JANET JACKSON IS LOOKING VERY NICOLE KIDMAN RIGHT NOW
To find out why, check out Mario Lavandeira‘s website.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12.1.13~
SHOCK JOCK POLITICO POP
Shock jock politics djs: this is sick... attention it's time to dance... pop it like your poppin a cork... i'm like a junkie... this rhythm just makes me high... now just put your hands to the sky.
–retro song lyrics
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.12.12~
ROCKIN’ ROBIN – JANET JACKSON, THE JACKSON 5 & FAMILY VISIT THEIR HOMETOWN OF GARY, INDIANA
Janet Jackson and family rocked out to Gary Indiana, to remember what would have been music star Michael Jackson‘s 54th B’day. Living in LA when MJ died was one of the surrealist moments in life. Los Angeles played his music non-stop for a week or more. It was MJ boom box car wars in drive time – where USA’s hits are decided first, nationwide and are boomed out to the world from LA.
On the sides of LA’s most prominent buildings, biz owners projected images of the late King of Pop dancing his dance moves that had changed music entertainment worldwide. Jackson had also invented music awards shows template of entertainers and also music tours technology too. He did so much.
When LA turned on an MJ show across the cityscape, in that moment, you really knew LA had a King. It was spontaneous, no one had orchestrated the show. Yet a city who entertained just knew what to do. Totally surreal. He was for the people and of the people and the people responded back that week.
At the time, MJ’s absence swung to popstar Rihanna‘s rising star. LA clubs interspersed MJ hits with Riri’s and so a foreigner of the USA’s star was sealed in Rihanna’s legacy to LA too who was also following in the footsteps of Janet. It wasn’t acknowledged by all in the USA at the time, however there was no star greater than Michael Jackson in the USA until he died. (more…)
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS WORLD NEWS 13th JUNE 2012 – SIMON DALLOW, HILARY BARRY, WENDY PETRIE & MIKE McROBERTS – TOP GUNS NEW ZEALAND
Being faithful to your audience can suck. Normally I’m not, so it’s all good. I am a Kiwi, I just have fun. It’s what we do, without knowing we’re good at having fun.
However when I do really focus on you the audience – it’s a joy to share world views of us all. That’s what a blog should be about too.
Here we go
New Zealand News – It’s all about the gift of water and Maori tribes role in its regenerating life’s flow. New campaign for Women’s Refuge (added). In sports news: Garth Bray: Goes Inside the Games. Te Karere News does too with Trevor Shailer and a leading artist Rangi Kipa – both on Kaitiaki spiritually aware duties – Maori Cultural Advisor Trevor Shailer says a Maori figure will be brought in to back the team feel at home. Magic confident ahead of biggest derby. Sensible Kiwi Celebrity News: Jacko Gill happy to miss Olympics after title defence
Bonus Kiwi snapshots: Maori Boy Genius filmmaker (5:54). Fat athletes just like us: Fat and fit – a weighty issue. Petrol price war follow up. And: NZ should be a safe zone for all women.
So, in news rheel video above, here’s four of our top guns in the Kiwi artform of New Zealand’s fine broadcasting traditions of our top broadcasters serving it up down the gunnel in the sexy Kiwi accent. In a rare treat for those outside of New Zealand’s paradise isles, here’s news from Simon Dallow, Hilary Barry, Wendy Petrie and Mike McRoberts.
This is the world that was, Friday Night from New Zealand.
World News:
United States: Blending: Mitt Romney fancies military pianist Condoleeza Rice as a frontrunner. Obama: my biggest mistake was ‘not telling a story.’ Steven Tyler leaves American Idol. A story with ‘oil’ & ‘gold’ will always get the USA’s attention. Here’s one:Turkey gave Iran 60 tons of gold in return for oil. In sports shake ups news: Debbie Dunn has a doping cheater tale fueling a culture of BigPharma excess culture from the USA. Anthony Davis joins basketball team for Olympics. Puerto Rico and The Bronx’s Jennifer Lopez says goodbye to Idol.
Australia: Aussie fast bowler Brett Lee retires from international cricket. Shooter frustrated by Olympics village sleeping plans. News Ltd CEO Kim Williams vows to fight media censorship.
