“I feel guilty because I don’t do either of the things well”–Stella McCartney admits that working and mothering four children takes its toll some days. More here.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 4.2.11~
Category Archives: Family Vs Fame
PASTA ENTITLEMENT – ITALY IS EATING THEMSELVES AND THEIR MOMMA’S STOVE LABOR, THROUGH UNSUSTAINABLE SELF PITY
The worst luxury one can delude oneself to feel in tough times, is the deceptive one, of self pity. You just can’t afford that emotion. It’s too taxing.
Today we learn from Italy, about how vital community is – and yet how bonds of community made up of family-based culture, can also be exploited by spoiled brats. (joking). However, this is italy’s story today, if you do the math.
Writes Stacy Meichtry for the Wall Street Journal, “On a recent Sunday in Rome, Daniela Varano and some friends lunched on eggplant parmesan whipped up by the 33-year-old publicist’s mother.
Mom, meanwhile, was 500 miles away in Bovalino, a small town in southern Italy. Despite the distance, [where items are transported overnight] she does what it takes to spoil her grown daughter with home-cooked fare.
“The umbilical cord was never cut,” says Ms. Varano’s 61-year-old mother, Lina.” Daniela maintains when she eats and shares her mother’s food with friends, “I’m maintaining an emotional link with my family.”
Stacey also notes, “Jobs for young Italians are scarce—particularly in Italy’s poorer south—forcing people to migrate north to big cities, leaving their mothers behind. In Calabria, on the toe of Italy’s boot, 52% of Italians between the ages of 15 to 64 were “inactive,” or not working or studying during most of 2010, according to Italy’s official statistics agency ISTAT. Authorities say Calabria is also home to the ‘ndrangheta mob, a drug trafficking syndicate that maintains a stranglehold on the region’s economy, starving the area of jobs.”
Rather humorously, the story of Italy’s doting mothers ends with this view of their independent kids, ‘A high-school teacher, Mr. Natale has been receiving Sunday deliveries [of food] for eight years. He deeply misses his mother, he said, but “there is no going back.”‘
Perhaps these mothers of Calabria, need to see ‘the world as their children’ and export vacuum packed products to China, America instead. I mean Calabria/ California… that has a good ring to it in this age of Jersey Shore culture taking the USA by storm. Now there’s a thought to really help their kids and grandchildren out as matriarchs of Italia grounded in reality too. For Stacey’s story, go here.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.31.11~
7 THINGS – HOLLYWOOD – 3.30.11 @ 8.30pm
Mason Disick shines as a tot whose not camera shy. And Kris says kids should be “working at 13 with real jobs.” Hers she says have been. Read the story at Oh No They Didn’t!
Seven things we’re sharing in Hollywood in this moment are -
1. Fighter jets nondisclosure & Canada’s government topples
2. Wendi Murdoch steps up to make Hollywood more relevant
3. Hell – The Rugby World Cup is going to be good this year
4. Jeremy Irons new TV series intrigues to date
5. Learning from 1975 ethics leaders in the nuclear energy & electricity department
6. IT guru, Kevin Kelly talks “flow” as a key trend of IT convergeance – with paid access
7. Lionel Richie & Guy Sebastian will remake a classic for a good city in recovery
Seriously though, Kris’ point is parents creating jobs for their kids, who then create jobs for others is a guaranteed way to help an economy out. For example Kim employs a bunch of people in Hollywood with her online marketing endeavors in fashion accessories etc. They’re an industry employing locals here in Cali.
For that the Kardashians have a point. Families have to make it happen. This lot are.
Some US bloggers worth checking out too are - ABC; Access Hollywood; Al Jazeera; AOL News; Associated Press; BBC; Bloomberg; Boston Globe; C-SPAN; CBS; Chicago Sun-Times; Chicago Tribune; Christian Science Monitor; Center for Public Integrity; CNN; Congressional Quarterly; Daily Telegraph; Democracy Now!; Drudge Report; E! Online; Entertainment Weekly; Forbes; Fortune; Fox News; Financial Times
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.30.11~
THE CYRUS FAMILY GO FOR COFFEE IN TOLUCA LAKE, NORTH HOLLYWOOD – 3.28.11
The things we write to accompany mere photographs here in Hollywood of families doing normal things. Like going for coffee together.
