Gona Dragusha, Miss Kosovo, was second runner up in The Miss Universe Pageant, Sunday. She brings shades of Audrey Hepburn’s glamour to the global stage. Here’s your top 10 on Horiwood.Com. Three Brits, a Native American Indian, An African American songstress, 4 Americans and a Kiwi round out your eclectic choices, Monday. I love this [...]
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THE HORIWOOD TOP 10 – MON 8.24.09
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Alex Meraz, Amy Winehouse, Audrey Hepburn, Billionaire, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Christina Hendricks, Entertainment, Gona Dragusha, Hollywood Entertainent News, Kosovo, Lady Gaga, Mad Men, Michael Jackson, Miss Universe, Richard Chandler, Robert Pattinson, Susan Boyle, The Horiwood Top 10, Tracy Chapman
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EXPLORE THE NIGHT LIFE OF CHINA
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Beijing, BeijingBoyce.Com, China, Dining in China, Hip China, New China, Nightlife China, Young China
BeijingBoyce.Com is the website that you need, if young, hip and wanting to go out somewhere fun and dine in China. Love it! Check it out if in China, or China bound.
TRUE FACT: BOLLYWOOD SOAP OPERAS ARE WATCHED MORE THAN AMERICAN SOAP OPERAS
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Bollywood, Democracy, Entertainment, Hollywood, India, Search Engines, The Internet, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
Difference is always a beautiful thing. It makes the world an interesting place to live in. Here’s part 1 of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. The exciting thing about democracy on the internet, is that Bollywood entertainment rates big. Internet search engines don’t discriminate against difference. They just rank what’s popular. Democracy is alive and [...]
WATCHING INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS AT THE ARCLIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, France, Hitler, Inglourious Basterds, Jews, Josef Goebbels, Lt. Aldo Raine, Nazis, Oscars, Quentin Tarantino, Redemption, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg
On Saturday I had the joy of watching Inglourious Basterds at The Arclight Theater on Sunset & Vine. From the outset, it was clearly a Tarantino film, the Fleu di Lise played on a grand piano, juxtaposed with classical el mariarchi guitar, in the opening sequence of the film’s soundtrack, let you immediately know [...]
ANNA PAQUIN WOULD DIE FOR HER ART
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Anna Paquin, Art, Fearless, HBO, Kiwi Girl, Kiwis, New Zealand, Nylon, Oscars, True Blood
When you win at Oscar at 10 years of age, you perhaps have nothing to fear as an actress in Hollywood. You definitely have nothing to prove. Passion is what’s left to bring to the table artistically and offer the world. Anna Paquin would die for her art. She’s the #1 reason why True Blood [...]
JENNIFER ANISTON, AN ELLE-GANT GIRL NEXT DOOR
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: 40s are the new 30s, Elle Magazine, Friends, Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Anniston’s Elle pics have hit the web. Years after she played Rachael in Friends, Aniston still does a very likable girl next door. 40s are the new 30s in a recession. Props to J.A!
VINCE McMAHON WRESTLES FOR THE CABLE TV MARKET
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Branding, Brands, cable TV, Growing Brands, Oprah Winfrey, Vince McMahon, World Wrestlers' Entertainment Inc, WWE
Vince McMahon, owner of the World Wrestlers Entertainment Inc brand, has announced to the world that he wants to launch his own Cable TV Channel. McMahon has set a two year time frame to do this in. At this rate he’s going to beat Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel to the punch. Vince Macmahon hopes [...]
THE US NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK CAN’T DAMPEN HOPE
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Hope, National Debt, Smiles, US National Debt Clock
The US National debt clock online is staggering. To view it’s face of truth and reality, go here. One should never argue with the truth. Truth provides a snap shot in time, that’s true, whether we like it or not. So, I like this clock! It says a lot. Like…. America’s war industry (as well [...]
FANS REACT AS MICHAEL JACKSON’S DEATH IS RULED A HOMICIDE
Posted: August 25, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Dr Conrad Murray, Homocide, LaToya Jackson, Michael Jackson
MTV News coverage today centered around the L.A. coroner’s office report on the death of Michael Jackson that has finally been released. The Coroner’s report directly links Jackson’s death to the extremely lethal levels of the the propofol anaesthetic in his system. The report goes further to officially classify the King of Pop’s death as a homicide. The [...]
