Madonna buddies up with Dolce & Gabanna for their new line of MDG glasses. Watch here.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.28.2010~
GARY COLEMAN DIES 44
Gary Coleman, the actor who made America laugh as a kid in Diff’rent Strokes has passed away. TMZ is reporting Coleman passed away in a coma after he fell and hit his head. He died of a brain hemorrhage. Sad. Now Gary’s saying ‘Watchu talkin about God?’ And God is like, ‘Dude, wanna be a giant now?‘
He was one of the best child actors in show biz in his day. It’s unbelievable he died so young. Coleman had a huge impact on Maori, Pacific Island, Australian and Kiwi youngsters growing up. He was da man. RIP. Aged 44.
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~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.28.2010~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – THU 5.27.2010
Little Boots Remedy is a hot song. It reflects a mood that is in the air. It appeals as shopping is on the to do list. In particular, shopping for little baby booties in Hollywood for if I was to become a grand-uncle for the first time. I am so excited! It’s all about the kids. You know it.
Here’s how you voted your top ten Hollywood, entertainment and celebrity news posts today. Nice choices everyone. Thank you.
1. Romantic Royal Wedding anticipation for Wills & Kate
2. Smith Scootmore for fun: Hugh Jackman in NYC
3. Twilight Eclipse’s Shocking Casting News
4. Carlton Cole for Soccer World Cup
5. The Horiwood Top Ten – Sat 7.18.09
6. GAGA GLEE: Lea Michele & Idena Menzel
7. Humor: Ryan O’Neil and Cheryl Tiegs romance
8. Robert Pattinson‘s marriage proposal
9. Only a star nose the price of their fame
10. Fiddy raises awareness of cancer
Bonus Post: Mia Michaels–Just Dance TV Show for Bravo
Lyrics to Remedy follow/ thanks everyone.
Twilight thought for today: If the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree–then life is good. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.27.2010~
GUEST POST: MELISSA NOBLE FOR SARAH JESSICA PARKER ON JOY MAGAZINE
As I’ve always beleived, that only the hottest housewives of entertainment ever make it on Joy Magazine here’s a guest post from Melissa Noble of Cover Awards on that topic. Laugh out loud headlines, if you could read Slovenian. Take it away Melissa:
“In anticipation of that little under-the-radar flick nobody seems to be talking about (heh), the lady magazines have gone absolutely berserk with the Sarah Jessica Parker/Sex and the City 2 covers.
Many are hit and miss. Plenty are Photoshop-heavy experiments that don’t do SJP any facial favors (to say the very least). But this cover from the Slovenian publication Joy actually flatters her sharp features. She’s a little fuzzy — but at least looks pretty.”
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA.. 5.27.2010~
HOLLYWOOD TODAY – LINDSAY LOHAN AS LINDA LOVELACE IN FAME’S INFERNO
Lindsay Lohan in this poster is proof of a young lady trapped in the fame game. Linda Lovelace fueled many men’s fantasies. The casting, ensconces Lohan as a modern Marilyn Monroe caricature of Hollywood. In trouble, but with no one to turn to.
Nobody really cares. They just want her to turn out a show. I care. Lindsay is a symbol, like Marilyn once was of the system. What can we do, to change it? She’s famous (12th highest google ranking last year for a female celeb of America on google), broke (not generating enough income to survive). She could be Greece. She could be Italy. She could be Ireland. She could be Portugal. She could be Spain–people who are in debt.
I have a heart for Lindsay, because if we are honest–she could also be America–if we are not careful. Because truth always lies beneath a blurred surface, perhaps she is America too, hence our fascination with this kid.
May Peace reign one day, in this young lady’s life. Come on Ms Lohan, pull your shoe laces together. Bl**dy hell!
[Subtext: Rules of Surviving the Fame Game 101: Attention is not Love]
[Image courtesy of Tyler Shields.Com]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.27.2010~
ALICIA KEYS IS HAVING A BABY
Because no one can get in the way of what a baby is feeling, Ms Alicia Keys has some exciting news. Says Keys publicist to People:
“Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are expecting a baby and are engaged to be married in a private ceremony later this year. They’re very happy.”
That’s some big news for the happy couple of music.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.27.2010. Image via Michael K and Wenn.Com~
LET’S DANCE – B-GIRLS AND JANET JACKSON for NIKKI FINKE – WOOT!
