Archive for January, 2012

LaToya Jackson graciously sashayed onto the set as a ‘guest judge’ of that reality TV Show about the guys from across America, dressing up as ‘Ru Paul dressing up as LaToya’ in that Talent Show about drinking Absolut vodka backstage and gossiping viciously with sharpened tongues beneath shaved powdered over stubble faces and viciously-mean lip [...]

Book Spotlight – Day of Honey – A Memoir of Food, Love & War: “After the shocks of 9/11 many New Yorkers turned their thoughts — and their lonely stomachs — to comfort food, to reassuring combinations like macaroni and cheese and Ben & Jerry. We got a bit plump. There was a second reaction too [...]

[Todays true fact - Hillary Clinton has worked so hard for America, she's been on the road 165 days in her first two years of office. Wow!] On the cover of The New York Times today (like most major newspapers in the US) the front page rhetoric is Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers [...]

Love is ubiquitous. Love knows no beginning or end. “Love always was. Love never began to be.”–Elizabeth Cruickshank, Horiwood’s grandma. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.7.11~

I walked through the pot clouded streets of twenty-something kids sharing joints, giggling about nothing this Super Bowl in Hollywood. Mendel‘s words about reflections remind me of the 12,000 blog posts shared within Hollywood and Hawaii USA that we bothered to share as culture. Each a reflection in some way of a whole picture of [...]

Rock on. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.6.11~

Transformers Chevrolet Super Bowl TVC was pretty cool this year. Press play above to see a big budget special FX sports TV spend. Hollywood entertainment news and celebrity news favorites voted today on Horiwood.Com, round out our top ten news picks like so. Thanks team. Happy Super Bowl Sunday after-match madness then. 1. Merata Mita. [...]

Well, she makes sneakers look good. What more can be said?  Kim Kardashian‘s reign as Hollywood’s leading lady continues in TV Land, with a TVC commercial for Sketchers. Kim is making personal trainers cry in this town. Love the body double too. The power of television. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.6.11~

Wellington New Zealand, depicts Rugby Football’s winning Super Sevens Team. This year, New Zealand were the champions. September/ October is when The Rugby World Cup is on. Make sure you get your hot tix. Be there. Fun! [Image courtesy of the NZ Herald] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.6.11~

When Christina Arguilera warbles her tonsils off, she’s always freakin amazin. Even when she doesn’t get it perfect every time. Although Christina has sung the Star Spangled Banner a gazillion times before, the diva managed to creatively rearrange the lyrics of the song in the heat of a national spotlight at the most televised American [...]

Super Bowl madness today has taken over the hood. Woot! Two views from Hollywood. Slightly Happy Blogging Update -8:47PM – In between chips and salsa and chili dogs with beer, the Packers Top The Steelers to Take Super Bowl XLV – ‘ARLINGTON, TEXAS (AP), Forget Lombardi on Broadway. Green Bay has the newest Super Bowl hit: Aaron Rodgers [...]

Chavi of Detroit, now living and studying in Los Angeles has started her blog today. Woot! Ms. Hot Thing, shares a story about her Inner Teenager. It kind of goes a bit like this: “Usually when I learn, there’s a certain resignation. I don’t expect to love what I’m learning. I don’t even really want [...]

Katy Perry launched her Purr fragrance via Mexico City, yesterday. Abridged wardrobe statements from Smurfette in purple makes good UK weekend news. I don’t think Katy wanted all eyes on her perfume bottle, somehow. [Pic via Daily Mail Reporter] ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.6.11~

Super Bowl XLV has all of the stars talking today, as the Pittsburgh Steelers battle the Green Bay Packers this eve. “We are not rooting for the same team,” Moore, 48, said with laugh to People, while holding her husband’s hand at the Audi Forum Dallas pre-Super Bowl cocktail party Friday night. This party is otherwise [...]

The next break out star, like another Kristen Stewart, is probably going to be discovered playing the role of Ursa in the Superman reboot film franchise. Go ladies! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.6.11~

Shia LaBeouf went bar hopping on Friday in The Valley. Here’s Radar‘s footage of Shia updating his bad *ss Hollywood action star, movie cred ticket as dude gets cuffed. It’s so hard to end up in a bar brawl in Hollywood. Or The Valley, or, especially at the very chill Mad Bull’s Tavern in Sherman Oaks. People are [...]

Kim Kardashian was dating a Super Bowl champ last year. This year, she’s doing a Super Bowl TVC and is even speaking on behalf of her new beau too “saying he’s not the jealous type” via People.Com. Can’t he say it himself? Geez girl! Hollywood entertainment news voted today on New Zealand Waitangi Day Celebrations in [...]

Tonight was kinda scary. I went out because it is Waitangi Day, a historic day we celebrate in New Zealand and that’s a big day for Kiwis. While out people were on their phones reading Horiwood.Com. It was surreal. Here’s a pic from Michael K’s blog in New York. The picture is of Russell Brand [...]

Guest Commentary: He left office more than two decades ago, but former President Ronald Reagan‘s mark on American politics has yet to fade. Okay! I guess we can call this my American sense of duty post today for the political machine. Here we go, via ABC News in remembering President Ronald Reagan for what he gave the [...]

Posted: February 6, 2011 in America, Ronald Reagan

HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME – As snapped 9.28.10.

Sometimes filmmaking is about just turning a camera on and letting a City speak for itself–Horiwood 2011 Every day I wake up in Hollywood… is always a blessing. I’ve been thinking more about writing a movie. I just can’t seem to get over the freakiness of every day living here, to even rise above it [...]

There are very few pop stars with a sense of humor like Pink aka Alecia Moore. In an age where prosthetic bellies are all the rage, Pink wants you to know that she’s having her baby for reals, the good old fashioned way. Via her twitter Moore says: “ALRIGHT… because paparazzi of today have absolutely [...]

Photo caption: Dame Whina Cooper – a grandmother, who once cloaked herself in truth and became Waitangi Day’s meaning as a leader, and who took action so the Spirit of The Treaty of Waitangi would be visible and have hands and feet and voice, when some of US were growing up. Our future to express [...]

While Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, two top earning box office stars of 2011, canoodle for their latest Water for Elephants poster, Nicole Kidman in a rare moment, shares insights in to her decade married to Tom Cruise. Says Nicole of their marriage, “I was never seeking to be a celebrity. But I was prepared [...]

In Egypt, President Mubarak ‘still holds on to power,’ regardless of the protests occurring calling for greater transparency of the political and judicial system of Egypt. Change management is looking slow for this billionaire President to hand over sanely. If at all. Rolling Stone brings us the latest magazine cover of Katy Perry, and the [...]

Egypt news via The WashPo is about careful steps of change being taken forward, bit by bit by the Egyptian people caught up in change, as our (foreign press) journalists duck and dive the protestors’ heated blows in such a tense political societal-climate. Or, if you’re Katie Couric , while many journalists are using Egypt [...]

Meet Chris Foose who hopes to start a career in movie sound mixing and sound engineering. At the moment Chris is reading up on thought processes (psychology) because he says the world is too crazy right now, and maybe text book wisdom will help Chris understand why people do what they do. Fair enough. Chris [...]

“Break it off give it to me, come on!”–Ms. Janet Jackson and her Feedback lyrics hit Manila. Hot concerts are ahead with true American pop cultural royalty! Janet Jackson is the best concert experience I’ve ever been too in my life. I saw Janet in Auckland City with Trinity Dodd many years ago. She popped! [...]