LIFE’S RHYTHMS OF INK… MAORI NOVELS
So softly and sweetly, life's red rhythms flows... Trum thump. Trum thump. Trum thump...
–from the novel, There were no Mirrors in Nanny Kohatu’s House, started in June, 2000.
~Peace. Posted by Horiwooodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific.
REUEL WRITING SPIRIT REBUILDS NOVELS
Renewed are the blades that were broken, the crownless have again been made King.
from the novel concept, first started in Hollywood 18th March 2012… still being finished and written.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.10.12~
AVATAR SOLAR ARRAY FILM STUDIO – JAMES CAMERON ART & THE SUN
Avatar Solar Array – James Cameron’s latest project:
MNN.Com reports: Back in May 2011, after relocating his production company to the MBS Media Campus, director James Cameron constructed a massive solar array to power the next to Avatar sequels.
“These are things the studios need to be thinking about,” Cameron told the Washington Post. “When I do my next film, we’re going to go much farther than we did in terms of running a green set.
(more…)FILM FRANCHISE PRODUCTION GROWTH NEW ZEALAND – INVESTING IN KIWI WRITERS & SCREENWRITERS IS THE KEY
There is nothing more powerful than ideas whose time has come.–Victor Hugo.
There is nothing more powerful than ideas whose time has come, filmed on landscapes that are resources rich. ImagiNATIVE writers are the world's first architects of a future new world and new frontier.
–The way of global film sales marketing patterns observed over a few years now.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
–Winston Churchill as a writer, storyteller, peace maker and boozy warrior leader.
Developing a sustainable film industry in New Zealand really comes down to investing in New Zealand writers more and fostering relationships with the world’s best screenwriters too. It is vital that New Zealand encourages writers, as writers become the billionaires after all the effort has gone into producing successful film franchises. We need some Maori billionaires in New Zealand. Maybe some could write their way into the history books invisaging a cinematic light to project the new way.
We must write films from New Zealand, as if we don’t other people’s written ideas of the South Pacific, will be written about our territory. So, it makes sense to always be writing our own version of the world and attaching our definitions and meanings of landscape of the South Pacific to our own words and ideas in our films. We can write futuristic films, yet the messages in them attached to our landscapes have a resonance all over the world for the good.
We have the locations and enough filmmaking capability now in New Zealand. We just need better scripts, film franchise ideas created in New Zealand and a belief in fast tracking screen-writers to a global level of writing ability. Film crews travel (actors included) to where whoever has the best ideas - to collaborate on – film projects of significance.
New Zealand is soon to become that place even more so, then we have been already on some major film projects.
So what kinds of writers could happen in New Zealand? As a precursor to Mitt Romney‘s rise in politics as a star figure for the US, novelist Stephenie Meyer was a Mormon housewife of Arizona, who mimicked the UK’s JK Rowlings star template as a novelist.
Meyer’s story as a humble writer is one of a stand out success for relativiely new billionaires. Meyer’s novel ideas, even created a brand new studio to make her novels into films. It was then aquired by Lionsgate to import a strong youth audience following into Lionsgate’s entertainment brand.
The young actors cast in Meyer’s films now lead California’s box office (Kristen Stewart being one). JK of course, mimicked Brit authors like C.S Lewis and JRR Tolkien to find her own voice as a single parent writer. Magic was JK’s theme of children learning at school. Meyer’s was a voice of fantasy, romance, angst – youth under threat. Meyer’s creative literary bent, was a huge hit.
What this tells us: Perhaps we need to invest in single parents and-or Kiwi housewives more. (more…)
CAMERON PACE GROUP CHINESE CASTING FRONTIER PLANS – AVATAR MOVIE SEQUELS MARKETS
“Within five years, China could easily be as big a gross-revenue market for film as North America, and there are very specific economic incentives for having both Chinese content and Chinese co-production.
“For Avatar, we can certainly use Chinese actors as performancecapture actors (in animated film sequences like Avatar sequels) because any accent issues will hide within the Na’vi accent.”
–James Cameron eyes up casting Chinese actors to grow his brand of films into China’s new frontier.
