Denim detail, humanitarian spray paint stencil on pavement, more denim – as snapped on Melrose in the denim capitol of the world. Buzzing today! Many twenty and thirty something Australians here shopping. Good to see. Let’s go Melrose Fashion District and Aussie! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.8.10~
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DENIM DETAIL – MELROSE – WEST HOLLYWOOD
Posted: January 9, 2011 in Awesome Aussies, California, Denim, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, MelroseApparently you can sue a Kardashian for $75 million. Yikes! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.8.11~
MEET GABRIEL CORBIN, AN ACTOR LIVING IN CALIFORNIA
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Actors, California, Gabriel Corbin, Hollywood Today, Real People Real LA FacesGabriel Corbin is an actor who introduced himself last night when author, screenwriter, blogger Melanie Lutz and I were having a chat in a cafe. Corbin is ready for a solid break. Gabriel’s sense of humor in movie roles to date bring a smile. What a good sport. Hire this guy in a lead role. He’s a [...]
WALL STREET JOURNAL SAYS STEP ON IT TO JOB HIRERS
Posted: January 8, 2011 in America, Employment, ParentingYou can put a race car on a race track to recovery but when it comes to American job hirers… put the pedal to the metal says the Wall Street Journal today. In a story that reflects shifting cultural times, Amy Chua brings on a case of the LOLs in her story Why Chinese Mothers [...]
KRISTEN DODD AND THE TEN BEST CITIES FOR WOMEN IN THE US – HEALTHY AND HAPPY STATES
Posted: January 8, 2011 in A Different View, America, Health & Beauty, Health Care, WomenSo you’re a woman who values health and happiness over anything else as your expression of living life to the full in the land of the brave and the free? Where could you live then in America? Kristen Dodd shares Women’s Health Magazine and Men’s Health combined readers poll results to rate 100 U.S. cities in [...]
INDUSTRY TOWN – HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS WITH POLITICS SPICE – 1.7.11
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Elijah Wood, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, hobbits, Hollywood Entertainment News, Movie News, Politics, Washington D.C, Young HollywoodWyck Godfrey of Twilight Breaking Dawn gives fan’s an early inside Q & A session. Elijah Wood gets the call up to reappear for Sir Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit – Part I movie hotness. 3D magic! J.K Rowling finds a fair judge in Shira Sheindlin who loves the originality of Harry Potter. Adrian Jacobs cries. In September, Star Wars [...]
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – FRI 1.7.11
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hair Trends, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Josh HollowayJosh Holloway covers details magazine. It’s all about the Hollywood hair. Entertainment and celebrity news posts you loved and voted globally today via the Hollywood hood right here on Horiwood.Com. Peace ya’ll! Thanks everyone. Our top ten today are: 1. Madonna is no.1 today. 2. Taylor Swift and Zac Efron – Peoples Choice 3. Kristen Stewart, Taylor [...]
BRAHIM ZAIBAT HEADS TO MADONNA’S LONDON MANSION FOR AFTER CLUB DRINKS
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Brahim Zaibat, London, MadonnaMadonna has managed to get the number 1 spot on the blog today. Why? I don’t know! Maybe its her penchant as a creative story-teller to continue to turn on a show for her fans worldwide. In this version, Madonna brings us her contemporary London tale that could be titled ‘Little Red Riding Hood: The [...]
TE REO RANGATIRA RUGBY HISTORY, OCEANIA’S TRAILBLAZING HINEWEHI MOHI AND AUNTY NAIDA GLAVISH, ARE HEROES WHO HAVE HELPED REVIVE MAORI LANGUAGE, PRESENCE, VISIBILITY AS LEADERS
Posted: January 8, 2011 in A Different View, Cross-Cultural Narratives, Culture, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hinewehi Mohi, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hollywood Maori Kings, Hollywood Today, Hori = Maori, Indigenous Thinking, Leadership, Maori, Music Industry News, Music Videos, New Zealand, Ngati Kahungungu, Ngati Whatua, Producers, Te Reo Rangatira, Think Green, Tino Rangatiratanga, World History, World News, World PeaceTrailblazers are US-Kiwi – Hollywood Today 2011 Did you know that Te Reo Rangatira is a language holding deeply embedded truth principles, like living words acting as guardians for people and earth preservation: Weird good things happen in Hollywood. A day or so ago in Hollywood, I did a blog post about Virtual Oceania a [...]
