Ashton Kutcher is the pride of his small Iowa town (pop. 100) where everyone knows one another, all the boys had to play football in order to sustain a team, and bowling is taught in gym. "My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures," he jokes. Kutcher had planned on becoming a genetic engineer, intent on finding a cure for the cardiomyopathy his twin brother suffered, necessitating a heart transplant at 13, when he was discovered by a modeling agent and became a jet-setting catwalker. Shortly thereafter, Kutcher landed the part of Michael Kelso on the FOX sitcom That '70s Show. He notes that there are few similarities between him and his irresponsible, pot-smoking TV counterpart except for the fact that "we look a lot alike." Kutcher next lights up the screen in John Frankenheimer's Reindeer Games; Texas Rangers, a Western with James Van Der Beek and Dylan McDermott; and the romantic comedy Down To You. But right now, Kutcher's got other things on his mind: "I'm opening up a company selling snowmobile parts over the Internet," and "I'm restructuring the bathroom and building a terrace off my second-story master bedroom." Is there anything Ashton Kutcher can't do?

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