Archive for January, 2012

This vintage live peformance of the rather famous All Black Rugby Teams Maori haka featuring Tane Randell and sporting rugby football buds is not bad! For haka rocking college football fans of America, (okay and of South Africa and the Commonwealth too then…) have you bought your Rugby World Cup 2011 hot tix yet? ~Posted by [...]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Twilight Saga‘s Kristen Stewart has been named as the front runner to play Snow White, alongside Oscar winner Charlize Theron‘s Wicked Witch character and Lord of The Rings Viggo Mortensen as the Woodsman in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman. A hot casting line up already, if Stewart accepts [...]

When the printing press gets run at the slightest hint of a budget deficit overrun here in the US, the easiest thing to do is say, money (cash and credit cards) is totally overrated. Right? Instead, let’s move to a cashless society some more. Now, as a sign of progress, even credit cards -those plastic [...]

“Everyone in Hollywood thinks they’re somebody. I was having sushi and this guy was living out of his shopping cart, while he was telling me he was the next big producer of Hollywood and bumming my cigarettes. I was like dude, “shut the heck up!,” Scot Hersman whose just moved from Washington State, Seattle to [...]

It has to be said that Starbucks in the USA loves making money off gloomy song lyrics. Here’s the lyrics to Rox in The Box song lyrics playing right now in the Hollywood Starbucks I’m blogging from. It’s like, the sounds of drudgery set to coffee beans grinding. A little morbid like a melancholic poetic [...]

Music today: January Hymn by The Decemberists is very cool. A winter storm, that sadly claimed one life in Washington DC, makes headlines in Hollywood today. Read more at this link. In more happier news, here’s ten entertainment posts from Hollywood you like and are sharing via social media from Hollywood right now. Enjoy the read. [...]

Meet Courtney McConnell of Irish-American lineage. Courtney is a Hollywood girl currently studying to be a mechanical engineer at CalTech Pomona. Almost at graduation, Courtney shares five tips on what it takes to make it as a mechanical engineer from the Entertainment Capitol of The World. On redefining fun: I hit the books instead of [...]

Who knew that Natalie Portman can sing too? This video footage of Nat, aged 15, performing at New York’s Center Stage Theater Camp, shows Portman’s many talents. What a talented artist. To do our bit for Oscars buzz hype today, go here to see. Portman has always been a big supporter of people in Africa. [...]

Who: Peter Stickles What: A new actor/ producer in Young Hollywood. Claim to Fame: Pete is very Black Swan dark in his film role choices to date. That “works for him to get cast regularly.” Proof that sometimes being ‘good’ all the time, means you starve in Hollywood. Pete doesn’t. He’s always working. Five of [...]

Jennifer Lopez lights up In Touch magazine, with a tabloid cover that claims her twins saved her marriage. J-Lo shares: “The kids made Marc and I stronger… There have been tough times. Having kids made us both see that there’s a biggerpicture. We still fight but we know that at the end of the day, [...]

“No one had any idea what Twilight would become. At the time, it was just another audition. I didn’t realise I was missing out on stardom and giant pay cheques. Now, looking back on it, I certainly wouldn’t have been mentally stable enough to deal with all that. Lucky for me, not getting that part led [...]

“We must out-compete and out-build the world”–President Barack Obama to the American people, SoU address, 2011. You can’t really have favorites in America. Everyone expressing ‘art’ and creating ‘pop culture’ to help Corporate America (Apple, Google and Facebook) out to ‘out-compete the world,’ via I.T and mobile telephony culture, has their own unique expressions of [...]

Did Jessica Simpson weigh in to the fried sushi at Katsuya, Hollywood? Yes, she did. The Texan beauty whose worth 3/4 of a billion dollars is always a riot. It’s good to see Jess doesn’t take the Hollywood ‘beauty’ thing too seriously and can still go Southern fried if she feels like it. [Photo caption - [...]