Celebrating Nikki Finke‘s rise in Hollywood as a blogger of renown– with retro dance music from Janet Jackson, B Girl for Nike & all of the B-Girls of the world. Go Ladies, rock it out! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.27.2010~
TILDA – HOLLYWOOD BLOGGERS ARE WHITE HOT HBO PROPERTY
Hollywood celebrity and entertainment bloggers were once known as parasites of mainstream media outlets. Not any more. HBO (who deliver True Blood) has been developing Tilda –the TV series. The series is based on the amazing Nikki Finke whose catch phrase is Toldja! (Tilda) on her blog, Deadline Hollywood.
Gay director, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Twilight Eclipse Breaking Dawn 1 & 2) has been developing the series with Cynthia Mort (Tell Me You Love Me).
The big news today is that after two years negotiating, Diane Keaton will play the lead with Ellen Page (Juno). Keaton plays Tilda, a feared Hollywood blogger, who meets Carolyn, “a morally conflicted creative assistant caught between following the corporate culture of the studio she works for and following Tilda, who has taken a keen interest in her.”
As Hollywood is not morally conflicted enough, this is going to be interesting how they sustain the plotline–then again, with secondary characters (real ones and fictitious celebrities) being the focus of a blogger, every second of a bloggers working day–that won’t be difficult to do at all. It will be a very exciting show if HBO capture the day in the life of a blogger–how it really is. Nuts! :)
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – WED 5.26.2010 AT HOLLYWOOD’S ‘MIDEAST’ CAFE
As I blog in an internet cafe, this dude is skyping while reading a poem to his girlfriend in Arabic. Such a pretty language. The poem is delivered with melodic laughter and plenty of eyebrow action for effect–it must be a little bit naughty poetry. How romantic. Good for them! :)
Middle Eastern representation is perhaps something we should see more often in Hollywood. While having lunch yesterday, I was told by someone special, “you do realize, that there really is no such thing as enemies don’t you?” I had to agree.
When thinking about it, having had ‘enemies’ and without even trying, while managing to create new ones constantly too with sharing a point-of-view–what I so ‘despise’ about them, is often a projection of what’s in me. It has nothing to do with them per se. Or very little.
There are good and bad people in the world of all origins, and the Middle East is an area that Hollywood casting needs to develop with Hollywood talent a lot more fairly. Thankfully, the LA Times does a great feature today about flashbacks of movies of the few times Persia or the Middle East did shine through in Hollywood history. They point out, casting was always the unfair issue of this filmic history. Go here for that story. Cheers mates.
As Romeo of the Middle East talks to Juliet abroad it reminds me of how love knows no borders, boundaries or divides or distance too. Love is a language of the heart. I wish I knew how to read and understand both Hebrew and Arabic. Sadly I don’t. Perhaps if I’d grown up as a kid and been exposed to films in Hebrew and Arabic, I would know a little more of the deeper meanings found in both cultures beauty and diversity too. Those who know either or both, are very lucky people in furthering the potential of World Peace in the world. Yet, we are all the future of Peace in the world.
Hollywood entertainment news and celebrity topics of interest for Wednesday 26th May 2010 as voted by you were:
1. Gaga Glee: Lea & Adena with that Texan song, Poker Face
2. Robert Pattinson –Inspiring by Twilight
3. Before she became famous: Stefani Germanotta without the props
4. 10 Things about billionaire Christopher Chandler
5. Ethnic bias and Demi Moore‘s star power
6. Press Release: Peru comes to Hollywood, Majestic Crest Theater
7. 10 More reasons why Angelina Jolie is hot
8. Live performance: Lady Gaga 2005
9. Hugh Jackman‘s scooter fun in NYC
10. Poetry for Africa: Invictus by William Earnest Henley
This cafe conversation an hour or so later is also worth sharing. A group of friends catching up over coffee.
Guy 1: Hey kids, I just wanted to say hello.
Guy 2: Hey. What are you up to?
Guy 1: Oh I’ve just done the stairmaster, and my abs are dripping wet. What school did you say you teach at again?
Guy 2: Crenshaw.
Guy 1: How’s that going?
Guy 2: A lot of the kids turn up to the classes on drugs. It’s getting tougher to teach each year. And we’re on furlough tomorrow. Kids and us, don’t have a choice. Budget cuts.
(Silence)
Guy 3: I’m trying to get this Arab guy on grindr.