KATY PERRY’S COOKING FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS – TOFURKY
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Katy Perry, Pop Cultural Commentary, Russell Brand, What's Cooking in Your Kitchen for The World?Look what I discovered today, what Katy Perry cooks hubby Russell Brand on special holiday occasions. The tofurky! Oh – so that’s how Katy Perry finds the time to cook as well as entertain America! Just heat and serve. It looks like turkey, smells like turkey, at a stretch could mildly taste like turkey but its [...]
DANIEL PIERCE VOICE TALENT TURNS ANIMATION SCREENWRITER
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Daniel Pierce, Hollywood Today, Real People Real LA Faces, Trends, Voice Talent, Young HollywoodNow blogging again in Hollywood, I’ve just met Daniel Pierce voice-over talent who has worked out he can screenwrite too. That way he doesn’t have to always just read other peoples words. He tells me Hugo Weaving, UK is who he’s like. Or Sam Elliot for an American comparison. Dennis Haysburt if booking for TVC work [...]
WORK ETHIC AND ENGLISH ACTORS – HOLLYWOOD CAFE TALK – 1.7.10 @ 6.20pm
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Actors, California, Christian Bale, Colin Firth, Cross-Cultural Narratives, Culture, Dame Helen Mirren, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hollywood Today, Pop Cultural Commentary, Russell Brand, UKAs I’m blogging a few peeps in the Hollywood cafe today are praising the work ethic of English actors. Our topic of conversation is also about Brits elevating the tone of Hollywood film. (I never said that!). Obviously my new cafe Hollywood industry friends haven’t been watching S.B Cohen or Russell Brand comedic movies, that [...]
NANCY PELOSI HANDS OVER D.C’S HAMMER
Posted: January 8, 2011 in America, Grey Power, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Politics, Symbols, Washington D.CMC Hammer Blogging from Hollywood today: Or mallet, whatever your favorite word choice is for carved wooden object symbolizing order. MC Pelossi hands over the hammer to MC Boehner today. In not being stuck in the past I have to shake off the niggling thought that already I think I preferred Nancy holding the mallet [...]
MOVIE TRAILERS – GREEN LANTERN VS GREEN HORNET
Posted: January 8, 2011 in America, Box Office Stars, Hollywood Entertainment News, Jay Chou, Movie News, Movie Trailers, Pop Cultural Commentary, Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen, Superpowers discourse and directionPlanes, jets, “fast cars,” “defenders of the world,” green technology subtexts, with American boys in the leading roles in Hollywood action film texts like The Green Lantern & The Green Hornet. The latter being more Asian friendly in casting. Which trailer do you like? Hornet’s Storyline featuring Seth Green & Jay Chou: “Playboy Britt Reid [...]
QUICK STRIDES – CHINA’S MILITARY HAS PRODUCED A SUPED UP STEALTH JET FIGHTER MODEL
Posted: January 8, 2011 in A Different View, California, China, Economy, Education, Mathematics, Phsyics, Politics, Superpowers discourse and direction, Symbols, War, World History, World News, World PeaceWalking on the Chinese Wall while Blogging in Hollywood: Front page of The Los Angeles Times today. Believe it or not? With China excelling in mathematics, physics and all things bright and brainy in the college educational drives of China’s nation building efforts – it’s not really a surprise that China is taking on green technologies [...]
True grit is something you need in L.A. Kerouac once described L.A as “the harshest city in America.” I think he meant, L.A develops unique character and strength if you stay. Jack was but a tourist on the outside looking in for a fleeting second. On the note of developing grit, here’s a movie trailer [...]
