First Lady Michelle Obama talks to Matt Lauer on The Today Show today. She says the West Wing has focused a lot of attention on Egypt’s foreign policy right now. From Egypt’s pictures we can learn that democracy is something not to take for granted. She says it’s hard being President of the United States. And [...]
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SNOW WHITE MOVIE MADNESS – JULIA ROBERTS ADDS THE DARK, TO NATALIE PORTMAN’S AMERICA’S SWEETHEART OSCARS PORTRAIT, 2011 IN HOLLYWOOD
Posted: February 9, 2011 in Casting, Julia Roberts, Movie NewsIf you live in Hollywood, we all know that it is Natalie Portman‘s year. The young actress is the (off-camera) face that most of Hollywood deems worthy to represent Hollywood’s more noble ideals, in cinema. It’s just Portman’s year. She’s paid her dues. Julia Robert‘s has a good sense of humor, in acknowledging the Portman [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES EXAMINES PLATO’S POETIC CENSORSHIP IN RELATION TO MEDIA TEXTS FOR CHILDREN
Posted: February 9, 2011 in Education, PhilosophyTHE NEW YORK TIMES EXAMINES PLATO’S POETIC CENSORSHIP IN RELATION TO MEDIA TEXTS FOR CHILDREN.
FACEBOOK CONFESSIONS OF A BURGER KING WORKER, “LIKE YOU NEED IT!”
Posted: February 9, 2011 in Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Otago, Tee ShirtsJulie Tyler works at Burger King Dunedin. She almost got fired when she Facebooked the comment “real jobs don’t underpay and overwork people like BK does”. MSN Money brings us this story: “At a private disciplinary meeting yesterday, Burger King decided that Tyler would be given a second and final warning. The 27-year-old had received [...]
TEN POSTS ABOUT AROHA VIA HOLLYWOOD – THE MAORI WORD FOR LOVE – 2.8.11
Posted: February 9, 2011 in America, Community, Love, New Zealand, Water, WisdomAroha is a word all New Zealanders know. It is like the Hawaiian word Aloha and to the Maori people of New Zealand, it is our word that knits family, friends, community, extended family, tribally minded people together. Aroha is the word for love. It is one of our most favorite words in the Kiwi [...]
OIL BILLIONAIRE HIPPY J. PAUL GETTY DIES AT 56 AND THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – TUE 2.8.11
Posted: February 9, 2011 in Billionaire HQ on Horiwood.Com, Billionaires, California, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, London, oil, RIP, Trends, UKWhat goes up, must come down is something that Einstein shared with the world as a scientific truism and theory on the topic of gravity. In unrelated news, sadly an oil baron heir died today as the price of oil has skyrocketed this month due to the ‘Egypt crises’ being sighted as the reason of [...]
“Aol, Aol Acquires Huffington Post, Aol Buys Huffington Post, Aol Buys Huffpo, Aol Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Huffington Post Aol, Huffington Post Aol Merger, Huffington Post Media Group, Huffington Post Sold, Huffpo Aol, Huffpost Aol, Media”–Slates quote of the day, when giving a lesson on Search Engine Optimization using hot key words online today. Thanks [...]
ALL A DISTRACTION – A BEST FRIEND’S HUMOR ON MY DAILY CELEBRITY BLOGGING -2.8.11
Posted: February 9, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Humor, Pop Cultural Commentary, Pregnancy News, UK, Victoria BeckhamOften a best friend is someone who takes the opposite side of your own focus. When it comes to Hollywood blogging, my best friend in Hollywood always has this to say when we meet for dinner: “Look, those so-called celebrities you blog about. They’re all a distraction for the money people in the world.” Lol! [...]
WHY STEVEN TYLER WANTED TO JUDGE AMERICAN IDOL
Posted: February 9, 2011 in Aerosmith, AMERICAN IDOL, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Grey Power, Marketing and Branding, Music Industry News, Steven TylerHere’s some good news for veteran rockers Aerosmith. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, since Steven Tyler signed on as a judge of TV talent show American Idol, his band’s music catalogue sales have increased by 250%. A fair hike. For a rocker grandad and his buddies, that’s awesome! Go here to read Tyler’s amazing [...]
HUMAN TRAFFICKING SCIENTOLOGY SCANDALS, TOM CRUISE VS HOW ARIANNA HUFFINGTON BUILT HER WEBSITE, AOL, GOOGLE AND ‘AGGREGATING’ WRITERS LABOR
Posted: February 8, 2011 in America, Arianna Huffington, Corporate America, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Human Trafficking & Writers Aggregated Creativity via IT Corporates, IT, Scandals, Superpowers discourse and direction, Tom Cruise, WritersHuman Rights & Writers, True American Media-Conglomerate Corporate Stories: Hollywood’s latest tabloid saga involves “human trafficking.” In particular “Scientology” is under the microscope for human trafficking. Tabloids of course take Scientology’s most famous face (that being actor Tom Cruise) to ‘play out’ this Hollywood scandal. According to reports Scientologists are under investigation for paying slave labor [...]
HOLLYWOOD ACTORS HUMOR – OLIVIA WILDE DOES ALL THE STUFF MEGAN FOX WON’T DO
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity NewsHollywood Actor’s Humor – OLIVIA WILDE DOES ALL THE STUFF MEGAN FOX WON’T DO.
REWIND – ARIANNA HUFFINGTON’S LIST OF 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN FOR FORBES MAGAZINE
Posted: February 8, 2011 in America, Democracy, Michelle Obama, WomenIn Hindsight – When you are selected to rank Michelle Obama at no.1 – we so should have seen the whole AOL merger thing coming! Arianna Huffington is a riot! Lol!
