Archive for January, 2012

The actress known as Audrey Tatou of France is currently heavily promoting her role as young French fashion designer, Coco Chanel, in the Sony Classics film titled, Coco Before Chanel. or in France, Coco Avant Chanel. The movie’s plotline goes a little something like this: “Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father [...]

Miss PJ is a dog who is 15  years old. Although she’s moving on in this world, her playful spirit, is still adventurous.  I call her Precious Joy, or  Pineapple Juice when I’m feeling festive. I have had more real adventures with Miss PJ in Hollywood into aspects of  the human soul of America during [...]

Joel Madden is one proud baby daddy. He took to his twitter to tweet about Nicole Richie and his newborn son, Sparrow Madden. The Glendale couple are pictured here with their daughter Harlow Madden. What Joel Madden tweeted about baby son, Sparrow, was this video of Simon and Garfunkle’s Sparrow song. It’s a profound parable [...]

Two people are blasting both wall street and America’s banks for not learning from the financial crises. The first is Barack Obama who says Wall Street is unrepentant, in the wake of the US and global economic crises and are still demonstrating the same behaviors of risky investment strategies that remain overhyped and not following [...]

 ”We can be confident that the storms of the past two years are beginning to break”–President Barack Obama. Great news. I don’t know where exactly as the little people on the ground aren’t seeing much of this just yet, however, I love it when the President talks this way. It’s fighting fit talk and he [...]

That Michael Bay is such a try hard at trying to shackle Megan Fox. Dude’s needs to get off that hot actresses spotlit stage, asap! Hasn’t Michael Bay got anything else more important to do than comment about Megan Fox. Get over the obsession already dude! She’s working with other directors and has well and [...]

After hanging upside down on a Trapeze, singing live at the VMA’s, rock star Pink was back on TV, Monday Morning for the Today Show. Yes she’s still totally peeved at Kanye West’s behavior last night. Pink couldn’t stop talking about it! And, Pink also did a great performance of her hit Please Don’t Leave [...]

He has the hottest America girlfriend in US modelling, Amber Rose, so perhaps he can be forgiven for getting carried away with him impetuous bad self! Ever the showman, if  Kanye West didn’t do pranks like robbing Taylor Swift of her moment of glory, and cutting in on her speech, stealing the VMA show, than [...]

The Ten Top MTV VMA Awards moments of 2009 that stood  out, were: 1. Michael Jackson’s footage of the King of Pop performing his greatest hits, was a level of performance, that perhaps only Beyonce is matching at this level, singing live and storytelling through constant, rigorous dance choreography. The posthumous footage of Jackson’s music [...]

How else would Michael Jackson be better honored, than with a performance tribute by his sister, and duet partner, Janet Jackson. As highly anticipated, this was the VMA’s tribute that America had been waiting for. It was great to see Janet uplift America, her family, MJ’s children, Michael’s many fans worldwide, Janet’s own fanbase and [...]

Madonna’s heartfelt, self-penned speech for Michael Jackson, was not only a classy tribute to the late King of Pop, but it also was a thoughtful summation of life spent in fame’s spotlight of entertainment, from one who aptly knew how hard this was for an individual to navigate and endure. After delivery her speech at [...]

  Celebrities and Stemcell Research. What a great idea for a blog post category name. I love it! And after Beyonce was a total gracious Queen of the VMA’s last night, let’s celebrate the fact that stem cell research can help this diva’s future and stars like her, in the regeneration of her body with stem [...]

Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for her first VMA’s award for Best Female Music Video. The run down went like this: TAYLOR SWIFT: “I always dreamed about what it would be like to win one of these one day,” Taylor said with surprise. “I never thought it would happen.” KANYE WEST: “Beyonce’s “Single [...]

Naturi Naughton & Collin Pennie just had their world premiere of the  Fame music video for the new film at the VMA awards  in New York. Here it is above. It’s fun!

Belgium’s Kim Clijsters became the US Open Champion after having two years off tennis to  have  a child. Clijsters beat Caroline Wazniacki of Denmaker in two sets. Congratulations Kim! What a story!

