, 2003

Dude, Where's My Oxygen?
by Julie Keller

After a hard-partying Mardi Gras weekend in New Orleans, all That '70s Show costars and offscreen buddies Ashton Kutcher, Wilmer Valderrama and Danny Masterson were expecting was a nice, relaxing plane ride back to Tinseltown.

Boy, were they surprised: The wished-for uneventful charter flight turned into a Hollywood-style air emergency.

The actors, joined by Tom Hanks' actor son, Colin, and 7th Heaven hunks Geoff and George Stults, had spent Saturday night at a bash hosted by Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis.

Sources tell E! News Live that during the flight home, the guys, except for Dude, Where's My Car? star Kutcher, were all sleeping off the previous night's revelry when, unexpectedly, the cabin began rapidly losing pressure, causing potato chip bags to explode and oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling.

Kutcher tried to wake up his buddies and alert them to get their masks on, since they were running out of oxygen. Masterson, however, was out cold, and Kutcher began administering CPR on his costar. After Masterson came to, Hanks began losing consciousness.

"All the masks came down, but a few didn't work," said Masterson's publicist. "Danny and Colin Hanks passed out, but there is no blood, no foul, and they're not dead--just a little shaken."

The plane managed an emergency landing in El Paso, Texas. With no one injured, the prime-time stars eventually resumed their trip back to L.A.

"It was a moment of a lot of nervousness, but at the end our instincts were telling us to be calm and deal with what we had in front of us," Valderrama told E! "Thank God there was a happy ending." -E!online.com


January 30, 2003

Culkin Set to Wed Again?

Hollywood actor Macaulay Culkin is set to wed screen beauty Mila Kunis - after just eight months of romance. Home Alone star Culkin, who was briefly married to actress Rachel Miner, began dating That '70s Show stunner Kunis in the summer of 2002. And now sources tell American magazine Us Weekly that 22-year-old Culkin may be ready to walk down the aisle once more. According to a source, Culkin bought 19-year-old Kunis an elaborate Christmas gift: "A diamond necklace from Tiffany & Co. for a few thousand dollars." The source adds, "They're very serious about each other." So far, Kunis and Culkin already share custody of a dog, says the source, who explains, "Because they're bi-coastal, one week the dog's with him and one week the dog's with her. It's their own mini-family." -IMDB.com


January 13, 2003

Green, Willard visit " '70s"

Seth Green and Fred Willard -- separated at birth? The two are set to guest star on an episode of Fox's comedy "That '70s Show" to air Feb. 26. Willard and Green will play father and son in an episode that involves them taking on the father and son characters played by Kurtwood Smith and Topher Grace in a charity father/son competition.

Green said he sparked to the idea of doing the Carsey-Werner-Mandabach show because of his good relationship with series co-stars Mila Kunis, with whom Green worked on the Fox animated comedy "Family Guy," and Wilmer Valderrama, his co-star in the indie feature "Party Monster." "I am a fan of the show, and we all thought it would be fun," Green said. The actor, who recently wrapped Paramount Pictures' "The Italian Job," is repped by UTA and manager Trice Koopman. -The Hollywood Reporter


January 4, 2003

That 70’s Party Pad
by Blair Golson

Danny Masterson, one of the stars of Fox’s That ’70s Show, has purchased a $1.4 million duplex penthouse loft in Tribeca. Mr. Masterson, who has played Steve Hyde on the show since it began airing in 1998, viewed over 70 apartments in his search, and he only settled on this one after a pack his friends — many of whom are burgeoning Hollywood actors—accompanied him on a re-inspection and gave the loft their approval.

"He wanted to get a group consensus," said his broker, Victoria Terri-Coté, a vice president at the Corcoran Group. "Like, ‘Is this a good party house or not?’"

A native New Yorker, the 26-year-old Mr. Masterson got his start as a child model and gradually segued into acting roles like frustrated loverboy Seth in Beethoven’s 2nd, frustrated loverboy Karl in Face/Off and "F’%# Up #1" in The Faculty. That ’70s Show films in Los Angeles, but like many actors these days, Mr. Masterson wanted to stay bicoastal.

"He comes to the East Coast for photo shoots and to read for movies," said Ms. Terri-Coté. "He said he wants to start spending a lot more time out here, and this gives him a place to hang his hat."

