Ashton in the Middle of Iowa Recruiting Controversy

10/31/2010 10:58 AM PDT by TMZ Staff   Ashton Kutcher is the king of Twitter -- but a picture tweeted by a high school recruit may have gotten his favorite school in a little bit of trouble with the NCAA.

According to a report in the Des Moines Register, the University of Iowa has admitted recruiting violations tied to recruits meeting with Ashton and wife Demi Moore during an Iowa football game last month. The alleged infractions also involve the players meeting with former Iowa basketball players.
The paper says NCAA rules prohibit potential high school recruits from interacting with "individuals considered to represent a university's athletic interests." Kutcher attended the University of Iowa briefly and frequently attends games.
The report doesn't mention the players by name -- but two recruits, Marcus Paige and Josh Oglesby were quoted in published reports as having met Kutcher and Moore. Paige (above, bottom left) tweeted the above photo.
Mark Abbott, a senior associate athletic director, told the paper the school is awaiting the NCAA's response to their internal investigation.
Tags: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, TMZ Sports
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Jamie Chung joins 'Hangover Part II'

Jamie Chung is joining "The Hangover Part II," which recently began production with Todd Phillips directing for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.

She'll play the fiance of Stu, the character portrayed by Ed Helms. Bradley Cooper, Zack Galifianakis and Justin Bartha are reprising their roles; Liam Neeson recently replaced Mel Gibson in role of a tattoo artist in Thailand.
Producers are Phillips and Dan Goldberg with David Siegel co-producing. Script's penned by Phillips, Scot Armstrong and Craig Mazin.
Warners has scheduled "The Hangover Part II" for a May 26 release.
Chung appeared in "Grown Ups" and has wrapped "Premium Rush" and "Sucker Punch."
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DiCaprio to star in 'Devil in the White City'

Leonardo DiCaprio has signed to star as a serial killer in "The Devil in the White City," set up through his Appian Way Prods. with Double Feature Films. DiCaprio will play H.H. Holmes, who murdered somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women. Erik Larson's nonfiction book "The Devil in the White City," which has sold 2.3 million copies and been translated into 17 languages, is set against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, tells the intertwining stories of fair architect Daniel H. Burnham and Holmes, who used a hotel he built near the fairgrounds to lure his victims. Project's not set up at a studio. Appian Way, headed by DiCaprio and Jennifer Killoran, has a first look deal at Warner Bros.

"The Devil in the White City," was first put been in development in Hollywood by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner through their Cruise/Wagner banner through the shingle's deal with Par, but the option lapsed in 2004. Paramount reacquired the film rights in 2007 and set it up with producers Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, whose shingle Double Feature Films had a first-look deal with the studio at that point.
Appian Way is in post production on "Red Riding Hood" and currently developing "Akira," "The Infiltrator" and "Wolf of Wall Street," based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography. Di Caprio is next appearing in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic "Hoover."Double Feature's in production on "Contagion," directed by Steven Soderbergh, and in post-production on the comedy "LOL."
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Lindsay Lohan -- No Tricks, Yes Treats

10/31/2010 9:13 AM PDT by TMZ Staff   Lindsay Lohan won't be going door-to-door asking for treats this year -- instead she's having the candy come to her.

Sources close to LiLo tell TMZ she's been receiving care packages of candy at Betty Ford from some of her closest friends. We're also told Dina Lohan, her sainted mother, is scheduled to visit today and plans to bring a few things to satisfy Lindsay's sweet tooth.
As for Halloween in Betty Ford, we're told patients aren't permitted to trick or treat from unit to unit and they don't dress up -- unless they just happened to pack a costume for their rehab stint.That's a shame ... Lindsay would have made a great Snooki for Halloween. Tags: Lindsay Lohan
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Charlie Sheen's Manager: Death Report Is a Lie

Charlie Sheen's manager, who minutes ago left Charlie's home,  reports that Charlie could die this week are "reckless lies."

Mark Burg tells us ... after reports surfaced that Charlie was coked out of his mind, cavorting with hookers and in a fast death spiral ... he went to Charlie's house, entered a side door and saw Charlie sitting on the couch eating a turkey sandwich, saying, "Way to knock, dude." Burg says he asked Charlie about the report he was at death's door and "Charlie looked at me like I was nuts." Burg says Charlie plans on handing out lots of Halloween candy ... because his neighborhood gets besieged by trick-or-treaters.

Burg added, "He looked as normal as he's looked in a long time." Burg says Charlie not only said he'd be on the set Tuesday for "Two and a Half Men," he impatiently asked when he was going to get a copy of the script.