What a brills idea. So clever. More@TheNavyZoom. Photo: Vancouver Sun.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 20.9.12~
OUR OUTRIGGER CANOES OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INNOVATION FOR POLYNESIAN & PASIFIKA YOUTH POPULATIONS OF THE WORLD – NEW ZEALAND SPIRIT RISING & INVESTING IN PI YOUTH
Because science, innovation, education are New Zealand peoples spirit - of our strong outrigger canoe culture of navigatable adventurous and creative discoveries into new horizons of destiny and change too:
In investing R&D capital into our future innovative inventors of sustainability and peace news:
In my mind I see, children all throughout the South Pacific, even up to the Marshall Islands into even the island of Guam, maybe Vietnam too. They each have a laptop and tablet each. On the internet they are taught curriculum subjects from New Zealand.
Their learning is accelerated and a generation of Polynesian (and Asian?) children arise, supported by their New Zealand friends nearby and afar, to allow the potential of Polynesia’s youth to be all they will be, for the gifts in their lives the world will need to be stronger, smarter, more creative – in the years to come. If we all do this for them that’s so going to happen.
This is the burden that sits very strongly on me today. I really want to see our groovy and unique white, Pakeha New Zealanders do it, just to teach the world what cool New Zealand citizens look like as architects of the world – and to push back the powers of greed, on our Island dwelling Polynesian friends.
Although we admire the braun of Polynesian peoples natural dna (Jonah Lomu storms to mind) - it is their Peaceful spirit (most days), their respect for their elderly, their creativity so rich yet largely untapped, their spiritual gifts, the notable and noble warmth of heart, a trusting innocence in the good of the wider world and their unique thoughts that dwell within their minds; that we will need to see more of in the world, twenty years out from this point. We need to invest more in it.
Photo: Namua Island, Aleipata Upolu, Samoa–Real Adventures. (more…)
FORMER NEW ZEALAND’S NEXT TOP MODEL, DANIELLE HAYES, IS SHOCKED THAT KAWERAU’S DIVERSE SCHOOLS ARE BEING MISTAKEN FOR A TIGHT SCRUM SITUATION!
We the people of Aotearoa are “the bridge over troubled water” in such global times.
On a side note: Beyonce Knowles (pictured below) won a swag of BET Awards in music (one even for music video directing). This post is not about Beyonce. It’s about another angel, who arose to be a guardian of her people in a more visible way. Pictured above.
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Here we go:
People in politics, should perhaps not get their schooling models, mixed up with their rugby.
For example, primary schools, intermediate schools and high schools – should not be squished to make one rugby scrum.
A news report: Judicial review challenges decision to close school: A judicial review is underway in the High Court in Rotorua challenging the decision by the Ministry of Education to close Kawerau Intermediate School. Former NZ Top Model, Danielle Hayes, who is also a former pupil of the intermediate, was there to lend her support.
Anyway, the very disturbing footage can be seen on Te Karere News. [Click on Danielle's photo to view].
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The Geothermal potential of Kawerau should be a shared development venture, with the young people’s people at these schools. At best, it is our young people’s potential we serve into a better way. Or not.
Round up is a farming tool – and should not be a tactic of governance as a norm. 
(more…)
BOOKS, HATS, GOOD WINES BLOGGER – GRAEME BEATTIE – FAVORS FRESH WATER SUPPLIES CONSERVATION OVER WAR’S FURTHERANCE IN THE WORLD
Avid book reader and top Kiwi blogger, Graeme Beatttie, is always reading a good book.
The former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller (of Penguin and Scholastic books distribution fame), and a favorite book judge in Asia-Pacific for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards is who writers turn to in New Zealand for good book recommends. In fact, Graeme’s taste selections of books he offers readers, create a road paved with good reads, akin to the study of seismic behaviour of structural systems, but just on a literary landscape, within books for readers minds.
Given his discerning eye for winning books, perhaps more than any of us, Beattie knows the importance of a well structured story in books and the joy these books give readers on a universal level, year-after-year.
His astute views about the international English language book scene are much appreciated in New Zealand – a nation of buttery chardonnay drinkers and book snobs.
A mixed-model media reader (in a good way), blogs that Mr Beattie follows and recommends include: collage of life, distractions, fifi verses the world, o audacious book, overkill, peterwellsblog, stoatspring, tales of a literary nobody, the sound of butterflies, transpress nz, trendy but casual, what? me? blog? and of course, world of the written word. Now that’s a list of websites to read, you couldn’t possibly regret.
[At the time of writing, the no.1 book on The NY Times Best Sellers list is this one].