Guy 1: You like terrorists?
Guy 3 laughs and nods.
FADE TO BLACK
As this was said in jest ala SNL kind of TV humor amongst blokes–I’m sure, no harm was intended by the lame attempt at a ’joke.’ But it showed how much we could all do with more cross-cultural teaching from the Mideast. So here’s a link to a link to a Mideastern love story of when an Arab falls passionately for a Jew. A good story! A lot more real, than Mr Fairchild’s starring role in above film from 1940.
Hollywood is evolving. Let’s read books that matter.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.26.2010~
GOOD CASTING – EMMA ROBERTS LANDS A GIG ON SCREAM 4
Kevin Williamson (screenwriter producer of hit TV series The Vampire Diaries) has cast the delightful Emma Roberts in Scream 4. A very good choice. Says Emma, who was cast in Valentine’s Day with her Aunt Julia Roberts:
“I’m so excited to be part of this groundbreaking franchise,” Roberts told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s the perfect opportunity for me to do something completely different than I’ve ever done before.”
Go kid!
[Image courtesy of New Moon movie.Org]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.26.2010~
TVC – BEYONCE for THE HOUSE OF DEREON
Is there anything Beyonce Knowles can’t do? Mother and daughter (Tina Knowles and daughters) fashion teams are something else when they set their mind to rounding up the new money. ” A diva is …”Woah!
Watch B’s newest House of Dereon TVC here.
I like the way Beyonce gives Tom Cruise a shout out in her video storyline premise. Taking Mission Impossible as her theme, the Queen Bee navigates her way through a maze of radar light technology. She is black on black. The ending of the tale is that she gets the diamond. Is she a thief? Or reclaiming what is hers and was lost and is now being guarded?
You as the viewer must decide. A metaphor for reclaiming the good aspects of America perhaps in a major rebuilding effort the US is going through right now. Her bare feet are cute. She’s a dancer. A single diamond always provides a story of “something beautiful, something good” occurring under intense pressure, until revealed above the ground.
As Bee is doing Tom Cruise shout outs, here’s Tom et Katie Holmes at their latest movie event in the UK. (I’m giving “haka bro” a rest today). Haka bro is a symbol of my campaign for Tom Cruise to be a big hit at the box office again. People who gave so much to Hollywood history, should be remembered I reckon.
[Image courtesy of Wenn]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.26.2010~
IF I WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A GRAND UNCLE
I would be –> so excited.
I am excited!!!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, California USA. 5.26.2010. “if”. xox~
ONE FOR THE RED VELVET CUP CAKE LOVERS
Red Velvet Cup Cakes by Paula Dean of the Food Network
The frosting is particularly good. :) Read the rest of this entry »
ROMANTIC ROYAL WEDDING ANTICIPATION FOR PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON’S EPIC WEDDING DAY RISES
According to Star Magazine the wedding of the decade is in the planning stages. Crown Prince William Windsor and Kate Middleton are about to reignite hearts in the Commonwealth with an epic love story unfolding before the world’s eyes as they walk down the aisles.
Says Star:
‘In the June 7 issue — on sale today — we have eight pages of royal dish about William and Kate’s upcoming nuptials, including the A-list guests, the extravagant gown, where they’ll say “I do,” Kate’s surprise gift for William and more!
“William has always said he will be ready for marriage after his 28th birthday — that’s next month,” royal expert Nicholas Davies, author of William: King for the 21st Century, tells Star. “The timing is perfect for a wedding this year.”
Insiders estimate that as many as 3 billion awestruck viewers could tune in and the audience will not be disappointed by the ceremony with the couture gowns, lavish bouquets and priceless jewelry, including the 18-karat sapphire and diamond engagement ring William inherited from his late mother, Diana, which he plans to give to his bride-to-be.
And while Kate will certainly look to Diana and Prince Charles’ 1981 wedding when planning her own, she plans to put her own spin on the ceremony as a modern British bride.‘
When a young couple fall in love, is the world big enough to contain their great love for it and the Peace that can only be found in loving one other?
~Critique also found here. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010. Cover image courtesy of Melissa Noble~
SOCCER WITH RONALDO
Are you gearing up for Soccer World Cup? Here’s Ronaldo and the art of soccer for Vanity Fair.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010~
WHAT IN THE MOLLYWHOPPIN SHIZZLE HAPPENED TO 50 CENTS GANGSTA MUSCLE?