Canada: Simon Whitfield ‘overwhelmed’ to be London flag-bearer. US-Canada tunnel reopens after bomb threat. Canada is less energy efficient than China - a new study reports.
Mexico: Central Americans flood north through Mexico. Police find drug tunnel under US-Mexico border. Election challenges: Runner-up files lawsuit against Peña Nieto.
France: Francois Hollande is still talking that austerity language. New York zooms in on Tour de France twitter natter. Shock horror as 800 jobs slashed in France. Ouch.
United Kingdom: The Hindu goes for: United Kingdom of surveillance. M16 chief Sir John Sawers does military pr that proves he’s worth his weekly intake of pita chips and hummus. On ‘ya. Plane meddles news of air show displays sports. Two British brothers of Olympics triathlons: Meet The Brownlee Bros. End in sight for Terry’s racism claims. Brit casualties in the alpine avalanche news. Lewis Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger are on evidence of night life marketing duties pre-Olympics in London. Click below.
India: Media turn to Dara Singh for He-Man standards comparisons. In New York an Indian businessman admits to ‘illegal ivory sales.’ Guwahati deals with child molestation gang. Girija Vyas claims women have a right to party.
Indonesia: Are Aust-Indonesia relations ‘dysfunctional’ or do Australian’s just need to tweet more? A Shia cleric is blamed for blasphemy. World Bank warns govt of ‘mixed signals’.
Italy: Moody’s makes Italy moodier.
Malaysia: Malay-French trade is on the surge. Japanese bankers gush of Malaysia’s investment potential. And then some.
Germany: Germany’s circumcision law is out there. Raises issues of Abrahamic ties between Muslim nations and Jews.
Philippines: China bullies Philippines with ‘don’t make trouble’ talk. Philippines and Korea’s foreign affairs is economically tied.
Chile: Although the average wage in Chile is a shock, Chile refuses monetary easing. Pinera inks hate crime law. Holds at 5.
Thailand: Thailand’s court may dissolve ruling party. Thailand’s King suffers ‘brain bleed’.
Belgium: NZ’s black sticks hotties too good for Belgium. Vertonghen seals Tottenham deal.
Russia: USA hopes Russia will back tougher Syria resolution. Russia urges Annan to work with Syrian opposition.
Japan: Record rainfall in Japan forces 50000 to flee, 19 dead.
Ecuador: Newsweek fancy Ecuador as a photovoltaic research center.
Pakistan: Afghani militants invasion into Pakistan is met with cross-border attack. Sri Lanka take win in Pakistani test series.
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s princess independance program improves: First female athletes are Olympics bound.
Peru: Peru and Iraq renew diplomatic ties. Volleyball: Peru 3. Argentina 1 -Women’s Pan American Cup match. US returns stolen artefacts to Peru. Bank holds benchmark rate. Peru fights to preserve whale cemetary.
Swaziland: Infrastructure improves.
Vietnam: A palace rebuild. Clinton visits Laos – sees scarred legacy of war.
South Africa: A train crashes into farm truck. Boucher cricket news.
Saint Kitts and Nevis: Netball news: St. Vincent Defeats St. Kitts for OECS – ECCB Netball Championship.
Poland: Inflation accelerating.
Argentina: Venezuela is no longer highest inflation nation in Latin America – Argentina is.
Singapore: Europe exports crimps Singapore’s GDP. Stocks strong.
Colombia: Juan Manuel Santos & co.
Trinidad & Tobago: Tourism and leatherback turtles
Guam: Pierantozzi hopes to meet with Guam Palauans.
Bangladesh: Economic indicators - July 13.
Guadeloupe: Twitter feed
Austria: In Austria, this little piggy went to the bank. Funny that! Uniqa news. Movil & T. Austria news.
[In a tough rugby match between The Hurricanes of Wellington and The Chiefs of Hamilton: It was a result that did neither the Hurricanes nor the Chiefs any favours. Watch above the highlights footage of one of New Zealand's national football codes].
Kuwait: Nottingham Forest sold to Kuwait‘s Al-Hasawi family from Doughty estate for a nominal fee. Oil market stable. ALAFCO to order 20 Boeing 737 Max jets.
Venezuela: Opposition candidate to address Venezuela military, role of soldiers in presidential election.
