FREEDOM’S BOUNDS – STEVEN BELL-BOOTH’S KEYBOARD SOUNDS OF NEW ZEALAND HAVEN
I was looking for my freedom
when I was out of bounds...
–Steven Bell-Booth lyrics.
... Needing a shelter away from the storm.(more…)
MAORI WRITERS OF ENCOURAGING SPIRIT – PAGES FROM SIR PETER BUCK’S EPIC LIFE’S JOURNALS
Born roughly 135 years ago in 1877, Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck) was a Maori writer. He would spend a life liviing in New Zealand, Hawaii and time spent in New York City too. The remarkable essence of Te Rangi Hiroa was encouragement. His letters to key leaders wrote encouraging words from across the other side of the world. He mentored his peers with his spirit of encouragement.
He also wrote thirty books. Not bad for a Maori-Kiwi lad. It is normal for Maori to be published, excel, to amazing things, to lead in New Zealand and the world. I love his story. A Kiwi icon. He wrestled racist oppression off his people with achievement. He achieved through being a mediator. An incredibly patient man to have had the fortitude and ability to be a bridge. Like I said: he started that role a hundred years or more ago. His legacy did not go away. It didn’t vanish. It’s perhaps a national shame on our own conscience as a peple in New Zealand of own ignorance in not acknowledging a benchmark he set for New Zealand to understand what he gifted us. His legacy is one of seeing Maori more in intelligent ways of equal recognition in leadership. He gave me courage to travel as a New Zealander.
A man far more noble than myself, who is well worthy of being honored and having his legacy recognized again and again and again as an outstanding founding father of both New Zealand and the South Pacific too. (more…)
CRAZY FUNNY TV – SAM WALLACE & FAIR GO LIVE TV
Crazy Funny TV has got to go to: Sam Wallace‘s latest wrestling incarnation. (Scientologists, Serbians & Russia would be so proud).
Also funny was Fair Go with Ali Mau & team. It was so New Zealand: This Is Your Life it deserves a second play, for sure. Silly, fun, good energy. Let’s drop it down and go with: Kids School Ad Awards.
Seriously, Sam should have his own TV Channel or work for a movie studio. Too funny.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.10.12~
MO YAN WINS NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE – THE FIRST CHINESE ARTIST TO DO SO
Mo Yan, became the first Chinese writer to win the literature Nobel. The artist was awarded the Peace Prize while serving a prison sentence for opposing single-party rule. Photo: AP. Reporting Christopher Bodeen, Toronto Star.
Mo Yan’s Bo Xilai poem follows:
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.10.12~
3D CHAORI ACTION MOVIE CINEMA – GETTING A $1 BILLION A YEAR EARNING, MAORI & CHINESE ACTION FUSION INDUSTRY MOVING
He was a Maori Prince, a Viking of The Sun. She, a Chinese Princess from the Ming Dynasty.
In a new horizon, in a mythical land on a new frontier, they were cast in an epic war to fight for their love.What the world needs to see is 3D mythological cinema of this nature in New Zealand.
3D Chaori Cinema (Asian-friendly Maori action movie cinema) is a $1 billion a year generating industry waiting to happen in NZ. In my mind’s eye I see it growing in New Zealand. It supports the already well established 3D cinema of NZ. It just makes movies a lot quicker for the growing Asian movie market of the world.
It needs a development fund to get started. Russell Crowe the first person in the world of Maori descent to win an Oscar and Hollywood’s Lucy Liu are giving a similar concept a go in the film, Man with Iron Fists. We need to move more into 3D with Chaori cinema texts in and from New Zealand. Cliff Curtis, a Maori actor has also been a success starring in Asian nations in an Asian action star mythological film.
We have enough trial models on display in aspects of this genre to really go for it and develop it further. Chaori cinema is another strand of cinema to be developed in New Zealand to sit alongside what Sir Peter Jackson, John Barnett and newcomers like James Cameron have already achieved from New Zealand.
It is a brand new cinema strand though, that can only make the overall package more attractive when perceiving New Zealand as a stand out filmmaking nation location. It makes sense to develop Chaori cinema and Maori cinema that is Asian-markets friendly, more.
It’s an authentic visual expression of New Zealand for the wider world’s markets.