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – THUR 1.6.11
Posted: January 7, 2011 in Ashton Kutcher, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Natalie PortmanNatalie Portman wore silk pleated chiffon to hide her baby bump when presenting with Ashton Kutcher last night at the Peoples Choice Awards. The film production company owner has well and truly got a full plate these days. Ten names ranked today. This is our top ten. Enjoy! 1. About Horiwood: Nathan Smith 2. Elizabeth Edwards [...]
BEING OPEN TO CRITICISM – PART 1,000,007! 1.6.11
Posted: January 7, 2011 in Critique as Spinach, Hollywood TodayCriticism is that thing I love-hate. I love it as there is no true growth unless we are open to criticism from others. I hate it, because your last nerve, you think is needed for survival and bravado purposes–gets removed in the process. Life knocks us around enough, and to then go back into the [...]
MADONNA’S MANNERS BENEATH HER EGO ARE LIKE NO OTHER STAR
Posted: January 7, 2011 in Gratitude, MadonnaMADONNA – A STAR OF GRATITUDE WITH MANNERS – This one for R & JJ. Thanks for the support. :)
KENZO SIMMONS, WASHINGTON DC, HOLLYWOOD LINKS – 1.6.11
Posted: January 7, 2011 in America, Hollywood Entertainment News, Kenzo Simmons, News, Politics, Washington D.CTahi, Rua, Toru. The cuteness award today goes to this little fellah Kenzo Simmons – as referred today by the TUB blog. Thanks. Too cute! Jamie Pressly has such big blue DUI eyes. Not a bad mug shot considering the circumstances. Poor doll. Taxi’s R US! Ted Haggard gets his own reality TV show. Jury’s [...]
LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD’S GIVING PLEDGE LETTER INSPIRES
Posted: January 6, 2011 in America, Billionaire HQ on Horiwood.Com, Billionaire Philanthropy, Billionaire Women, Billionaires, Community, Compassion, Gratitude, John Arnold, Laura Arnold, Leadership, Star System - The Art of American CelebrityWrite Laura and John Arnold after getting hoodwinked into joining Warren Buffet, Melinda and Bill Gates The Giving Pledge scheme: “We look upon our financial position with a mix of disbelief and humility, never having dreamed that we would be in this situation. Our backgrounds are similar to that of many Americans. We each had [...]
THE JEWS ON MY STREET – 1.6.11
Posted: January 6, 2011 in America, Casting, Ezra, Hollywood Today, Israel, Kool Kiwis, Krazy Kiwis, New Zealand, Oscar Schindler, Spirit, West Hollywood, World PeaceAs I was observing the Jewish community gathering on my street, I was thinking how we don’t have many Jewish people in New Zealand. I grew up with some in primary school (grade school) and had one Jewish friend in college in writing class. Other than that, there weren’t that many Jewish people in my [...]
KRISTEN STEWART, TAYLOR LAUTNER, ROBERT PATTINSON LIGHT UP PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS 2011
Posted: January 6, 2011 in Action Stars, California, Kristen Stewart, Native American Indians, Robert Pattinson, Romance, Taylor Lautner, Teenagers, UK, Young HollywoodAlthough Twilight‘s famous trio, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson didn’t win at The Peoples Choice Awards 2011, the awards show themselves were the big winner by these stars attending in person. This is Hollywood’s center right here. Angelina Jolie is their teacher taking the hard knocks and doing all the tricky stuff – [...]
VIRTUAL OCEANIA RECOMMENDS FIORDLAND NATIONAL PARK AS A GOOD TRAVEL DESTINATION
Posted: January 6, 2011 in New Zealand, Rugby, Rugby World Cup, Travel DestinationsGet away to Fiordland National Park for some healthy r n r? Have to agree. Look at this view overlooking the Clinton Valley. Sublime in that clean, green, eco-tourism fit, healthy way. For everyone traveling to New Zealand for Rugby World Cup 2011, don’t forget to put Fiordland on your celebrations list of things to [...]