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Horiwood.Com is a celebrity and entertainment news website based in Hollywood. The blog is written by a freelance journalist and member of the foreign press based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

The National Business Review says: “Horiwood aka Sam Cruickshank, is an MA(hons) graduate of The Auckland University English Department’s, Film TV&Media Studies Program. Cruickshank is a graduate of Witi Ihimaera’s Creative Writing Course. He is the original screenwriter, television director and current script advisor of the Kai Ora TV Series featured on the Maori Television Service and Sky TV’s Food Channel. The series Sam co-created through his production house Pakiri Productions, is now in pre-production of its fourth season. He has edited American authors novels and is currently in negotiations to assist in the development of a filmic biopic of an American fashion legend.”

The word hori is taken from Horiwood’s cultural heritage of the Maori language and is a humorous, slang term of reference that signifies the indigenous ‘other.’

In Hollywood, everyone is viewed as the ‘other’ until you’ve lived here for a minimum of 3 years. Maybe at that point, you’re not viewed as a transient any longer and you know a little something about what LA is about. Angeleno is a word, one must earn.

Horiwood: the blog, evolved out of Sam’s tongue-in-cheek monthly Hollywood entertainment news column, “Horiwood” written for Tu Mai Magazine over the last two years for the New Zealand audience. Michael Jackson’s death coverage was the last big media moment that Sam covered for Tu Mai. That was a crazy LA moment.

Whether you are meeting the world’s biggest teen superstar, like Miley Cyrus, LA has so much to offer in this city of fame and excess. It’s the only city you’ll step over a homeless person on the way into an Oscar after party, or be wowed as you catch the magic of live outdoor music at The Hollywood Bowl. It’s surreal.

Horiwood shares attention grabbing media moments inside the fame game that anyone who lives in LA is bombarded with each day as stars, celebrities, entertainers, music artists, film actors, comedians, TV stars and big studios all compete for their piece of a media spotlight from The Entertainment Capitol of The World. It’s crazy!

Horiwood is meant to be a light-hearted (never intentionally hurtful) entertaining read 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It’s just one New Zealand guy’s daily view of media moments that capture our attention from someone who just happens to live in Hollywood, California.

I hope you enjoy it, and…

~ Welcome to Horiwood ~

 on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USAMiley Cyrus & Sam Cruickshank [aka Horiwood]

Miley Cyrus & Sam Cruickshank aka Horiwood