[Photos: Spin Off and Business Insider online].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific 8.10.12~
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…)JUST BREATHE – EVA DE CASTRO ROBINSON
"In the rhythm of the waves, in this liquid drift of light, I am releasing the angel to breathe"
–Eva de Castro Robinson‘s body of orchestral work.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 4.10.12~
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…)
VINTAGE DWAYNE JOHNSON PHOTO & WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
True Kiwi facts, Grey Lyn, Auckland City – New Zealand: Once upon a time a humble Samoan lad was born in Hayward, California. He and his family moved around a lot in his early years. He played football for the University of Miami and wanted to study to be a criminologist. The world called him to wrestle instead.
He followed in his dad’s footsteps. It took a while to get going as an entertainer in his own right, then Hollywood called him to act in movies.
His name is Dwayne Johnson, the rest is history unfolding and can be seen on the silver screen.
[Photo - O.Canada Entertainment, Sports News & News Website]
So, who’s cool and being read right now online?
1. Amy Rhodes
5. Miley Cyrus
Favorite The Rock quotes:
Who in the blue hell are you?
Just bring it!
Finally…The Rock…has come back to [whatever city he's in at the time]
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking!
It doesn’t matter what you think.
You will go one on one with the Great One!
… So silly! :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aoteaoroa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.9.12~
THE VALUE OF SUPER HEROES AS SYMBOLS
Why super heroes are an industry, why they pay off as an investment and how they function as key symbols to peoples psychological make up. Read Disney Marvel Investments Acquistions News
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.9.12~
CHAORI 3D CINEMA – TINI MOLYNEUX’S VISION OF MAORI CINEMA’S EVOLVING INDUSTRY
To grow New Zealand’s filmmaking in groundbreaking news ways: “Ancient Maori legends combined with a big 3D budget vision have the potential to be relevant in the world.”
“Think, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon being a Maori legend told well,” is what Tini Molyneux told me about 12 years ago.” Today, I have to say, all of those years ago, Molyneux’s vision was right.
Food for thought for Iwi, China, Asia-Pacific to mull over concerning cool new films adding to NZ’s already cool movie genre of new films being made and produced.
In the films, I’d probably cast actors who didn’t know how to read or write well, yet their action skills were a forte. They’d shine in these groundbreaking films as whole people earning good incomes. eg: Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars story.
Seeing people who’d struggled with literacy “not intimidated” and acting in movies for tiger markets, with more golf time on their hands outside of their careers to play golf at St Andrews in Scotland in movie down time, would kinda rock too.
Summation: Chaori film production companies are a fantastic idea to grow NZ’s economy. Win-win-win. A billion dollar industry each year, just waiting to be developed in New Zealand. I like the idea as it the idea is about sustainable creation in new industry-building ideas from NZ.
What do you see in your Kiwi dream?
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.9.12~
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~
CONE DEAL DONE – DEED OF SETTLEMENT SIGNED WITH TAMAKI COLLECTIVE
Press Release – Tribal Affairs – The Crown & Ngati Whatua Iwi:
“The Crown today signed a deed to collectively settle the historical claims of iwi and hapū over shared interests in the Auckland area, including maunga (volcanic cones) and motu (islands), Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Christopher Finlayson announced.
The deed was signed at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. In attendance were Mr Finlayson and Māori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples representing the Crown, representatives of the iwi and hapū groups that have been negotiating as the Tāmaki Collective, a number of local Members of Parliament, and also Auckland City Mayor Len Brown.
“Today we have reached a critical step towards settling all historical Treaty grievances in the Auckland region,” Mr Finlayson said. “This deed of settlement resolves some of the most complex overlapping claims and shared interests in the country, and the relationships built here lay the foundations for a better future for iwi and hapū, the Crown, and the city of Auckland.”
The Collective Deed vests the ownership of 14 maunga (volcanic cones) in the Tāmaki Collective. The maunga will be co-governed by a body made up of representatives of Auckland Council, the Tāmaki Collective and a Crown representative.
“For generations the maunga have been intrinsically important to the iwi and hapū of Tāmaki Collective and the people of Auckland,” Mr Finlayson said. “This integrated management approach will bring benefit to everyone and ensure that our iconic symbols will remain long after we have gone.”