Graeme also appreciates the fact that solving the world’s fresh water situation, should be more of a priority than feeding a war focus in the world. Many wars are caused because people fear they will run out of water. (more…)
DOWN SYNDROME CHILDREN OF NEW ZEALAND & SIR OWEN WOODHOUSE MEETS KERRE WOODHAM AT NAPIER AIRPORT
Reading journalist’s Kerre Woodham‘s column in yesterday’s paper, I was surprised to learn that Sir Owen Woodhouse is both 95 and also a fan of the iPhone. Who even knew Sir Owen was 95 already?!
In a column titled Remarkable Kiwi puts Others to Shame, Kerre writes after meeting Sir Owen in a Napier airport lounge that, Sir Owen is ”a member of the Order of New Zealand. A decorated World War II hero. A Supreme Court judge. A Privy Councillor, the man who worked to even up the division of matrimonial property in the 1960s and the architect of the ACC. Devoted husband, father and grandfather.” A fan of Jane Austen e-books he reads on his phone, Woodham found Woodhouse ”interesting, interested, razor sharp and delightful company.”
I never met Sir Owen, as he was always working on all of that important sticky stuff Sir Owen does for the government’s tricky pet projects as someone’s whose not lexically challenged one iota. However I was quite charmed by the late Peggy Woodhouse (Lady Woodhouse) with her thoughtful, gracious, intelligent, discerning, kind, wise and compassionate wairua. Her eyes shone with kindness and grace. She was a true Kiwi gem and a beautiful person. I have also only met Kerre Woodham once as well. In a line up of local celebrities, Kerre by far was the most interesting and involved of everyone in the room at the time. Always fun to boot.
Woodham also wrote of Down syndrome children in her weekly column too. Knowing Peggy, she’d want the column about the down syndrome children to feature more than words written of her and her main man. You see, Peggy was a rose. She wasn’t an English rose, she was better. Lady Woodhouse was a distinctictively Kiwi rose. The fragrance from her life, housed within her slender frame considered everyone fairly and equally in her presence. This trait is reflected in both her daughters, although Margie perhaps has her mother’s mercy side in full bloom on any given day. Although Susan has her mother’s style down pat.
As it’s Queen’s Birthday Weekend, what an apt time to talk of children in families who have down syndrome, right here in New Zealand.
Woodham writes: “There’s been a subtle, but important, refocus when it comes to the screening of pregnant women for Down syndrome.
The National Screening Unit will now advise women that screening is available – rather than offering them the opportunity to be screened.
The SavingDowns organisation, a lobby group of parents and siblings of Down syndrome Kiwis, says the onus is on potential parents to request the test.
It’s a subtle shift in emphasis but an important one because a growing number of people, health professionals included, believe that Down syndrome in itself is not a good enough reason to terminate a pregnancy.
And I would concur. It’s a personal choice and not everyone is going to think the same way, but having worked with a number of Down syndrome children and adults, having enjoyed the humour and the wit and the work ethic of a number of young men and women with the condition, I can’t see how anyone would consider a person born with Down syndrome to have any less right to be on the planet than those born free of it.” (more…)
TONI MORRISON, BOB DYLAN, MADELEINE ALLBRIGHT & JOHN GLENN ARE AWARDED USA’S MEDAL OF FREEDOM 2012
USA’s President Barack Obama was kept busy yesterday awarding The Medal of Freedom to American citizens he valued for contribution to culture, the arts, science and innovation, unionist champions for social justice and also experts of justice. The Washington Post reported: “President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen political and cultural greats Tuesday, including rocker Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn and novelist Toni Morrison.
Of Ms Morrison gift to culture as a poet novellist of significance, Mr Obama said, “He recalled reading Morrison’s Song of Solomon in his youth and “not just trying to figure out how to write, but also how to be and how to think.”
New Zealand TV news coverage included footage of Mr Obama saying that Bob Dylan’s “unique gravelly voice” helped to define America and there was no bigger music artist in the USA than Bob Dylan. Personally, I liked the way Mr Dylan gave away an album at Chistmas one year via the Bank of America’s database. He was unique in restoring some faith in banks and bankers by the move after greedy behavior by banks. In concert in New Zealand about ten years ago too, seeing Dylan was a reminder that as an orchestrator of music, he was simply ‘The Master.’