Here’s TMZ’s words on one of our favorite families on this blog:
“After trashing his daughter’s hit show (then taking it back) and filing for divorce from his wife (then taking it back), Billy Ray Cyrus was seen withTish, Miley, and Noah during a coffee run in their neighborhood of Toluca Lake on Sunday.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.28.11~
KATY PERRY’S MOTHER, MARY PERRY HUDSON IS A PREACHER, WITH A GIFT OF HEALING
True humility is to be known for the gifts that you have and to serve them into the world.
Guest Commentary from The Huffington Post (actual writer not named, sorry!): Singer, Katy Perry makes the audience rise out of their seats, but her mom wants her delivering sermons, not songs.
Mary Perry Hudson, Katy’s mother, is a California preacher who sees a different career path in her daughter’s future. She and Perry’s father, who is also religious, raised Perry in a conservative, religious home. Now, Hudson is shopping a book about raising Perry, and the NY Post reports that excerpts have been leaked from the proposal.
Seeing Perry in concert, Hudson writes that she envisioned her daughter not as a singer, but a “Kathryn Kuhlman type of healer.” Kuhlman was a famed evangelist and faith healer.
“I recognized the psalmist gift in her performance,” Hudson wrote. “Yet she sang out, ‘I kissed a girl, and I liked it,’ while thousands joined her. One part of my heart soared… the other part broke for the thousands of hungry souls being fed something that didn’t nourish their spirit, but fed their flesh.”
Perry, who in 2001 released a Christian pop album under the name Katy Hudson, has spoken about her faith on numerous occasions, describing herself as a work in progress. She spoke with a number of publications in 2009, including Beliefnet.com, which reported her take on her evolution.
“And I was raised with certain ideas, like you mentioned about what the Bible does say. But I definitely am now, as an adult, and in a whole new world, in a world I didn’t even know existed, I definitely have different perspectives and am very much not a poster child for anything perfect or organized or cookie cutter. I have had my own relationship and my own beliefs and I’m continually on an upward search with all of that, and I really don’t know the answers nor do I like to impress them on anybody else.”
The book proposal also details Perry’s mom’s disapproval of her cleavage-showing performance outfits, as well as her displeasure with her daughter’s fiance at the time (now husband), Russell Brand.
Thanks Huffington Post for this diverse story. For more on Hudson’s book proposal, click over to the NY Post. Photo from the HuffPo too. Photographer unknown.
This is my ‘you can’t choose your parents’ story of the day. Jk. Parents are works in progress too, thankfully.
In light of events in the world, The Gift of Healing is a useful gift. Everyone has gifts. Healing is one, that some people have been given. We need to see this give manifest more in the world. The gift of healing manifests strongly (along with doctors medical knowledge, expertise, skill, research funded new knowledge too) coming to the forefront in the world as well, simply because there is a new need for the gift of healing to be stronger. We live in such times and it is a very practical gift to help and equip others.
Kathryn Kuhlman’s gift made people want to worship her. She took great pains, to make sure they didn’t adore her, but looked to the Giver of the gift. In the past, faith healers have gotten this part wrong, and have used the gift to make money, live lavish life styles or, to have people over-adore them because of their gift. A faith healer is oddly never allowed to be a celebrity. They are not entertainers like Katy Perry has a gift to entertain. True faith healers have healthy self esteem yet they are not allowed to be celebrities. Humility must go with any gift we as flawed people are given (or not).
