It’s royal wedding build up time. The media quite like the Young Royals show in most tabloids and newspapers at this Kiwi minute.
Plenty of royals on balconies is what we’ll most probably get to see when a certain young couple tie the knot.
Here’s Beyonce Knowles shout out to Kate Middleton via the USA.
An image of standing tall.
[Photograph courtesy of Wenn.com]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.4.11~
Alicia Keys could not be happier, with her buddy Beyonce starring in her music video.
Here’s an early snippet. Festive and tribal fun!
“Work it out” is the message.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA.3.9.11~
This is how we do it!
I’m a bit of Hollywood fan of Aussie Idol singer, Guy Sebastian‘s golden vocal sound. Here’s Guy singing for Oprah Winfrey on her now infamous sojourn in Aussie land.
Hot r n b vocals entertainment. Thanks Guy. I like Guy because he’s like Beyonce. They have the vocal goods to be megastars of entertainment as singers, yet they are so humble in spirit. Powerful people.
Mr Sebastian kicks in at the 2:30 mark of this video footage.
Own your story. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.8.11~
Here’s Beyonce‘s L’Officiel magazine cover via France as her tribute to Kuti. Perfection as always from the Queen Bee, not that it matters. :)
Ten posts we’re bumping on as pop culture right here in the Hollywood hood in this fleeting fickle minute. Love it. Let’s keep sharing fun moments in between life’s trials and challenges.
1. Teen Mom, reality TV star Maci Bookout
2. Christchurch City is on our hearts
3. A bird’s eye view – A City hit by a quake
4. Henry Cavill & Sofia Gervara
5. Men’s fitness magazine tips
6. When Beyonce added film producing to her credentials
7. Jane Fonda at Golden Globes 2011
8. 100 things about Twitter culture
9. Experiment – the new immigrant experience in the age of social media – US ’11
10. Art – Interweaving narrativies – A Maori Tutukutuku Hollywood panel
Musique - Opposite People by Fela Kuti
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.24.11~
Beyonce Knowles has darkened her face with a “blackface” historical reference, as art in a photoshoot for L’Officiel Paris magazine’s 90th anniversary issue.
A statement issued by the magazine factually states that the entertainer’s latest artistic endeavor via this photo shoot is “a return to her African roots, as you can see on the picture, on which her face was voluntarily darkened.”
Her work is intended to be a tribute to the Nigerian musician of the Cool Cats group and human rights activist Fela Kuti, born of Abeokuta, Nigeria. Fela is the subject of a Broadway musical as well.
Like Beyonce’s Josephine Baker tribute of the past with her De Ja Vu performances in big shows of entertainment, like Fashion Rocks showcase shows, I love this artistic endeavor too. Hot!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.22.11~
Thom Yorke of Radiohead re-edits his dance moves of the Lotus Flower music video as a tribute to Beyonce and her Single Ladies song.
Simple re-editing for a brills result!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.22.11~
Beyonce Knowles sits court side with hubby Jay-Z wearing a pair of Christian Louboutin heels at the NBA All-Star game in LA.
A good effort for basketball super fans of the sport. Basketball can be a big night out for the ladies. Why not.
[Pic courtesy of The UK Daily Mail]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.21.11~
When you’re desirable it’s never your own fault. Be beautiful anyway–Thought for today.
Around the world, USA’s print media paint a picture on the front pages of newspapers of the world being in revolution today. This photograph pictured is the most highest rated blog post today, amidst such news. The image provides a picture of a hip hop couple of entertainment. They’re like twins the way they roll. I wonder if they had scallops for lunch. Red ones perhaps. :)
On May 20th 2009 I wrote from Hollywoood – “How did Beyonce celebrate the news that she was the 4th most influential celebrity in the world on The Forbes Celerbrity Top 100 List for 2009? She celebrated it by having lunch with hubby Jay-Z in Barcelona, Spain, where she’s performing to the Spaniards on her I Am Tour. Check out those Sasha Fierce shoes! She knows how to represent for lunch!”
We still love going for lunch in the USA, regardless of what’s occurring in the world. This pic is a reminder to consider others and still look after ourselves and celebrate life and freedom in the process and face of change. Where that change is being channeled to flow, let’s hope all people get a fair deal with that. That’s my prayer today from Hollywood.