The WashPo reports Mr Obama saying of Bob, “In college days, Obama said, he listened to Dylan and recalled “my world opening up, because he captured something about this country that was so vital.””
Madeleine Allbright, who I got to speak to in the USA, while working for a high powered Jewish publicist, was also awarded a medal of Freedom award. She’s an absolute sweetheart to track (a busy girl) and speak with.
New Zealand also liked that fact that astronaut John Glenn also got awarded a medal of freedom too. He recieved news coverage as well here.
More than a piece of metal, Freedom has meaning as a symbol of human experience we valuee. Freedom is defined by the free dictionary online as being: “the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial. 2. exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc. 3.the power to determine action without restraint. 4. political or national independence. 5.personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery: a slave who bought his freedom.
Obama also recalled reading about union pathbreaker Dolores Huerta when he was starting out as a community organizer. Other awardees this year included: Pat Summitt, who led the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team. John Paul Stevens, former Supreme Court justice. Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, who died in 1927. Shimon Peres, president of Israel, who is to receive his medal at a White House dinner next month. John Doar, who handled civil rights cases as assistant attorney general in the 1960s. William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who helped lead the effort to eradicate smallpox. Gordon Hirabayashi, who fought the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Jan Karski, a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. He died in 2000.” (more…)
A NOVEL PICK – WILLIAM THACKERY’S VANITY FAIR
Q. If you were to recommend a novel to read while on vacation in Australia, what would it be?
A. That’s easy. Vanity Fair by William Thackery.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 4.4.12~
HOLLYWOOD NOVELS – W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
— W. Somerset Maugham
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.1.12~
RON BERNSTEIN PONDERS HOW GOOD BOOKS CAN MAKE THE BEST FILMS IN HOLLYWOOD
Always write with spirit.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 4.5.11~
JAMES CAMERON IS FUNNY TODAY – TALKS HIGHER FRAME RATES PER SECOND NEEDED FOR FILM INDUSTRY
Hollywood’s no.1 box office heavyweight, Mr James Cameron makes me smile today.
As guest commentary I’m going to run with The Hollywood Reporter’s full report on his appearance at CinemaCon 2011. As I never wrote this story, you might want to read it here at it’s original source, to be fair to this website’s hits rate.
As Hollywood’s reigning King of The Box Office in America, here’s what James had to say in a story penned with good humor too, by Carolyn Giardina: “Higher frame rates offer “the potential to improve showmanship,” the director tells attendees at ChinemaCon.
LAS VEGAS — Calling the current use of frame rates in digital cinema “inadequate,” James Cameron urged the industry to consider shooting and projecting movies at rates higher than the standard 24 frames-per-second in a demonstration he presented Thursday at Cinemacon.
HORIWOOD FOR NGATI TOA’S PATRICIA GRACE – HOLLYWOOD, POST-GRAMMYS 2011
In Potiki
you taught US
that paua
from our ancestors
is in our
eyes
for the seeing.
We see
Oceans
of humanity in need
of US
rising up
to free
new tides
of new voices.
Ebbing from
the ancient paths
bringing forth
known yet unknown
new spirit
ideas
of change.
Across waters
of great Grace.
~Mauri 'Ola.
[Photograph via The Arts Foundation]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.14.11~
HORI POTTER HOBBIT HUMOR, MAD MEN BERRY MARTINIS AND CULTURE BEING SHARED FROM HOLLYWOOD, 11.28.11 @ 8.45am
“At the coral reef, the beach tide was low like the flat Injun prairie plains of Boise, Idaho.”–Horiwood, a novel.
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”–Sir Edmund Hilary‘s humility as wisdom in Hollywood.
What’s up with this picture? It’s like when the cast of Mad Men went for berry martinis at The Abbey with the Hollywood Maori Harry Potter blogger guy, on the way to the Arclight theater to see a film with hobbits in it in 3D. That’s too many alluvial-intellectual levels of a horticulturalists nation’s, pop cultural quircke.