SAG AWARDS news is making the rounds in Hollywood today. The lovely Nicole Kidman has been announced as a presenter along with Hollywood’s Jon Hamm. Jason Bateman, Jon Hamm, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Renner, Sofia Vergara and Robin Wright will be presenters at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today. They join a growing [...]

Exorcism of demonic entities in people is discussed today in the Los Angeles Times, in a lead story by Susan King. Different.That was the last thing I was expecting to see as the lead story on the L.A Times website. Gosh, what next? Spiritual fascination continues to be on the up. Hollywood entertainment news as [...]

The movie poster’s tagline is: “Someone has to fix the problems.” But what happens if we create the problems ourselves though? It is what it is. A gun poster spotted today on Melrose for a new Hollywood movie. A critique on America’s allocated role to “fix it.” According to this poster, the mechanics of the [...]

Congratulations to Everything Everything – Manchester’s four lads band (4 being the magic number for The Beatles) who specialized in limited release dance pop tracks and who have scooped this year’s “The Times Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards which took place on January 15th and were broadcast on Sky Arts last night. [...]

“We need to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.”–President Barack Obama in words that do not sound like tips from the book “How to win friends and influence people.” Yet, these are the challenges that the USA is faced with. Most people in the world want America to do well. Innovation comes [...]

“All the world’s a stage” – William Shakespeare -playwright, poet, from As You Like It. The front page of the New York Times is like an orchestra of orchestrated world news today. It’s doing a lot. First up, a federal inquiry says the financial crises (they say 2008, but it’s still going) was avoidable according [...]

New music. New teen superstars in the making, perhaps. Here’s Jacob Latimore, 13 feat Diggy Simmons with their music video for Like ‘em all? If you’re feeling Jacob and Diggy’s new music vibe, leave a comment. Latimore’s official website is We Love Jacob. Or check this talented kid on Facebook too. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California [...]

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself… Civil interest I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things… the highest perfection of intellectual nature lies in a careful and constant pursuit of true and solid happiness”… John Locke, philosopher. “That all [...]

Two Magazine covers tackle the topic of parenting, Hollywood style, in these two magazine covers. Apparently Jennifer Aniston wants to adopt. Peeps getting press already off the babies they don’t even yet have are a trip. It’s like kuros for being an invisible parent. Needless to say Louis Bardo Bullock has totally stolen Jennifer Aniston’s [...]

  “A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”–Thomas Jefferson. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.26.11~

Where I originate from in New Zealand, West Auckland is known for its fine red neck humor. The best proponents of Kiwi red neck humor are called Westies or Cantabrians too and they’re good people, down there. This tee shirt reminds me of Pakeha Westies today. Made me smile. Here’s ten posts being shared by [...]

Fun film press today via The Stuttering Foundation. In the form of this press release: “Jane Fraser, reps The Stuttering Foundation (www.stutteringhelp.org) in her role as President. Jane talks about The King’s Speech flick garnering so many Oscars nomination ds. Here’s what she PR-ed: “The Stuttering Foundation gives a hero’s welcome to The King’s Speech, which has brought overwhelmingly positive attention [...]

The Japanese-American girls are on fire today, drinking Tazo Tea and Iced Coffee while giving the most vicious Harayuku-level fashion break downs ever, of everyone waiting in the cue to be served, while on Melrose today. Meow! They ask me if I speak Japanese. I joke and say “yes.” They blush and say “We’re sorry.” [...]

Vanilla Ice muscles in on Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman‘s star Hollywood wagon. Via the Dancing on Ice UK reality TV show, the rapper shares about his kangaroo pet. Via Michael K of NYC via Metro, Ice says: “Bucky Buckaroo. He’s a great guy. I’ve had him since he was a baby and now he’s [...]

As I blog today in Hollywood as a Maori Kiwi farmer’s raised country kid son, there’s a lot going on to deal with. Nothing is as simple as those country days, in a Cosmopolitan City like Los Angeles. I get texts on my phone asking for a meeting with a Romanian-American kid whose discovered paranormal [...]

Posted: January 26, 2011 in Aotearoa New Zealand, Egypt, Hollywood Maori Kings