Auckland Mayor Len Brown paid tribute to the work of all parties in reaching the settlement. 
GOOD FATS KIWI CUISINE ART: MAKING AVOCADO TASTE LIKE TUNA – HEART HEALTH MANAGEMENT
I ate avocados so much in California with corn chips and the most delicious salsa recipes ever, I swear I was an honorary martian of avoca-enhanced-health at one point.
Avocado’s nutritional benefits are green sunshine in a deep purple shell. Back here in the paradise Isles of New Zealand, Kiwi chefs latest offering is: The Art of Making Avocado Taste Like Tuna.–ScoopIt. Eugene Hamilton of Euro’s latest creationz kinda rock!
WeB4evaCleva!
HealthTip: Apparently, the Guinness Book of World Records states an avocado is the most nutritionally complete fruit in the world. Avocado is all about good fats to help keep the heart healthy. Avocados are chocca with essential vitamins and minerals like iron, folate and vitamin C.
[Images: Vasconia. Finest Kind, Euro Restaurant Auckland City New Zealand, Hopes Grove, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand & Motiti Islands Avocado Orchards,Tauranga - Bay of Plenty Times].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.9.12~
BARACK OBAMA’S DNC SPEECH SEPTEMBER 7th 2012
He surfed the wave of renewed, brills momentum. Barack Obama‘s DNC speech 2012. View it right here.
What he said:
“Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud but don’t get any ideas, you’re still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.
Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for President of the United States.
The first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man; a Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope – not blind optimism or wishful thinking, but hope in the face of difficulty; hope in the face of uncertainty; that dogged faith in the future which has pushed this nation forward, even when the odds are great; even when the road is long.
Eight years later, that hope has been tested – by the cost of war; by one of the worst economic crises in history; and by political gridlock that’s left us wondering whether it’s still possible to tackle the challenges of our time.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
But when all is said and done – when you pick up that ballot to vote – you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education; war and peace – decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and our children’s lives for decades to come. (more…)
STRONG HEARTS – 7 TIPS
Today I was watching Syliva Earle, a gem of an American who resembles Nancy Reagan, speaking Ocean-side with Ngai Tahu’s Mark Solomon in Rarotonga on how, 70% of the world’s oxygen is produced by the Ocean. When Syliva spoke, she breathed life into my heart.
Speaking of hearts, child poverty is at an all time high in Western nations of the world (New Zealand’s included). We’re at risk of losing a conscience, or we are becoming less stout hearted as a people. A greedy disease has set in that needs to be flushed out of our thinking, especially concerning our children. Most at risk are Maori and Pacific Island children citizens of New Zealand. When it comes to sports, they are some of our best athletes, so I wonder what will happen to the sporting mix of NZ’s future if these children are being deliberately starved by politicians acting for racist white greedy people (pretty much). Are their hearts being strengthened enough each day? Body, soul, spirit?
I flick over to sports coaching now, turning to a crazy American fitness kid, in the form of Nicole McClain, (more…)
AMELIA EARHART’S 115th B’DAY – THE LOCKHEED ELECTRA10E STAR WHO PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES BEYOND LIMITS
Reuters notes today: Amelia Earhart who flew in a Lockheed Electra10E broke a lot of boundaries as an artist and aviator.
Today would have been Earhart’s 115th birthday.
CBS News noted: A US group lead a search that Hillary Clinton had previously endorsed to look for the pilot’s remains and Earhart’s plane. The mission was unsuccessful.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean 75 years ago this month, its president had told The Associated Press on Monday.
“This is just sort of the way things are in this world,” TIGHAR president Pat Thrasher said. “It’s not like an Indiana Jones flick where you go through a door and there it is. It’s not like that – it’s never like that.”
The U.S. State Department had encouraged the privately-funded voyage, which launched earlier this month from Honolulu using 30,000 pounds (13,608 kilograms) in specialized equipment and a University of Hawaii ship normally used for ocean research.”
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Earhart inspired on so many levels as a humanitarian artist. She inspired the idea of navigating your own potential, blocking out negativity and being an idea of global change.
She lived life beyond the limits of what society’s architectural design had prescribed in the day. Earhart’s message, she wrote across the skies. Airborne, as a writer of history, her body in momentum’s flight was her visionary pen.
