Archive for January, 2012

Rocker Bret Michaels says that Every Rose Has Its Thorn is a classic song worldwide and may be Miley Cyrus second song, from her Can’t Be Tamed album to drop on radio. Meanwhile on the rugby field, Brad Thorn of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, is getting ready for Rugby World Cub 2011. [...]

Two things. a) This quote for Cher about Christina Arguilera in Burlesque made me laugh harder than “Britney Spears conservatorship is almost over” celebrity news this weekend. Says Cher: “I watched Christina, an incredible singer and dancer with one of the most exceptional voices I’ve ever heard, change before my eyes into a fine actress. It [...]

Los Angeles favorite Jewish-Catholic talk show host of Late Night TV, was spotted getting closer, with rap star, actor Fifty Cent in a dual publicity build up of film, TV talk and music. Both were spotted at the Blue Nile jazz bar in New Orleans. Cute. [Pic via TMZ] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.4.10~

Here’s two takes on the art of sataying from Top Chef‘s Padma Lakshmi in Singapore. Watch Lakshmi at Daily Motion, here. And Caroline Artiss is infusing her recipe below with lemon juice and brown sugar, from the UK. In California it’s good to hear a U.K accent other than Simon Cowell‘s or Cat Deely of So You [...]

What does a New Zealander look like? Namaste. Kia Ora. Hello. It’s a pretty overcast day in California. One of the rare days where it is raining. As I blog to you all, from my Hollywood window, mist clouds sit on the Hollywood Hills, wafting half way down The Hills. A picture of austere beauty, [...]

The question on America’s lips today is: Did Lady Gaga wear a sheer bodysuit, while Yoko Ono was all military MC at John Lennon’s 70th birthday celebrations? Ahem. It’s an irony that a time where unemployment is a smidge bit OOC, here in the U.S, that people who do have jobs, aren’t really doing them. [...]

Like America, Canada agrees, Christina Hendricks has flare. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.3.10~

I see that the Kilbirnie Blog likes Green Party related political news. Especially news about kinsman, Kennedy Graham. The original post on that can be read here. As the big news story today, via The New York Times, concerned the US issuing ‘terrorist attack warnings’ to Americans travelling in Europe, until January 2011, Ken offers words of [...]

Kia ora (Hello). For those of you au fait with horiwood.com, you will know that some bloggers in Hollywood (namely, me) are completely obsessed with interweaving A-List celebrity news with rugby football players. Clint Eastwood did that Nelsen Mandela film about rugby football with Matt Damon not too long ago, so some Hollywood peeps share [...]

Hollywood and Silicon Valley are divided on the Mark Zuckerberg film, (also see #2); but it still cleans up to an opening weekend of $23 million. My favorite critics headline was:  Academy Likes ‘Social Network,’ But — ‘Too Many A—holes’ to Win? Just a typical Hollywood week then. When it comes to our top celebrity, entertainment [...]

According to India target.com. These things are going on in the Jolie-Pitt camp: Brad Pitt spotted with a wedding ring Angelina Jolie reaches out to Jennifer Aniston Robert Pattinson to play the role of Angelina Jolie’s son I don’t know how India is so well-informed on their Hollywood news. But apparently they are. Read these [...]

The front page of the Washington Post yesterday examined, brain damage from veterans of war. As can be recalled the Veteran’s budget was approved to be 80% more under Obama, than what it previously was to accommodate for Iraq and Afghanistan troops serving abroad from the U.S. Currently, 10% of all U.S citizens are registered [...]

Totally digging Australian singer-songwriter for American pop stars, Sia and her “legs” and sense of humor in this music video for Clap Your Hands. She’s a lot of fun. Like Gwen Stefani meets Nelly Furtado in her sound on this track. Enjoy. [I'm calling this new music in the US, because it is. We don't [...]

Chicago. The Musical. Hollywood. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.3.10~

Today, if you haven’t already, check out Katharine Graham, the lady who bounced back from tragedy, to lead the Washington Post for 40 years where her journalistic team remember her as giving them all: “remarkable freedom in the news room.” Watch a slide show of her story and life here. And may Washington always exemplify [...]

Pakistan – ISLAMABAD — Suspected militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 tankers carrying oil for NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Monday, the third such strike inside Pakistan in as many days, police said. Police officer Umer Hayat said three people were killed and blamed Monday’s attack on “terrorists.” Are Europeans [...]

So American. :) ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.3.10~

So French. :) ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.3.10~

A TWEET FROM SIA

Posted: October 3, 2010 in Sia, Twitter
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Aussie pop star, singer-songwriter, Sia, is always much loved for her talent as well as her quirky off-the-wall sense of humor. Here’s her latest tweet on twitter: “Froot loops I love yooooooooooooou (sung).” Cute. Sia can be followed on My Space, here. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.3.10~

Kanye West is the man, that President Obama, off the record was video taped saying “the guy’s an ass” during a White House press interview. Performing two new songs on SNL, Power and Runaway the artist Kanye West was a fusion between, Jay-Z‘s Caesar complex (upped several notches) and the male hip hop version of [...]

Eminem’s video for new song,“No Love” feat Lil Wayne, has dropped.  Believe it or not, this is another cultural defining moment of pop culture here in the U.S, Eminem always being a favorite rap star of the people. Katharine Graham a remarkable woman who led and worked at the Washington Post for four decades, is honored [...]

Eva Gabor is the exotic Hollywood beauty who was born in Budapest, the baby daughter of Vilmos Gábor (1884-1962), a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (1894-1997). She was the first Gabor sister to immigrate to the USA. We have Eva to thank for being a trailblazing humorist in the Gabor family and their contribution to Hollywood entertainment. [...]

STIR IT UP

Posted: October 3, 2010 in Twitter
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This post is being tweeted right now: If Steve Jobs was a singing hippy Lol! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.2.10~

Daniel Radcliffe – the star whose been most active in the past two years, fighting the gay teen suicides trend, in a lot of his movie publicity, has signed with United Talent Agency’s Tracey Jacobs and partner Billy Lazarus. Radcliffe’s search for the right U.S agency has been heavily contested but Jacobs and Lazarus won out [...]

Prime Visioni deserves a blog post today. Here’s Robert Pattinson allegedly for Ciak Magazine Italy. Emile deRaven providing Ozzie girl bad presence, for every Twilight Mom in Italy to throw their pizza crusts at her, while watching Remember Me at home on DVD. Actually, Italians don’t really have pizza crusts with authentico Italian pizzas, that’s [...]

‘Visibility as Credibility’–symbols as reality, in the new social media digital age in which we all live. News websites are buzzing with news that Hollywood beauty Natalie Portman would spill the beans on Harvard’s inner circle of who didn’t get A grades like she did, because they were doing other things on campus. This Portman, [...]

Zsa Zsa Gabor is no longer on a feeding tube but can eat matzo ball zupa on her own. Excellent. And, as we’re having a focus on gay teen suicide prevention this week (the latest crises in the U.S), here’s Ms. Eve (sometimes rapper?) on that topic. She’s very Temptations, as in afro-ed wisdom singing - “just reach [...]

Today, tennis playing author, Robert Ellis had a book signing event at Borders in Westwood, according to Westside Today. A report on the event, coming soon, as updates arrive. And if Peace is a song, it’s also a dance all can enter into in a rhythm nation. Here’s some retro Janet Jackson as a reminder [...]

  Janet Jackson and Wissam Al Mana were the good looking couple at Lanvin‘s Parisian show. And Dita von Teese was the rose of the show too with Lenny Kravitz. Celebrities, entertainment news, as picked by US here in Hollywood on Friday 1st October 2010 were: 1. Block Party by Beyonce 2. Teenagers: Dustin Lance [...]