Charlie Sheen reaches two million Twitter followers (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Winning, indeed.

On Monday, Charlie Sheen reached two million followers on Twitter -- less than one week after launching his account.

"Another record shattered," the actor, 45, Tweeted Monday. "We gobbled the soft target that was 2.0 mil, like a bag of a troll-house zombie chow."

Later, he added, "hey Guinness, might wanna start writing them in pencil, #checkit; you've been warned."

Last week, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Sheen will soon be Tweeting endorsements.

Lady Gaga currently has the most followers -- more than 8.6 million -- followed by Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and President Barack Obama.

Sheen is catching up, though.

Not only is he thriving on Twitter, he is heating up other parts of the web: On Saturday, he hosted a live webcast and attracted more than 100,000 viewers. He showed off a new tattoo on his left wrist that reads "winning."

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Sheen seduces 1.3 million Twitter fans in two days (AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Troubled American actor Charlie Sheen was Thursday reveling in the fact that his new Twitter account had attracted some 1.3 million followers in just two days.

"In all sincerity... Thank you Twitter community for the warm reception & the followers that helped get me to 1M in 24 hours!!!" he said in a tweet posted late Wednesday.

By Thursday though the number of his followers had swelled to 1.3 million, who had to be satisfied with a mere 21 tweets, accompanied by a couple of pictures, posted by Sheen on the micro-blogging social network.

Most of his messages were not too coherent, although he did ask: "Pardon my absence.... My first concern is my kids... Back soon..!"

Sheen, 45, said on Wednesday that police had taken his twin two-year-old sons, Max and Bob, away overnight after his estranged wife expressed concern for their welfare.

But Sheen has disputed allegations that his wild lifestyle, including drug-addled binges and sharing his home with two girlfriends he called "goddesses," is anything other than a nurturing environment for his children.

Producers last week canceled the actor's hit television show, "Two and a Half Men" in mid-season, after he gave several rambling interviews, some of which included abusive statements toward his employers at CBS television.

He is also battling allegations of anti-Semitism and claims of death threats against his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, the mother of the twins, who, like Sheen, is said to be battling drug abuse.

The @charliesheen feed was started Tuesday, and his first tweet was a cheeky photo showing Sheen with one of his new girlfriends holding a bottle of "Naked" brand juice.

"Winning...! Choose your Vice..." the tweet said, adding a link to the picture of him sporting a backwards baseball cap and holding a healthy milk drink.

But despite his new-found Twitter stardom, Sheen is still trailing far behind singer Lady Gaga who has some 8.5 million followers.

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Nelly Furtado will donate million dollars which she received from Gaddafi

Celebrities who have received money from Muammar Gaddafi and his family find different ways to be “resolved”. So Nelly Furtado on Twitter announced that it has received million dollars from “Gaddafi clan” four years ago to play in Italy and that she plans to donate the money. It is not known exactly to whom Nelly will give money, but it is assumed that the proceeds go to charity. “In 2007th year I have received million dollars from Gaddafi clan for 45-minute performance for the hotel guests in Italy. I’ll donate the money,” she wrote on her Twitter profile.

It is expected that similar reactions of other stars such as Mariah Carey, which received million dollars from Gaddafi son to perform four songs on New Year’s Eve in St. Barts. Beyonce has also performed for one of Gaddafi sons for the New Year 2010 in St. Barts, but it is not known how much she was paid. With her on the same concert performed Usher, also for an unknown amount.

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Cirque du Soleil puts record $57 million in Russian show (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Canadian circus company Cirque du Soleil will invest a record $57 million in a new show in Moscow next year to test the ground before launching a permanent show in Russia by 2015, its president said on Monday.

"Zarkana" is Cirque du Soleil's first new show in Russia and will be the most expensive non-permanent show the company has ever made to date, Daniel Lamarre told reporters.

The Montreal-based company said the $57 million it would invest in the highly acrobatic show is significantly more than the $30-$50 million it was previously eyeing for all of Russia.

"Zarkana, for us, is a test to see if the market can bear a permanent show," Lamarre said.

"(The show) will tell me much more about the clientele in Moscow. If we have the success that I think we will have, this will definitely confirm the means for a permanent presence."

The 26-year-old Cirque du Soleil came to Russia two years ago and is now in the three Russian cities of Moscow, Kazan and Saint Petersburg. It will add the Urals city of Yekaterinburg later this year.

Lamarre said Russia, which has a long history of circus, is the company's fastest-growing market.

"We have never developed a market at the pace we are doing in Russia right now, which is much more encouraging than I thought when we first came in," Lamarre said.

Cirque du Soleil, which says a fifth of its 1,000 artists are from Russia, is banking on the country's love for circus and the arts for it to prosper.

"The response from the previous two shows was amazing, the best we've seen anywhere else in the world," its vice chairman Craig Cohon told Reuters.

"The Russian audience really gets the art of the cirque... I am confident the permanent production will be a success here," he said.

Zarkana will premiere at the Kremlin Palace in February 2012 and run for nine weeks.

(Reporting by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Jennifer Aniston Puts House on Market for $42 Million

In an effort to "simplify" her life, Jennifer Aniston is selling her Beverly Hills home--for a cool $42 million, real estate sources tell PEOPLE. The home will not be officially listed and only a handful of realtors will have access to the listing, the sources said.

Aniston bought the home in 2006 for $13.5 million and spent two years renovating the space into a Zen-influenced retreat. She moved into the house, which she calls "Ohana" in reference to the Hawaiian idea of extended family, in 2009 and has lived in there since.

But recently, the actress had an epiphany. "I couldn't sleep and I sort of had one of those moments where I went, I really need to simplify," Aniston told PEOPLE. "My life needs to be simplified and clear out the clutter. And along with that thought came, 'I should sell my house.' ... I had the realization that this is just too much for me. I'm not this person."

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Jennifer Aniston's Beverly Hills Home Goes on Sale for $42 Million

Jennifer Aniston is ready to "simplify" her life – and is getting started by quietly putting her Beverly Hills home on sale to the tune of $42 million.

The actress, who just celebrated her 42nd birthday, told PEOPLE recently that despite dedicating more than two years of her life to renovating the Zen-influenced retreat, she feels the need to let go of it.

But window shoppers beware: The home will not be listed officially and only an elite group of realtors will have access to the property, real estate sources tell PEOPLE. The sources confirmed the selling price.

The Just Go with It star bought the home she calls "Ohana" – a reference to the Hawaiian idea of extended family – for $13.5 million in 2006. She and her team tore it apart and spent more than two years renovating it, and she moved in just before her 40th birthday in 2009.

Built on a hillside in 1970 with sweeping views of Los Angeles, Aniston told Architectural Digest the single-level home feels "like a hug" and "vibrates with the love that created it."

So why does she want to move? Her epiphany came, she says, in a moment where she woke up in London and thought, "my life felt really cluttered."

"I couldn't sleep and I sort of had one of those moments where I went, I really need to simplify," PEOPLE's recent cover girl said. "My life needs to be simplified and clear out the clutter. And along with that thought came, 'I should sell my house.' ... I had the realization that this is just too much for me. I'm not this person."

Though Aniston has another smaller home in L.A., she may end up living far, far away from Beverly Hills. "I don't know, I'm looking for little spots in New York City to go back home," she said. "There are all sorts of things that are going to be happening in the near future so I'm excited. I don't know what they are, but that's the fun part."

• Reporting by JULIE JORDAN

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