From a publicity angle, this is a good strategic move too. Suzanne Hinn‘s story of heartache married to a faith healer she recently split from, regularly rates on this blog each week in the top twenty posts. Quite unusual really Suzanne does. Kathryn Kuhlman was a famous divorcee, who rose above the stigma of her divorce and her own personal heartache that almost killed her, to let her gift still operate through her to facilitate healing and help others. She loved God more than anything else in this world and she helped thousands of people who were physically and spiritually sick, get well.
Like Perry, Kuhlman was an American national treasure and a great. As dramatic as the most eccentric actresses of theater. When she appeared she resembled a ghost.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.28.11~
THE ROSSDALES ROCK OUT FOR FAMILY TIME
That’s all.
[Photo from New York via Wenn.Com's photographers]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.28.11~
KIA KAHA-ISM AND CURBING THE DEBT DEMON, LOCKING ASSETS IN SAFE KEEPING WITH A HUMBLE KEY
Not everything appearing as a Saint, is–C.S Lewis (all that glitters isn’t gold).
Would you sell the cricket bat in a nation’s hand? Or the rugby field from under their feet?
Living in humilty is to not live in delusion. Wisdom resides in humble people, who have an ability to recognize that fame is a mirage that only a minute few project. It is not reality for majorities of most people. Because humility recognizes this, in between navigating the quick sand fleeting mind fields of passing fads, humility is a spiritual protective force field around a nation’s future. Staying grounded on solid ground you still at best are a steward of, ensures a secure future for people you lead is to Stay Strong as a leader.
We call this art of humility Kia Kahatanga of financial management in New Zealand.
Future generations will praise such a leader who has this spirit. Fame is a demon. It seduces people into living short term. The wise think long term. Having been seduced in the past, I know this first hand and seek to help in this area.
We learn from mistakes. We need to learn quicker.
Debt is a demon. A nation’s assets in this current crazy world economy, perhaps need to be locked in a trust of safe keeping, under a key.
Vampires (sharks… whatevz you want to call them) swirl around freedom’s ramparts shores. And crawl over the green grassed hills and forrests of ‘home.’
Public demonstrations are all the rage. They are a sign of Demon.St.Ration at work. Seeing people live on coupons one loaf of bread at a time is debilitating. That’s not good leadership. It’s orchestrated mismanagement being pimped off shore. It needs to be curbed. It’s not freedom, it’s enslavement.
Democracy is being eroded. Culture is being sold. People of the future are being sold in this process to these narratives of potential enslavement. It is the nature of spend and debt to enslave. We must stop it. Asap.
This post can also be read in tandem with this post too (there’s a very good article to the New York Times cream of journalism from a veteran’s wise perspective observing the selling of America as America’s top journalist shares good insights of learning from America’s own life experiences).
[Photo caption - Currently on sale via the Knights Sports, Sporting Memorabilia, Wisden Almanack Auctions website and listed as 'Lot no. 452' is this item. The cricketing belt buckle. Brass belt buckle with cricket bat, stumps and bails and crossed racquets, 2.25"x2". VG. Estimate: £40/60.]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.27.11~
ELIZABETH TAYLOR’S QUICK BURIAL, FORREST LAWN – LAID TO REST WITH MICHAEL JACKSON’S REMAINS, CALIFORNIA – HER LEGACY OF LOVE- 3.26.11
From the UK Daily Mail comes these reports of how Dame Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest today.
The 79-year-old actress only died of heart failure on Wednesday but a combination of her Jewish faith – which she adopted in 1959 and which demands speedy burial – and her family’s evident desire to avoid a media circus for once in her life ensured her burial took most people by surprise.”
She was laid to rest in the same resting place as Michael Jackson was, her good friend.
Taylor’s four children from three of her seven husbands – Michael and Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd and Maria Burton – as well as most if not all of her 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren were believed to be present. 
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TIGER CUBS AT TOKYO’S TAMA ZOO
Cute footage of Japan in more innocent and carefree times.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.23.11~
LIV TYLER TALKS PARENTING BEING PRIORITY BEFORE RESUMING FILM WORK
Liv Tyler star of Lord of The Rings opens up about life parenting after her split with rocker Royston Langdon. ’I took a little time off before Super and The Ledge. I just had a rough couple of years, having [son] Milo and then getting divorced and trying to rebuild my life again. Milo and I have been in such transition – I’ve been rebuilding and trying to be patient. And I’ve just put all of my focus on that,’ she said.
