The Fame album, by Lady Gaga has gone diamond, 10,000,054 copies. Since Christmas Stefani Germanotta is averaging 1 million album sales per month. Woah!
She is now the female solo music artist defining and driving the 2010′s decade.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood, California USA. 2.27.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Georgio Armani, Lady Gaga, Stefani Germanotta
The B.E.P are #1 in the US of A, at this second on Billboard’s Top 100 Song Charts with Imma Be Rocking That Body.
Fun song. Fun times.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in America, Black Eyed Peas, Fashion, Fergie, Music Industry News, Music Videos
Tags: #1 Chart Toppers, America, Black Eyed Peas, Fashion, Fergie, Music Industry News, Music Videos
Hola! To the Brassell + Ojala interior design team, who apparently design in New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and for millionaire property developers in The City of Angels… Thanks for the comment on the blog.
I See You. Hope you’re enjoying the George Michael concerto tonight in Sydney town.
Gotta have faith… always… you know it. You’re world famous in LA.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Art, artist, George Michael, Horiwood Shout Outs, Mexico, New Zealand, UK
Tags: Architectural Design, Art, artist, Awesome Aussies, George Michael, Horiwood Shout Outs, Mexico, New Zealand, UK
This man came to fame at the same time as Kylie Minogue in 1988. At 30 million views and counting, how could I not play out some vintage Rick Astley tonight from Hollywood. He’s as feel good, get down and soulfull good, as you’ll ever get. The song lyrics mean a lot, if you’ve ever found yourself in love. Just dance is his message.
So… Let’s go UK and Commonwealth nations! Get your Rick Roll’d dance on. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Rick Astley, UK
Tags: Rick Astley, UK
… We’re only half as scary as we look, but we are kinda fierce as Mau Moko a book by Ngahuia Awekotuku depicts. The Maori culture is a beautiful and spiritual culture, with many ideological parallels to the Na’ivi people of Avatar.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010 as a part of the Black Paua series~
Tags: Maori
Thank goodness for African American Award shows. Red carpet pals this season and best actress nominees for the Oscars, Gabourey Sidibe and the lovely Sandra Bullock pose together on the red carpet of the NAACP Awards today.
Sidibe won best actress award for Precious over Bullock in The Blindside. But both are winners in my book for the roles they played in two outstanding films this year.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Hollywood Entertainment News, Sandra Bullock
Tags: Gabby Sidibe, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hot Chocloate: African American News on Horiwood.Com, Sandra Bullock
Hey. That’s my gig on this blog. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Angelina Jolie
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Awesome Aussies
Brazil goes wild for Paris Hilton as their new Devassa beer girl.
The romantic trend Madonna has set with Jesus-Luz in Brazil is paying off for Paris.
Chalk it up America!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Brazil, Paris Hilton
Tags: Brazil, Paris Hilton
Facing west from California’s shores,
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in America, Poetry, Walt Whitman
Tags: America, Poetry, Walt Whitman
When you’re from New Zealand and live in Hollywood, the Canadian women’s hockey team’s spontaneous, winning, boozy party on ice at the Winter Olympics 2010 made me laugh out loud today.
Although these girls are in big trouble with the IOC, they certainly reminded us all to take time to celebrate the good times in life! :)
David Geffen has a vanity joke on his hands at # 9 as he refreshes his music profile with the help of Carly Simon.
And Angelina Jolie elegantly conjurs up a portrait of an American Brigette Bardot (ie: her mom, actress Marcheline Bertrand) on the set of The Tourist, today in Paris.
Here’s your top ten entertainment and celebrity news posts on Horiwood.Com today.
1. Amber Rose impersonates Grace Jones for Kanye West
2. Ellen Vs Simon Cowell – American Idol commentary
3. Abraham Lincoln: All Men are Created Equal
4. Wanted: A Chiffon Tale by Angelina Jolie
5. New Music: Nothing to Lose– Miley Cyrus & Bret Michaels duet
6. Paris: We Are Mothers of The World: Angelina Jolie, Nicole Richie & Sons
7. Suzanne Hinn files for divorce
8. Top Bollywood stars in the world
9. The alleged vanities of David Geffen: Carly Simon, The Pope, Satan, Lady Gaga & Dan Tanners
10. New Music: Cousins by Vampire Weekend
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Angelina Jolie, Canada, David Geffen, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Winter Olympics
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Canada, David Geffen, Entertainment News, Haley Irwin, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10, Meaghan Agosta, Winter Olympics
On pavements, before dawn, small fires
Lighted in iron buckets,
Where carpenter and watchman slowly warm
With charcoal and wood shavings
Brown corded holy hands,
As if from veins of blood and gold
The city’s life and exhalation.
Tears have flowed, how many tears
Lost and sprinkled on the iron floors,
Poverty crucified on destitution.