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – MON 2.7.11
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Football, Green Bay Packers, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Steelers, Rugby World Cup, Sports, Sports HoriwoodThe Green Bay Packers are worthy of being celebrated today. Super Bowl champions of the USA of Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. Via Cover Awards website of New York, here’s a mini collection of celebratory newspaper front pages from across the country. Hollywood Entertainment and Celebrity News as voted via 50 nations of the [...]
Gosh, we’ve had really good “Maori News” today here in Hollywood. Go here for sports-action stars Maori culture-related news and Maori culture that is loved and worn by Americans, even to Hollywood biz meetings. Let’s see what’s happening on the news scene in New Zealand then. Is Thailand’s poor food hygiene standards killing young Kiwi [...]
USA TODAY HAS A NORMAL MORNING-AFTER SUPER BOWL FRONT PAGE – NICE! -2.7.11
Posted: February 8, 2011 in America, California, Football, Green Bay Packers, News, Pittsburgh SteelersA day after The Super Bowl, USA Today has a front page you’d expect after the biggest football match of the year went down last night. It is just about the Super Bowl. USA today gives the Green Bay Packers their much deserved spotlight of national attention today. The Packers are not cluttered or used [...]
SMALL BIZ MARKETING NEWS – MARKETING YOUR BIZ START UP BABY ONLINE
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Biz School, Marketing and BrandingAccording to all of the pack rats who now have seen the tinsel shine on Arianna Huffington‘s website’s merger with AOL for $315 million, small businesses are now being encouraged to make like Arianna and market yourself to Africa and back, to be just like her. In particular, Small Biz Trends notes the tools that [...]
THE SWEETNESS OF DIVAS – FERGIE DEFENDS CHRISTINA ARGUILERA’S SUPER BOWL GIG WITH EMPATHY
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Christina Arguilera, Fergie, Music Industry News, Sweetness & DiplomacyFergie is a pop star and movie star who is surrounded by lads of entertainment who protect her as a pop princess of the US. For example she has The Black Eyed Peas and her hubby Josh Duhamel to roll with as a leading diva of pop music. All of them can defend her if [...]
ADAM, THE MIXED-MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTER HAS A BLACK EYE TODAY WITH SOME BLACK EYED PEAS SUPER BOWL ENTERTAINMENT – 2.7.11
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Adam - The Mixed Martial Arts Fighter, Black Eyed Peas, Box Office Stars, Boxing, Fergie, Fitness, Football, haka, Health & Beauty, Hollywood Today, Indigenous Thinking, Industry Town News, Live Music Artists, Mau Rakau, Pop Art, Pop Cultural Commentary, Real People Real LA Faces, Rugby, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Super Bowl, Tattoos, Will I AmAdam, a fighter specializing in mixed-martial arts, is taking the hard hits for the art of sport and honed reflexes today. The local legend of Legends Mixed Martial Arts (Training Center) here in Los Angeles says “I love the Maori haka. Your Kiwi football [rugby football] boys are fierce doing the haka!” We talk about [...]
WALL STREET JOURNAL GOES FOR A GOOGLE’S “HEAD OF MIDDLE EAST MARKETING” AS EGYPT’S REVOLUTIONARY HERO SCANDAL – WITH FRONT PAGE SUPER BOWL NEWS
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Cultural Imperialism, Egypt, Facebook, Football, Google, Green Bay Packers, Information Sharing, Naguib Sawiris, Sports, Sports Horiwood, Super Bowl, Superpowers discourse and direction, Transparency in a Digital Age, Wael GhonimWhat lies beneath a veil of Mid-East political activism? Google! as an agent of world domination, that’s what! Have you heard of Wael Ghonim yet? He’s America’s main man in ‘shaping Egypt’s culture of revoloution’ – using the internet’s lure to the Mid-East as the bait. The Wall Street Journal celebrated the Green Bay Packers Super [...]
PRINCE AND KIM KARDASHIAN GROOVE TO GUITAR AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Kim Kardashian, Music Industry News, New York, Pop Cultural Commentary, PrinceKim Kardashian continues her role as the hottest American star, to strike your star against for a celebrity spark this year. Rocker Prince plucked Kim out from the crowd at Madison Sqaure Garden, in order to have some prime eye-candy, dance to his awesome guitaring. Smart marketing moves by Prince, if you look at Kim’s [...]
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, EGYPTS 297 DEAD AND ARIANNA HUFFINGTON TALKS BLOG SALES
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Arianna Huffington, Egypt, Guest Commentary, Human Rights297 people are dead in Egypt, as this nation remains on human rights watch. In other news, Arianna Huffington shares her thoughts on US News Media‘s most creative merger on the hard news (online) front – in a while! Here’s Ari’s thoughts as guest commentary on “How to Merge”: “I’ve used this space to make [...]
JOAN RIVERS WEIGHS INTO CHRISTINA ARGUILERA FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM, SUPER BOWL LYRICS FLUBBERY
Posted: February 8, 2011 in Christina Arguilera, Humor, Joan Rivers, TwitterPoor Christina Arguilera. Her creative rearrangement of the US national anthem’s lyrics at Super Bowl, last night (Sunday) have every D-Listed celebrity finding a voice to criticize her. Christina’s sorta kind like that, sharing her two minutes of fame with them this week in tabloid news. Here’s what Joan Rivers had to say via Pop Eater: ”How [...]
DO THE WEINSTEIN BROS OWE MICHAEL MOORE $3 MILLION FOR FAHRENHEIT 9/11?
Posted: February 8, 2011 in America, Documentary, Michael MooreDo the Weinstein Bros owe Michael Moore $2.9 million in outstanding revenue payments for his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11? Moore seems to think so. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.7.11~