Photograph snapped – 05-20-09. Caption – Barcelona, Spain – Singers Beyonce Knowles and husband Jay Z leaving a restaurant during her Tour around Spain. Pix by Flynet  in 2009. Photographer - 818-307-4813 Nicolas.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.19.11. Original dimensions of photograph 500 x 850.~
According to sources like Just Jared team players Beyonce has selected to work on a new album with are music producers Diplo and Switch and Derek Miller songwriter/guitarist of Sleighbells.
Of course, I’ve never heard of them. Have you? Sounds exciting from Team Beyonce though. She’s great in concert live. The Texan diva whose dad made her and sister Solange run track in high heel shoes as kids in preparation for a career in show biz, is the hardest working performer on stage in the music game. She’s sweetness transcending the harsh training.
Kurt Cobain tee shirt street chic via Metallica, Melrose Fashion District, West Hollywood.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.28.11~
Beyonce Knowles teamed with hubby Jay-Z and Hollywood great, Clint Eastwood to subtly take two spots today in our top ten entertainment and celebrity news items today.
Thanks for voting. Let’s keep it flowing.
What a day. Read the blog. Thanks for contributing in every way. BTW: A real rock star would go wild for this tee shirt. Steven Tyler would kill for this authentic rocker L.A vintage tee. I kid you not.
I hope you see yourself reflected in some way in today’s blogging. All meant in jest. Enjoy!
1. Barack Obama dyes his hair before dinner with Hu Jintao
2. Nina Warren
3. Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez - Googles 2 hottest teens in the USA
4. Shakespeare – Megan Fox ink
5. Beyonce & Jay-Z - archive pic
7. CNN say MSNBC’s Keith Obama was too much a Gifford fan
8. Social media, Hollywood News & You – 1-15-11
9. Meet Sadie & Lawrin – with Today’s Celebrity News
10. Beyonce teams with Clint Eastwood – Warner Bros. A Star is Born
~Thought for today: Isn’t the Bullets for Peace fashion label such a paradox? Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.22.11~
Although every time the lovely Beyonce appears and performs it feels like a “Star is Born” moment for the American people, Deadline Hollywood reports that Warner Bros. has signed Clint Eastwood to remake the Star is Born film classic. Beyonce herself, will star in the Barbara Streisand role.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.21.11~
While sipping the best coffee of Los Angeles while blogging, I can’t help thinking - I love what you do when you do what you do.
Gosh I felt like Elena Kagan a favorite of the Who Runs Gov website, just wrote that last line of marketing. But no, a Maori-Kiwi did in Hollywood instead. Beyonce & Jay-Z shine today as millionaires in love. Read commentary below via C.A.
Here’s ten popular news posts with a celebrity and entertainment news bent, you’re passing on like a rugby football via social media. Horiwood.Com news in The City of Angels – let’s keep it flowing. Thanks people. Your hot choices in this minute are:
1. GABRIEL BYRNE ON THE RICHARD BURTON BOOK
2. TAYLOR SWIFT STEPS INTO ZAC EFRON’S SPOTLIGHT – AGAIN!
3. KATHERINE JENKINS AND TIGER WOODS
4. GLEE GIRL MELANIE LUTZ WRITES OF LOVE LAND, A BOOK
5. MINING RESERVOIR LOVE – ALL CHILDREN DESERVE CLEAN DRINKING WATER
6. VINTAGE SAMMY DAVIS JR., OSCARS NIGHT 1960
7. VINTAGE COPPER CHIFFON DRESS by MISS ELLIETTE 1960′s
8. BEYONCE SIGHTING AT WEST ORANGE BLOCK PARTY
9. OLD SCHOOL SAMBUSIK RECIPES – WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA PERSIAN CULINARY FAVS
10. HALLE BERRY’S STAR, HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME 2010
Stellar guest commentary profile courtesy of Melissa Noble: “Not only are Jay-Z and Beyonce snazzy good-looking, millionaires with flourishing careers, they also happen to be deeply, madly, and yes, crazy in love.