The noseless whore once married
To a green, beheaded coconut,
Tethered by ankle-rings of hammered silver,
A kind of human coat or flask;
The sweeper boy divided from his soul
All night in forests of blue bhang;
This voiceless, eyeless, aimless pain
Stained with betel juice and loops of dung,
Mouth and eyelid, black with flies,
Expects the mercy of the Deposition.
I am the cup that holds your pain,
JANUA COELI, star of truth;
I am the ark, the stronghold of the King;
I am the void where Light is born.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 27, 2010 in Hawaii, India, Mother Theresa, New Zealand, Poetry, Polynesian, Princess Dianna, UK
Tags: Hawaii, India, James K Baxter - Hemi, Mother Theresa, New Zealand, Poetry, Polynesian, Princess Dianna, UK
Hollywood actor and double Oscar winner, Sean Penn was involved in a real life-saving rescue mission in Haiti today, as he helped rescue a mother and daughter from the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti. It pays to travel. Who knows where the world will need the help of the next American hero? Nice one Sean Penn. Angel of US love today.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Oscars, Sean Penn
Tags: Haiti, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Oscar Winner, Oscars, Sean Penn
Hollywood’s leading Maori male actor, Cliff Curtis, hails from Lord of The Rings and creative Avatar special effects nation, New Zealand. He’s starred in films with many of Oscars favored sons and daughters across his career thus far.
Yet, it was the wedding ring inscription, of the newly married and head-over-heels in love actor/ award winning film producer that reflects his creativity as an authentic Hollywood artist.
In the poetic indigenous Maori language, inscribed on the inside of Cliff’s wedding ring, are the words: Ko au, ko koe. Ko koe, ko au as a tribute to his stunning new bride and their epic great love. Translated this means: I am you. You are me. The poetic subtext: We are equal and one with each other. Or in Jewish culture, I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine–etched from the timeless Songs of King Solomon, would be a similar equivalent.
The sentiment perhaps best sums up a true star too, who seeks to serve the world with their art of cinematic storytelling. Once you enter the public eye of celebrity, you can’t really go back to where you came from, you are committed to being one with your fans as a leader of the world.
I thought that was worth sharing today from the romantic pages of a Hollywood Maori great’s life story. It made me believe in love in a new way. What a message from Curtis to Hollywood. Always heartfelt with what he offers the world through cinema, as a unique Hollywood artist of storytelling, Cliff Curtis just rocks. Love is a door of true equality. Thanks for the message Mr Curtis.
~Both pics, Venice Beach, California USA. Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Cliff Curtis, Hollywood Entertainment News, Love, Maori
Tags: Cliff Curtis, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hori = Maori, Love, Maori
Nice one Kris Allen – a man in the spirit of true American Idols. What a sweetheart. To donate to Haiti go here. To donate to AIDS/ HIV research in the world, go here if you’d like to.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in AMERICAN IDOL, Entertainment Celebrity News, Kris Allen
Tags: AMERICAN IDOL, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Kris Allen
Got to give up, for two blonde, authentic Italian-American girls of amazing pop music artistry today.
Cyndi Lauper and Lady Gaga glam it up for Mac Viva Glam to raise money for AIDS research. $130 million has been raised by the fund since 1994. Amazing.
How saintly from this “hard pair” of super talented musical artists. Nice one, ladies. That Gaga has become quite the superstar humanitarian so effortlessly with her newfound fame, the past year. Cyndi has been doing AIDS fundraising for decades. Props to both leaders of world change. Rock on!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Aids Research, Lady Gaga
Tags: Aids Research, Cyndi Lauper, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Lady Gaga, Medicine Science
Angelina Jolie who has been sporting a chiffon-tail rather hautely in Paris this week, has reportedly turned down the sequel role in #1 box office hit, Wanted that also stars Morgan Freeman and James McElvoy. The producers of the Wanted film franchise, have decided that without Jolie’s star endorsement, they are pulling the plug on the franchise.
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Angelina Jolie, Movie News, Movie Stills
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Movie Development, Movie News, Movie Stills
James Franco looks like one of the Dan Tanner waiters of West Hollywood (dark, brooding and semi-exotic) as he makes a splash for Gucci Sport to hawk their cologne.
Is their anything this talented man can’t do?
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in James Franco
Tags: James Franco
With Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell’s alleged American Idol judges feud, taking up headlines this week, in an effort for Fox Network to chomp some of Simon’s star glow as he exits the hit music show after 9 seasons serving the best music talent to American AI audiences and markets. The ploy by Fox to taint Cowell in the eyes of their viewing audiences, before he can start his own rival talent shows, did not forsee Simon Cowell’s ability to stay one step ahead of the game.
His camp has announced that Mezhgan Hassainy has confirmed that she is engaged to the famous UK talent judge. Cowell, 50, met Afghan-born make-up artist Hassainy on the set of Idol a few years ago. The couple are very much in love and are very close.
Love always sells better than war. Emotions are better spent loving than fighting. Hatred and war are often a result of misguided and frustrated emotions, more often than not. Cowell’s a smart cookie–getting away from Fox Network’s rather torrid casting of him in his final AI season; and perhaps in the process, Simon is even wisely preserving his good friendship with the lovely Ellen DeGeneres in the process long term also. 
