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 [...]
Archive for January, 2012
KRISTEN STEWART IS RUMORED TO BE THE HOLLYWOOD FRONT RUNNER TO PLAY SNOW WHITE
Posted: January 28, 2011 in Casting, Charlize Theron, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Kristen Stewart, Lord of The Rings, Movie News, Pop Art, Pop Cultural Commentary, South Africa, Twilight, Viggo Mortensen, Young HollywoodSMARTPHONE SPEND WILL REPLACE CREDIT CARDS, “MOBILE WALLET” AND A GIANT STEP TOWARDS A CASHLESS SOCIETY
Posted: January 28, 2011 in America, Trends, gold, Mobile Telephony, Smartphone Spend, Virtual MoneyWhen 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 [...]
FUNNY AND SMART – SCOT HERSMAN, FROM A WELDING SEATTLE TEEN TO STAND UP COMIC OF HOLLYWOOD – 1.27.11
Posted: January 28, 2011 in America, California, Coffee, Comedians, Community, humility, Humor, Industry Town News, Marketing and Branding, Real People Real LA Faces, Scot Hersman, Seattle, Talent Management, Young Hollywood“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 [...]
STARBUCKS FOR AFRICA AND ROX-IN-THE-BOX SONG LYRICS BY THE DECEMBERISTS – 1.27.11
Posted: January 28, 2011 in Africa, America, Coffee, Entertainment Celebrity News, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Poetry, Song Lyrics, The Decemberists, WaterIt 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 [...]
COURTNEY MCCONNELL SHARES FIVE TIPS ON HOW TO BE A MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Posted: January 28, 2011 in A Different View, America, California, Courtney McConnell, Education, Hollywood Today, Leadership, Mechanical Engineering, Science, Smile Club, Think Green, WomenMeet 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 [...]
AT 15 YEARS OF AGE, NATALIE PORTMAN COULD SING, ACT, DANCE
Posted: January 28, 2011 in Africa, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Live Music Artists, Natalie Portman, Uganda, WaterWho 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. [...]
PETER STICKLES IS A YOUNG HOLLYWOOD ACTOR, LEARNING MOVIE AUDITION LINES TODAY – 1.27.11
Posted: January 28, 2011 in A Different View, Actors, Hollywood Today, Peter Stickles, Real People Real LA Faces, West Hollywood, Young HollywoodWho: 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 SAYS HER KIDS SAVED HER MARRIAGE, BUT SHE DID HAVE TO COMPETE WITH HER NANNIES
Posted: January 28, 2011 in AMERICAN IDOL, Babies, Jennifer Lopez, ParentingJennifer 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, [...]
SHILOH FERNANDEZ TALKS ROBERT PATTINSON AND NOT BEING EDWARD CULLEN
Posted: January 28, 2011 in Actors, Shiloh Fernandez“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 [...]
KIM KARDASHIAN LOVES GIVING – CELEBRITY POLITICO SOUP FROM HOLLYWOOD – 1.27.11
Posted: January 28, 2011 in Abbie Cornish, Adam Dell, Alecia Keys, Charlie Sheen, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Family Vs Fame, Gay, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hollywood Today, Jay Carney, Jon Stewart, Julian Assange, Kate Walsh, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Mandy Moore, Movie News, Padma Lakshmi, Robert Gibbs, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Stefani Germanotta, Uganda“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 [...]
FRIED SUSHI AT KATSUYA AND JESSICA SIMPSON
Posted: January 27, 2011 in Japan, Jessica Simpson, TexasDid 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 - [...]
NEW SAG AWARDS PRESENTERS ARE ANNOUNCED
Posted: January 27, 2011 in Alec Baldwin, Amy Poehler, Awards Shows, Cory Monteith, Eva Longoria, Hilary Swank, Jason Bateman, Jeff Bridges, Jeff Margolis, Jon Hamm, Josh Duhamel, Ken Howard, Robin Wright, Rosario Dawson, SAG Awards, Scott Bakula, Sofia Vergara, Tim ConwaySAG 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 [...]
QR CODING “FIX IT” MECHANICS MOVIE MARKETING – HOLLYWOOD IS NOT BEING SENSITIVE ABOUT GUNS
Posted: January 27, 2011 in Art, Ben Foster, Hollywood Today, Industry Town News, Jason Statham, Lewis John Carlino, Marketing and Branding, Melrose, Movie Posters, Pop Cultural Commentary, QR Codes, Richard Wenk, Signs of The Times, Simon West, Symbols, West Hollywood, World NewsThe 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 [...]
