Archive for January, 2012

Robert Pattinson gets more Facebook (The Social Network) friendly as a star watching world trends closely. Deadline reports, ‘Pattinson will star in Cosmopolis, the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that David Cronenberg wrote and will direct. Pattinson will play Eric Packer. A financial wunderkind, Packer risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day. [...]

As Angelina Jolie gets set to play Cleopatra in 3D for Sony Pictures as the Egyptian queen in a biopic, based on Stacy Schiff‘s biography Queen Of The Nile, Cleopatra: A Life. Director Scott Rudin declares that the as yet unmade film focuses on Cleopatra as a great ruler. I’m sure Angelina will be as classy as [...]

A simpler world – where we think green. Trending topics today as Huckelberry Finn rewriters get set to remove the “N” word in a rewrite of the classic novel and Starbucks does away with its name in its logo, featuring the twin mermaid, Norse woodcut print as a stand alone symbol instead. Think Vivienne Jolie-Pitt [...]

If you’ve never been to California, know these two things. You have the option of paying parking meters with a cash key. And, if you have grass in your hood, you’re in a good neighborhood in Los Angeles. The city was originally a desert. All green things here are watered by people. Grass shows a [...]

Apparently Britney Spears is back in her favorite spot of “changing it up” for America as a music artist, video artist extraordinaire and dancing entertainer. This demo track of a song, Hold it Against Me, is a track Spears may record herself as her next single. What do you think? It definitely has a Brit [...]

… during sex. Like she said this under oath. In court. Wowsa! Look – these two are just too kinky! Even for us Hollywood types. Do we really need to know all this? Not really. Although some Mulholland Drive peeps are known to be a little like that in Hollywood. They live on a Cliff [...]

Watch this clip of The Peoples’ Choice Awards 2011. Sublime acceptance speech from young Zac Efron. Fine country music representation and segue in by Taylor Swift. Gotta love Hollywood kids. Even at after parties too. It’s good to see gratitude in full effect in this speech. That’s the spirit. Efron beat both Robert Pattinson and [...]

African-American students need support to get to and through college. UNCF is a good trust set up to help do that. Check it, on the pic. Let’s make America and the world stronger. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.6.11~

March 30, 2011 will see a docu-reality TV series about coal miners, called Coal go to air. Miners are hot – but, in a world of recycling and electric cars, coal is not. The series showcases (yet agin) the true-blue American hero. Spike TV will feature it, by producer Thom Beers, about the lives of Appalachian coal miners.  [...]

GRENADE – BRUNO MARS SONG GETS COVERED BY JAKE COCO.

Gosh. These people are like hobbits. Just with hot rollers and a love of big guns. Lol! Priceless. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.6.11~

Read it at Politico; The Hill; The HuffPo. Who is Bill Daley? Daley is currently the Midwest chairman of JPMorgan Chase and brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. After Rahm Emanuel, last in this position and whose now running for Bill’s brother’s job as Chicago Mayor – let’s see what team Chicago comes up with then with [...]

LUMELA – PURE WATER ROYALTIES FOR ALL CHILDREN OF THE WORLD.

Beyonce Knowles shines on Bossip‘s website today in The Big Apple. And, happiness is a topic concerning many today. Interesting. Our top ten celebrity news posts voted today worldwide here in Hollywood are: 1. JERRY BROWN IS FRONT PAGE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -1.4.11 2. JUSTIN BIEBER AND SELENA GOMEZ ARE FRIENDS 3. JON VOIGHT AND JAMES [...]

Is marketing war just really a homoerotic narrative? It’s hard to say that based on this one image, but hey! Makes you think. A Swiss filmmaker claims some credit for Exit Through the Gift Shop, the Banksy documentary that may get an Oscar nomination. Above, Thierry Guetta in the film. Some newsy bites from Hollywood [...]

Big news today in the 25th Anniversary Poll conducted by Spin Magazine. These results raise an eyebrow. Hayley Williams is viewed as being sexier than Lady Gaga as a rocker. Madonna is voted no.1 best solo artist and New York takes the best rocker city crown with London clocking in at no.2. Read the full [...]

Romance has taken over supermarket aisles in Hollywood right now. I love this one. So dreamy in that passionate Chola and Chicano Hollywood California artsy way. Lol! You can’t beat it here in California. The best. On a serious note, it’s exciting that love is in the air across the world at this nano-second. Proof [...]

Here’s Olivia Wilde for Max Magazine‘s latest issue via Britney Waldron. Thanks B! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.5.11~

Who cares about Elizabeth Edwards will? It’s really none of our business. Yet apparently, trending right now on Horiwood.Com’s most popular topics via this blog’s search engine results, many people do. Let’s take a look then. According to ET Online, “no mention was made of estranged husband, John Edwards.” And that’s all anyone wanted to [...]

The Social Network (Facebook story onscreen) is having the best DVD sales promotions ever! The movie will be back in over 6000 cinemas in two days time (January 7th 2011) as a warm up to the film’s DVD launch on Jan 11th. Always making a buck, Sony’s spokesperson, Jeff Blake has these bug-eyed words to [...]

ART – ALYSSA MONK, PHOTO-REALISM PAINTER IS STEAMY.

There’s very few stars as hot as Natalie Portman at this minute in the Hollywood. Here’s a pic of Natalie swanning her way through LAX via US Weekly. Baby bump is said to be the big draw of Portman press these days. I’m more like, what about the fact this girl can speak five languages? [...]

Green energy, speaking tours are not the first two things I’d immediately associate to our ex-Gov, Arnold Schwarzenegger off the top of my suede (old English for head). However lo-and-behold this is exactly Arnie’s latest reinvention. I like it. Schwarzenneger is set to tour Canada with a speech titled, “Will innovation and green technology save [...]

Going to the grocery store in Hollywood is never quite like it is anywhere else. For example, Lucille Ball greets you by the spice rack! One of the reasons why living in California can be a lot of fun. Creating culture is what Hollywood does, everywhere! Ten entertainment celebrity news posts being circulated by people [...]

Writes Jonah Madeya, a new Horiwood.Com reader in Hollywood (pictured): “Jesus, tu rate toutes les exentricites de L.A. ce qui s`est passer aujourd`hui n`est qu`une fine partie. So, change d`avis  et debarque !” Translation – “You miss all the crazy things that happens in Los Angeles and what you saw today, was just a smile [...]

  Are Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds an item? These two tabloid covers say a lot. Yet, they’re not even true. If you know what Sandra Bullock is like. Everyone who knows Sandra in Hollywood never has one bad word to say about her. Though we all know these tabloid stories aren’t true. In fact [...]

I’m at Starbucks -Western Gateway of Hollywod today in Cali blogging beside Kate (pictured above) a photographer and part-time screenwriter from Pasadena whose checking her Facebook in The City, Jonah whose skyping in French to friends, Jack a greying long-haired veteran of war and Nathan Smith a black man with dreadlocks also on his computer [...]

TABLOID WARS GAMES: You have to love Angelina Jolie. Her visage is so versatile –tabloids can either go with a “humanitarian Queen of the third world angle” or they can get totally trashy too–and go with the rehab reality TV craze angle too with a photograph of her as Star Magazine is. Based on this [...]

Hey everyone. I’ve just been through the last 300 blog comments out of 5226, accepting them. One thing that struck me was that out of every twenty comments, two were kind, or helpful or informative. The rest were… not so much. I was thinking, if 80% of people are feeling icky – than more love [...]