Patrick Swayze was a great inspirer of love, dance and great surf that we are mourning in Hollywood with his passing to pancreatic cancer. His fans in New Zealand and Australia were just as inspired by his dance of life that uplifted the underdog– as was his native America and other nations too. Montana born actressMichelle Williams life of triumph after tragedy with Heath Ledger also inspires us on the cover of Vogue. Out of grief can come hope and love again. Here’s how you voted in your top celebrity news and entertainment coverage on Horiwood.Com here in LA today. Enjoy!
1. JENNIFER GREY upliftsPATRICK SWAYZE‘s legacy in the dance of life.
2. KANYE WEST DOUCHE POSTER: for obvious PR reasons. PINK‘s response.
Everything brings about its own opposite– words via Ananias, art: Gisele
Here’s the top ranking celebrity news and entertainment posts on Horiwood.Com tonight. Hollywood is in a festive summer’s mood today on 9.9.9! Historic symmetry.
1. Nancy Pelosi has got political teeth. Good to see Pelosi rating today strongly in Washington DC from The City of Angels. She’s got star power in DC.
2. Lady Gaga takes a dig at Madonna wearing this fashion ensemble. Meow!
3. Johnny Markoudarkis has heat in Young Hollywood. Casting agents take note. Likewise with Philipp Karner.who is an Extra TV America’s Most Eligible Bachelor Awardee. These lads are both up and coming young actors to watch out for.
4. Robert Pattinson takes the plunge for Twilight’s Queen, costar Kristen Stewart.
5. 10 Twilight Saga Tweets: Romeo & Juliet lives on in Forks and on twitter.
6. Kevin and Jodi Kreiger say stop watching Jon & Kate Gosselin
7. Nayleigh Kelly joins Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelly in Hollywood from Korea. Cute! Adoption is a beautiful thing.
8. Miley Cyrus‘ rap remix is smokin. It’s a party in the USA. Beyonce and Rihanna must be fuming that Miley created a way to get a piece of their man Jay-Z. A cute tribute from MC.
9. Khloe & Kourtney Kardashian can’t just go on a diet and shut up about it.
Always smile. Horiwood’s latest tweet on twitter is: “Horiwood Bites: THE JACKSON SMILE: … always uplifts and gives hope. A smile is a gift you give away … http://bit.ly/Cu9MWabout 4 hours agofrom twitterfeed
Courage To Love by Californian author Robert Ellis is created and written in the spirit needed in American schools today. In a Shakespearean love story set in the Middle East two young people from opposite worlds, find love from a sense of honesty only found in accepting each others difference. So romantic. Read it. It’s a great book for all American school children … and kidults too. Cover artwork is by the legendary surrealist artist, Salvador Dali.
Set in Anne’s urban inner city Auckland home and her coastal wharemoana resort of Pakiri Beach, Kai Ora shows the health benefits of eating and living well from a Tikanga Maori view point.
Literally, Kai Ora means the food of life and in each episode through her food, Anne shows the best of healthy Maori living today across the Kai Ora series. As korero is also the food of chiefs, Kai Ora depicts many of Maoridom’s leaders sitting at Anne’s dining table savoring her food. They offer back their korero through shared stories and also waiata that they sing and perform in the show.
Whether she be gathering her kai and cooking it, or being a hostess manaaki extraordinaire, Anne Thorp Is New Zealand’s leading Mana Wahine of Maori cuisine; a tohunga of manaakitanga through healthy food. Anne has no like, equal or parallel. When it comes to food and Maori cooking expertise, she is unique. Kai Ora is where an astute audience can learn the invaluable knowledge that she shares.
Each episode, the Kai Ora TV series captures Anne’s tikanga based philosphy of food and lifestyle, which rests on the simple and yet profound premise of “fresh food made with Aroha.”
