Archive for January, 2012

“You’re not watching TV, honey. It’s a live show.” – Adam Lambert, stopping mid-song to ask a member of the audience to get off her cell phone, at his iheartradio secret show at New York’s P.C. Richard & Son Theater Images courtesy of Getty Images. News source: People Magazine ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. [...]

An interesting headline today, ”Fame cost me the love of my life” from Grazia Magazine, featuring the image of Italian-American golden girl of pop, Lady Gaga. Let’s face it, Stefani Germanotta is holding out for Robert Pattinson and he could do with her musical genius, to help spin him into a rock star, like where Pattinson wants to [...]

Being chola is all the rage for pop divas, trying to expand their music markets. Latino kids, are the next big youth audience market in the US of A demographically. Tweeted  Taylor Swift: “I just used a Sharpie as eye liner in the airplane bathroom about 22 hours ago from Echofo Fellow pop star peer, Katy Perry [...]

  Michael Douglas is back on Wall Street. Movie Trailer above. [News Source: Huffington Post] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.19.2010~

… with the Jonas Brothers. Enjoy the celebs-cameos fierceness! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.19.2010~

This viral image making the rounds on the internet today, of Tiger Woods with his precious Asian momma, at Tiger’s “apology press conference” today, screams all kinds of wrong. How sci fi. Funny though. :) ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.19.2010~

Simon Cowell can be such an English gentleman. When quizzed about his thoughts on Ellen DeGeneres whose chomping at the bit for Simon’s top job, up for grabs on American Idol, Cowell says: “I’ll tell you why I think Ellen was a good choice: She actually is very responsible for people she has performing on [...]

OUCH!

Posted: February 19, 2010 in Horiwood Shout Outs
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There is much truth in the old addage, that “ignorance is bliss.” Last night in Hollywood… a very well-meaning friend, kindly took me aside, to question the authenticity of Horiwood.Com, explaining to me, that my blog, was “just like any other Hollywood news bloggers celebrity and entertainment news” and wasn’t “New Zealand enough to be [...]

This is a true Hollywood story. You’re welcome. :) James Cameron isn’t the only one appropriating Maori culture to get ahead in Hollywood to create the biggest box office film ever in the history of Hollywood. Or further delving into Maori culture in the future, to create the next New York Times best selling series of novels [...]

TIGER WOODS FULL APOLOGY

Posted: February 19, 2010 in TIger Woods
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Watch here. The brotha is sorry. Noted. :) ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.19.2010~

Poetry set to music is what Jason Mraz does as an artist. The man whose album We Beg, We Steal, We Borrow provided the most honest commentary of what makes a pop star great in the World. The album resonated in 2009 in America, with Jason Mraz becoming the artist on the charts for the [...]

Alicia Keys turns up the heat for Gotham Magazine in NYC. The Jonas Brothers play football. And here in the beautiful City of Angels, here’s how you ranked and voted your top ten news posts today. Enjoy! 1. The Jolie-Pitt twinlets go out for lunch in Venice 2. Shaun White & Shani Davis win gold at the [...]

Thought for Today: Just Because someone is different … doesn’t mean we exclude them from our gaze and equal attention. Based on Vanity Fair‘s rather racist concept of their annual Young Hollywood issue for March 2010; that also committed the faux pas of excluding Oscars leading Young actress this year, Gabourey Sidibe of the film Precious, these [...]

If you live in Los Angeles or are currently visiting LA, don’t forget to check out David Willardson‘s IconixArt portrait of Pop Artist, Andy Warhol that’s hung in the Rebecca Molayem Art Gallery on Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood. Buy art in California. Buy Art period. Support artists. Oh… and come visit LA. So much fun [...]

Just sayin. Tiger Woods sells newspapers off the shelves. [Image courtesy of  Nymag.com] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.18.2010~

The hot pic of the day today is Knox Jolie-Pitt with his dad, Brad Pitt while on a three month stay in Venice. He looks just like his father. :) Update: Actually… this is Shiloh Jolie-Pitt having a missing tooth butch day. :) [Image courtesy of MSNBC] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.18.2010~

SUZANNE HINN WIFE OF EVANGELIST BENNY HINN FILES FOR DIVORCE

Posted: February 19, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Big story of the day: What happens when a woman who can raise more money each year for humanitarian causes than a global pop superstar like Lady Gaga can–files for divorce? This is Suzanne Hinn‘s story today.

Um… dear Auckland City, New Zealand… you’re doing way too much down there promoting a Hollywood TV show starring the Arquette family’s Ray Drecker. Ridiculous! I think this Hung billboard has really outdone Welliewood’s last laugh-out-loud billboard effort of hotel heiress, Paris Hilton. Oh… how I miss the Kiwi sense of humor some days here in The City [...]

Jennifer Hudson’s white moustache is so cute! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.18.2010~

… that’s a first. It’s all about the Winter Olympics and athletes at the top of their game on snow and ice–having their moment. I might go for a hike up Runyon Canyon; where the original Gabrilino and Tongva First Nation tribes of Los Angeles used to reside and get an over-view of Hollywood City… in a bit. :) [...]

This is the paradigm shift of all paradigm shifts in Hollywood, this century. James Cameron who brought the world, Titanic and Avatar the two biggest Hollywood films in box office history, has worked out where the future of Hollywood lies. In the novelist. Having achieved almost every accolade Hollywood can offer, Cameron has announced his [...]

This is a Walter Kim Post: The success of Hollywood this coming decade, depends on authors of book series and good books, finding their voice from the page of a book that has sold way, to the screen. Somehow, the Academy of Arts Motion Sciences has not yet made this corelation yet about book authors [...]

The Oscars showcases the people in Hollywood filmmaking (with a foreign film section too); who are the most talented at movie making as voted here in LA. People make the Oscars, but the backdrop for the Awards Show requires a lot of technical preparation. Adam Shankman, Oscars producer, spills the beans on the challenges he’s [...]

America is celebrating Shaun White‘s gold medal in the men’s half pipe and Shani Davis’ golden moment in the 1,000 metres speed skate race that took him only 69 seconds. Wow! That’s awesome. [Image of Shaun White courtesy of The Guardian UK and Shani Davis image courtesy of AP News] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. [...]

The worlds most famous twin babies, Vivienne and Knox Jolie-Pitt accompanied their parents to lunch in Italy at a local trattoria in Venice. Angelina Jolie gets set to film her new film with Johnny Depp as the family is Venice based. Too cute. [Image courtesy of infdaily.com] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.17.2010~

In Orlando Florida, Tiger Woods made his first public appearance in months by going for a light jog. Woods is looking good as the golfer gets ready for his press conference this Friday. [Image courtesy of Getty via US Weekly] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.17.2010~

… talking British electricians is a riot in Out Magazine. What a comedian. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.17.2010~

Growing up, one of my favorite poets (alongwith Jack Kerouac and Maya Angelou) was undoubtedly, Maori indigenous poet of New Zealand, Hone Tuwhare. He was a real character and I went to college with his grandchildren. They are a talented, humble, creative, funny and fun family. Hone’s grandson Kahu writes brilliant poetry too. Because the New Zealand [...]

Has the Winter Olympics got you amped up to go skiing on your next planned vacation. Here’s an image of Mt Aoraki in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand, to schedule into your next Winter holiday plans. In New Zealand, like here in California, you can ski and go swimming at the beach in [...]