Archive for January, 2012

After all that build up to Lady Gaga‘s Born This Way, I am left thinking two things: 1. Gaga’s Egyptian eye styling is very stage-theater. 2. The actual song, Born This Way sounds like she’s sampled Madonna‘s Express Yourself song in its entirety and has chopped it up thinking Madonna’s archives were a) her own and b) [...]

“Stay off the crack. Drink a chocolate milk. That’s all I got.–Charlie Sheen talks to the UCLA Bruins baseball team. Click on pic to here Charlie say it. Only in LA does the artform of “American celebrity in recovery” look like this! Lol. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.11.11~

BORN THIS WAY, GAGA IS THE SOUND A NEWBORN BABY MAKES.

“It is the obvious first step to release people from dire poverty. Clean water must come first.” – Doug Pitt Human rights is about equal water flow, equal food distribution, equal access to knowledge and technology and medicine. It is about having spirit to allow these things to happen freely, fairly, humanely and with equality [...]

MSN BREAKING NEWS REPORT - CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president of Egypt, the country’s vice president said in a brief statement Friday. Omar Suleiman, speaking on state television, said Mubarak had decided to give up “the office of the president of the republic” and said the Supreme Council of the armed forces would “run the [...]

Hollywood entertainment and celebrity news voted by US today. Here’s our top ten at the 2.95 million benchmark summit. Let’s work! Thanks people. Nice choices. 1. The Diversity of US – Sonny Bill Williams & Ms. Miley Cyrus 2. Art portraiture by Kim Kardashian 3. Teen Mom Jenelle Evans decisions in down time – pot or textbooks? 4. An [...]

Photo caption – Nelsons Beach could be a beach in Te Wai Pounamu South Island. However it is a beach in Australia. I wonder if Nelson Mandela will ever visit this beach in his lifetime? As a break from money, mo’ money and even mo’ money news here in the US, let’s take a look [...]

Add the words Lady Gaga + Inside Edition + Anderson Cooper + “old apartment” + “Lower East Side, New York + Stefani Germanotta (you can never have enough names!) and I do believe we get a video clip many of you want to watch. Here’s Gaga’s old apartment when she was once living vicariously as [...]

Thank you. 2.95 million feels good. :) Quote: I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.- William Shakespeare [Photo caption - Malolo Island, Mamanuca Islands, Fiji - aerial - courtesy of David Wall] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.10.11~

The question of the day, for social media monsters – Should Google or Facebook buy out Twitter the tech bubble barometer? Should Facebook own every single word you ever write and share online? Gosh! More importantly, have you started your own blog yet? Then you can meet these media-conglomerates at the mid-way point, and get [...]

Patti LaBelle really did hit the runway for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in NYC last night. Why, without a microphone, who knows? Good on Patti. In financial news… I don’t know why I’m addicted to the Wall Street Journal at the minute, but everyday their “What’s News?” bullet pointed section captures my attention. I think “Yes! All [...]

In an age where Sarah Palin is potential competition to be a next Vice President of the USA, (a joke I know, in light of Hilary Clinton being so groovy, yet Sarah is) it’s not a far stretch of the imagination for someone like Donald Trump (reality TV star like Palin but with a biz brain [...]

New York’s Wall Street is pondering learning German today. “After 219 News as the citadel of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange was near an agreement to be acquired by Deutsche Borse AG in a deal that would create the world’s largest financial exchange.” Read up here via AJC blog. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood [...]

Lindsay Lohan has so much heat on Google that Dave Letterman does yet another Lindsay Lohan top ten. Gosh – it’s not like Dave’s hard up for money. But when he’s doing shout outs like this, maybe Dave thinks he is. If you’re in your seventies and need your ‘Young Hollywood cred’ card updated, a [...]

I don’t know why tabloids think that Sean Penn is a catch for Young Hollywood actresses? I know he’s a double Oscar winner, but really, young girls of Hollywood have so many options to choose from these days. They’re more about brokering new stars, (eg – Natalie Portman and Ben Millepied‘s big romance for example) than [...]