Or just to hang. Mr. Masterson’s apartment building, located on Warren Street, is made up of two former warehouses that were converted into high-end condo loft spaces in 1999. His apartment has close to 2,700 square feet of interior space, and two terraces giving him almost 1,200 square feet of outdoor space. There are three bathrooms and a kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances.

Aside from exposing the brick walls, Mr. Masterson has not yet decided what to do to the unpartitioned space.

"It can be left open, or it could be made into a four-bedroom," said Ms. Terri-Coté. "He’s a single guy, so the options are a lot more open."

One hundred and twenty acres of vacant land in Bridgehampton that belonged to the late commercial real-estate broker Edward S. Gordon have been sold in a series of separate deals that totaled around $20 million.

Mr. Gordon, who died in September 2000, started buying the noncontiguous parcels of land as investment properties about 10 years ago. For the last year, his estate has worked with Prudential vice president Paul Brennan to sell the land to various developers. They closed on the final parcel last month, and residential construction has already begun on some of the properties.

All of the property is situated north of the Montauk Highway—hardly the "it" address in the fickle Hamptons 10 years ago. That meant prices were good by Hamptons standards. But with the development of the Atlantic Golf Course, land values began to rise dramatically in the area.

"Gordon bought it when no one wanted to be there," said Mr. Brennan. "And now, all of a sudden, it’s become a place to be. As a result, the estate has achieved an incredible appreciation."

At the height of its power, Mr. Gordon’s company, ESG, rivaled Cushman & Wakefield at the top of New York’s powerful commercial real-estate industry. He sold the company to Insignia in 1996 for $74 million, at which point the two companies merged into Insignia/ESG.

Mr. Gordon’s widow currently lives in Bridgehampton on a 50-acre estate called Three Ponds.-The New York Observer


January 1, 2003

TV (Star) Dinners

A slew of young TV stars have just signed a deal to open a new join in L.A. called Dolce: Ashton Kutcher, Wilmer Valderrama and Danny Masterson of That '70s Show; Masterson's brother Christopher, from Malcolm in the Middle; The West Wing's Dule Hill, Simon Rex from Jack & Jill; and Jamie Kennedy. Running the show will be Mike "Boogie" Malin of Big Brother 2 fame.-US Weekly


December 12, 2002

That '70s Show

Los Angeles -- Mila Kunis isn't down with the Grizzly Adams look. She says she hated her co-star Danny Masterson's big, bushy beard and is now "the happiest person in the world" because it's gone.

Masterson shaved it a few weeks ago, but the shaving episode aired last night. Kunis plays Jackie and Masterson plays Hyde on "That '70s Show" on Fox. Their characters just started dating this season, so there's been a lot of lip locking.

Kunis is so happy the hairy look is out. She has very sensitive skin and she ended up getting a red rash on her face from kissing Masterson. He liked the beard. He says he misses the facial hair. He says after he took it off it was a shock because he looked so young.-Eyewitness News


December 3, 2003

Oh, How the Years Go By
That '70s Show
(8pm/ET, FOX)

by Steve Robinson

Where does the time go? Now in its fifth season, That '70s Show has made a name for itself. It hasn't the cachet of, say, a Seinfeld or a Friends, but it's an eminently solid sitcom performer, and it's certainly gained the appreciation and respect of Fox executives, who have already renewed it for not only a sixth, but a seventh season.

By rights, this series and its characters have grown into at least 1981 by now. But who's counting? Considering the debacle that was That '80s Show, it's a decade better left to these much more likeable characters. As sharks must swim or die, TV shows must either grow or grow stale. While too many series resort to weddings or babies, neither was feasible here. So the producers have done something smart: They've let the characters mature naturally (and credibly) — very sensible considering that the show is built around six Wisconsin teenagers.

Though the 1970s setting may have been a gimmick in the beginning, it's never really been about that. It is about, dare we say, friends, growing and growing up. Earnest Eric Forman (Topher Grace) and his eclectic friends, who appreciate a good burn, whether it be a joke at someone's expense... or a joint at someone's fingertips. Yes, they get goofy and have the munchies at times. But the hullabaloo that greeted that first vague marijuana reference in the pilot episode has all but disappeared, and the smoking scenes have become a running gag.

This season — in which all of them with the exception of Jackie (Mila Kunis) are high-school seniors — they're looking to the future. One recent episode addressed colleges; and last week, Donna (Laura Prepon) and Eric became engaged. As of now, it's a secret. But tonight, Eric plans a big announcement at Thanksgiving dinner, in front of his maternal grandparents (Betty White and Tom Poston) and his wild and wayward visiting sister Laurie (Lisa Robin Kelly), a continuous thorn in Eric's side. Of course all the other kids are there, though "kid" may not be accurate considering that Kelso (Ashton Kutcher) brings a teacher (Andrea Bendewald) as his date.