Artists like Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton and any strong star that flies in planes a lot making a humanitarian difference in the world, perhaps now wear Earhart’s mantle. That’s what I reckon anyways.
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WE BRAVE: THE ELEMENTS – FIRST CROSSINGS REALITY TV SHOW CELEBRATES NEW ZEALAND’S FOUNDING FATHER’S ADVENTUROUS TEAMWORK SPIRIT
John Mulgan‘s famous novel, Man Alone gets an update; finding a twin to depict the art of original (Indiana Jones-styled) adventurous Kiwi spirit. A hallmark of Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding fathers. Must watch TV.
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Lately, the morning television production on the Good Morning television show has been so good. It’s relevant cultural television from the heart of New Zealand’s cultural values. Some of it is so deep, I’ve been staying write away from blogging about it. However, Jeanette Thomas is ever a shape-shifting magician as a TV talent, sharing the limelight with cohosts Matai Rangi Smith and Aster and guests. The team have been doing an amazing job at turning on the Arohatia Te Reo: Love the Maori Language theme of the show this week.
One of the upcoming TV shows the team have promo-ed is First Crossings, a show that celebrates the adventurous indomitable spirit of our early Pakeha settlers to New Zealand (eg: Sir Peter Jackson‘s people for example and many Kiwis’ founding fathers, my own too – and Kiwi moms). First Crossings is a reality TV concept, featuring adventurer record holders, Jamie Fitzgerald and Kevin Biggar, that takes audiences across the wilds of New Zealand’s vast whenua, fiordland rivers and diverse landscapes. The show is very Sir Edmund Hillary in spirit.
Already, I can tell it’s my favorite new TV show to hit the air soon, as in New Zealand, what we want is to see ourselves, our people, our stories, our identity onscreen at this time, more than anything else the world can offer us. First Crossing takes us back in time and does that. To be Kiwi cool you have to reinterpret what our icons of culture gave us in the past, switch it up and play it forward in a modern and relevant manner, imbued with new levels of meaning. It’s just what we Kiwis do. Our sense of fun, play, humor being shared.
On that note, we are extremely proud of our Pakeha culture in Aotearoa New Zealand. Most of it anyways.
It’s fact: New Zealand is defined by adventurous people who know how to navigate change. That trait, brought us all on the trail to Aotearoa in different waves and stages. (more…)
WATER @ THE WELL – MAORI, NZ & THE NZX
On the issue of water’s beneficial flows, are Maori cast as:
a) Christ
b) The Woman At The Well
c) Her 5 absent husbands
d) The H2O?
–my NZX leaky watch, Colin McCahon artsy, Iwi-Kiwi water thoughts for the day.
These components on New Zealand’s palate of justice, politicians and judges must paint a picture from, regarding water – with Iwi inclusion. (more…)
DWAYNE JOHNSON IS NAMED FORBES 3RD A-LISTED EARNING ACTOR
Dwayne The Rock Johnson checked in on Forbes Top 100 as the 3rd highest earning actor for the last year. The Rock earned US$34 million for his days on set at the office and touring promoting his films. Not bad at all.
In first place was box-office wrestler, Tom Cruise, with a [declared] earnings of $75 million. In second equal position was Leonardo DiCaprio and Happy Gilmour funnyman Adam Sandler both earning $37 million. Ben Stiller earned $34 million. Sacha Baron Cohen and Johnny Depp, Will Smith took $30 million. Mark Wahlberg earned $27 million.
[Shouldering the pressures of that level of fame, believe it or not, these guys have a tough job. Photo: Dwayne Johnson - Green Nobles].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 7.7.12~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – SIMON DALLOW, MIRIAMA KAMO, HILARY BARRY, MIKE McROBERTS, JIM HICKEY – NZ NEWS 6.7.12
By request: The Horiwood Top Ten:
Today we’re reading from: United States, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Spain, India, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Philippines and Singapore.
On a rather hectic news week, it was time to bring out four of the top guns to deliver New Zealand’s news this friday, with our no.1 weather broadcaster thrown in for good measure (watch out for the Alpacas!). High drama news with Christchurch city being likened by an Australian website as being like Tehran and East Timor in war zone conflict times. Ouch!
TVOne News: Simon Dallow & Miriama Kamo on air.
