Despite the 16-year age gap and the weeks apart while filming, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are still besotted with each other eight years after they first met. And perhaps that’s just as well, given the steamy romps Ashton took part in for his latest film No Strings Attached.

The adult-rated movie is the ex-Calvin Klein model’s hottest yet, full of nudity and flirtatious dialogue. He plays a man who embarks on a sex-only relationship with a close friend, played by actress-of-the-moment Natalie Portman.

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Sony envisions a mouth-watering Cleopatra franchise with Hollywood’s only female action star, Angelina Jolie, as the mighty Egyptian Queen. James Cameron, post-Avatar, is being conjured to take on this project because he’s one of the few directors Sony chairman Amy Pascal would trust with such a risky mammoth-budget 3-D period spectacle. But can she and producer Scott Rudin land him? (The answer I hear is yes).

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Actor Michael Douglas is only recovering from a tough course of radiation and chemotherapy for his throat cancer, his rep said, flatly dismissing rumors that Douglas changed his will and is saying goodbye to loved ones.

The “Wall Street” actor’s longtime publicist, Allen Burry, told People.com, “Michael hasn’t changed his will recently, and he isn’t contemplating changing it.”

“Michael is totally focused on his recovery,” Burry continued, again reporting that doctors “are very pleased with how he responded to treatment. They think he’s doing really well. He’s doing as well as can be expected.”

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These days, Alicia Keys is in a motherhood state of mind. The singer and her husband, Swizz “Kaseem Dean” Beatz, “joyfully welcomed their first child,” son Egypt Daoud Dean, on Oct. 14 in New York City. This is the couple’s first child, though Egypt “is welcomed by Beatz’s three other children,” the statement adds. Keys, 29, and Beatz, 32, are not only new parents together – they are also newlyweds. The singer and the rapper-producer were married in a private ceremony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in July. At the time, the two didn’t know the gender of their child, but Swizz Beatz said they were excited to start a family together.

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It’s looking like Peter Jackson directing The Hobbit has moved from “all-but-a-done-deal” to a done deal. The New York Times is reporting that Jackson has finalized his deal to direct both parts of The Hobbit. However, the Times is also reporting that the ongoing dispute with New Zealand’s unions could continue to delay the film further. If the production decides to leave New Zealand, then it will have to draw up a new budget and that will most likely lead to another delay. As of right now, production is slated to begin in February with the first film slated to come out in December 2012 and the second film to be released the following year. Both films will be in 3D.

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