Anyways, in more simpler news. Ten Hollywood entertainment news posts, you’re sharing as culture right here on Horiwood.Com via social media are:
1. Kiwi Humor – A vintage Hollywood movie postcard for Sir Peter Jackson
2. The physics of super heroes - when good scientists become movie geek experts too
3. Benjamin Franklin & Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki quotes
4. Sir Ian McKellan will reprise the grey power fierce, for The Hobbit in 3D
5. Wisdom from the book In The Presence of a Gorilla
6. Yale Women’s Rugby Team & Rugby World Cup excursions 2011
8. Harry Potter‘s Daniel Radcliffe for Trevor Project teenagers
9. Maori Hollywood actors, the Courage to Love Novel, catching up with 3D star Cliff Curtis
10. Nicole Kidman joins Jon Hamm for presenting duties at the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2011
Bonus Post: Starbucks for Africa – Rox in a Box lyrics with The Decemberists good folks band
Other Hollywood news websites, blogs and media outlets who sometimes share Harry Potter, Twilight Saga, The Hobbit news too are: E!: Hollywood News; Hollywood Reporter; Access Hollywood; Hollywood.Com; ET Online; Deadline.Com; Celebrity Gossip; Young Hollywood.; HuffPo.
[Photo of Elijah Wood courtesy of Elly's Elijah Wood Site. Pic of double taiaha Maori, martial arts, future action movies combat weaponry, courtesy of Aotearoa New Zealand]
~@Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 1.27.11~
TAYLOR LAUTNER WILL PLAY FINN IN “INCARCERON”, CATHERINE FISHERS NOVEL, FILM ADAPTATION
Taylor Lautner is pictured here with Disney’s Demi Lovato.
Getting incarcerated always sucks. Yet fun people normally do get incarcerated a lot because they threaten systems. So thankfully, I haven’t been incarcerated much in life. Lol! Taylor Lautner fancies himself as a heroic victim, overcoming incarceration as a Young Hollywood movie theme. Yawn! No, it actually sounds brilliant for a teen to think that deep towards a hero fighting for justice, in the evolution of his Hollywood career. Very Matt Damon.
This kid is really Tom Cruise and Matt Damon of his generation, fused behind one teen mug to spark new film franchises. Taylor has that potential. He’s an industry all on his own as a teenager.
Anyway, enough waffles and maple syrupy talk of yabba dabba doo actor/ action star comparisons: According to Hollywood Gossip, “The Twilight Saga star has signed on for a big screen adaption of Incarceron. He may even produce the movie version of Catherine Fisher’s novel. The project still has far to go, as a screenplay has not even been penned yet, but Lautner would play Finn, a prisoner trapped inside a futuristic jail.”
Great! Inception, without Chris Nolan‘s tricky play on a timeline, or actors sleeping through most of the film? That could work.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.26.10~
AVATAR’S 3D STAR SAM WORTHINGTON TALKS UP THE SEQUEL
Who did not enjoy Avatar? We learned that anyone whose bomb or trigger happy is antiquated and that virtual Indigenous People all combined into one tribe, painted blue with corn braids and feathers are really all of us who care about saving the planet.
Now Avatar‘s main cast are talking up a sequel. Here’s the main points of what’s been hyped at this early stage:
It’s Out There: “It’s going to be really cool and out there,” Australia’s Sam Worthington tells moviefone.
[Image via Laura Likey]
On James Cameron wanting to be Moses: “He’s still writing what he calls ‘The Bible’ and detailing the world. Once he’s detailed the world — more so than it’s already detailed in his big brain, anyway — then, he said he can write the script, and we can go explore the world. Things like going underwater….going in the floating mountains.”
On the saving the planet theme: “What’s the new dilemma? Is it just humans coming back, or is something even bigger than can threaten them, threaten the world? We can look at our world again, and see that we know we’re hurting the environment, and we know we can do things about it. But what else are we doing that’s wrong…?”
To read more vague thoughts from an actor who has not yet been fed the script that does not yet exist in full, go here to MovieFone. I swear Worthington could be the next Elena Kagan because that interview was pretty impressive at giving away little.
We also have to remember that the novels are meant to be arriving on book shelves before the film (according to James own words) and even before the film script of the sequel is ready. We also have to realize, that James Cameron was last spotted with Andrew Adamson brainstorming the concept of turning Vegas’ acrobats into 3D movie-telling mythological ideas.
James is in no rush to do an Avatar sequel–he’s happy just taking each day as it comes. Smart man.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.19.10~
GLOWING HUMOR – JOHN KEY ON WIKILEAKS LEADERS ‘REVIEWS’ SCANDAL
[Image: Book cover, La llave de la luz (Key of Light) by author Nora Roberts on sale at Target]
Reports the New Zealand Herald: “United States diplomats described Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as “feckless, vain and ineffective” and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il as a “flabby old chap” but New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key is sure their description of him will be “glowing.”