I should do a top 50 list today as all of the blog post selections are so diverse, smart, political, relevant, onto-it, productive, thoughtful. Anway:
The Horiwood Top Ten today are:
1. Horiwood Front Page: Monte Barrett sees stars in New Zealand - boxing news.
2. The Shard – Building architecture, London.
3. Serena Williams
4. Jaime Ridge & Rosie Arkle: Boxing Babes
5. Ewan MacDonald
6. Melissa Etheridge performs in New Zealand: Water & Sowing & Reaping
7. Anna MacDonald
8. Rikirangi Gauge: Kaitiaki o Te Moana
9. What “China” wants: oil, coal, gas, gold, silver, high protein foods, land, citzenship
10. Deepwater Horizon’s $7.8 billion gulf settlement news.
News clip choice (to be a sport….) TV3 News Reel too:
Extra Posts (Politics to one side):
No. 26: The Higgs Bosson science scrap
No. 29: Cooper Cronk: State of Origin rugby league football.
No. 35: V8 Supercars racing – green lit Auckland City.
No. 39: Gianluigi Buffon
No. 43: Hemi Rolleston Maori-China exports, Shane Cameron & Maori youth news 4th NZJuly 2012.
No. 50: Horiwood’s audience by country and global region 2011 totals.
No. 51. Whatumoana Paki: The Maori King’s dad.
Around The World: coming up…
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.7.12~
HOW KIRK DOUGLAS HELPED TO BREAK BLACKLIST
ABC’S David Muir zooms viewers in to celebrate the life of Kirk Douglas, as a Hollywood light who stood against censorship in a culture where politics was too heavy-handed and blacklist occurred from government. A friend and mentor named Robert, who is 91 and lives in Beverly Hills, once got black-listed because he worked as a journalist who would socialize with black people in Los Angeles when reporting.
He was Jewish, yet he could pass for Parsee. Robert was associated to Lena Horne‘s circle of friends, when Lena was black-listed as a communist. He was blacklisted too. They were crazy times. Robert is still a registered member of Pen America to this day, an organisation that is a global literary community dedicated to protecting free expression and celebrating literature in humane ways.
David Muir’s story goes: “In the 1950s Hollywood was consumed by the blacklist. Writers, producers and actors were called before Congress amid fear they might be Communists. The mere mention of a name was enough to end a career.
“It was the worst time in Hollywood,” Hollywood veteran Kirk Douglas told ABC News. “Everybody told me I was crazy.”
Crazy because as a producer of Spartacus Douglas put his own career on the line, his own fortune, to hire Dalton Trumbo, one of those writers on the blacklist.
“If you do it … you’ll never work in this town again. You will be declared a Communist,” Cleo Trumbo, Dalton’s wife said people told Douglas.
But Douglas, hired Dalton Trumbo anyway, and Spartacus became the top movie of the USA that year. The movie wasn’t only a box-office winner, it was also instrumental in breaking the blacklist.”
Douglas realized that within the face of Dalton Trumbo’s faceless story was his own story, that “there by the grace of God, go I.” He acted on that basis with integrity in liberty, in one pivotal action of inclusion that went beyond surface appearances of the milieu-of-the-day, thus changing history. With confidence in peace Douglas disciplined a system that had become drunk on power, elitist exclusion for personal gain and was blind to the image of itself, while being clearly unjust towards humanity. Kirk Douglas hacked the system of inequality and greed backed unjustly by a state system’s might.
The tyranny of the blacklist was broken. He was an agent of redemption, the only true firm foundation of real grace. Freedom returned, the marginalized advanced and Kirk Douglas included others more honestly with his spirit of wise compassion and fearless courage to love others as he wanted to be treated himself. He demonstrated: “there by the Grace of God, go us.”
[Photo caption: Source: Wikipedia, courtesy of Mesa County Libraries. Spartacus movie still ATTV].
[Photo selection: Author's own & Graden Carter for Vanity Fair]
To the grey-set, wise Jewish doms of Beverly Hills, California… for their humanitarian philosophical thoughtfulness… their sense of humor in displaying a wider humanitarian cause through the oft shallow glitz of show biz’s circus… we say “thank you.”
News selection: as broadcasted on air in New Zealand by Mr. Peter Williams, TVNZ.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.6.12~
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…)
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