Hong Kong: Bribery & the warping of Hong Kong billionaires personalities. Bloomberg: Hong Kong, New York Most Expensive for Retailers as Rents Jump.
Ireland: Violence erupts in N Ireland and Ireland escapes recession.
Portugal: Soccer’s Sunil Chetri arrives in Portugal.
Finland: Finland may get bank shares as collateral, Urpilainen says.
Brunei: Qatar and Brunei’s women Olympians make history.
Puerto Rico: Solving socioeconomic crisis – a call to thought and action.
Nepal: Nepal Maoist chief’s son accused of Everest affair. Sex trafficking offender jailed for 170 years.
Spain: Economy challenged.
Jordan: Jordan Local Daily News
Costa Rica: Growing agriculture sharing knowledge.
Serbia: Coalition government talks occur. Price pressures forces rates rise.
Turkey: Reuters UK is all about the oil. Reuters report: Turkey importing crude from N.Iraq in road tankers. Jet crash may have been an accident.
[Jessica Mutch brings the latest story of where Maori water rights sits at The Waitangi Tribunal. Crown lawyers say asset sales should not be delayed because of questions over Maori water rights. Though it's unusual to sell a 3/4's full bottle of wine at market - before suring up the product is a priority of solid due diligence management of business, take a look at the marae where the court is sitting. Mutch highlights lawyer Paul Raddich for The Crown and Donna Hall and veteran activist and mother of a New Zealand politician, Titewhai Harwira. Priceless].
[Gene Rodenberry's star tribute (the Maori version), Hollywood Boulevard Grauman's Chinese Theater. Photo: Author's own].
Music pick: The mood: Janet Jackson‘s Rhythm Nation live concert – no prejudice, no racism, just dance with Peace always to the fore.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.7.12~
KATIE HOLMES & TOM CRUISE SETTLE
In Hollywood News: Less than two weeks after Katie Holmes filed for divorce, the actress and Tom Cruise have reached a settlement.
Jonathan Wolfe, Holmes attorney confirmed the deal in a statement to People. More here.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 10.7.12~
KATIE HOLMES NEWS – 5.7.12
“She’s all right,” Katie Holmes tells Hollywood paparazzi.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.7.12~
ALRIGHT WITH ME – RETRO JANET JACKSON CAB GALLOWAY TRIBUTE VIDEO
In NZ, we never really grew up in the shadow of the Cab Galloway music legacy from his Harlem Cotton Club jazz, heady days.
However, in NZ, we did get Janet Jackson‘s version of what Cab G gifted the world as a breakthrough popular African-American artist.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.2.12~
RETRO JANET JACKSON – RUNAWAY (KEITH WEBB VIDEO REMIX)
Retro Janet Jackson choreography for my Taj Mahal tribal people.
साहसिक शांति
Keep dancing.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.1.12~
BRET McKENZIE IS ONE OF 39 SONGWRITERS BEING CONSIDERED FOR AN OSCAR
This is sick Oscars News: If Life’s A Happy Song, then songwriter, actor, comic, muzo Bret McKenzie is one of 39 people being considered for an Oscar this year.
To find out who McKenzie’s competition is for Best Original Score go here.
Bret is also making a cameo appearance in Sir Peter Jackson‘s upcoming movie The Hobbit. McKenzie’s Flight of the Concords co-star Jemaine Clement is starring in the upcoming Men In Black 4 movie. (No, that’s not a rugby football film).
Chur!
[Photos via IMDB & Trial X. Music by Janet Jackson, All Night Don't Stop].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.12.11~
CORY KIRKHAM LIKES JANET JACKSON’S BOOTS
Cory Kirkham writes in today in favor of entertainer, Janet Jackson’s boots. Click on link to see.
I’ve had stranger requests, to show pictures of American leaders committed to showing images of peace!
A friend of the Ralph Lauren fashion family, when it comes to footwear, few do it better than Janet. A winner! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.11.11~
JANET JACKSON IS WOWING CANADA
Janet Jackson, is wowing the good people of Toronoto Canda right now with her NUMBER 1′s tour.
Janet is so much like her brother when she takes the stage and turns out a show. All of them!!!