MUSIC – EVERYTHING EVERYTHING’S COVER OF RIHANNA’S WHAT’S MY NAME – MANCHESTER BAND WIN SOUTH BANK AWARD
Posted: January 27, 2011 in Everything Everything, Music Industry News, Rihanna, UKCongratulations 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. [...]
TEEN MUSIC STARS – INTRODUCING JACOB LATIMORE feat DIGGY SIMMONS
Posted: January 27, 2011 in Diggy Simmons, Jacob Latimore, Music Industry News, Music Videos, TeenagersNew 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 [...]
IN HOT PURSUIT – PHILOSOPHER’S JOHN LOCKE AND GEORGE MASON
Posted: January 27, 2011 in George Mason, John Locke, Liberty, Philosophy“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 [...]
JENNIFER ANISTON WANTS TO ADOPT, DIE TRYING IS A GOOD BAND AND SIR ELTON’S NEW PARENTING GETS SORTA CENSORED SOMWHERE
Posted: January 27, 2011 in David Furnish, Elton John, Gay, Jassen Jensen, Jennifer Aniston, Music Industry News, Music VideosTwo 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 [...]
REMEMBERING THOMAS JEFFERSON ON BILL OF RIGHTS IMPORTANCE
Posted: January 27, 2011 in America, Thomas Jefferson“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~
OSCARS VS SAG AWARDS HYPE AND “THE KINGS SPEECH” FILM SITUATION FOR THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION
Posted: January 27, 2011 in Colin Firth, Disabilities, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Helena Bonham Carter, Hollywood Entertainment News, Movie News, OscarsFun 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 [...]
TAZO TEA FASHION SPOTTING, JAPANESE-AMERICAN GIRLS TALK FASHION ON MELROSE- 1.26.11
Posted: January 27, 2011 in America, Hollywood Today, Humor, Japan, West HollywoodThe 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.” [...]
REALITY TV STAR RAPPER, VANILLA ICE TALKS BUCKY BUCKAROO, KANGAROO PETS
Posted: January 27, 2011 in America, Awesome Aussies, Dance, Entertainment Celebrity News, Hip Hop Community, Reality TV Stars, UKVanilla 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 [...]
EGYPTIAN-AFRICAN RAMSES II TATTOOS, CALI-SCOTTISH COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAKAS AND MALIA’S MAORI KORU MOHAWK SPIRALS SKETCHED INTO YOUNG HOLLYWOOD’S HEADS TODAY BESIDE THE TORAH, WEST HOLLYWOOD – 1.26.11 @ 2.30pm
Posted: January 26, 2011 in A Different View, Africa, America, Amerika, Aotearoa New Zealand, Art, Art Galleries, artist, Aztec Indians, California, College Football, Community, Country Music, Cowboy Culture, Cross-Cultural Narratives, Culture, Egypt, Eileen Taogaga, Family Vs Fame, Fashion, Fashion Accessories, Fitness, Football, Freedom of Expression, Goldie Hawn, Grey Power, Hair Trends, Health & Beauty, Helensville, Hollywood History, Hollywood Today, Hori = Maori, Hot Chocolate, Hot Face of The Day, Indigenous Thinking, Israel, Jey Lawrence, Julie Christie - Hollywood, Kool Kiwis, Krazy Kiwis, Live Music Artists, Malia Obama, Malia of West Hollywood, Malibu, Mandel The Orthodox Scholar, Maori, Melrose, Middle East, Movie Posters, Native American Indians, Oscars, Paranormal Activity, Romania, Samoa, Scotland, Servite Football Team, Signs of The Times, Skins, South Pacific, Symbols, Tainui, Tattoos, Tino Rangatiratanga, Tom Cruise, Tonga, Tukutuku panel, Warren Beatty, West Hollywood, Whanau, Young Hollywood, Zac Brown BandAs 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 [...]
FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS, A VINTAGE ALL BLACKS HAKA PERFORMANCE MOMENT
Posted: January 28, 2011 in All Blacks, America, Amerika, College Football, Commonwealth, Community, Culture, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Football, Foreign Press, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hollywood Maori Kings, Hori = Maori, Leadership, Maori, Pop Art, Pop Cultural Commentary, Rugby, Rugby World Cup, South Africa, South Pacific, South Pacific Television Hollywood, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Tane Randell, UK, World NewsThis 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 [...]