While Donna and Eric have had their growing pains as a couple, the far more engaging romance — and the most intriguing direction the show has taken — is that involving Jackie and Hyde (Danny Masterson), seeming polar opposites who are destined to bring out the best in each other. Hyde, the iconoclastic, broken-home refugee, has always been a sort of genius-in-waiting. And poor-little-rich-girl Jackie is the one who might finally give him the direction he needs, now that she's finally given up on cute-but-dumb Kelso. Watch for Jackie to get tougher in the coming weeks as she weathers a family crisis.

In another development this season, Kitty Forman (Debra Jo Rupp) has entered menopause. That's made life even more interesting for husband Red (Kurtwood Smith), who'll definitely be a sight to see when the engagement news finally hits. Among this cast of characters, including the ever-evolving foreign-exchange student Fez (Wilmer Valderrama), who's just been hired at the DMV, there should be plenty of comedy fodder to keep the show fresh. But if they ever do get to marriage and babies, we'll know the shark will have stopped swimming and that, regrettably, the series has jumped it. -TvGuide.com


November 30, 2002

Dude Where's My Cash?
by Wanda, E!Online.com

During last week's jam-packed Xbox launch party at the Sunset Room, That '70s Show's Laura Prepon (who I must say looks even more sickeningly sizzlin' in person) gushed that the cast was getting along better than ever.

"We're so lucky because you hear horror stories about other shows," she said. "If anyone even starts to get some kind of ego, we're all like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, you got to check yourself.' We just don't let it happen, and it's all good."

Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it might be time to rally the intervention troops.

Not 10 minutes after lovely Laura's glowing report, '70s babe Ashton Kutcher (who instructed: "two questions only") had this to say when asked if he had signed on for a seventh season: "No, I didn't do it."

Which means they're currently negotiating. I pressed on. "Do you think you will?"

"It depends."

Trying to get an inkling of a full sentence without overstepping my two-Q limit, I simply said, "The show wouldn't be the same without Kelso."

"Well, then they'd better treat me right," he said flatly.

Ahhh...right. Consider your "threat" issued (wink, wink).

Meanwhile, Wilmer Valderrama (Fez) was his usual charming self, explaining that while "not everyone has signed," he believes they will. "I think eventually it will work out. All of us love working on the show, and if it doesn't, maybe they'll just make it Fez's friends. And every two weeks, I'm in my underwear."


" '70s Show" Stayin' Alive Until 2005
By Josh Grossberg

Hold on to your bell-bottoms, That '70s Show will be shakin' its groove thing for a long time to come.

Cast members Mila Kunis (Jackie), Danny Masterson (Hyde), Laura Prepon (Donna) and Wilmer Valderrama (Fez) have agreed to keep slacking in the basement for a couple more years, signing six-figure contract extensions that will keep Fox's nostalgia comedy grooving through May 2005, according to Daily Variety.

The foursome pulled a Friends and negotiated en masse with the show's independent producer, Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, allowing them to maximize their paychecks. The actors had reportedly been raking in mid-five figures each per episode and will now snag salaries more than double that, estimated to top $100,000 an episode.

Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp--the sitcom's authoritarian father Red and ditzy wife Kitty, respectively--have also reupped through the 2004-05 seventh season.

But two key cast members still haven't inked new deals: Topher Grace (Eric) and Ashton Kutcher (Kelso). According to Variety, the two actors' reps are brokering separate deals for Grace and Kutcher (both of whom have forged successful film careers) and talks with Carsey have reportedly been amicable.

While Fox has only publicly extended That '70s Show through 2003, sources close to the negotiations confirm the network has locked up the show through May 2004--a feat trickier than Twister considering the young stars' movie aspirations.

During the show's hiatuses, all the cast members have branched into film. Most recently, Prepon popped up in theaters in Slackers, Masterson appeared in Dracula 2000, Kunis in Get Over It and Valderrama in the forthcoming Party Monster.

Making the biggest splash on the big screen so far, though, have been Grace, who had a significant role in Traffic, and Kutcher, who's doing a sequel to his 2000 teen hit Dude, Where's My Car? (the follow-up is titled Seriously, Dude, Where's My Car?).