Entrepreneur mogul and hip hop star, 50 Cent, lost 50 pounds for his new movie Things Fall Apart. In it, Fiddy plays a football player whose dying of cancer.
It’s amazing to see an actor, so committed to his art for such a good cause about cancer awareness. However, this brotha should be delivered a bucket of Michael Jackson‘s staple muchies food, KFC, asap to get him back to tip top shape as a rapper, whose still in DA CLUB hot in the music world too. I so want to see this film.
For more info on cancer cure, recovery and early detection being the only prevention–go here to The John Wayne Cancer Foundation (JWCF). Image of Fiddy was found here.
The JWCF’s mission is to bring courage, strength and grit to the fight against cancer. Nice. Let’s go cowboys and cowgirls of America! Saddle up and make a difference.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010~
IS RYAN O’NEAL PLAYING HIDE THE SAUSAGE WITH CHERYL TIEGS
According to IMDB via National Enquirer, Ryan O’Neal is now playing hide the sausage with Cheryl Tiegs. The new couple reportedly met up at Raquel Welch‘s book launch of Beyond The Cleavage last June.
That Raquel’s cleavage is still working its Hollywood magic. And if you’re a big Farrah Fawcett fan, like I am, and you’re a bit upset by this news. Don’t worry, statistics reveal that most men willremarry six months after their wive’s pass away. I am sure Farrah would have wanted Ryan to be happy in love. I watched her documentary. Amazing! And that’s the mature view, and I’m going with that.
Cheryl and Ryan together is actually a very sweet romantic story and when you’re an O’Neil, one must always think of the paralleling Cheryl Tiegs and Ryan O’Neal Hollywood stories, with a beautiful collision of the heart, occuring in later life. That would be a good film. A good film for Young Hollywood Casting–Dakota Fanning and Taylor Kitsch perhaps?
[Image of Ryan O'Neil and Ali MacGraw via the UK, image of Cheryl Tieg via Anorexics.Net]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.26.2010~
WYCLEF JEAN WANTS BRAD AND ANGIE BIRD TO ADOPT FROM HAITI
Reports the New York Daily News, Wyclef Jean wants Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to adopt a child from his native Haiti. Says Jean:
“Brad and Angie, please! Please adopt a child from Haiti!” Jean told Usmagazine.com.
I know Haiti children need Americans in the mainland’s love, but I’m like “b*tch no. The Jolie-Pitts need a redhead next.” Someone else can get a Haitian baby to love and cherish, like Jean himself. :)
Jesting aside, go here to learn more about Haiti adoption.
[Image courtesy of: NY Daily News, photo credits: FilmMagic/Getty]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010~
WHO DOESN’T DIGG ADRIEN BRODY? RIGHT!
This just in from team Digg: :)
Find out what Adrien Brody had to say about his career and personal life –
- How he geeks out (hint: it involves popcorn)
- The dream role he wishes he had been able to perform
- He really does know how to play the piano…sort of
- The “interesting” websites that he visits. No, not what you’re thinking!
Digg on, The Digg.
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – TUE 5.24.2010
Yes the latest Kardashian bikini body pics have arrived from Life & Style –the Californian sunshine version of Californian beaches promise of hot summer fun. Here’s Tuesday’s top ten celebrity news posts, coming at you, a bit late. Sorry. :) The top ten news topics of interest are:
1. Robert Pattinson –Inspiring by Twilight
2. 10 More Reasons why Angelina Jolie is hot
3. Jason Mraz takes on the topic of gay bullying
4. 10 Things about billionaire Christopher Chandler
5. Reggie Bush on possible punani reunion
6. Lady Gaga treks out her Alejandro video
7. Adam Lambert and Kiss 108 perform live in Boston
8. Oprah & Eli Broad for CALIFOR-NIA 2010′s
9. From Hollywood: 10 Rugby Football Stars
10. Maori in Hawaiiland: Darrin & Kobey in Hawaii
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.24.2010~
HAWAII AT NIGHT from DALE THE NATI’S DAILY KONA HAWAIILOGUES
When we last caught up with the American adventures of Dale The Nati –she was a’sippin on a kona coffee after doing fantabulous and horitastic retail shopping with family and friends in Hawaii.