For their February issue, Ebony talks to 15 successful Hollywood couples including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys and T.I. and Tiny. The magazine attempts to decipher how and why each relationship works.If jealousy happens to be your personality caveat then read no further. Of Jay-Z and Beyonce:
“For all their might as solo power players, their relationship is remarkably free of drama. They sit around in their pajamas and watch cable and snuggle, which may, after all, be the ultimate fantasy. When they climb off the couch from beneath their favorite cashmere throws or disembark from their yachts, they work as if James Brown were their boss. One of them is always touring, always in the studio, always somewhere making kinds of multimillion dollar-deals that keep them on the Forbes list.”
Must be nice. Let’s all hope for this in our next lives. No -let’s be real and modern. In this life that can happen via US for the word- Did you see no. 5? :)
Thanks Melissa. Other bloggers who work hard and blog too or bring news here in the USA like Melissa are: Left, Right and Center; The Moderate Voice; Read the rest of this entry »
Beyonce Knowles shines on Bossip‘s website today in The Big Apple. And, happiness is a topic concerning many today. Interesting. Our top ten celebrity news posts voted today worldwide here in Hollywood are:
1. JERRY BROWN IS FRONT PAGE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -1.4.11
2. JUSTIN BIEBER AND SELENA GOMEZ ARE FRIENDS
3. JON VOIGHT AND JAMES HAVEN for ANGELINA JOLIE
4. BIEBER ELVIS – VF PHOTO SHOOT 1.4.11
5. JOHNNY DEPP, FORBES #9 TOP CELEBRITY 2010
6. HAPPINESS WISDOM: TEN QUOTES ON HAPPINESS
7. SHILOH JOLIE-PITT AT ROCKRIDGE KIDS
8. ONLY A STAR NOSE: HOLLYWOOD’S PRICE OF FAME
10. FLAGS BY BROOKE FRASER IS A PRETTY SONG
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.5.11~
Classic. Nice. A performance from The Queen Bee and Mr Chris Martin of Coldplay in The Big Apple last eve.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.1.11~
It is not exactly warm in L.A today – I’d quite like to be in Hawaii right now at Dukes listening to good live music. However, Los Angeles is all okay today too, indoors. The South and NYC have blizzard situations going on. Poor peeps. Here’s ten hot posts being bumped via social media this Christmas right now in Hollywood.
1. Hinewehi Mohi sings for Peter Gordon‘s hangi feast
2. Alison Iraheta & Cindy Lauper can sing
3. Star Politicians – Bill English, Hekia Parata, John Key. Kiwi smiles. :)
4. Taylor Swift gets her Rachel Hunter on
5. Hollywoods Top 50 stars list 2009
7. The Peeps judging the Oscars
9. Hallelujah! Chorus – Flash Mob Opera
10. Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.25.10~
Some quotes from Gwenneth Paltrow regarding her iPod playlist:
“I watched Beyonce a ton because I think she’s the best live performer happening right now. She has this amazing confidence and I thought to myself if I could just get a tiny bit of that self confidence then maybe I can pull off this scene at the end. You wouldn’t necessarily think that Beyonce would be the inspiration for a country star [laughs].”… “I listen to everything. I probably have the most schizophranic iPod. My biggest obsession right now is the Nicki Minaj album. She’s a genius. I’m also obsessed with Kanye’s album. I really like Dierks Bentley. He has a bluegrass record that I really love.”
Winning cross-cultural styles hath Gwenneth.
[Image courtesy of Pubblinet Switzerland via Italy Soft. News via Source]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.12.10~
Queensland Australia is a lot of fun. I first visited playing rugby football when I was 9 years of age. Brisbane was always a happy place to visit. Sweet pineapples and macadamia nuts are all grown in abundance, on the sun-kissed terrain that is called the Australia’s Gold Coast.
Here’s Jay-Z and Beyonce snapped lunching in Queensland Thursday.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~
Christine O’Donnell is quoted saying: “At a speech Tuesday night in Virginia, Christine called Obama’s tax cut deal that included the extension of unemployment benefits a “tragedy” comparable to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of Elizabeth Edwards, The Hill reported.