Brilliant Marketing for ‘Beyond Here Lies Nothing.’ True Blood releases their Tru Blood, (blood orange flavored) soda, to celebrate True Blood Season 2′s successful finale. Like the show, the drink is described as being ‘slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated.” Flavors are named Fangbanger and Death on The Beach. Charming!!!! To order your box of [...]

Roger Federer, the world’s #1 ranked player in the world, as well as having the distinction of being the five-time defending champion of the US open; has advanced to the US Open Men’s tennis final. Federer beat Serbian and fourth seeded player, Novak Djokovic 7-6 (7/3), 7-5, 7-5. Federer remains unbeatan over his last 41 [...]

A nice shot of Fringe actress Ana Torv in Entertainment Weekly. Playing FBI special agent Olivia Dunham, Torv returns to Fox, this Thursday night. She’s a young Kim Bassinger. Hot!

Not bad for a kid who has gone from obscurity into superstardom in just two years since being cast in Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga series. It’s great to see young Native American Indian actors reviving their tradition in mainstream cinema films, but this time in leading roles of substance. What a success story all round!

L.J Smith wrote The Vampires Diaries books 14 years before Stephenie Meyers published the Twilight Saga books. If there’s any similarities, should the L.J Smith team sue? Probably not, there are no  new ideas under the sun, just recycled ideas, so let’s hope L.J Smith’s camp don’t get sue happy. This is a pic of LJane Smith. Woah! [...]

It’s nice to see Hollywood kids working hard,  and following in the footsteps of their parents. Go Rumer Willis! Her Sorority Row film for Summit Entertainment may have been a lightweight at the box office against heavywhat Tyler Perry’s new film, but Rumer Willis can be proud of her acting efforts today. She was great [...]

Serena Williams looks like she has a #1 Best Selling book on her hands. In the wake of a bad line call, at a pivotal point in her US Open 2009 Semi Finals match against Kim Clijsters Serena has taken to her blog to write to her fans about her upcoming biography book, called On [...]

There’s plenty of Entertainment Film News from the Toronto film festival. First up Oprah flew  into  Toronto to get her pic with her friend George Clooney. The  duo superstars were last snapped together for the Africa, Vanity Fair issue. WireImage has the Clooney Winfrey photo. The  latest news in Toronoto is  this: Get Low, the [...]

Serena Williams favorite title for a film, came in at #1 this weekend. I kid. As predicted on horiwood.com, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself movie, starring Perry, Mary J Blige and Oscar nominee Taraji P Hensen, came in at #1 in the US box office  movie takings this weekend, 3rd weekend September, [...]

Here’s the latest from the Twilight Saga’s New Moon movie trailer. Kristen Stewart’s Bella and Robert Pattinson’s Edward have an encounter in Water. Riveting stuff. To go here and make a difference with real water to the 1 in 6 people in the world who need your Twilight wings, go here. Thanks Twilighters. Horiwood.Com thanks [...]

Like  water for the soul you come to the thirsty and the  longing in heart. Rain down your mercy, to the children of this earth from the nations who have plenty to give. From Hollywood, California, USA –this is my prayer today. Charity Water is an organization that exists because: One billion people on the planet [...]

Hollywood’s Queen of hearts and refugees world wide, Angelina Jolie stopped by in Kenya, Saturday. Jolie arrived at the Somali-Kenyan border’s Dadaab Refugee Camp. The camp was originally built for 90,000 people, but now holds 285,000 Somalis who fled for  their lives to Kenya. Jolie has been a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  since [...]

I was disappointed to read today, that film director Michael Bay, mobilized three of his Transformers crew to write an open letter to Megan Fox. We all know how crew members suck up to a director for their next pay check in Tinsel Town, so this whole letter seems completely bogus to  me. Fox has [...]

John Macenroe famously commented last night, on how Serena Williams should have won an Oscar for her press conference last night at the US Open. Here’s that footage. My favorite part was when a reporter asked Serena, what sister Venus had said to her after the match. Serena’s response: “That’s between V and me.” She’s [...]