She’s scary good. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.13.11~
BRINGIN IT! JANET JACKSON’s No.1′s TOUR HITS MANILA
“Break it off give it to me, come on!”–Ms. Janet Jackson and her Feedback lyrics hit Manila.
Hot concerts are ahead with true American pop cultural royalty! Janet Jackson is the best concert experience I’ve ever been too in my life. I saw Janet in Auckland City with Trinity Dodd many years ago. She popped!
She’s lookin good.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.4.11~
CALI BORN JEN OF AMERICAN APPAREL SAYS HI AND TALKS ROMANCE IN AN AGE OF INTERNET DATING – 1.24.11
Jen of American Apparel is a native born Angeleno who has also lived in New York. Jen likes California better. Must be the beautiful climate.
Her day was a little rough today. Jen’s dealing with that corporate email that was sent out on mass, with her name as one of the recipients that says: “Effective, immediately, no more commission.”
As that’s not what Jen signed up for when she took the job and she’s a smart girl who says she needs to pay her rent, and the new conditions won’t see her being able to do that any more. Jen’s not having it.
Good for you Jen! Good luck on the job hunting front from here.
Jen’s just started online dating. A big step for her. So we just talked through the perils of that. In my experience of that in L.A, it could tend to leave you empty (that’s a whole other novel – not really worth being published, at this point!).
Yet Jen and I both agree that it doesn’t really matter how you meet people, it’s more how you treat them and each other when you do meet. The California rule of “You pony up, I pony up, You pony up, I pony up” always should be observed in any good relationship, each day. If that relationship is not observed like a link in a jewelry chain for example, you’re not actually in a relationship. Jen was like “wow, that’s awesome. So true.”
Jen brings out every suppressed paternal instinct in me, whereby I just want to march into those corporate offices of American Apparel and give them a good talking to, or just intimate I could ‘slightly bruise’ the face of the last online boy who would ever contemplate breaking this sweet girl’s heart. You know, it can be a scary and insincere world in an age of online dating and Facebook culture. Yet, this is Jen’s reality today as a Cali girl making new opportunities in her L.A.
Once we discussed that the “pony up” aesthetic of relationship link building is established and going on day-by-day, I advise Jen that every American girl should ‘go black’ and throw in a wild card into their relationship mix every now and again- by taking a note from the musical diaries of American pop music royalty, Janet Jackson to provide a reality check. Namely, in the form of the question raised by Ms. Janet Jackson with her dance choreographer/ current reality TV star Paula Abdul, many years ago as expressed in this song below.
Jen is so sweet and cute, I want to put her in my pocket as a mini-Hobbit girl from New Zealand or something. Look at that open honest face. Adorable!
Thanks Jen!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.24.11~
WHEN GWEN STEFANI ATTENDED THE OSCARS AND TODAY’S CELEB NEWS – 1.20.11
Remember when Gwen Stefani attended the Oscars? –Vanity Fair classic photograph.
Does the Skins TV series on MTV, exploit kids in a pornographic way at the hand of TV producers? And why are children increasingly becoming more voyeured by an old order of America? I don’t like it. There’s an over-fixation on living forever, not rooted in a true spiritual sense of possibility. Kids get vampired. I know Chinese officials are mad about dating teenagers – but why show cultural match in this way to China with such TV shows – making this kind of entertainment okay at the expense of American teens? Not cool.
Larry Page is Taking Over As Google CEO
Janet Jackson‘s No.1′s Tour adds more dates in Texas, Omaha, Chicago, DC, NY, Los Angeles, Canada and San Francisco. Go Ms Jackson!
The Situation‘s smarter new look.
Warren Buffet Leaving Washington Post Board. Interesting.
Snooki & Jwow‘s MTV reality TV series producers think up the next gimmick to keep these girls going. Doh! A location change. Lazy TV producing.
What Chelsea Handler can do for New Zealand television getting more relevant.
A Sniff of Home Cooking for Dogs and Cats
In their game of ‘Call in the UK Ring Ins’ - Ricky Gervais talks politics to Piers Morgan. It makes the US seem too OOC to be handled by Americans, this whole rhetoric, quite frankly. That’s all this gimmick is achieving. These lads are getting paid mega bucks to do just that with shaping American perception.
David Brooks: Amy Chua Is a Wimp
David Spade is now cross-dressing in his next Hollywood film. He’s very Joanna Lumley.