THE HORIWOOD TOP 10 – SUN 23.09
Posted: August 24, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Alexander Skarsgard, Alice Hadden-Paton, Art, BEYONCE, Brad Pitt, Canada, Celebrities, England, Entertainment, Fashion, Gift of Hope, Give, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hurricane Katrina, Jasmine Flores, Kate Middleton, King, Kristen Stewart, Lady Gaga, Los Angeles, Michael Jackson, Music, New Orleans, Nicholas Van Cutsem, Prince William, Prophetess, Queen, Reality TV, Recession, Revolution, Rise Up, Robert Pattinson, Royalty, Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Salvador Dali, San Francisco, Siedah Garrett, Sing For You, Southern California, style, The Horiwood Top 10, The Wiltern, Tracey Chapman, True Blood, Tweet, Twitter, UK, VMA Awards, Weddings
America was shocked over the weekend when Reality TV Love went wrong. Reality TV star Ryan Alexander Jenkins murdered his TV co-star and real life girlfriend, Jasmine Flores and stuffed her body in a suitcase, that was discovered in a Southern Californian dumpster. He later took his own life after he crossed the border into [...]
AMY WINEHOUSE’S SPECIAL RETURN
Posted: August 24, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Amy Winehouse, Comebacks, England, The Specials, UK, V Festival, Whitney Houston
Amy Winehouse surprised UK music lovers when she made a guest appearance for The Specials at the V Festival over the weekend. Amy’s guest appearance on the song You’re Wondering Now, shows how the singer is making a comeback in leaps and bounds. Good luck honey! She’s doing well. Here in the US, singer Whitney [...]
MILLA JOVOVICH & PAUL ANDERSON MARRY
Posted: August 24, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Marriage, Milla Jovovich, Paul Anderson
Model and action actress, Mila Jovovich married her longtime love, Paul W.S Anderson at their Beverly Hills home in the weekend. Congrats to the happy couple for tying the knot. Splash
iMAORI POETRY 101 – HORIWOOD ON THE HOLLYWOOD LIFE
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Ade, Albert Wendt, America, Anne Thorp, Aroha, Books, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Survivors, Cancer Prevention, Cancer Prevention is Early Detection, Cancer Survival, Christina Applegate, Cook books, Creative Writing, Cuisine, Dance, Edinburgh, Emmys, English, English Literature, Food, Gifts, Graham Beattie, Hawaii, Healthy Recipes, Hollywoood, Hone Tuwhare, Hope, hori, Horiwood, Horiwood Poetics, horiwood poetix, Horiwords, kai, Kai Ora, Literature, Los Angeles, Lua, Maori, Maori Language, Melissa, New Zealand, Pacific, Poetry, Polynesia, Polynesian Poets, Pubishing, Ralph Hotere, Recipes, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Sam Cruickshank, Scotland, So You Think You Can Dance, South Pacific, Tice Diorio, UK, urban iwi: tihei mauri ora!, Whetu Moana, Witi Ihimaera
Kia Ora (hello). Some of you are asking me why I don’t write much poetry these days and just blog about celebrities. So this one’s for you. It’s a poem submitted for Whetu Moana Lua, poetry anthology collection of Maori and Polynesian Poets around the world. Editors are: Robert Sullivan, Reina Whaitiri and Dr Albert [...]
10 QUOTES BY ROBERT PATTINSON FOR SUMMER
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Breaking Dawn, Eclipse, England, New Moon, Quotes, Remember Me, Robert Pattinson, RobertPattinson.Org, RobertPattinsonOnline.Com, Summerhouse, Twilight Saga, Twlight, UK
Because it is US Summer, here’s 10 Quotes by actor Robert Pattinson, of Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon, Little Ashes, Remember Me and now, Summerhouse fame. Happy Summer everyone! On being an Actor:“I haven’t really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it [...]
OUT TAKE: KRISTEN STEWART & TAYLOR LAUTNER
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Eclipse, Entertainment Weekly, Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Out Take, Taylor Lautner, Twilight
Here’s an out take pic of actors Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner for their Entertainment Weekly shoot. Hasn’t Taylor Lautner had an amazing year!
HORIWOOD’S 10 TOP TWILIGHT ECLIPSE WEBSITES
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Amazon.Com, Breaking Dawn, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dreamhunter, Dreamquake, Eclipse, Elizabeth Knox, HisGoldenEyes.Com, IMDB, Jacob Black, Kristen Stewart, New Moon, New Moon Board Game, New York Times, Rachelle Lefevre, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Summerhouse, Summit Entertainment, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, Twilighters.Org, TwilightGuy.Com, TwilightLexicon.Com, TwilightReview.Com, TwilightSingapore.Com, TwilightTheMovie.Com, Xavier Samuels
On Horiwood.Com we are a huge fan of author Stephenie Meyer and her cast of characters she created in the Twilight Saga book series. We also love her brilliance for giving young people in a recession film careers too, with the casting of Twilight’s big young super stars in her Summit Entertainment films. She’s an [...]
