Archive for January, 2012

This second photo of The Elise Doll is even more funnier than the first photograph of this plastic likeness of Angelina Jolie selling on eBay. Elise means: “The name Elise comes from the French origin. In French The meaning of the name Elise is: Consecrated to God. An abbreviation of Elisabeth, derived from a French diminutive [...]

NINA WARREN, GEORGE CLOONEY’S MOM, LOOKS YOUNGER THAN HE DOES.

In an age where everything shiny or proven gets waxed, cast in plastic, even features copied in plastic surgery comes this image of the Elise doll, featuring the features of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie who brought this character to life in The Tourist film. The doll is selling on Ebay for $400 and comes with [...]

Hu Haifeng and  Hu Haiqing of China are children of China’s first family of political leadership. We don’t hear much of them in the West. Odd for these two names to go relatively unknown here in the USA, especially given the fact that they are the names for the children of a first family of [...]

Thailand is a place Americans love right now. In particular, the Hua Hin Blue Lagoon Beach Resort has managed to outrank even Sir Paul McCartney appearing on Saturday Night Live this weekend, at this minute on Google’s trending topics. Although Hua Hin is not to be confused with the Benny Hinn and Suzanne Hinn divorce [...]

What is the world coming to? The website Gawker has been hacked. “Millions of people are likely affected by the breach because of the popularity of Gawker’s sites such as Gizmodo, a tech gadget news site, said Rich Mogull, CEO of Phoenix-based Securosis, a security research firm. The damage should be minimal, though, because Gawker [...]

Some quotes from Gwenneth Paltrow regarding her iPod playlist: “I watched Beyonce a ton because I think she’s the best live performer happening right now. She has this amazing confidence and I thought to myself if I could just get a tiny bit of that self confidence then maybe I can pull off this scene [...]

I notice that a lot of you are looking for Jeffrey Lurie information today on Horiwood.Com. He’s ranked Forbes Magazine‘s #937 billionaire in the world. How did Jeffrey do it? “Grandfather Philip Smith (d.1961) created family fortune with movie theater operator General Cinema, investments. After Ph.D. from Brandeis and teaching social policy at Boston University, [...]

BU by ALBERT EINSTEIN

Posted: December 13, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement–Albert Einstein –Forbes website, front page 12.12.10 ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.12.10~

An empty chair for Liu Xiaobo led to this performance of Virtual Insanity by angsty kid of the dance-lounge world Jamiroquai at the Nobel Peace Prize Awards this year. Of course, one nation’s vision of heaven or a paradise could be another nation’s version of a complete nightmare, perhaps indicating that more cross-cultural dialogue on [...]

The sitar is always so pretty, exotic, otherworldly-twangy. Here’s AR Rahman’s performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2010. Indian dance choreography compliments his visual performance in a mode that only Bollywood fully knows and presents all year round to the world. Very cool. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.12.10~

A few months ago a precious Aunty of Los Angeles passed away this day, on the 12th of the month. Her name was Elvira. Here’s Alexander Rybak‘s performance of Fairytale on violin in honor of her life, her spirit of Peace and her fine taste in good things. This version was performed in honor of Barack [...]

Sivert Hoyem is very Midnight Oil in his vocal sound as he sings up a storm at the Nobel Peace Prize concert this weekend. This version is fan footage of Hoyem’s performance. Pirate old world wisdom in his lyrics: “Into the sea” is his message. “One godd friend, makes up for ten bad ones/ Old [...]

Check out Robyn singing at the Nobel Peace Prize Awards 2010. She sings of being two-timed on, of betrayal, or amusing yourself while waiting for respect. She sings of letting the bad ones in and letting the good ones go and yet still loving like she’s never been hurt before. Deep. Electro-pop electronic driven music [...]

Willow Smith‘s innocent comments about who should be educating children (in her star status case) perhaps denote that some parents think the schooling system is overrated when educating their children. Here’s what Ms. Willow said to The Telegraph & CBS; ”I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my [...]

EVE’S INK

Posted: December 13, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Eve’s tiger paws ink make a statement on Inked Magazine‘s cover. Really, this girl needs more rings. Right? ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~

One of my most favorite characters in world history was Daniel. Translated his name means “God is my judge.” He could interpret political times and the dreams of kings. He could read writing on the wall. He walked with men as wise and courageous as he was. Daniel was captured as a teenager and yet [...]

Life-size Lady Gaga candles were made in the pop star’s likeness, not once but eight times by Madame Tussauds, the museum that is like a blog with celebrities visage, except that they use the wax as their artistic medium to make a buck. Their existence as a museum is proof that often people prefer the iconography [...]

  A SCIENCE/ HEALTH STORY: “The United Kingdom and New Zealand health ministers have advised parents not to use soy-based infant formula. Studies have found that soy-fed infants have estrogen levels an average of seventeen thousand times higher than infants fed human or cow’s milk.” “The wonder bean that vegans, vegetarians, and health food nuts [...]

The official engagement photos of Prince William and Kate Middleton have arrived. These ones photographed by Mario Testino. Sweet pics of young love. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~

ELIZABETH HURLEY AND CRICKETER SHANE WARNE?

Posted: December 12, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Elizabeth Hurley tweets a response when pics of her flirting with Australian cricketer Shane Warne surfaced prompted questions about Elizabeth and her husband Arun Nayer: “Not a great day. For the record, my husband Arun & I separated a few months ago. Our close family & friends were aware of this.” ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California [...]

Ayres Rock in Uluru, Australia provided the perfect grounding moment for Oprah Winfrey, Thursday to let loose and recharge–heading into Oprah’s big move to California and her launch of the OWN network. [Image courtesy of Getty Images] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~

Queensland Australia is a lot of fun. I first visited playing rugby football when I was 9 years of age. Brisbane was always a happy place to visit. Sweet pineapples and macadamia nuts are all grown in abundance, on the sun-kissed terrain that is called the Australia’s Gold Coast. Here’s Jay-Z and Beyonce snapped lunching [...]

ELIZABETH EDWARDS WAS LIKE A LIGHTHOUSE

Posted: December 12, 2010 in Uncategorized
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According to Cate Edwards daughter of Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards – Cate’s mother Elizabeth was like a light to the American people. Here’s what she said about Elizabeth who was laid to rest in North Carolina today: “She has been a light house to all of us. She’s always been that source of light to [...]

Beautiful! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~

WE ARE ALMOST AT 2.8 MILLION IN HOLLYWOOD 12.11.10

Posted: December 12, 2010 in Uncategorized
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We are well on the way to reaching the 2.8 million benchmark on Horiwood.Com here in Hollywood. Thanks everyone. Much love. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~

[Photograph via Lady Summer's Tour of New Zealand] Many nations have had their Foreign Affairs diplomatic laundry aired via wikileaks regarding dealing with the USA. Via the New Zealand Herald, here’s some links. Hardly riveting news but none-the-less a good insight into how New Zealand and US relations have been seen in the past –and [...]

One leaked wikileaks cable shows former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer thought New Zealand was a nation of “bleeding hearts“. How rude. Here’s Canada’s one and only, Lisa Lavie singing up a storm with Leona Lewis’ song of the UK then –in celebration of Kiwi’s being transparent enough to wear our big hearts on our sleeves, and [...]

MTV NEWS sat down and had a chat about Angelina Jolie who is promoting Tourist. Jolie was ambushed with an avalanche of questions. It was rapid fire answer back time. Some of them were: Q: Rumor has it that your husband, Brad Pitt, is going to have a cameo in your directorial debut, a drama set [...]