Op-Ed Guest Columnist: What I Learned From Sargent Shriver
SOCIAL MEDIA, HOLLYWOOD NEWS AND YOU – 1.15.11
Almost 2 years ago in Hollywood – A Maori blogger posted Aussie singer Guy Sebastian covering Stevie Wonder. Wowsa!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.20.11~
JANET JACKSON ANNOUNCES No. 1′s TOUR OF USA – WOOT!
Janet Jackson provides the best concert experiences you’ll ever see. The performing diva of the Jackson Family Entertainment Empire has announced she’s touring the US with her no.1′s hit material. Billboard reports: Up Close & Personal is how Janet will roll. Early march is when Ms Jackson will kick off her superstar tour.
To heat up the Jackson family brand of entertainment angling towards Vegas institutionalism, Ms Jackson will start her 8 weeks of touring in Vegas and finish the tour in Vegas also.
Having seen Janet and Michael both live in concert in New Zealand, Janet I have to say, was the best concert I’ve ever seen. She pops! I mean, she’s a Jackson!!! True blue self-made American music royalty.
At the time of writing it is impossible to get on Janet’s website. She too hot.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.10.11~
MELLOW JANET JACKSON – THAT’S THE WAY
Old school Janet Jackson is always so smooth. That’s The Way Love Goes.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.4.10~
THE RISE OF LATINA IN FASHION AND BEAUTY – L’OREAL SIGNS JENNIFER LOPEZ
Jennifer Lopez, the dancer who once danced for Janet Jackson as a Brooklyn fly girl in That’s The Way Love Goes has been signed by L’Oreal cosmetics company and beauty products giant. Lopez will be the face of EverSleek Sulfate-Free Smoothing System, a haircare collection for smoothing unruly, frizzy hair. A face of Gucci and with a new album, Love set to drop in the near future, J-Lo’s star is on the rise.
As a spokesperson for L’Oreal, J-Lo joins these peers who’ve played this role before for L: “Milla Jovovich, Beyoncé Knowles, Rachel Weisz, Evangeline Lilly, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Julianna Margulies, Eva Longoria Parker, Freida Pinto, Kerry Washington and Gerard Butler.”
Pretty news for the American Idol national talent quest TV Show presenter. Jenny from the block is moving on up.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.4.10~
SCREAM – DAVID ARQUETTE, COURTNEY COX, JANET JACKSON AND OPRAH NEWS, VIA NATIONAL ENQUIRER
According to The National Enquirer (one of the most dramatic newspapers in the game) David Arquette and Courtney Cox are in marriage counseling in an effort to save their marriage.
Reconciliation if possible is usually smart. If possible. So good on them!
By the way, The Post are normally known for given the lovable Oprah Winfrey her darker side of humor with the ridiculous scandals they run on her. Obviously Oprah finds these amusing otherwise she would have sued these guys a gazillion moons ago. The latest Oprah scandal running is this headline: Janet Jackson hates Oprah Winfrey’s Guts. Lol!
Allegedly Oprah’s interview with MJ’s kids is what the blow up was over. As if!
MJ’s 3 kids are in direct competition with Justin Bieber –with these four kids selling merch, so they need to do press about now. Oprah’s final season is the best spot for MJ’s kids to appear on, so it’s hardly likely Aunt Janet is mad with Oprah at all. In TV land that’s still top billing.
[Image of Courtney and David wearing their Peace tee shirts courtesy of ExecTe]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.22.10~
RUGBY GIRL TRINITY BROOKE HAS A BEAMING SMILE IN THE UK TODAY
As a leader I love her because she can listen and divide matters fairly. In this regard she’s just like her grandma, Lady Thorp–Horiwood on Trinity Brooke’s fearless leadership skills.
Trinity Brooke of rugby royalty has a beaming smile today as she hangs out with some girlfriends for a bit of socialite time in the U.K. She is the grandchild of Lady Patricia Thorp, the sweetest woman who served Auckland City on The Council looking after the environment. That was Lady Thorp’s hot thing, amongst many. As a leader, Brooke is a young lady I trust. She’s always worthy of spotlight and she’s a pearla.