“Tragedy comes in threes,” O’Donnell told the audience. “Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards’s passing and Barack Obama‘s announcement of extending the tax cuts but also extending the unemployment benefits,” she added. On Monday, the President and GOP leaders agreed to keep Bush-era tax cuts in place for all Americans for the next two years and extended jobless benefits for 13 months.
I don’t blame Obama’s government for the 9.8% unemployment rate currently, because I never created a job for anyone else, the last two years. How can I blame Obama for what I didn’t do? One year in the US, I was able to create a job for someone. The last two years, no.
This year, someone unexpectedly created a part time job that they offered me. The timing of the job could not have been better. For this person’s kindness, I will always be thankful. Their actions are what I know of real America, and not what’s in magazines, but the stuff real people are made of here, who build community with sustained effort.
A consonant’s single power to define, reorder meaning in a collective of consonants–and who owns their arrangement in “words” that form “meaning” to create “laws” that protect and privilege certain people over others, in “books” or corporate or government “notes” and leaked “documents”– is the top trend in the world today–this week. It’s all about information sharing of consonants and written symbols today as collected via computer technology–and who has a right to “distribute” these consonants arrangement on a data file or printed page (being digitalized) to fellow human beings, supposedly deeply affected by these “words” and “consonants” arrangement and ordering of expression.
Are letters (written consonants/ symbols of a few people) more important than the lives of the majority of people?
Do we worship the iconography of our own words and their protection more so than lives being lost every second?
Do consonants really determine Freedom? Or, is freedom shared in the spirit of brotherhood worldwide — bigger and more spiritual than written consonants alone devoid of human bodies, flesh, blood, melanin and bone and breath–transcending the limitations of just the letter of the law? I think the true essence and meaning of Liberty is. Living words are always so much more what we all serve. Or should. Not death words or death systems words for the majority of people on the planet.
Which is why I think a war of data distribution “ownership” and “protection of certain peoples words over another’s” or “exclusion of some peoples words from finding other peoples eyes and ears too” is a little silly.
It reeks of entitlement of a few–and that’s an archaic model that isn’t serving the majority of peoples interests in the world today in many political systems. The world is changing –keep UP!
I was thinking that with the Wikileaks scandal, with Google’s scanning of every Victorian book ever printed in the 19th Century, and also every book ever printed–that the world is getting a little bit obsessed about owning the 26 consonants of the English language, how they have been used in history, how they are being arranged today–and what meaning these 26 letters can create.
So for all of the power freaks in the world, who want to own all words ever written and printed (with 26 letters of the English alphabet), want to control their distribution, and definitive ‘scientific’ arrangement and meaning–my suggestion is, that perhaps: a) you dropped out of school too young, b) you always wanted to be a writer but never had the talent c) your sibling got more alphabet soup in their plate than you did–because this ‘control obsession’ with data ownership based on ownership of words and symbols of letters is getting a bit ridiculous.
You see, true creativity is a symbol of endless power that is not stuck, static or frozen. Meaning is created by such people that is relevant in any era we all live in.
True creative people create new words all the time, that can never be controlled. Once upon a time, Beyonce in the group Destiny’s Child coined the term “bootylicious” to express an African American form of sexiness in order to bring awareness to her difference and to create space for her peoples’ unique representation in the world. It was a ridiculous word, yet the people decided it wasn’t. The word became a no. 1 hit pop song and is now entered into and included into the English dictionary of globally understood meaning.
[Images from Google Books, home page today, top banner visuals as at ]. FYI, I haven’t read one of these books and never once felt the need to. We have amazing authors in New Zealand like Janet Frame and Patricia Grace–all of whose books I haven’t read yet–before these lads writing books would get a look in, to my reading glasses. However, this is who google touts what we should all be reading today. Wow!]
A diva touched down in New Zealand’s rock star city (Auckland The Supercity) recently to land on top again in today’s Hollywood news. Here’s Beyonce Knowles pic as snapped with a 19 year-old happy student on Bee’s recent visit to the green paradise nation.
