Archive for January, 2012

He kick boxes for his livelihood and to feed his kid–the Hollywood/ Arizona life of Alex Meraz, action star. As teenagers of Native American Indian descent are leading key players in Hollywood today at the box office, let’s take a look at what on-set friend and mentor of Taylor Lautner, Arizona’s Alex Meraz (not a [...]

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Sometimes, if we ‘think indigenous peoples’ more often than we do… we all win. Teenager Taylor Lautner is living proof of a Native American Indian teen doing well. At 18, Lautner is the no.9th highest earning box office movie figure in Hollywood for 2011. All the encouragement we need to give Indigenous young people every [...]

One signed legal document as Hollywood pop culture today. Te Tiriti o Waitangi and/or The Treaty of Waitangi is well worth an airing as a major human rights, Hollywood news story today. The copy of the government funded website says: “This is the document that was signed a Waitangi on the 6th of February 1840 [...]

Our Kiwi-Jewish King of Aotearoa-New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key needs some Super Maori Protection Security via Hollywood today. Mr Key got heckled while at Waitangi, the historic Treaty Grounds where Queen Victoria’s original peeps of New Zealand signed a Treaty with the original Maori Chiefs of New Zealand many years ago. Waitangi is the [...]

My new Orthodox Jewish friend, Mendel has already started his blog. Today over coffee we talked iPhone 4′s, the stock market situation, and Mendel beginning a course on studying astrology via the mathematical meter of the Jewish calendar year. At 17 Mendel has a fascinating life. Tres smart and clever with spirit too. His blog [...]

One for Solange Knowles and her publicist Mark Young – Sandcastle Music’s Rob Scott is bringing it (music-wise) in Aussie land. Check him (biz card below). Ten Tweets from the lovely Solange of Houston Texas shared as culture look like this: On raising creative kids: “My son just wrote a song with lyrics…. “Echinaceaaa is [...]

Living in Hollywood for the young, can be a little bit like a Gorilla is feeding young people a banana to use their youthful face. I like this artwork spotted at Melrose and Curson, by a random artist on Lindsay Lohan cultural commentary. If you like the artwork and it speaks to you, ‘peel it [...]

It must be Valentine’s Day real soon when you see year of the Rabbit double bunny pics appearing in Hollywood as movie marketing posters. And that other movie with Topher Grace and her Young Hollywood posse that includes the funny Anna Farris. What’s it called? Poster below. Hollywood entertainment and celebrity news happening from the [...]

Getting hacked, always sucks. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.4.11~

[Photograph - A statue of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh courtesy of Getty Images.] Last night I could not sleep. The plight of Egypt’s people weighed heavy on my soul and consciousness. Weird for a shallow celebrity blogger blogging Hollywood news I know. Yet this was the case last night for me, here [...]

Scott Hutton (Mechanical Engineer) on Jack Kerouac – “To some degree he was to literature what the New York School was to the Art World. His was the next artistically forward poetic work, since James Joyce‘s writing, for example.” A poem of Jack‘s worth sharing is Hitchhiker. The verse: Tryna get to sunny Californy’ – Boom. [...]

My mom and I went to Disneyland with the money I made busking–young Justin Bieber tells celebrity interviewer Austin Scagg for his latest round of Rolling Stone Magazine publicity. Gosh – it’s a good thing young Justin has formed a close bond with Disney star Selena Gomez then, as I think Justin has busked enough [...]

Beloved Oscar winning box office star for Hollywood, Sir Peter Jackson is released from hospital for a perforated ulcer today in Wellywood/ Wellington, Capitol of Aotearoa New Zealand. Thank heavens! More facts on this crucial story follow below: Hollywood entertainment news as voted by you the people worldwide today, rounds out our top ten like [...]