The brunette beauty said after her marriage it was important for her to put Milo’s needs first, before resuming work in films.
[Photograph courtesy of ]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.23.11~
DARREN ARONOFSKY BOWS OUT OF DIRECTING THE WOLVERINE FILM
Darren Aronofsky one of Hollywood’s golden directors this year, has bowed out of directing Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine (a spin off film franchise of X Men films).
Aronofosky sights being away from his family for more than a year abroad (outside of the US filming this flick) as not being as important as being in the US with his family.
He seems to have a good perspective on the fame game and what’s important with work-life balance to him as a director. Nice one. Let’s hope Jackman and Twentieth Century Fox, find a good replacement director as good as Darren.
[Photograph courtesy of E Online - Kerry Hayes for 20th Century Fox & John Shearer for Getty Images]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.17.11~
NIHON AND THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – WED 3.16.11
日本. Today on Horiwood.Com we have an audience of readers who care about cancer awareness more than politicians, politics, money, global economies, lifestyles or Hollywood celebrities. Excellent!
We also have a community of people voting today who care more about helping the Japanese people in crises, about brave new heroes solving Japan’s nuclear reactors meltdown crises, than any other issue in the world. Also excellent! I’m with you all.
So heartening to see your votes today. Priorities are in the right place – with Nippon.
The Horiwood Top Ten as voted by 50 nations of the world today, looks as follows in the Hollywood news posts you think are most important. Let’s go!
Kiwi cultural anthems for Japan sound like this today. Check it. In addition is a beauty to click on as well.
1. Timely – Gerard Butler for cancer awareness
2. Steven Brooking is a New Zealand English Teacher, missing in Nippon
3. Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez
4. Chiba Japan takes a hit – 6.0 quake off Pacific Coast
5. Plato, Atlantis & the concept of underwater societies
6. Gerard Butler for cancer awareness – original post
7. Teenaged moms reality tv stars still rate in crises
8. Snow falling on Sendai Japan
9. Evacuation nation – Fukushima Iwaki Japan
10. CNN reports Japan is officially like Chernobyl – cue Nuclear Waste Chernobyl news story angles, again.
Some news agencies actively helping Japan’s people with news coverage (with important charities in between) in this moment are - ; Fox News; Financial Times; Globe and Mail; GlobalPost.com; GlobalVoices; ; ; Guardian; The Hill; Independent; KCRW’s Left, Right and Center; Los Angeles Times; JAPAN TODAY; McClatchy; Mediaite; Mosaic; Mother Jones; MSNBC; New York Daily News; New York Observer; BuzzMachine; ; Youth Radio; Altercation (Media Matters); Americablog; Andrew Sullivan; BAGnewsNotes; Bloggingheads. B Boing Boing.
[Images - Front page New York TImes Today. That kid is soooooooooooo cute! And Gerard Butler of Scotland's photo is via Miz Posh ].
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ELVIRA ~ SHELTER 3.12.11
Keeper of the sweet was she. Her momma’s spirit expressed in her smiles so free. Her family’s love, her life’s tapestry. Her faith, a sheltering tree for humanity.
Music for Aunt Elvi . . . Ray Lamontagne & friends.
To know her, was a joy.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.12.11~
RACHEL ZOE’S WHANAU NEWS ROUND UP
Today I learned that Freedom Kahanui won the Athletic cup
at Auckland Grammer School. That Jakey D is being schooled
by Catholics now. His mom plays top sport for Marist after all. That Rachel
of Fonterra does not fancy ensuring that popular music acts are actually sober
to turn up for their gigs and audiences. In moments like these, when it gets oh so
hard to keep up with whanau news… let’s run a Rachel Zoe fashion empire cover
from within the US of A. Lol!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.12.11~
ALANA HILL 18
Alana
on your
eighteenth
birthday
let your
fiery grace
be your
strength
set on a
bright Hill.