Our entertainment celebrity news also celebrates Australian model Miranda Kerr strutting her Aussie-Angel winged self on a global runway–as she awaits to be a mother in the world. Apart from The Queen Bee, even Wikileaks scandals of the world’s most powerful leaders could not trump this Aussie supermodel from taking out top honors.
Fun choices today on a mixed day of sadness and joy for me as a Kiwi in America. Here’s our top ten in Hollywood. Thanks everyone.
1. Beyonce‘s diva pic with Sam Bellingham rates again
2. Aussie Miranda Kerr struts wings as Sun Capitol Partners supermodel of World
3. Pray – Justin Bieber‘s new music video
4. A glowing sense of humor – Prime Minister John Key
5. Flash mob Opera is like Wikileaks releases. Unexpected but more fun
6. Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, Ted Turner & Bill Gates are tumeke!
8. Jay-Z‘s tribute to Greymouth miners families
9. Johnny Depp shines as Forbes #9 Top Celebrity 2010
10. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt‘s zebra print boots
Bonus Post – Remembering Joseph Dunbar 17.
[Steam train vintage purple steam - Greymouth to Christchurch train]
[Music - Slow Train Coming from the era in Hollywood I worked for the publicist of - Mr Bob Dylan]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.1.10~
Yesterday my mom called to say Beyonce and Jay-Z lunched at Soul Cafe on the viaduct basin of Auckland The Supercity. It was quite a moment. Here’s the highlights while the couple stayed at Mollies a boutqiue hotel in the trendy restaurant-suburb of Ponsonby. Here’s Ten Things about the superstar couples lunch in New Zealand:
New York Body Guards: The couple travel with bodyguards who were toting”thick raspy New Yorker accents.”
Beyonce loves New Zealand Snapper: New Zealand snapper is a deep sea fish that you grow up catching as a kid with your dad on fishing weekends. It’s loved by Japan, China and those in the know in Europe. The cool thing is, when you go to any local fish ‘n chip store near a beach, snapper is also on the menu for $4 – $6 a piece. With a beer it’s delicious. She’s got good taste in food this girl.
Jay-Z dined on John Dory fish: Jigga also had fish. Apparently his taste preference was the John Dory and fries. John Dory is oilier in texture than snapper–and in my opinion not as good, although it is faintly sweeter to the taste, but less juicy on the palate. Having said that, all New Zealand seafood (Australian seafood too) is good.
Fun with cameras: The Queen Bee of R n’ B, took great delight in (snapping) photographing Jay-Z and the paparazzi too with her camera as a reminder that it was Jay-Z’s entertainment moment, not hers. Gracious and fun.
What wine did the star couple share? The Gibbston Valley Pinos Gris. With a sense of Kiwi humor, the gold medal winning wine is described as so: “A very bright nose, strongly infused with passionfruit. On the palate, the energy of the wine is juxtaposed against a very creamy, expansive palate. A surge of concentrated fruit relaxes all the way through the long lingering finish. An amazingly versatile wine with food, its strength is that it combines fullness of structure with pleasing aromatics. We have consistently found our Pinot Gris cellar well between 5-8 years.” You can order a case of it here.
The onlookers at nearby tables: Who should have been at this lunch are TV directors/ producers: Tini Molyneux, Nicole Hoey, Joanna Paul, Stacey Morrison, Paora Maxwell, Greg Mayor, Eliza Bidois, Scotty Morrison, Matai Rangi Smith to name a few star Auckland show biz entertainers–who could have provided Bee and Jay-Z with some fun cultural sense of Kiwi humor. However, this is who was present: TV Game Show Producer Julie Christie. Magazine editor Bevan Rapson. Tres blanca, I must say for NZ’s colorful entertainment diversity, but all good.
Onlookers quote of the day: Said winemaker Kim Crawford: “I walked out the front of the restaurant to have a smoke,” Crawford told the Herald on Sunday, “and I went to pull out my ciggies from my pocket and the bodyguard yelled ‘No photos!’ I said, ‘f*** off, mate, this is New Zealand. It’s just cigarettes. He did apologise, so that was okay.”