Of course!
[Image: Glowing Key via Quick Step]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.30.10~
TEN AUTHORS WE LOVE ACCORDING TO FORBES WITH A GLANCE BACK AT WILLIAM FAULKNER for TONI MORRISON
Authors write characters we want to, or don’t want to be like –that they set in worlds that are either ordinary or extraordinary. Both work. A hero is only a hero of an author’s tale unless they overcome great odds or equally as great villains in an author’s tale.
According to Forbes latest line up of authors who not only write good narratives but that have good marketing too, here’s the top ten authors and what they’ve raked up in monetarily value and notoriety, in parentheses, that Forbes knows about:
A. James Patterson ($70M)
B. Stephenie Meyer ($40M)
C. Stephen King ($34M)
D. Danielle Steel ($32M)
E. Ken Follett ($20M)
F. Dean Koontz ($18M)
G. Janet Evanovich ($16M)
H. John Grisham ($15M)
I. Nicholas Sparks ($14M)
J. J. K. Rowling ($10M)
What a stellar effort. Meanwhile Oprah‘s book club in non-Forbes news, touts a guide to reading the works of Nobel prize winning, William Faulkner (an American writer who greatly influenced Toni Morrison‘s work, who is Oprah’s favorite author). To read about some of Faulkner’s writing techniques via Oprah’s team, go here.
To read the top ten authors best-selling genres, and secrets of money trail literary success, go here to Forbes.Com to read. Hollywood teaches us in film that genre-fusions become ‘the next best thing.’ So there’s some food for thought for all potential novelists to imagine.
[Above is a timely book for our political times regarding Washington and the Middle East, in this Romeo & Juliet story simply titled Courage to Love, set in Israel and Gaza by Robert Ellis. Clink on book cover to learn more. Images of William Faulkner and vintage Chloe Wofford (Toni Morrison) courtesy of blogs 1 & 2]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California, USA. 8.20.10~
HOLLYWOOD ACTOR CLIFF CURTIS HAS COURAGE TO LOVE, A NOVEL BY ROBERT ELLIS
Hollywood Actor Cliff Curtis has Courage To Love the Middle East
Hollywood actor and film producer, Cliff Curtis holds his early edition copy of Courage To Love, the new Romeo & Juliet novel by author Robert Ellis. The modern story of forbidden love that is set in Israel and the Gaza strip, is getting good early buzz in Hollywood. Curtis describes the book as being “beautiful.”
Of this pivotal novel, Curtis features here in his hand, filmmaker Bill Birrell says: “I have been looking for a human scale story about the Middle East: but one that will both entertain and provoke. In short I believe Courage to Love is it. Not since Elie Wiesel, the Nobel prize-winning writer, has an author distilled these conflicts into such human terms. Put another way, while the story touches on significant issues, it is really a tale of two young people and their struggle to be allowed to love each other.”
Cliff, a newly wed himself, is all about love these days and furthering love’s potential in a world wind epic romance he finds himself caught up in, in his real life. His Hollywood career also has elevation. Curtis currently stars as Firelord Orzai in M. Night Shyamalan‘s 3D film franchise, The Last Airbender and has just signed on to two films starring opposite, Zoe Saldana (of Star Trek and Avatar film franchises fame) where he’s cast as Zoe’s closest family member. Coming up, Curtis will also star with Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis.
RUSSIAN BREAD PASTRY SHOPS, ATHANSOR WINGED BEINGS & MOTORBIKE KIDS – 5 PEOPLE WE’RE READING RIGHT NOW – 10.9.12
Proof that Russians can never get enough butter, or lard, is this photo of Russian pastries in Hollywod. Combined with US Shadez of blonde, it’s what soames pearly whites would chomp for breakfast. Not a hardship!
Anyway, five people we be peeping right now.
1. Liam Stewart
2. Peter Hillary
3. Amatai Pati
4. Dame Whina Cooper, 1975
5. Luke Hemsworth
There was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently and was not deep, and the sky was swept with vibrant stars, except in the east, where dawn was beginning in a light blue flood. The air was motionless, but would soon start to move as the sun came up and winds from Canada came charging down the Hudson…–Mark Helprin.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.9.12~
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