–Uncle Sam.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.9.11~
69ER DAD – A BIRTHDAY POSTCARD FROM HOLLYWOOD
At 69
just
in time
you still
stand
az mai
dad.
–Hari huri tau dad. With love.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.9.11~
JAMES DURBIN WOWS HIS KIDS ON BROADWAY PRODUCER, IN ‘DANGEROUS’ AMERICAN IDOL PERFORMANCE
“If you had told me back in 2006 that he would be doing this on ‘American Idol,’” said Daria Troxell, the producer of Kids On Broadway’s Singin’ in the Rain, which starred a then 16-year-old Durbin, “I wouldn’t have believed it. This is just amazing,” said Troxell as American Idol’s judges called James “dangerous” talent this evening.
Above is James singing Maybe I’m Amazed. His voice is pure leading lad, rock n’ roll. Strong. Go James.
Read more at Mercury News.
James original audition for the reality TV talent show can be viewed below too. HIs dad died of a drug overdose, sadly. James is all about shedding light, beyond heartache with his music gifts, about being a good partner to his Mrs, Heidi and being a good dad as well. That’s very cool. Go James!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.9.11~
SPACE ISSUES – MILEY CYRUS GIVES PAPARAZZI A RIBBING
Miley Cyrus has no qualms in defending her momma, Tish Cyrus, when paparazzi (people with cameras) get in their personal space. Watch Miley give a pap a piece of her mind.
[Via Michael K]
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VINTAGE KATE MIDDLETON BABY PHOTOS- FROM PIGTAILS TO PRINCESS
Even as a babe, Kate Middleton was always so cute!
[Photo via The Middleton Family as published in The UK Daily Mail].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.7.11~
DESTROYED BY DADDY – LIKE JON VOIGHT, BILLY RAY CYRUS PLAYS DAUGHTER’S HOLLYWOOD VILLAIN
Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus news: In Hollywood, if you shine, you will get torn down. If you have a villain, they play the enemy while the public play your supporters. This tactic was key in creating Angelina Jolie into an American megastar. Jon Voight her dad, was her first villain, then she followed this up with Billy Bob Thornton playing her villain husband too. As therapy, she played Jennifer Aniston‘s villain, but ultimately Jon Voight playing Jolie’s villain got her off to a good start.
From the pages of Hollywood 2nd generation star guide to megastardom then, Billy Ray Cyrus plays Miley Cyrus‘ villain dad, claiming that Disney destroyed their family. While Star Magazine parrot this tabloid dirt. Us Weekly recycle Star’s idea running with a “Destroyed by Daddy” line. It’s very Mommy Dearest, with a gender reversal. A mother of a family, is sort of who earns the most for the family. In the Cyrus clan, Miley is like a mother, while also having a very sweet mom as well.
Let’s see how this angle goes for the Cyrus whanau (family). I like them. They are good people. Extremely sweet, with thick, weathered cowboy-cultured show biz skin. A winning combo.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.1.11~
MOTHERHOOD AND WIFE ARE THE GREATEST ROLES, NATALIE PORTMAN’S OSCARS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH 2011
She is plum tassel Jerusalem beauty with deep-purple American elegance –Natalie Portman, Oscars 2011.
OK! Magazine like most tabloids goes to great pains today to showcase, Oscar winner and Jerusalem born artist, Natalie Portman‘s Awards Show acceptance speech. Exquisite, graceful, gracious with no ego. What a Hollywood rarity Ms. Portman is. Here’s Portman in action.
“I want to thank my parents for giving me the opportunity to work from such an early age. My beautiful love, Benjamin, who has now given me my most important role of my life,” she said. “Most importantly, my family, my friends, and my love, thank you so much.”