Kai Ora series 4 is rich in Te Reo Rangatira, Tikanga Maori, Korero Maori, Mana Tangata, Manawhenua, Mana Atua, Manamoana, Maori humour and Manaakitanga. All of these elements combine around Anne’s food making Kai Ora series 4 a Maori lifestyle program reflecting the power of tino rangatiratanga in full effect today.
Kai Ora is the TV series that brings all of these elements together in a visually beautiful masterpiece that shows the finest calibre of Maori kai and living with a healthy diet focus. Quality vs quantity. This is a TV series that could easily be positioned in America’s Food Network channel line up of TV programming from the beautiful land where the author of the Whale Rider and Maori Land Court Judges appear in this fun filled show.
Difference is always a beautiful thing. It makes the world an interesting place to live in. Here’s part 1 of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. The exciting thing about democracy on the internet, is that Bollywood entertainment rates big. Internet search engines don’t discriminate against difference. They just rank what’s popular. Democracy is alive and well. Enjoy!
Little Shiloh-Jolie Pitt blows John Edwards headlining story, out of the water on the National Enquirer. Should a child even be on a cover of a magazine, without their parents consent?
Oh well, nonetheless, one must never underestimate kids. They are the future. If Shiloh enters show biz as she gets older, she will be a third generation Hollywood actor. There’s not many kids around who have that lineage in Hollywood.
Sergei Eisenstein was one of the greatest film editors, auteurs and director/ producers known to the art and science of film editing. Eisenstein could do it all.
At The University of Auckland, New Zealand where I went to film school, we all studied this man’s brain and way of thinking. Although his films were shot and edited in black and white, Hollywood’s film & TV editing owes much to Eisenstein’s clever innovation in editing the visual language of the moving image. In particular, the blockbuster action, big budget film owes its action sequence editing techniques to Sergei. The city of LA is built on other nations’ brilliance. It’s our history here.
Eisenstein’s ability under heavy censorship, made him a revolutionary of the people. He worked out a way to juxtapose images of military force of might by State that were contrasted against the softer face of human life.
Always, what was more important was the people, the masses, the majority and a sense of fairness that mediated between greed of politicians and the bourgeoise and the people who needed to be fed. I love the filmmaking aesthetic of this man as a film editor of revolutionary social and political change.
Above is Eisentein’s Que Viva Mexico documentary, 1932. With his spirit and life’s work contained on celluloid, he is still da man today! Viva forever.
“Say hello to the girl that I am. You’re gonna have to see through my perspective. I need to make mistakes just to know who I am.” – Britneyabout 1 hour agofrom web
“Hollywood sucks you in but it won’t spit me out.”about 1 hour agofrom web
Kristen Stewart and Q’orianker Kilcher have Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Eclipse casting in common. Kristen’s casting as Bella Swan for the third film of Stephenie Meyers novels, proves Kristen Stewart is hot enough to make both Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen and Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black both have chemistry, both onscreen and also in real life, with a cinematic association to the LA actress.
However, when put to public vote, it is Q’orianker Kilcher who is rating today at #1, on the issue of the Twilight Saga’s casting choices. Kilcher, the actress who starred at 14 years of age as Pocahontas in The New World, is the rising star of Horiwood.Com the past two month. She’s got blog heat and an exciting future in film ahead of her. Q’orianker is 19 years old and has a bright future in mainstream movies.
Horiwood also congratulates Julia Jones III, 30, for landing the role of Leah Clearwater, 19, for Twilight Saga Eclipse. Beating out beautiful, highly accomplished, younger and even more intelligent actresses, is no easy feat. Congratulations too Ms Jones. Perhaps Julia Jones could be a Meryl Streep kind of actress. Meryl is still going strong in her 60s. That could be Julia Jones’ story too if she has staying power in Hollywood.
Here’s how you rated, ranked and voted your news item choices this week here on Horiwood.Com. Enjoy!