Teen Taylor Jane Davis of the Ngapuhi and Ngati Whatua Maori tribes says “Kia Ora” from Aotearoa New Zealand. Or “hello.” ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.3.11~

If you have your money invested in the steel industries stock, you’ll be smiling like you’re Superman or Supergirl or something. According to the Wall Street Journal today, “Steelmakers have increased prices six times, for a total increase of 20% to 30%, since November on basic flat-rolled steel, used in everything from cars to toasters, [...]

Is fleecing one’s own countryfolk for a buck, now an accepted norm, now that Hosni Mubarak is very publicly being a catalyst to reveal this trend in the world? I guess it is. Billionaire Bill Gates Microsoft/ Bing network is taking great pleasure today, dishing the dirt on his fellow billionaires, who don’t serve their [...]

[Painter Sebastiano del Piombo once painted Christopher Colombus, as depicted here] Christopher Colombus is that great explorer that even kids growing up in New Zealand heard all about at school. He was quite famous down under. I notice that Christopher loved his hats while he sailed the open seas braving the fear of the unknown. [...]

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Talking to Hero Complex a division of LA Times, Aussie action star and a presenter at this year’s Oscars Awards show, Hugh Jackman, spills the beans on eating 6,000 calories a day to bulk up again in his role as Wolverine. Last time, Hugh did that, Ryan Reynolds copied him, and now we have all of [...]

You know that 1 in 6 babies of the world, still need access to the internet and the latest stock market figures clean drinking water, when you see Evian sinking money into advertising like this in Hollywood. Crazy stuff on tee shirt messages cotton. Here’s ten news posts in Hollywood, you’re sharing as culture via social [...]

Two things. It’s coming into Oscars Awards season and paternity suits are kinda all the rage here in the US. But this one caught me by surprise. According to the Associated Press, via NewsNineMSN, an Australian lassie, Francis Lawrencia Anderson, while Steven was hard at work directing the theater production (a play) titled Tot Mom [...]

People Magazine give some press coverage to the cast of reality TV Show The Real Housewives of Miami. They are: From left: Alexia Echevarria, Marysol Patton, Larsa Pippen, Cristy Rice, Lea Black and Adriana Sidi. Pic courtesy of Adam Olszweski/Bravo. In more detail, People breaks down their TV bios and personas as being this: Lea Black has [...]

These headlines from The Huffington Post today have us praying for Egypt’s welfare: Video From Tahrir Square Goes Dark.. Journalists Detained, Beaten.. Swedish Reporter Stabbed.. ABC Producer Threatened With Beheading If you know how to pray – then Pray for the Peace of Egypt, Israel and The Middle East. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. [...]

I notice that Wikileaks is being majorly considered for a Nobel Peace Prize Award, whereas encyclopedia (with oft skewed, not always factually correct information) Wikipedia, is not. How can one person, Julian Assange be considered to win an award over all of the gazillion million trillion billion co-authors that Wikipedia claims contribute to their global [...]

Reese and Tim nipped out for a quick bite in Brentwood last night. It must be love if this new star couple are dining in family oriented cosy Brentwood. Cute. Reese must have a lot on her plate, because Tim looks like he’s enjoying his increased spotlight with his colgate American smile all shiny for [...]

I haven’t checked my email for almost a week. So, I have missed out on all of the exciting family news that comes with having a newborn join the fold. The news that also occurs when someone special turns 21 and the father they’ve never met wants to meet their child. Does the child meet? [...]

Just in from email – the latest song future reality TV star, Kelley West, emailed me of Sade. The lyrics are, according to Kelley, overcoming slavery (eg – national debt, emotional slavery and all that stuff that is played out with ‘national debt’ narratives) for ordinary folks. As Sade is a group, that stems from [...]

MSN News takes a look at the Super Bowl’s main attraction. Go here to read hair raising stories of America’s football prime time’s most loved distraction. Footballers hair. How else can shampoo companies get their advertising into Super Bowl time, unless football lads turn on a hair show? [Photo - Troy Polamalu and Clay Matthews] [...]