Archive for January, 2012

is  hot! Featuring Lady Gaga, Kanye West & Common, this is what fusion music is all about. Tres clever! Nice one Kid Cudi.

She’s a hit with French Vogue.

The book Who Moved My Cheese, by Spencer Johnson MD, is one of those books that helps you keep up with the changes that are occurring in your world. If you are an employee in this recession economy of America, it’s  perhaps a wise little $5.95 investment to buy and read. Adapt to change each [...]

Kim Kardashian is  working with Lighthouse Beauty to create her own fragrance. To be honest I don’t know what took her so long. She was America’s #1 most googled celebrity of 2008. So, it’s about time she got her  J-Lo rump into gear and cashed in on her popularity and audiences with a fine fragrance [...]

In the words of Jason Swanson of Organic SEO Marketing of Hollywood regarding Teddy Kennedy: “He wasn’t perfect. He was far from it, but everyone still loved him.” Well said. RIP Edward Kennedy, 77 years of age, who died  of a brain tumor,  August 25, 2009. To check out marketing tips by Jason Swanson, go [...]

Diane Kruger, the girl whose side profile is so perfect in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds film, has taken both Hollywood and The  UK by storm. Here’s her high-brow Tatler cover. She’s this generation’s Sharon Stone. An  incredible actress with smarts, beauty and style. It’s her time! Bring it on, I say. :)

Julia  Childs influenced many home cooks around the world, including New Zealand’s Anne Thorp of the Kai Ora TV series fame. Anne Thorp’s Kai Ora carries the same Bon Appetit! spirit of the late Julia Childs. It’s a great TV show. Coming to the Food  Network in the near future.

Kai Ora is a TV series showcasing the best of healthy Maori cuisine that is served up with manaakitanga, an expression of love and hospitality. The series features Anne Thorp, a tohunga of kai harvesting, food preparation and cooking who is known internationally as The  Maori Queen of Cuisine. She is the #1 Maori cook [...]

Robert Pattinson is who Aussie girls want. Australians have taste. It’s endemic to their beautiful country. Robert Pattinson continues to dominate magazine covers in Australia this year. Here’s  the latest from OK!  Magazine Australia.

Using the music of Motown-signed singer, Gin Wigmore, Air New Zealand shows how cheeky the New Zealand sense of humor is, in their new TV  commercial. I totally dig the music of Gin Wigmore. She’s authentic. This TVC features Gin’s Under My Skin hit.

Australian footballer, Nick  Youngquest, got his footie gear off for a good cause. Breast Cancer. Appearing sans football gear in The UK’s Attitude magazine, Youngquest gave  UK girls their thrills promoting his football calendar and DVD, which supports breast cancer prevention. Nice one Nick! Now that’s the Aussie spirit and attitude right there.

E! Entertainment’s reality TV stars, Kendra Wilkinson and Kourtney Kardashian are hot news on US Weekly magazine’s cover. In a recession it’s breeding time ya’ll. Just like the war years  of  world war II. Nice media domination from Kendra, Kourtney and their network’s executive producer Ted Harbert of E! Entertainment. That’s a  clean swoop!

Whenever a reality TV star, swaps the  raccoon tail that used to sit on the top  of her head, with a look that looks like the late Lady Diana, she perhaps deserves a cover. The Gosselins continue their domination of tabloid covers this year in America, as Kate shows where all of her endorsement money [...]

If you haven’t  yet purchased Kai Ora, by Anne Thorp,  you should do so today. Stunning food from an amazing TV Show. Kai Ora is New Zealand’s best,  homegrown cuisine show on TV. Recipes are organic cuisine and delicious. Hollywood quality.

After Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have just purchased a $74 million chateau in France, it is hardly credible that Angelina would tell Brad to sleep on the couch. It would more be like, Brad you can sleep in the other wing, or the other castle. However, OK! Magazine continues to be irrelevant just to [...]

As good as it gets [A poem for Dame Atarangi Kahu – Maori Queen]   where the cross streets collide on infamous hollywood and vine   your star crashed into my heart as your wairua finally left your body from the top of maunga taupiri   roimata eyed I played hori hop-scotch between pavement cracks [...]

Ed Westwicke and Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl are taking Korea by storm on the cover of Elle Magazine. These words from Othello by William Shakespeare seem to sum up the Gossip Girl show vibe. In the words of Desdemona: Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord, If I have any grace or power to [...]

Native American Indian actors rule! This is the new breed. Go Alex Meraz of Twilight’s Eclipse.

Chris Brown gets sentenced to 5 years of probation in LA. Eonline. Here’s your top 10 celebrities and news items of interest Tuesday. 1. ANGELINA JOLIE & BRAD PITT…. ‘COS THEY CAN! 2. JENNIFER ANISTON, AN ELLE-GANT GIRL NEXT DOOR 3. VMA AWARDS: LADY GAGA VS BEYONCE 4. 10 QUOTES BY ROBERT PATTINSON FOR SUMMER 5. WATCHING [...]

Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn got off to a great start with Season 6 of Project Runway. The  embattled TV show made a triumphant return, after its many IP legal battles about the show. Endurance  paid off. Heidi, Tim and a new line up of Project Runway fashion designers and talent, garnered a 33% lift [...]

Donate today. Yesterday, outside  my job in Hollywood, my boss noticed a man asleep on the pavement. The image stayed in my mind. It was disturbing and not right. He was in his late 50s. So I’m posting this post today. Let’s make a difference in Los Angeles. One of my favorite organizations in LA [...]

Have you got your tickets yet? Here’s Katy Perry performing at London’s V festival.  I’m so going to see her live in concert in LA! Woooooooooot!

Kate Moss covers AnOther Magazine. It’s the 10 year Anniversary of the magazine, and to  celebrate they have 4 covers of Moss, Vanessa Paradis (Johnny Depp’s wife), Katie Holmes and Natalie Portman. Moss as usual, looks fierce.

Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively turned 22 today. Alexander Skarsgard of True Blood turned 33. Happy B’day.

Jason Mraz has made history.  His hit I’m  Yours became the longest-running song on the Hot 100 chart in Billboard’s 51 year history. No other music artist has claimed this feat on the zenith of music’s mountain peaks. He’s surprising.  Although Mraz refers to I’m Yours as being “genre-less,” it’s not. It’s reggae-scar.He’s the male [...]

No matter how hard I try to appreciate new artist, Sliimy’s music, I just can’t get past the fact that Sliimy looks like Lady Gaga doing a very bad drag impression of Nick Jonas. It’s very off-putting. Nice stop-motion animation though. The music video direction deserves a gold medal for making up for Sliimy’s below [...]

… just won’t shut up about being the dad of Paris Katherine Jackson. Though no DNA tests have been conducted yet, this dude is everywhere in the media yapping on about it. Did it ever occur to him, that he may not be Paris Jackson’s biological dad? No. Yet  he still continues to go on [...]

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have bought the French Chateau that they stayed in when their twins were  being born in the  beautiful countryside of Provence, France. What did they pay for the private “home” in France? A cool $74 million. Dare I say it, but it’s nice to see these two living like movie stars for [...]

As it was a private (direct) tweet, I can’t share it with you. But she’s fun! I like her energy a lot! Instead, I’ll share her pic of Kola the dog, taking  Twilight Eclipse’s Kelan Lutz for a skate on his board. Note  how the Ten Gossip Girl, has those really cool graphic fonts on [...]