Everyone is talking about this article amongst the Hollywood actors set. Amy Chozick has a bit of keen following today in the Hollywood hood with her article on “playing dead” for a living. Her story begins with: “”Corpses, hold your breath…and, Action!” the director yelled. I had been slumped in an office chair on a [...]

I can never understand the world of fashion merchandizing. Especially when it comes to the accessories game. You can get a ‘fanny pack’ for 99 cents at the 99 cent store, yet the fashion world and The Wall Street Journal delve into “motion, dancing and celebrating the sun” when discussing the latest ‘mythology’ wrapped around [...]

Three German bull dykes speak German in Hollywood while playing on their iPhones and swapping Echinacea pottles to read from the health store. Not that it matters as it is totally a closed conversation, but why don’t I speaka da Deutsch? Lol! If I could speak German, I’d probably throw in some Ray Allen 3 [...]

In her latest photo shoot, Vanessa Hudgens says “Zac, who, exactly?” And Ladysmith Black Mambazo folk music with some vintage Paul Simon provide the timeless sense of global family today in Hollywood. Yes. We still listen to this South African group of “miracles and wonders in the harmonics department” here in Hollywood. Here’s ten posts [...]

On a Winter Sunday I go. To clear away the snow. In green the ground below. “Did you call her a vampire?” the fifty something husband asks his wife as they exit the cafe. “No,” his wife says laughing. “I just said she sucked!” April all an ocean away. Is this the better way to [...]

Snag films are a pretty groovy website. They are a film library, who screen documentary films for free. Today at the flix we are thinking water for India and Africa and pondering two thoughts, 1. Why on our watch do 1 in 6 people of the world still do not have access to clean drinking [...]

I have a confession to make, I am perhaps the most compassionless sibling out of all the kids in my family. Most of my siblings live in Aotearoa-New Zealand. One lives in Australia. Today I looked at this Billboard. It was way too sexy for Middle-America (joking) yet in Hollywood it strangely wasn’t. I look [...]

Hollywood entertainment and celebrity news voted via 50 nations of the world on Horiwood.Com today rounds out our top ten hottest posts as follows. Enjoy the read, and, thank you! 1. Maori Super Heroes art appears in Hollywood as culture for America’s kids 2. Human trafficking, Scientology scandals and Arianna Huffington‘s blog growth 3. Kim Kardashian‘s W [...]

[Leonardo DiCaprio is pictured on set, starring in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar click. Photo via MTV movies blog] Pilot Season Casting News- Henry Ian Cusick lands a role on Shonda Rhimes (as yet unnamed) TV pilot who will appear as Olivia Price‘s (the central character played by Kerry Washington) litigating lawyer to Olivia’s PR fix [...]

Maori proverb – Whaia te iti kahurangi ki te tuohu koe me he maunga teitei. Search for great mountains. If one has to bow, let it be to a lofty mountain –Rotorua Boys High School motto. According to my calculations via the Jewish calendar, we are fast approaching the 2.95 million milestone on Horiwood.Com. Okay, [...]

Our girl Miley Cyrus spills the country trail beans to Marie Claire Magazine about hitting a bong on her 18th birthday. Says the teen superstar “I’m not perfect … I made a mistake … I’m disappointed in myself for disappointing my fans. They’re not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of [...]

People Magazine very sweetly ran a cover of Jennifer Aniston, claiming that there were major things (left) to reveal about Aniston. Aniston says, ”I’m really happy, really. My version of happiness is sitting where I’m sitting right now.” On learning from dating and her relationships Aniston says, ”I learned from every single one of them.” she says. [...]

Jennifer Hudson is a diva who when you see her perform live in concert, she can give you a case of the goose bumps because her vocal prowess is just like… well, off the richter scale! And I saw Jen before she ever got hit by a devastating family tragedy. She was amazing! Hudson is [...]

Against a backdrop of Chinese households not keen to put their money into the bank with rising inflation being a factor affecting China, the Wall Street Journal’s front page today gives a list of financial news matters. Read up to learn. Small business are encouraged to take heart as the climate is looking more small [...]