Someone needs to tell Kim, that if you spark up a joint in California (in many parts of the US) no one would look at you twice. Cigarettes are like what the devil smokes–they are satanic for one’s lungs is the belief, so um, yeah! It’s very self-righteous of the US, but it’s the developing trend of etiquette here. The French will love this story though from Kim Crawford. Too funny. What a cowboy! It’s just that in air polluted cities, people like to avoid cigarette smoke in preference of the ganja–yet in New Zealand with good clean air, the reverse is probably true when lunching. We don’t have air issues in the same way big US cities do. Every little bit of air management helps here.
A bit about Mollies – celebrity couples romance star-accommodation spot: Mollies romantic boutique hotel accommodation in Auckland city New Zealand, is a small luxury hotel, named “Best New Small Hotel in The World” by Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report Hotel Awards. Think Ireland, meets classic operatic overtones with a hint of Asia-Pacific freshness to get the gist. I smile when I see a picture of Mollies. It’s a converted colonial styled house that once belonged to Liz and Rick who were my bosses when I was 16 living, studying and working in Auckland at Rick’s Cafe Americain. Love what’s been done to this house. Hot!
The restaurant exit: Jigga and Bee’s romantic 90-minute late lunch saw them ushered to an awaiting Audi that transported the star couple to a helicopter to chopper their way a short distance to Mt Smart Stadium for the final concert of the New Zealand leg where Jay-Z played support act to U2.
Are Jay-Z and Beyonce still in New Zealand? No. They flew out yesterday.
[Photog credit: Stephen McNicholl: Jay-Z does his thing in concert, having fun at Auckland The Supercity's Mount Smart Stadium concert venue]
I remember watching Beyonce live at Mt Smart Stadium myself, long before she was ‘officially dating’ her hubby with her girl group Destiny’s Child. The moment was harmonious and magical under a big super top tent. She proudly wore the biggest blondest afro wig, her head could hold and hula skirts for much of the concert. At the same venue, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Bon Jovi, Alanis Morissette and Robbie Williams are also fond rock star moments I remember seeing at Mt Smart. Auckland The Supercity is one of the best venues you could ever see a rock star perform in. It’s a place that is getting LOUDER in a good way, with rock star diverstity! Such a cool city with fun surrounding adventure activities to enjoy with a quality of restaurant life and culture that’s second to none in the world. Much fun. Having seen Beyonce in concert here too at the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles, you just ignore exaggerated reports that she towers in a red dress and Loubouton leopard print heels. Bee is actually average or short in stature, like many of America’s most famous pop stars are, if you see them live. There’s nothing much to them, but their spirits are larger than life in concert. It’s all camera work, best angles and mega-projection. As a performer, Beyonce is second to none. She’s like a Jackson, or lately, a Bieber–they’re the best show people in the world.
My nephew Bradley James totally digs Jay-Z and was so mega-excited that Jigga was performing at this concert with U2. He was there watching the concert, a dream come true. Apparently these lads were amazing!
[Hollywood star today--A publicist's soldier tribute Hollywood star--Photographed for you by Horiwood.Com]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.27.10~
[Image caption - Fan Sam Bellingham was lucky enough to get a photo with Beyonce as she arrived at Auckland International Airport, New Zealand].
My Maori mum, Tui of Helensville is too cute. Right on midnight (Los Angeles Time) she called me to say that she had gone with her grandchildren to see Bono (she meant U2) perform in Auckland The Supercity.
She also said that Beyonce was spotted going for lunch the next day at The Soul Cafe in Auckland City. “She’s beautiful dear,” were mom’s words.
Maori moms are so much fun. Mine is in her 70′s and can still rock it out to a humanitarian’s rock concert with her grandkids. Namely, her blackest grandchild Bradley James. Love her!
On the phone we talked about what she feels the world needs today. For once I listened. She spoke of people needing a true sense of manaaki (or hospitality from one’s spirit) that this would warm and brighten the world and make it a better place.
She was deep as well as funny as Maori and all Kiwi moms usually are. I felt her manaakitanga over the phone of a woman who has birthed her children in New Zealand, in Tonga in Fiji and travelled to India, China, Israel, America, Australia, the Phillipines as the global people-loving citizen that mom is. From New Zealand, her home–mom’s love of her big-hearted nation in the world beamed bright across New Zealand’s South Pacific Waters to my Maori-Kiwi heart here in California.