In other LA news: Blondie K (Kim Kardashian) and her future niece/nephew’s father, Scott Disick were chilling. Scott and Kim’s sister Kourtney Kardashian are expecting their first child together. Already Kim looks like a great Aunt.
horiwoodunderstanding that family will always be more important than fame, money, wealth, the allusion of riches always keeps it real. family first.less than 5 seconds agofrom web
The Whale Rider is a book and a film, that moved audiences worldwide as a thirteen year old girl Pai, fights against traditional gender restraints to be the leader that she was destined to be. The role garnered, first time actress, Keisha Castle-Hughes, then 13, her first Oscar nomination here in Hollywood.
I learnt, Saturday, that the author of The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera, recently turned down a Knighthood and the opportunity to become Sir Witi Ihimaera, on the grounds that he did not want to diminish the effect of “Colonial oppression” on his indigenous Maori People of New Zealand by accepting the Knighthood. This was his personal choice.
I was trained by Witi Ihimaera at Auckland University. He writes stories that move oppressed people, regardless of race, age, gender or sexuality into a better place. He is the feel good writer to read when you want to: cry one chapter and laugh the next. The Whale Rider being proof of that. Not many authors can move you to laughter and tears throughout a book like Mr Ihimaera can. So I take my Hollywood cap off to him today, for his great storytelling ability in literature and film.
Hollywood needs more stories of the calibre of Ta Witi Ihimaera.
Another book of Witi Ihimaera’s that is a brilliant read is: “The Uncle’s Story.” It goes a little like this: “Armed with his uncle’s diary, Michael Mahana goes searching for the truth, about the secret the Mahana family has kept hidden for over thirty years, and what happened to uncle Sam.
Set in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam and in present day New Zealand and North America, Witi Ihimaera’s dramatic novel combines the superb story telling for which he is so renowned with the unflinching realism that made ‘The Whale Rider’ a literary and cinematic success. A powerful love story bravely told, it courageously confronts Maori attitudes to sexuality and masculinity and contains some of Ihimaera’s most passionate writing to date.”
Having been in Mr Ihimaera’s creative writing class in The English Department studying New Zealand Literature at The University of Auckland, the year Ihimaera was writing the Uncle’s Story, I know that the Sam in this novel, was unexpectedly named after me.
The Cliff in the novel, was named after Maori Hollywood actor, Cliff Curtis (pictured above). It’s weird that I now live in Hollywood. So…..
Thanks Sir!
And, to everyone who wants a good read, you won’t want to miss reading this book. Go here to order it on Amazon. You will both laugh and have your heart torn out at the end. How Twilight Saga-ish in that Whale Rider kind of way!
With any luck, you can also read it on a kindle. But this comes with a Kindle Warning: You’ll need tissues to wipe your tears of laughter off the screen though.
Cricket is the biggest summer sport in Australia. So much so, that GQ Australia, the men’s fashion +top gadgets magazine is featuring Aussie cricket captain, Michael Clarke on its cover.
Like any true blue Aussie lad, Michael Clarke’s interview doesn’t disappoint. He says: “It’s all about scoring runs.”
Gosh this top sportsman has got Hollywood bowled over already! Love it! Action movies next, Michael Clarke?!
Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston share an uncanny similarity in the same taste in…. leather dresses. Funny that. Here’s the top 10 posts on Horiwood.Com today here in Hollywood, LA, California.
horiwood’slatest tweet on twitter is: “dale k has become a redhead in wellington, new zealand. woah! somebody’s gotta bottle that degree of hotness asap. :)less than 5 seconds agofrom web
Dance. Dance. Dance is her secret. Since Britney Spears has been touring, she’s dropped all of the pounds. Tres impressive. Here’s the horiwood top 10 most voted celebrity posts tonight. Let’s stay healthy, active and always having fun. Peace ya’ll:
Hollywood is so surreal. You don’t have enough gas in your tank to get home from your 100% commission job in a recession after putting in an 8 hour day and 40 hours for the week. You’re in shock as your eftpost card declines at the gas pump. Every single AP loaded to your bank account must have gone out. But at least you have cable, that American staple of entertainment, at home. You just don’t know how you’re going to get home to watch any of it, unless you push your car along Hollywood Blvd.