Well, Dale K sent this snap from her Hawaii trip (“last day today–boo!”). Aren’t Hawaiian skies –so pretty. And as Hawaii is so happy, crazy, obsessed for Jason Mraz‘s tropical friendly calypso, laid back version of white soul music–here’s a song like Avatar-blue music light, from Jace the Ace Mraz for beautiful Dale the Nati and her fun loving family–basking in the beauty of all things American in Lady Liberty’s tropical jewel Island State. A total star of American fun and happiness!
As you can see from the above pic (and-let me try and be Robert Louis STEVEnson Jr. of The Southern Hemisphere literay traveloguing tradition, but with a Stephenie Meyer Breaking Dawn reverse-back twist action on Te Ata [the dawn].
“A-hem” –clears throat: “As the sun bowed low from the heavens, to curl up for the night in his rippling bed of shimmering sea – Ra left the land drenched in the warm breath of Kaiulani‘s lingering kiss, embracing the pretty days and lingering with her people b’neath the star anais glitter of Asian-infused, balmy nights.”–words shared from Horiwood, a novel/ tale.
“A-hem”, Now, back to Maori “prose“–Go Maoris in the USA! ‘Chaa girl. You too trick and always so, so flash with te kamera! A sweet view, thank you.’ :)
And because Dale has always been such a sensible soul, she gets the last word in this post. Says Dale: “[Vacationing in Hawaii] you can get right into and finish a book in a day – although everyone always complains I bring too many books, whose books do they end up reading when they have none?” A-ha. That’s Dale. Always thinking ahead intelligently.
[Image: Dale the Nati's own--shared on Horiwood.Com with permission for Horiwood TV and the Hollywood Nati Fan Club of the USA. xox]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010~
SMITH SCOOTMORE FOR FUN: HUGH JACKMAN’S TRIPLE THREAT SMILE IS WINNER :)
He sings, dances, acts. Hugh Jackman is a triple threat entertainer, a playful Aussie dad who is all about feeding the child within when going about his business, between stepping into the role of an American super hero (Hollywood accents, are largely the currency of Hollywood super heroes today, for Aussie actors), whose part wolf man whose been constructed through medical science and biogenetics creativity with steel hands (a la Wolverine, now a winning film franchise.
Seeing Hugh smile while playing an Aussie wag in NYC, reminds me of my late Uncle Barry Smith Read the rest of this entry »
MAORIS AT CLUB TROPICS, HAWAII WITH DARRIN, KOBEY AND DALE THE NATI
Writes Dale K –the wahine with the bionic brains from Hawaiiland, USA:
“Today we (Kobey, Darrin and I) spent most of the day baking in the sun – I know, pretty sad! Ma and Pa went sightseeing and shopping – imagine Ma dragging Pa along with Het – we’ve all been really surprised at how much shopping he’s done, considering he always moans at us for spending too much money on clothes etc. As usual, we parked ourselves under the trees outside of Tropics Bar. Every day at about 3.30pm, a band sets up – and tonight was an awesome Hawaiian group who covered Elvis, country and western, and local talent – awesome!”
Fun. :)
[Image of Darrin doing rugby chilling stylez and Kobey starring as the Maori Princess Kaiulani with Pocahontas braids--courtesy of Dale K, Hawaii. USA. As posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010]
M.I.A SWITCHES OUT THE MUSIC PLAYA PLAYAS
Here’s M.I.A covering Nylon and playing her role as the “switch out girl” of pop music. For example Mia is everywhere saying: “Jay-Z sold out when he married Beyonce. Nas is a much better rapper. And, Lady Gaga will never be Madonna.”
[Subtext: orange light on Jay-Z and Gaga, green light on the other two. Meaning, Jay and Gaga are darn tired, and need a breather. Fair enough too].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010~
COCONUT ICE CREAM IN HAWAII WITH DALE THE NATI
Dale K sent this image and some beautiful emails of Hawaii –where little Miss Brainy Smurf is holidaying with her enitre fan-dang family. Nice one.
Writes Dale — “Last night we took Ma down to the International Marketplace. Clothes, souvenirs and delicious coconut ice cream were our main purchases – and then back to the hotel to enjoy a late evening kona coffee.”
Aloha Maoris in Hawaiiland! Lovesit.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Image courtesy of Dale the Nati, uploaded Hollywood California USA.5.25.2010~
BLONDE
Lindsay Lohan heads back to blonde.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.25.2010~