WILL KATE MIDDLETON BE THE FUTURE QUEEN OF ENGLAND?
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Alice Hadden-Paton, England, Fashion, Kate Middleton, King, Nicholas Van Cutsem, Prince William, Queen, Royalty, style, UK, Weddings
Kate Middleton and Prince William, rocked out to the social wedding event of the year. The couple were among 400 guests at the wedding of Nicholas Van Cutsem and Alice Hadden-Paton. The girl’s got style. Will she be the future Queen of England?
IF OPRAH AND GAYLE KING ARE GAY LOVERS AS THE GLOBE CLAIMS …
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Billionaires, Gay, Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey, The Globe
… do you think they’d even care what the world thinks? At that level, people like Oprah wouldn’t even care. But as Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have a BFF night out, the Globe runs with a sensationalist headline about it to sell their ’newspaper’ tabloid. Leave our US billionaires alone! There’s fewer this year, than [...]
KRISTEN STEWART ON BEING AN ACTRESS
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Acting, Hard Work, Kristen Stewart, Twilight
“I love it because I love to tell stories. I like being in movies that have a great story. I`m not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It`s a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.” Twilight’s Kristen Stewart [...]
NATALIE PORTMAN COVERS INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Interview magazine, Magazine Covers, Natalie Portman
The eyes have it.
EBONICS TWEETIN
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Amber Rose, Ebonics, Fab Gossip, Tweeting, Twitter
fabgossip: “what dey do tweeps??”30 minutes ago from web (I’m loving it!) There are so many languages spoken in LA, in person or online. Not one is better than someone elses. All are valid. Thanks FG girl!
COFFEE, CHOCOLATE & POETRY
Posted: August 23, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: 10PopularCoffeeBlogs, BrewedCoffee.Com, Chocolate, ChocolateGarden.Com, ChocoLocate.Com, Coffee, CoffeeCrew.Com, CoffeeGeek.Com, Poetry, PureCoffee.Com, Revolution, SeeCandies, Tracey Chapman, VirtualChocolate
Three simple things to do on a lazy afternoon. 1. Always spend a quiet half an hour, at your favorite coffee house reading a good book. There’s nothing like it to calm one’s nerves. 2. Treat yourself to a new brand of chocolate. 3. Write a poem or a letter to a friend. 10 websites [...]
SHILOH JOLIE-PITT’S NATIONAL ENQUIRER COVER
Posted: August 22, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Hollywood, John Edwards, National Inquirer, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
Little Shiloh-Jolie Pitt blows John Edwards headlining story, out of the water on the National Enquirer. Should a child even be on a cover of a magazine, without their parents consent? Oh well, nonetheless, one must never underestimate kids. They are the future. If Shiloh enters show biz as she gets older, she will be [...]
WILL THE NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM POLICIES ALLOW GOVERNMENT ACCESS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT?
Posted: August 22, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Banks, Health Care, Reform
This is a question that Rep. Allen Boyd was asked in Florida. No one wants the government to have access to their bank account (even though, of course, they already do). Boyd debunked the question as simply being not true. Who do you believe? The woman who asked the question or Rep. Boyd. To read [...]
BRITNEY SPEARS IS IN ONTARIO
Posted: August 22, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Adam Ant, Britney Spears, Otario Canada, Solange Knowles, TweetMeMe
It’s amazing how sitting, can be interesting, just because someone is Britney Spears. This is the most retweted pic of the day on tweetmeme.com. It just proves that the ordinary can be made strange, and the strange, ordinary. Art, is the ability to entertain by blurring the lines between the banal (everyday) things and the [...]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORI AMOS: PRECIOUS THINGS
Posted: August 22, 2009 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsTags: Birthdays, Greek Theater, Los Angeles, Megan Fox, Music, Precious Things, Songwriters, Songwriting, Tori Amos
Her rendition of her song Precious Things, live at The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, is just one of the many reasons why LA loves Tori Amos’ ability to perform and deliver beauty in music. Tori Amos is 46 years-old today. The amazing lyricist and crafter of thought-provoking song is still one of our most [...]