Family is what Portman does. The rest is well… show biz and art really. A good speech depicting all the elements that make up a Hollywood star in a filmic role. Wow! What a lady.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.28.11~
SOME VINTAGE RUGBY FOOTBALL HERO NEWS – MICHAEL JONES, 1991, FROM HOLLYWOOD
Michael Niko Jones is a kid I grew up with some school holidays. Here’s Michael with a rugby football in hand from back in the day as inspiration towards more fun Hollywood entertainment.
Talofa from Hollywood, South Pacific peoples.
Jones is rather famous for being a skilled basketball player of West Auckland, who switched sports codes to rugby football, becoming one of the greatest rugby football players the world has ever witnessed create magic on the football field. The knowledge he learned in basketball equated to quick reflexes and Jones opened up the game of rugby football with good athleticism and an ability to create play with his star football team mates like few had seen before Michael Jones showed them how the game of rugby football could be played.
He is described by many as “The Greatest rugby football All Black player” of last century–according to Will Carling of London’s sports rankings. Some say Colin Meads and Sean Fitzpatrick were better players than Michael, but I’m with Will on that one. Jones was the best. That’s quite a title.
Michael however had the nickname of being ‘The Iceman’ because of the cool, calm and collected way he played rugby football and the number of ice packs he needed at any given time, for his injuries, because when you’re talented, you’re also the man people try and hit and take down, which was Jones story of survival as a sporting great of New Zealand culture who was much loved in South Africa too as a star.
Personally, I never knew MJ as a star in a hero role. His sister Cathy was. An amazing singer. And Michael’s brother Derek was too, for being just the coolest guy who offered leadership to the greats we grew up knowing and serving. This in Polynesian communties (via Samoa is called the Matai role of a Chief in community, and Derek served in that role, so that Michael never had to and could just get on with sports pursuits).
Derek is the dad of Kalani Jones of Aotearoa, New Zealand. But the biggest star in Michael’s family was undoubtedly his mother, Aunty M. Her funeral, when she passed away (while on a holiday safari in Kenya with our friend Anita) was the second most attended funeral of any New Zealander in history at the time. None of us were surprised when she had such a fan club show up to her send off. She was just an amazing person, like a great light to so many in her community of West Auckland City. What she taught us all was that compassion is a gift, that gets stronger if you’re faithful to it and to serve it into community with Spirit.
Aunty M was full of joy, laughter and compassion – and we all adored her and Uncle Jim. Post the Oscars with a Natalie Portman and Tom Hooper Oscars winning night as I write this story from Hollywood, I guess you can say Michael Jones is like these new stars who paid tribute to their folks for their successes. MJ is great because like these two names mentioned, Michael had an amazing mother. At best, perhaps he wanted to grow up and make her proud. That he did making an entire nation proud of him too.
You might just get to see MJ in a coaching role for Rugby World Cup here in the USA (if he can be bothered to still turn on a show – he might!) when NBC Universal/ Comcast live telecast the rugby world cup for the first time in US history, in October 2011. A TV sports moment not to miss.
[Photo caption via ESPN SCRUM, Michael Jones in action for the All Blacks at Twickenham, England v New Zealand, Rugby World Cup, Twickenham, London, October 3, 1991].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.28.11~
ST GEORGE’S CROSS CAPS by ZARA PHILLIPS AND PRINCE HARRY FOR RUGBY FOOTBALL FUN
Big rugby football enthusiasts Zara Phillips and her cousin Prince Harry Windsor were sighted wearing St George’s Cross caps, while taking in the football where England beat France 17-9 this weekend.
The UK Daily Mail has more.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.11~
LIKE MICHAELANGELO ART PORTRAITS OF FAMILY, DAVID BECKHAM’S NEW INK
Via , LA Galaxy soccer star, David Beckham shares, “I know some of you like them and some of you aren’t so keen, but I wanted to share my new tattoo with you all on Facebook first…” 8 million people like this portrait of family on the Social Network so far.