Thanks for the fun phone call mom.
And – go Sam Bellingham in New Zealand! You rock. Los Angeles sees your star Kiwi smile too. xox
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.27.10~
Beyonce Knowles was spotted at the launch of the 2BHappy jewelry collection by Lorraine Schwartz in NYC yesterday (Monday). She looks happy.
[Image courtesy of Celebrity G]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood Caliornia USA. 11.23.10~
Watch clip here.
FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, laid all her American dance moves aside and leaped into some new fun and learning, dancing with young people in India.
Their traditional music, is a little bit hip, as reflected in this dance video too of Beyonce dancing at a block party with arms raised, Indian style also. (Kylie Minogue‘s arm/ hand movements choreography from her new music video Get Outta My Way, a few weeks before Beyonce was filmed, doing Indian-styled hip hop choregraphy, also reflects the same trait. Hands expression in dance is India).
Nice cross-cultural similarities being found and created right now in world history (in arts and cultural performing arts) between America and India with Mrs Obama. Quite novel really, who ever would have thought?
Also Britney Spears Bollywood choreography in her Circus World Tour was also a forward-thinking example of this. The most successful cross-over American artist in India’s history is Michael Jackson (1/4 of all music download in India, is that of MJ’s). Nice to see Michelle Obama going after the Jackson golden trail of cultural appeal that Indians like… in the dance of life that in universally shared by us all.
Janet Jackson also demonstrated this in her no. 1 hit, Runaway -the music video,15-years ago for American women crossing over into India by paying tribute and respect to Indian women’s legacy of dance as performing artists. That clip below. Michelle Obama makes it look so natural and easy for America to dance Indian. Love it, just like the world loves Janet doing the same thing. Mrs Obama is the first First Lady of America to do this. Go Michelle!:
Of course, being a Kiwi I ask the question, what would Bollywood musicals choreography look like, filmed in the colorful magic of 3D cinematic mastery? Now there’s the future of cinema and musical cinema(s) bridge-building cross-culturally smart, right there. A part of it, anyway. Peter Jackson directing a simulation of the Taj Mahal imagery in 3D could be quite hot, when filming action and choreography. Watching Mrs Obama perform in the above clip also reminds me of Avondale, a city in Auckland The Supercity and the culturally rich Kiwi-Indian community of New Zealand. Love them.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.8.10~
He’s black. Gay. A teen. And alive. Meet Darnel. He poppin it while eating his snacks, for East LA on Halloween in West Hollywood. Nuts. Lol!
When I asked Darnel who he was dressed as he said: “I a Presidential Beyonce Bunny baby. A Prez-Z-Dent-CHU-AL BEE-ON-SAY bun-NEE,” to get the ebonics right.
“Wanna check my credentials?,” Darnel adds after this pic was snapped, quoting the Beyonce song lyrics of the funny and OTT song, Why Dont You Love Me.
I love black peoples sense of humor in the US. It’s so like Maoris, it’s a hoot. Never dull, insipid or boring. Very quick witted humor.Anyway…
Whatevz Darnel! How about a slightly more well known Presidential Bunny then. Here ya go.
[Darnel is googling this pic to find it at 3am. On that note: Thanks my brotha!Go easy on the Cheetos.]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 10.31.10~
Pieces of beauty for L’Oreal by Beyonce. Flawless.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com. Hollywood California USA. 10.30.10~
BEYONCE VS BEYONCE VIZIO COMMERCIAL
Beyonce is “diva funny” in her new Vizio commercial. Unless someone is on a telephone screen or a TV screen, we often don’t believe much else. Many of us are digital-addicted in the age of internet, news feeds and mobile telephony.
I like the way Beyonce questions the appearance of a simulcrum vs a “real” appearance. Clever. She makes you think.
This TVC is getting major buzz right now in the beautiful USA. Hottest place to broadcast this TVC is MSNBC. You know it. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.26.10~
Posted by horiwood on November 27, 2010 in Beyonce Knowles, Humor, TVC
Tags: Beyonce Knowles, Humor, Pop Culture Commentary, TVC