Archive for January, 2012

A fan of Lady Gaga‘s has taken to the art of baking cookies in the pop star’s likeness. I love it… cookies + gaga = fun, American home-creativity at its best. For a giggle go here to see close ups of this culinary artistry! I swear, each one is a masterpiece that brings on the lol’s. [...]

The French love Julia Roberts, 42. French luxury brand, Lancôme ,are paying Julia Roberts $20 million to be their face in 2010, reports Radar Online. The deal is Julia’s first as a beauty company brand ambassador.  Good for her! It wouldn’t hurt her movie career of late, to remind audiences worldwide that she is a pretty woman still. [...]

The wise words of Angelina Jolie and Mother Theresa draw us in to address the world’s poor in the garden of our global humanity. CNN‘s Anderson Cooper rescues a boy in Port-au-Prince. And two fashion icons, Gisele Bundchen and Lady Gaga lead with fashion statements to benefit Haiti. Here’s how you voted your top ten celebrity and entertainment news posts [...]

Taylor Swift’s new single, Today was a fairytale, from the Valentine’s Day motion picture soundtrack, is set to knock Ke$ha‘s Tik Tok song off the #1 position on the charts.  In Fairytale‘s first day on iTunes, the single has already gone to #1 most downloaded song today on iTunes charts. 71% of all music is purchased by [...]

Lady Gaga has smashed the previous record for most weekly plays on radio, in Billboards 17 years of charting pop songs with their radio airplay tally system. Gaga’s song, Bad Romance, notched up 10,859 plays in the tracking week of January 11-17, averaging 84 plays per 130 stations surveyed last week, or one spin every two hours by [...]

She’s learning to pace herself. Lady Gaga has canceled her NYC meet and greet, but she will go ahead with the show. Nice to see The Haus of Gaga looking after their leading star. She’s golden. Gaga’s NYC show will benefit Haiti with every ticket sold and all merchandise profits too. 

It’s supposedly, the last week of Conan O’Brien‘s late night talk show on NBC. Conan is really spicing up the mix  inviting E! Entertainment‘s host of The Soup show, Joel Mchale to appear with him on NBC. Says McHale via his twitter account: “I am going to be on Conan tomorrow. I haven’t been this excited since [...]

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It has to be said that NBC are more cunning than FOX network execs. Their divide and conquer strategy which pitched two good  late night talk show hosts in their talent bank–Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien against each other–is paying off for the peacock network. Ratings are in from last night. Conan was #1 in his late-night spot, [...]

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person”–Mother Theresa Haiti Needs Your Love    [AFP/GETTY IMAGES via CNN.Com] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.19.2010~

I have been getting a lot of ‘fan mail’ from students at Universities in New Zealand with comments like “you’re amazing” to “you inspire us, blog on bro.” So, this blog post is especially for you–the emerging think tank in the world–and covers the concept of ‘Tino Rangatiratanga‘ which in my precious Maori language means [...]

When you are a Maori part-time humanitarian celebrity blogger who lives in Hollywood, you are at times fixated on saving the world… like Haiti Emergency relief awareness, for example, is a moment that captures your attention in The City of Angels. As a blogger it signals an opportunity for us all to mobilize and act [...]

America loves the USA’s TV talkers. As mentioned last night, Conan O’Brien fans braved the LA rain to protest outside NBC, the departure of their favorite Late Night Talk Show host. Similar rallies occurred in NYC and Chicago for Conando too. TMZ is reports that CoCo O’Brien and NBC have reached a settlement agreement that promises that [...]

The Lost Cave like an exploding Sphincter on a distant shore – the echo – so what’s new?, 1995 ink and acrylic on linen by Australian artist Dale Frank. The work can be viewed while visiting New Zealand at the Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland City, North Island. Of Dale Frank’s work, Christopher Chapman, in a [...]

Amidst tears, Haitian-born singer, Wyclef Jean, has appealed for more aid from the world via New York so that his people will not be forsaken. Jean is also urging that the city of Port-Au-Prince be evacuated so that relief agencies could go in and thoroughly assess the situation in the city before the city’s infrastructures [...]

[image caption: Children sleep two-to-a-bed in a Port-au-Prince orphanage. photog credit: James Addis /WV] Says World Vision Magazine’s blog today: “When you see help reaching people who really need it and are intensely grateful for it, the sense of exhilaration knows no bounds. This happened for me a few days ago during a visit to [...]

I’m just kidding with this blog post title, but Beyonce does look a lot like British pop star Leona Lewis in this cover image for Allure Magazine. Says the singer On her alter-ego Sasha Fierce: “The thing that’s interesting is I don’t need Sasha Fierce anymore, because I’ve grown, and I’m now able to merge the two. I want [...]

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MISS TESSA

Posted: January 19, 2010 in Art, artist, Miss Tessa
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Miss Tessa is an emerging artist that Hollywood loves. Go here to learn more about her and see one of her works. She is an artist whose time has come. Haiti calls.  ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.19.2010~

JOHNNY DEPP FOR GQ MAGAZINE

Posted: January 19, 2010 in Johnny Depp
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Only Johnny Depp could look like his hair needs a good shampoo-ing and yet still front GQ magazine’s 20 most stylish men in the world issue. What a star. It is yet not known, whether Depp will participate in the Haiti telethon effort this friday.  ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.19.2010~

Aussiello is reporting that Neil Patrick Harris will sign on to appear in Glee for the may sweeps episodes. Sounds fun. Dude can sing! [Image courtesy of NPH  Twitter] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.19.2010~

According to the Speak Easy Blog, Lady Gaga is hoping to combine her fame, with fashion for Haiti. The pop star who has always stated she wants her own fashion house is using the Haiti crises as an opportunity to get creative in order to make a difference.

Bill Kaulitz rocks the runway in DSquared designed couture for his band, Tokio Hotel on their 32 cities, Humanoid Cities Tour 2010. High maintenance much? ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.19.2010~

Britney Spears has signed on again for a second year with Candies and Kohl’s department stores.  Says Spears:“I had a great experience working with Candie’s and Kohl’s last year and I am thrilled to be asked to sign on again for a second year. We’re planning some very cool photo shoots and I can’t wait [...]

According to E! Online, Robert Pattinson has signed on to host Friday’s Hope for Haiti Telethon. Pattinson will do the London leg of the Telethon with performances by Jay-Z and Bono of Live Nation‘s talent stable. George Clooney will host from Los Angeles with Wyclef John in New York City and CNN newsman Anderson Cooper in Haiti. Musical performers [...]

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  Haiti: 10 Things by Angelina Jolie and Mother Theresa   ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.19.2010~

To Donate To Haiti Relief Effort Go Here While serving in the field in Haiti, journalist Anderson Cooper is encountering first hand the effects of starving people who are looting to survive. Such conditions are also something that is effecting the Haitian people. Cooper gives this account of an incident he witnessed, where he acted to [...]

Dr Mark Hyman is in Haiti. He’s journalling his day. His journal entry for January 18th 2010, begins with these two paragraphs: “The country has one doctor for 11,000 people. Electricity and running water are available in Port-au-Prince for two hours — on a good day. The chief surgeon at the General Hospital (the largest [...]

Let’s go fashionistas worldwide. Follow Gisele‘s lead with her $1.5 million donation as she helps hold up Haiti with her love…  by giving to Haiti today too if you can and want to. Go here to donate: Horiwood’s Celebrity Donation Links for Haiti [Image courtesy of Sølve Sundsbø via Horiwood's archives] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. [...]