Very dramatic. Yet a fine sentiment shared.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.11~
HOT CENTENARIAN NEWS – HELENA ATAYA TURNS 100 VERY SOON
I can’t believe that the beautiful Helena Ataya, our family’s Lebanese “Sitty” of West Auckland is about to turn 100 soon.
She is the great oak of Lebanon once planted in West Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Best friends with Elizabeth Cruickshank my war-widowed great grandmother and adored by my namesake Sam Sasser, a revolutionary footballer of the USA who lived on Marshall Islands archipelagos with his wife Florence and his two children Renee and Terrence. Sam loved Helena and her late husband George Ataya – a man full of laughter and joy – known as our ‘Jitty’ who had spent time in Egypt before arriving to New Zealand years ago.
Quite the dazzling light, Helena Ataya is loved be everyone. She is also much loved by the Smith and the Jones families as well, of Oak Ridge days.
She’s amazing and I love her! Go “Sitty!” Much love on your very special upcoming day.
Six generations of our family would have known her and her beautiful Kiwi-Lebanese family on her birthday. Sitty’s smile and sense of humor has always been sweetness and light. She’s always been the coolest!
Psalm 1 - “They are like trees that grow beside a river, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do.”
Thanks Cherry and Aunty Janice for the message.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.24.11~
VICTORY QUOTES FROM LOFTY EMANUEL, NEW MAYOR OF CHICAGO -2.22.11
Community grass-roots leadership rhetoric, looks good on Rahm Emanuel pictured here with his family.
“We have not won anything until a kid can go to school thinking of their studies and not their safety. Until the parent of that child is thinking about their work and not where they are going to find work, we have not won anything. Tonight we are moving forward in the only way we truly can. Together, as one city, with one future,” Rahm Emanuel said taking the 55% majority win as Mayor of Chicago today.
Reports The Huffington Post, ‘Emanuel will replace outgoing Mayor Richard M. Daley, who has held the office for over twenty years. But many speculated that his spectacular failure to win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, coupled with the debacle surrounding his lease of the city’s parking meters and the generally catastrophic state of city finances, led him to believe his political muscle was running out.’
Today however, Emanuel endures the trials he’s faced to stand and lead as Mayor of Chicago, home of good zucchini fries.
Reports The Hill today, ”I want to extend my congratulations to Rahm Emanuel on a well-deserved victory tonight. As a Chicagoan and a friend, I couldn’t be prouder,” President Obama said. “Rahm will be a terrific mayor for all the people of Chicago.”
I think that’s awesome. Chicago needs populating. I think when Emanuel talks ‘security’ or ‘safety’ in Chicago, what he must mean is that people need to feel comfortable in Chicago to endure the windy weather of this city in winter. Getter people over this fact of life in this City is Emanuel’s biggest challenge perhaps in his leadership strategies towards growth.
Everyone I’ve met from Chicago here in LA are down to earth, honest, and humble people. Good sorts. Numbers are down in the city by 10% to what Chicago has known in previous more booming years, based on the last census results, so Rahm’s youthful-family focused energy to grow this City, could be put to good use making it a good town for Americans to want to live in. Go fela!
Fun winters in Chicago! I wonder what ideas Rahm and team will come up with, to keep this great city vibrant and growing with a strong future. With Oprah Winfrey‘s move to California this year, the need to keep Chicago, top of mind, with an entertainment window falls on Emanuel’s shoulders. Thank goodness, Rahm has a Hollywood agent bro, in show biz, so that shouldn’t be too hard for Chicago’s new Mayor, to develop new entertainment projects under his wings of new leadership.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.22.11~
UMA THURMAN SPENDS SOME QUALITY FAMILY BONDING TIME IN PARIS
Uma Thurman, Maya and Levon were photographed walking through the streets of Paris as a happy family, catching up together.
Photo courtesy of The UK Daily Mail, who also reveal that Uma is reteaming with director Quentin Tarantino and actress Daryl Hannah for Kill Bill III.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.27.11~
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