NEW YORK (AP) – Demi Moore describes “That ‘70s Show” star Ashton Kutcher as her “soul mate” and says they would like to “expand our family,” in an interview in Harper’s Bazaar.

“Talk about meeting your soul mate,” the 42-year-old actress says in the magazine’s September issue. “I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn’t some lightweight package. I’m, like, the package that didn’t just come with luggage – I had trunks.”

Moore says she and Kutcher, 27, have no plans for marriage. “I feel that we are and that we don’t need something formal, so to do so isn’t a big deal one way or another.”

“The next phase? The growth of my partnership (with Kutcher). The growth of our union. The growth of our family. Which is all the things we truly desire … to expand our family.”

Moore says the couple, who recently moved into their new home in the Hollywood Hills, enjoy “sharing a bath with one another and watching “Court TV.’ Snuggling up naked.”

The actress, who starred in 2003’s “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” has three daughters, Rumer, 17; Scout, 14; and Tallulah, 11, from her marriage to second husband Bruce Willis.

She recently finished shooting the thriller “Half Light,” appears in a fall ad campaign for Versace and is planning to launch a holistic beauty company with two friends.

“It’s been a challenging few years, being the age I am, with so much focus now on how I look,” Moore says. “Almost to the point where I felt like, well, they don’t know what to do with me. I am flawed. And I’m not 20. Not 30. But I’m certainly different from what most people feel someone in her 40s should be.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest will co-host the 34th edition of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” live from New York’s Times Square on Dec. 31.

Clark, 75, has been recovering at his Malibu home from a Dec. 6 stroke.

“He’s doing really well,” Clark publicist Paul Shefrin said Monday. “He’s walking. He’s talking. He’s living a fairly normal life.”

The longtime host of “American Bandstand” hasn’t appeared on television or done interviews since his stroke. Last year, daytime talk-show host Regis Philbin stood in while Clark watched from his hospital bed.

“He just wants to fine-tune it before he sticks his head out – makes his return to television,” said Shefrin, who has refused to discuss the impact of what he describes as a minor stroke.

Clark said in a statement, “It will be good to be back in New York again for New Year’s and I’m elated that Ryan has agreed to join me in ushering in New Year’s.”

Seacrest, host of “American Idol,” has agreed to a multiyear deal to executive produce and join Clark as co-host of the ABC special. Seacrest will eventually take over as host.

“Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition,” Seacrest said in a statement.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – It can take years of late-night navel gazing for a novelist to choose the name of a character, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.

Or it could come as quickly as an auction on eBay, and in the process, keep a nonprofit organization dedicated to freedom of speech from closing its doors.

Stephen King, John Grisham, Andrew Sean Greer and several other best-selling authors are joining Chabon next month in selling the right to name characters in their new novels.

The auction begins Sept. 1 on eBay Giving Works, the site’s dedicated program for charity listings, and runs for 25 days.

Profits will go to the First Amendment Project, which defends the free speech rights of activists, writers and artists.

“It feels a little scary for most writers because when you’re writing you’re completely in charge. You can say this book is all mine, it’s my world,” said Chabon, who sits on the project’s board. “Whether giving some of that over has any monetary value or not, we’ll see.”

King says his highest bidder will get to name a character in a new zombie novel, which he describes as being “like cheap whisky … very nasty and extremely satisfying.”

Grisham, on the other hand, is promising to portray his top bidder’s chosen name “in a good light.”

But bidders beware: Most of the authors are clearly retaining creative control to use the names as they see fit.

Greer promises his winner may choose the name of a “coffee shop, bar, corset company or other business in another scene,” but only “should it suit the author.”

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NEW YORK (AP) – Terry Gilliam hasn’t had a film on screen since his “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” came out in 1998. Now, he’s got two projects opening back to back – this month and next.

Those seven years were the longest dry spell of his 31-year career.

“Tideland,” to be released next month in Canada, is about a little girl who takes refuge from her dope-addicted father in a world of imaginary companions.

“The Brothers Grimm,” which opens in U.S. and Canadian theaters next week, stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the German philologists and kings of the fairy tale.

“Grimm” has been on hold for more than a year because of a dispute between Gilliam and Bob Weinstein, head of Dimension Films. The two went head-to-head over the final shape of the work, which at that point had been finished for months.

“He just had a different view of the film,” Gilliam told The New York Times for its Sunday editions.

The movie was finished after Gilliam took a six-month hiatus to make “Tideland” and the dispute was resolved.

“I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people’s idea about what would make it better,” Gilliam said. “Everybody’s happy now. We’re a big happy family.”