Tags: Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, rehab, Celebrity Justice
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Jackass 3D Review

• Release Date: Oct 15, 2010
• Rated: For male nudity, extremely crude and dangerous stunts throughout and for language
• Genres: Comedy
   
• John Waters, back in his trash-underground days, used to say that if somebody in the audience for one of his films vomited, that was better than getting a standing ovation. In Jackass 3D, the equivalent mark of excellence comes when the cameraman vomits — in one case, right onto the viewfinder that he can no longer bear to hold upright. The occasion is a stunt called ''Sweatsuit Cocktail,'' in which Preston Lacy, the group's resident portly punching bag, walks on a treadmill while wearing plastic wrap as his sweat gets funneled into a cup. When enough of the nasty body juice has been gathered, Steve-O, arguably the gang's most joyful and reckless psycho-daredevil, takes the cup and drinks it down. Like a lot of what transpires in Jackass 3D, it's really a suspense sequence (Can he take it? What will happen?), and in this case — gulp! — the payoff doesn't disappoint. It's disgusting and hilarious (two great tastes that taste great together). And we in the audience think, Bravo!
  After all these years of sick-puppy gags and fearless self-mutilation, Johnny Knoxville, the leader of the Jackass gang, still looks like a Dogpatch version of Jim Carrey. He still acts like one, too; he may be the purest, most devoted slapstick anarchist in comedy today. It's inevitable, after two previous Jackass films and dozens of television episodes, that we're going to want to see Knoxville and the boys top themselves, which in Jackass 3D they ultimately do. Yet it's part of the scuzzy-spontaneous, arrested-child-with-a-camcorder spirit of Jackass that some ideas of bodily harm simply never get old. The boys are still addicted to taking slapdash Evil Knievel leaps on jet skis and mini-bikes, to getting hit in the face with oversize projectiles, and to finding bold new ways (a charging buffalo, anyone?) to get smashed in the nuts. At this point, much of this stuff is like comfort food — it's an almost reassuring ritual in their brotherhood of pain. And the fact that these men, most of them now in their late 30s, can still crack up like hyenas over each other's stunts is a big part of the movie's jokey sadomasochistic charm. It's a way of letting us know that their mutually abusive, winkingly homoerotic frat-house bonding is really a higher form of friendship.
  
  Having lost its novelty, a little of this stuff now goes a very long way; some of it is frankly wearying. And the 3D, I'm crushed to say, is the usual big nothing, a vacuous selling point that the movie never begins to take advantage of. There isn't a single bit that uses 3D to up the yuck factor, or to make us feel like we're the ones getting poked. That said, Jackass 3D has the moments you crave, the ones that go beyond standard pain-freak buffoonery to attain a kind of gloriously demented, jaw-dropping daftness. Like one in which the boys assume the role of prisoners escaping through an alleyway strung with 950,000-volt stun guns, or the gluing of one man's hands onto two others' abundant chest hair, or a game of pin the tail on the donkey with a real, live, kicking donkey. And I haven't even mentioned the ''Lamborghini Tooth Pull'' (don't think too hard — it's just what it sounds like), or Steve-O getting locked into a bungee-corded Porta Potty filled with dog excrement for the ''Poo Cocktail Supreme.'' 3D or no 3D, this one is literally in your face.
  
  There is, as always, a quality of innocence to Jackass, a what will happen if we do this? fascination that the participants all share with the audience. More than ever, Johnny Knoxville and his boys belong to a very elite club of idiocy. They martyr themselves for our diversion, driven at every moment to ask: Are you not entertained?

The Social Network Review

• Release Date: Oct 01, 2010
• Rated: Language, drug and alcohol use and sexual content
• Runtime: 2 hr. 1 min.
• Genres: Drama
• Director: David Fincher
• Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield,

Director David Fincher (Fight Club}, Seven) teams with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin
(The West Wing) to explore the meaning of success in the early 21st Century from
the perspectives of the technological innovators who revolutionized the way we all
communicate. The year was 2003. As prohibitively expensive technology became
affordable to the masses and the internet made it easy to stay in touch with people
who were halfway across the world, Harvard undergrad and computer programming
wizard Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) launched a website with the potential to
alter the very fabric of our society. At the time, Zuckerberg was just six years away
from making his first million. But his hearty payday would come at a high price,
because despite all of Zuckerberg's wealth and success, his personal life began
to suffer as he became marred in legal disputes, and discovered that many of the
500 million people he had friended during his rise to the top were eager to see
him fall. Chief among that growing list of detractors was Zuckerberg's former
college friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), whose generous financial
contributions to Facebook served as the seed that helped the company to sprout.
And some might argue that Zuckerberg's bold venture wouldn't have evolved into
the cultural juggernaut that it ultimately became had Napster founder Sean Parker
(Justin Timberlake) not spread the word about Facebook to the venture capitalists
from Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins (Arnie Hammer and Josh Pence)
engage Zuckerberg in a fierce courtroom battle for ownership of Facebook that
left many suspecting the young entrepreneur may have let his greed eclipse his
better judgment. Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi