Archive for January, 2012

Here’s a cute story that involves a baby dolphin. It was sourced from The Washington Post, whose been having a dolphin fascination for the last month as a theme of marine biology news in the nation’s capitol. Here’s the story. Richard Tesore, director of the group Rescate Fauna Marina, holds a baby dolphin in a [...]

Royal engagement fuels sapphire frenzy: Minutes after the world first glimpsed the sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring Prince William gave his fiancee Kate Middleton, the same one Princess Diana once wore, phones started ringing madly at a Manhattan jewelry maker. Watch video via the Associated Press above. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.17.10~

Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s royal engagement made it in full color on The Washington Post today. Cute. In other news, The Post ranks these topics as popular newsworthy items on its website for DC people: A leonid meteor shower, TSA, and F-22. Sarah Palin that tea party lady from Alaska, whose reality show debut [...]

Her best friend, Jessica Simpson is garnering mad tabloid headlines with the most romantic engagement story in America right now, with her beau Eric Johnson. This is not the case for Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives fame. The latina princess of Texas is seriously contemplating divorce from her basketballer French beau Tony Parker. Here’s a [...]

It’s hard to believe that we continue to make history here in Hollywood on this first ever entertainment blog created daily by a hori (Maori- Kiwi) of Los Angeles. Tomorrow we all would have reached the 2.7 million benchmark on Horiwood.Com. Who would have thought? Certainly, not me. Of that I have you all to [...]

Hollywood history. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.17.10. VF~

I have a friend whose an agent representing top Hollywood stars. They sent me this poem by email. It’s very dark. It only takes one A-List star to ‘misbehave’ to make a Hollywood agent artistically dark. Here’s their poem as their therapy today: Why am I and so many others unhappy, sad, filled with fear [...]

Could a magazine cover be any cuter for Star Magazine? No! Too Cute. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.17.10~

Health & Fitness is US in California as Glee’s Matthew Morrison proves on the cover of Details Magazine, this month. Morrison jokes that the Hollywood kids on Glee look up to him. “I am a teacher to them. I’ve taken a few under my wing. I don’t want to say they idolize me, but…” via [...]

Newlywed and country music darling, Carrie Underwood is a picture of happiness on the cover of InStyle. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.17.10~

For Vogue – Penelope Cruz is such a pretty cover girl. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.17.10~

Sources: BBC. Washington Post. Free Public. Soccer News. IBTimes. Reuters. Daylife. Social News. Zmarter. While I was blogging I noticed these sentiments occurring in political and cultural life here in America The Beautiful. Billionaire Anti-Waste activist. Latina. Jews. Ex Us Texan Presidents. A Chinese Classical Musician. Black American activists. Sports leaders. Relatives of The Kennedy [...]

Who: Te Aute Boys High School and Hukarere Maori Girls High School of New Zealand. What: Performing a Waiata Tira (Traditional Song). Their performing arts genre is called kapa haka. Why: To perpetuate their unique Indigenous Peoples worldview and language in a modern world. Their language: Smiles and Te Reo Rangatira (The Language of Chiefs). [...]

The Valley always brings a smile. In right or wrong ways. Here’s some images of “Native American Indian” Art, right on Ventura Blvd in The Valley, California. More specifically located at The Indian Art Center of California. A shop. Worth sharing today as a commentary on society in general. There wasn’t a real Indian in [...]

This just in from Lindsay Schickner: Michelle Obama Recycles Festive Michael Kors Red Dress for Medal of Honor Ceremony. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.17.10~

Meet Madison Hunter. She fancies herself as the next Nestle Milkybar Kid of New Zealand. I don’t know anything about Madison, but if you want to be a cowgirl in New Zealand Madison, growing up and having fun, then I’m all for your bid, here in Hollywood. Go honey! Here’s looking at you kid, today [...]

“Baby you’re a challenge, let me explore your talent” – Rihanna, October 2010. Rihanna performed her new single What’s my name? on The Late Show with David Letterman yesterday. Three thoughts: a) it’s nice to see RiRi include more inflections of Barbados hip hop in her vocal inflections. She shows a confidence in her own [...]

Priceless. Swifty and Dame Liz – Two people who helped build the Hollywood star system. One threw the best parties each year, where next year’s deals were brokered and A-List star rankings were determined. The other reenacted, what she knew of a star system that had worked for centuries. She acted like a Queen of [...]

How romantic. In turning up for a photo call with the British Media – Prince William Windsor and his bride to be Kate Middleton both looked a picture of love and all things romantic pertaining to a lifelong commitment to each other and inspiring growth and well being for a Commonwealth Empire. Their engagement ring [...]

Being British and growing up watching how the British monarchy rocked out jewels to make a power statement on special occasions, was great training for Dame Elizabeth Taylor when she got to Hollywood and set out to conquer this show biz town. Liz always knew when to raise her value by wearing jewels that kept [...]

Anyone who writes your name and has an audience is really a friend of your brand–Horiwood on Rihanna 2010′s. Go kid. In an interview with a radio show, Rihanna had these gem words to say about reading blogs and what she thinks of bloggers: “I still read the blogs sometimes, it depends on what it [...]

Dennis Hopper will always be remembered at The Oscars for wearing his cowboy hat in 1970, while taking his date Michelle Phillips of The Mommas & the Poppas . How cool was he? Also pictured here with Jack Nicholson the year Easy Rider starring Peter Fonda became the modern version of the Buddy Movie  which [...]

Who: Glee Talent Search Where: Oxygen TV wesbite Casting Details: Production will start up next month, with casting calls in Chicago Dec. 18 and 19, and then in Dallas Jan. 8 and 9. The Prize: The reality series, which searches for the next Glee guest star (guaranteed a multi-episode arc on the hit show), will [...]

Singer, Nelly Furtado has her greatest hits album on the table. She’s halfway through righting a new album, working title Lifestyle that she says singing on her last album Mi Plan in Espanol is influencing. Being a latina hottie, whose also exotic to Canada, she’s a star of America’s future and Canada officially inducted this [...]

“When the memories die, I’m waiting. And I find you – falling down”–Velvet Revolver. You know when good rock bands need to emerge, when footage of a rock band live in concert in2005 is rating hot today like a leading rock bands recent concert. It denotes a trend that people want rock music that has [...]

If I was to ever covet anyone’s career, it would probably be someone artistic like LA Times photographer Carolyn Cole. She sees the faces of war for a job, yet her artistic take on her war coverage – really is modern art. I like her work a lot. Here’s an image from her body of [...]

Tennis News via Mark Hodgkinson of Fan Fdr: Andy Murray, who has been drawn in Roger Federer‘s group, along with Robin Soderling and David Ferrer, is aware that the psychological benefits of winning an indoor hard-court tournament in late November in the east of the city would be useful ahead of a certain outdoor grass-court [...]

History looks like Tony Curtis & Barbara Rush sharing a table at Oscars big night in 1960, when Jack Lemmon lucked out that night for his Oscar-nominated performance in Some Like it Hot . Curtis comments can be read below, about how Oscars parties back in the day, would determine the next wave of A-List [...]

Ryan Seacrest is selling his Hollywood Hills home. When you’re a star in Hollywood, you don’t really look to a real estate agent to sell your home. As Ryan proves today, you more look to the Hollywood Reporter to be your real estate magician. Check out these snaps of the Reporter doing that for Mr [...]