Then you go inside to the cashier and your old lottery ticket at the bottom of your wallet, you fish out. It’s crumpled but you straighten it out and hand it over to the Pakistani cashier with fingers crossed and eyes closed. The sound the cashier’s til makes as it opens let’s you know that it is a minor winner at the gas station in that moment. Believe it or not, this is how many young people in Hollywood are living each day, right now. Oh, and people in their 50s and 60s too. George Bush’s governance and Dick Chaney’s ill advice, has totally cost these people their American dream.
Not to worry! Such is the story of Hollywood. But like the lottery ticket today, the city always holds luck, even when you least expect it. You just need to believe that things will be okay, and they do get better. But what a surreal experience!
horiwood’slatest tweet on twitter is: “the dictionary definition of sur·re·al is: “marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream; also : unbelievable, fantastic…” Wow!less than 5 seconds agofrom web
Horiwood has a global audience of 730,000 people as at August 14th, 2009. Based in Hollywood, Horiwood is from New Zealand, total population 4.5 million people.
To travel to the surreal natural beauty of New Zealand on your next vacation, click this airline, and get there to experience paradise. It’s the most prettiest country in the world. Mt Taranaki in winter, is pictured above.
[Horiwood is a Maori New Zealander living in Hollywood. We call Maoris horis back in New Zealand. To travel to New Zealand, one of the prettiest adventure tourism destinations on the planet on your next vacation, go here.]
I love me some Hinewehi Mohi. She brings the ethereal vocals of a Maori princess to the techno electro beats of an Underground UK night club world.
When this song is on full blast in Hollywood, the Latino’s all turn around and stare. You just know that Shakira would just totally pop her hips to Hinewehi’s unique sound and beautiful music.
Hinewehi Mohi of the group Oceania is just so stunning in every way. She’s like a walking aria whose heart is warmer and brighter than her amazing vocal talent.
I love wahine (Maori women) who can sing. They are the 8th wonder of the world. They are found richly in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Robert Pattinson and Megan Fox may be the pick for hottest actor and actress by American teens at The Teen Choice Awards, this week, but it’s your own choices on Horiwood.Com tonight that show your eclectic tastes in entertainment and celebrity news. Love it!
These results, perhaps shows we have a very diverse global audience going on in Hollywood on this website tonight. Namste India! Welcome.
horiwoodlatest tweet is: “Was in the valley today. Woah! Heat. Couldn’t wait to get to the top of Mulholland and feel the breeze of Hollywood cooling my hori head!less than 5 seconds agofrom web
Angelina Jolie is a fine example of why media who are not based in Hollywood should not pretend to do bold Hollywood scandal headlining cover stories that aren’t even true.
Angelina Jolie is not mad at Brad Pitt because he has a beer or ten. Grazia Magazine should know better, running with this bogus cover this week.
They get the media paddle award from horiwood.com today for false reporting.
Bollywood came to Hollywood last night, when Mallika Sherawat guest appeared at Brad Pitt’s Inglorious Basterds premiere. What a dress! She’s a reminder to LA that Bollywood makes more films than Hollywood does each year.
Only Steven Spielberg gets that, who is now Indian billionaire funded these days here in Hollywood. India + America + China = the future of entertainment in the world.
Angelina Jolie stepped out last night in her hometown of LA. The actress accompanied her beau, Brad Pitt on the red carpet in support for the premiere of Brad’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ film.
The premiere was held at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, where my friends from New Zealand: Dale, Darren and Kobey all were too the last two weeks.
Vanessa Hudgens is the sweetest naughty girl in Hollywood but it is India’s Top Bollywood Stars who were voted by the worldwide audience as being the hot topic on Sunday on Horiwood.Com. Indian dance numbers rule!