When it comes to entertainment trends, Trinity has the best tastes. She grew up with women the ilk of Debbie Harwood singing impromptu (no bands, no palava just real true fearless Kiwi talent) around her dinner table, as a kid growing up in New Zealand, so you can’t blame Trin really. She’s the real deal Pasifika knowing Kiwi girl. Impeccable taste.
Trinity and myself, thanks to Lady Thorp, both went together to see Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson perform live in concert, because Patricia was like that. If someone was talented with a message people needed to see and hear and feel, Patricia was the all for the talented person in the world. I still thank her for her gifts of leadership today, that Trinity Brooke now also carries so richly in her young life. Trinity Brooke is special. She knows the ways and I know that Trinity does. Women of action. Can’t be beat.
When we last caught up with Trinity, she’d recently given birth to baby Oscar Brooke and then had launched right on into a wee triathlon excursion. Kiwi’s–we’re full on!
Trinity is all about health and fitness. Actually this girl always has been as far as I can recall. Love her. She’s a fine basketball player and netball player too.
What a gorgeous Maori-Kiwi smile. Full beam ahead then. Hey Trin. :)
[Trinity Brooke is proudly of the Ngati Awa Maori tribe and also of Matakana Island Maori tribal affiliations too. Now based in London, Brooke is from Auckland the Supercity and has fun family in Melbourne Australia too. Image Trinity's own. Amy Te Whetu is pictured with Trinity on the right. Go Maori-Kiwi girl's in the UK!]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.11.10~
DANCE VIDEO – FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA LEARNS INDIAN DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
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~
JACKSON ESTATE SYMBOLS via MISS JANET for HER BROTHER’S GIFTS TO ENTERTAIN
Alrighty, I am still obsessing on the fact that Michael Jackson as a brand to entertain, still rocks on, because his architecture as an entertaining King, has a life force of it’s own–with or without him.
That’s nuts. For a fragile dude, he sure built a solid kingdom of entertainment to model. Look at this stuff fly. It’s the real deal of a King. Dance is celebrated in these images of art and performance. Monarch butterflies and Doves feature too.
These are the symbols that Jackson’s children and Miss Janet Jackson – MJ’s sister, are presenting to his fans and the world.
There is no more successful American who proved they could cross over and appeal to India, like Michael Jackson. He “lived beyond color lines, geographical borders and boundaries” to paraphrase his sister’s Rhythm Nation lyrics.
He was cross-cultural, all people he saw as being the same. As a culture maker, and America’s King of Pop he saw his role as creating symbology for his fans, so that they could have a sense of global culture that resonated with them all.
Seriously though, as New Zealand is the nation that creates Jackson-Taylor Monarchs in 3D in the 2010′s of cinema mastery –we perhaps need a ‘royal cinematic meeting of entertainment minds’ with one of MJ’s kids or his nieces or nephews (we’re not fussy), to star in our Hobbit films, to cement that point. What a cool idea.
Let me play ‘stand in’ Hollywood casting agent on this one… We’ll go for Blanket Jackson thanks, as a Hobbit prince of Latino descent. :)Having seen both Michael and Janet Jackson both perform live in concert in Auckland at Mt Smart Stadium, New Zealand with friend, Trinity Brooke, I think Blanket would rock, following in the footsteps of the family, in a Hobbit film shot in 3D and Middle Earth. Imagine that! A real Jackson Hobbit too. Perfect!
Enjoy these images, from Blanket’s Estates’ one page ad in the LA Times today. A paper that services a city and associated cities of 20 million people.
[Image of Dame Elizabeth Taylor. Patron Saint portrait at The Abbey, West Hollywood, hung over fire's heat--Horiwood.Com's own like the hearth and kiln of a Queen. Music: Janet Jackson singing Nothing (Trust in Me)]. “Cherish each moment as if it’s your last. Nothing is more important than the one’s we love. Trust in me.”–lyrics paraphrased.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.4.10~
A MIDTERM’S RESPONSE: JANET JACKSON for HER AMERICA and HER NATION’S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
A day after the midterm elections have not fared well for President Barack Obama‘s Dems government, Janet Jackson (mainly, The Jackson Estate) start up their PR machine, for the next MJ themed venture.