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in AMERICAN IDOL, Ellen, Love, Oprah Winfrey, Romance, Simon Cowell, War, World Peace
Tags: AMERICAN IDOL, Ellen, Love, Marketing & Branding, MEZHGAN HASSAINY, Oprah Winfrey, Romance, Simon Cowell, War, World Peace
Thanks to Gaga‘s Uk fans–here she is doing Teeth. Anything that makes people smile more with the Arts, has got to be good. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
The UK Sun is reporting, that entertainment mogul, David Geffen, was the subject of singer/ songwriter, national American treasure, Carly Simon‘s You’re So Vain song. The fact is, Geffen became Simon’s record label boss, a year after, You’re So Vain was recorded. However, let’s go with the Sun’s story line as it is the weekend. :)
Geffen was once Carly’s record label head honcho back in the day, when he pitched Carly against her peer, Joni Mitchell, and treated Carly like she was a Solange to a Beyonce., with the way Geffen divied up his marketing spend of artists in his stable of talent.
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in David Geffen, Lady Gaga, Music Industry News
Tags: Carly Simon, David Geffen, Lady Gaga, Marketing & Branding, Music Industry News, Sales & Distribution, Semi Precious Weapons
Who doesn’t love Marina & The Diamonds take on life in their Hollywood song.
So 80′s pop divas-esque you can’t help but be endeared by Marina.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Uncategorized
Tags: Marina and The Diamonds
Jessica Stam makes history as she covers the first ever issue of Vogue Turkey.
Trailblazing hot waif.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.26.2010~
Tags: Fashion, Jessica Stam, Turkey
Love them! Very Tarantino-esque.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.25.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Uncategorized
Tags: Vampire Weekend
. . . swing open on the small hinges of timeless truths–Horiwood’s dad.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.25.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Life, Wisdoms Buffet
Tags: Life, Wisdoms Buffet
A door is the presence
of opening
and shutting, the feel
of swinging
inwards and outwards,
a pulling back
or a pushing forward,
the expectation of visitors
(and departures),
the hoarding
of secrets and privacy,
a locking in
a locking out,
the return
the escape, the possibility
of all that.
A door contemplates all
its possibilities
and knows
it is all
other doors.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.25.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Albert Wendt, Art, artist, Fiji, New Zealand, Poetry, Polynesian, Samoa
Tags: Albert Wendt, Art, artist, Fiji, New Zealand, Poetry, Polynesian, Samoa
As by Benji.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.25.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Benji Madden
Tags: Benji Madden
For where American Idol 2010 has started off key. Go here for improvements and suggestions to the hit show, for Ellen deGeneres and Simon Cowell to realign Idol to a new level of entertainment relevance for audiences and talent.
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in AMERICAN IDOL, Ellen, Simon Cowell
Tags: AMERICAN IDOL, Ellen, Simon Cowell
Walter and Judy Koenig address press in Canada, as the body of their son, Growing Pains actor Andy Koenig is found in Stanley Park, Vancouver. Why wasn’t this kid, kicking back and watching the Winter Olympics? So sad. Love goes out to the Koenig family tonight.
Entertainment. A-List celebrity News. Here’s your top ten posts today from here in Hollywood. Enjoy!
1. Ellen Vs Simon: The American Idol Judges Situation 2010
2. Amber Rose News on Bing.Com
3.
5. Robert Pattinson admits that he tapped this
6. Art: Black Paua & A Hawaiian Hollywood national anthem
7. A Parisian Kiss starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
8. Poetry: Howl by Allen Ginsberg
9. New Music: Semi Precious Weapons by SPW
10. Bad Tabloid Romance by Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick
Bonus Posts: 11. Cliff Curtis sighting at Venice Beach, Los Angeles
12. New Music: Art of Love by Guy Sebastian and Jordin Sparks
13. Quick Riser: Miley Cyrus duets with Brett Michaels
14. Fashion Post: Armani sketches for Lady Gaga
15. Wrestling Angel PR by Mickey Rourke for Megan Fox
16. Avatar leaps into IMAX box office history
17. Jason Mraz is much loved on Horiwood.Com
18. Art: Mr Salvador Dali & The Perspective of Proportion
19. Dick Cheney suffered his 5th heart attack
20. Taylor Lautner & Taylor Swift: Valentine’s Day promo pic
[Winter Olympics news coverage and pics can be viewed right here]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.25.2010~
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10
Tags: Entertainment News, Hollywood Entertainment News, Horiwood Top 10
Jay-Z and Kanye West really rely on their woman [and female proteges too], in order to get them their celebrity heat. It’s very pimp-ish. Slave to the Rhythm publicity. Enough said.
~[Image via KanyeWest Blog, courtesy of Honey Mag]
Posted by horiwood on February 26, 2010 in Amber Rose, Grace Jones, Kanye West
Tags: Amber Rose, Grace Jones, Kanye West
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