That '70s Show debuted in 1998 and celebrated its 100th episode in March. The sitcom has become a tent pole in the network's Tuesday night lineup, scoring particularly well in the 18-49 demo last season. In three airings this season, the show has averaged 8.8 million viewers.

That '70s Show recently entered syndication and currently ranks second among the four new comedy series that premiered this fall.

With the new extension, the show, now set in the closing years of the '70s, will need to slow down time to avoid becoming another That '80s Show. The latter, a Carsey-Werner-Mandabach-produced spinoff satirizing the Reagan era and debuting last season, failed to repeat the success of That '70s Show and was axed. -E!online.com


November 24, 2002

That '70s Show' Keeps on Truckin'
by Rick Porter

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Something big is about to happen on "That '70s Show."

It's just that no one is saying what, exactly

"Are we even talking about that?" asks Topher Grace, who plays lead character Eric Forman on the FOX sitcom, during a break from rehearsals in October.

The cast is, in fact, talking around the big event, which takes place on the episode airing Tuesday (Nov. 26). It involves Eric asking his next-door neighbor and on-off-on-off-now-on-again girlfriend Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon) a question. Or popping it, you might say.

On other series, what happens Tuesday could be a jump-the-shark moment. But Grace trusts the writers of "That '70s Show" not to give it that very-special-episode feeling.

"There's a long-term plan," Grace says. "If I really thought we were going the 'Friends' route with this, I think I'd be worried. But I love how we do stuff on this show."

Prepon feels much the same way. "I like that when we deal with this, it's not like it's some special episode," she says. "It's just within the series of shows that we're doing."

And just as FOX has asked Zap2it to take a vow of secrecy on the big Eric-Donna moment this week, the two characters decide to keep their secret from their friends and families. Of course, this being sitcomland, people will eventually find out, and the reactions will range from pleased to pissed.

"I think Jackie being with Steven has taught her a lot about not being so selfish," Mila Kunis, who plays Jackie, says of her relationship with Steven Hyde (Danny Masterson). "So I think she'll be happy for Donna, and not jealous."

The same can't be said for Eric's and Donna's parents.

"Oh, I'm sure he'll react with his usual calm and mature attitude," deadpans Kurtwood Smith, Eric's dad Red Forman. "He'll approach it in sort of psychological -- no. He'll go nuts. He'll be ballistic, I imagine."

Adds Don Stark, who plays Donna's dad, Bob: "I can't imagine he'd be pleased. ... I think murder is probably -- I kind of look at it as justifiable homicide."

OK, so it's safe to say that last option probably won't happen, but the event does open some new stories to explore, particularly as the kids near graduation from high school and moving on to college or work or whatever the future might bring.

Any number of shows, from "Happy Days" to "Beverly Hills, 90210," revolving around a group of high-school friends, have suffered when the gang moves on to college. But the fact that "That '70s Show" has never focused very much on school anyway may help some, Grace says.

"I don't know what graduation is on this show," he says. "Even though we've had winter episodes, to me the whole show takes place on a summer day, like a late Sunday afternoon. So it's never been about school."

That's not to say the cast will be perpetually stuck at Point Place (Wis.) High -- last week's episode, in fact, dealt with college visits. But it's not likely they'll all be headed off to the same school, either.

"These kids aren't rich, so they're not all going to college," Grace says. "Maybe one or two of them are. ... Kelso's [Ashton Kutcher] not going, for obvious reasons, and Hyde can't afford it."

Kutcher is happy to leave the show's future in the hands of the writers. He hopes only that the affable goof Kelso continues to have "an investment" in the show's continuing stories.

"The hard things for me to do on the show are the ones where Kelso is just in for comic relief ... or [he has] no clear attitude about the situation," he says. "Because then you find yourself teetering, and it's hard to make comedy funny if you're on the fence. You've got to pick a side and commit to it."

That's one of the things that's kept the show engaging over its four-plus seasons. Because the characters -- and the actors -- started young, they've been allowed to grow so that Kelso is more than just the dumb guy, Jackie's not just a stuck-up rich girl and Eric and Donna have a relationship that feels fairly true.

"The characters have been allowed to evolve and grow," Grace says. "I love watching the [syndicated] reruns of the show now because you can see it. Also, we got to be much -- or I should say we got to be good actors. ... I really feel like we're riding the same course with the show. It's getting better because of, or at least parallel to, us getting better." -Zap2it, TV News