Two thoughts:
a) When Michael Jackson passed away, President Obama was noticeably one of the last leaders to acknowledge MJ’s passing. Jackson, though veiled in controversy, was the ‘real’ hidden black king of American celebrity then. My own personal view, was that Obama should have acknowledged MJ and his contribution to American life, immediately. He chose not to, finally releasing a short paragraph press statement about MJ. The Jackson family held their tongues on the issue opting to have Martin Luther King‘s children speak at their brother’s memorial service, to make a statement about MJ’s trailblazing path for all African-Americans in the world. MJ was the third most well known person on the planet, after The Queen of England and The Pope of the Catholic Church.
In India, given India’s rich tradition of Bollywood artists and folklore too, of millions of singing dancing people and talented songwriters in Hindu, Jackson in responsible for 24% of all songs ever downloaded in India. Or, as an American celebrity, companies like Apple, Microsoft, anyone in the IT music downloading biz, still owe a huge debt to Jackson. Off the back of his sound and music and presence in a nation with 1/6th of the world’s population, all American music is sold into this market.
b) Always a woman of taste and grace, Janet Jackson, has not been photographed with the Obamas, but this is her response today, on behalf of the Jackson Camp. A full page ad in the Los Angeles times, of the latest entertainment showcase to emerge from her brother’s ‘ghost’ or his life story. She makes her statement along with the Jackson family, for their America, their fan base kingdom here and abroad, with the announcement of a Cirque du Solais show. Love how she rolls. So dignified.
Show not tell. In these images we see, what a black king is all about. The Jackson estate remind the world, what a proven King is about. Fun, imagination, play, creating images of liberty and freedom. This sells. Makes money, grows an economy while making people happy.
The monarch butterfly is an image, Jackson created so many different pictures about in his performances as an artist. The message, is always, UP! Spread your wings then. Don’t be afraid to fly. Especially down to New Zealand, for a little hot vacation down. Kiwi’s are Fun!!!
Thanks Janet Jackson and family for the years of quality entertainment and powerful messages that have amused, inspired, fed the world too from American shores as well as within it. MJ was a flawed yet fascinating King of Pop. As I repeatedly say on this blog – he is still the template cutter of all stars, in the American entertainment industry. It’s his model entertainers follow when mimicking the money trail he created of successful entertainment distribution.
What I liked about him personally was the he was moving into 3D on the eve of his death and before his world tour. As a Maori-Kiwi who lives in MH’s city and state of California, that resonates with me. His monarchy, was going in the direction of 3D. As a Kiwi, I take his monarch symbol of his favorite butterfly image as a symbol of ‘royalty.’ In the mode of US celebrity–I own it, for the New Zealand 3D filmmaking industry. It’s ours now too, along with the buzzy bee made from wood, a toy for infants and children, that Princess Dianna associated with her son Prince William Windsor, when she revealed him to the World at Waitangi, birth place of Middle Earth’s origins of early hobbit law. A monarch butterfly and a buzzy bee are both playful icons representing “sweetness hunters,” drawn to nectar and honey. Sweet good people like these symbols.
Monarchy in 3D is Kiwi and US!
Thanks Janet Jackson! And family. Anaheim (Disneyland country, is where Jackson’s first Cirque show will play. (Peter Pan reference). It also must be noted, this advertisement is the only full color add in the newspaper that services 20 million people of California for news. Um, that’s like the size of 4 1/2 times my country. Wow! I still haven’t got over that one yet. UP! in 3D! then.
LIKE IT LIKE THAT – MISS RICKI-LEE
Them other ships better move ova.
Here’s Ricki-Lee‘s full video of Do it Like That.
She’s definitely on military recruiting, USA hot dog serving (kinda), and dancing in the club duties… this kid!
Her look? A young – Delta Goodrem, Schapelle Corby & Julia Gillard all meshed together as one. Not bad!
Her music styling? Beyonce (Get Bodied) meets J-Lo in the Australian hood.
Her dance choreography? A milder respectful nod to the choreography-history of Janet Jackson & Beyonce.
What a cutie-pie. Watch.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.4.12~
April 10, 2012 | Categories: Australia, Beyonce Knowles, Dance, Delta Goodrem, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Gillard, Music Industry News, Music Videos, Pop Cultural Commentary, Ricki-Lee, Schapelle Corby | Leave A Comment »