RIHANNA IS DOING PURE, LAS VEGAS FOR NEW YEARS EVE THIS YEAR
Who: Rihanna of The Bahamas, Commonwealth & The Hollywood Hills, California.
What: New Year’s Eve, Friday 31st 2010.
Where: Pure, Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas.
Who might be going? Some of these good fun folks in “Young Hollywood” California.
Promotion for: Herman Town Events
Let’s see what New York, Miami come up with for New Years. This hotly contested American NYE night, Vegas has got Hollywood’s vote to date. Last year Gaga took out the spot of hottest NYE in Miami, Florida. Can Rihanna hold the spot in Nevada this year? Yep, I reckon she can.
BTW: As good citizens of Hollywood – here’s a bit of PURE HOMEWORK for us all to get our groove on to. Thanks fun guys and girls. You make California so sexy, entertaining and lite-hearted crazy fun. Okay, a little bit attractively wilde too.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.25.10~
THE KATY PERRY AD IS NOW ASSOCIATED TO HORIWOOD.COM VIA GOOGLE – WOOT!
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~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
MILEY CYRUS CAN WHIP IT
This year and next Miley Cyrus is doing 2nd generation Hollywood or show biz families as her celebrity theme and contribution to the fame game.
When she’s not on set eating cupcakes with Kelly Osbourne, Smilers latest time passing activity, is to create her own fun. She turns to The Smith family of Bel Air for kicks. In particular: “sources on set of her film So Undercover … say Miley has been passing the time between takes constantly singing Whip My Hair by young Willow Smith. Smilers is even busting out the dance moves that go with the song too.
All this while her folks are going through a painful divorce and Smilers works right up until Christmas. What a Hollywood trooper in New Orleans!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
LEIGHTON MEESTER – COUNTRY STRONG
Leighton Meester hits movie theaters in Country Strong January 7th. Here’s a snippet of her singing.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
BUDDY GREENE ON HARMONICA IS A TOTAL DUDE
via Absolutely True.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
OZZY OSBOURNE PRESS – TEN SOCIAL MEDIA FAVORITES – 12.22.10
Ozzy Osbourne brings a smile when talking about Lady Gaga‘s latest lamp shade discovery hyped as a millinery ‘masterpiece.’ Read what Ozzy said to US weekly below. I must admit that I do get sick of Gaga too at times. Now that she’s made her first $67 million, my love for her as ‘a struggling artist fighting for authenticity and trying to be heard’ went out the window by 80% as there are new stars to develop now as Stefani Germanotta has already passed through fames fiery hoops.
Perhaps this is what Ozzy means? To give other artists a chance now perhaps to be seen, heard, find their audience and make bank too.
The fact remains though, 25% of Horiwood.Com’s daily total audience are Gaga fans and always have been solidly for a year now. She was the big blog booster of 2009-2010. Any blogger who covered this girl, owes her a debt of thanks in a way. Me included. Her antics grew bloggers significantly. There’s no denying Gaga is a phenomenal force of pop culture to be reckoned with. She’s one talented little girl. I chose to take a break from her for a while. I wanted Horiwood.Com audiences to be more varied than Gaga fans alone. I like some of her music. Her ballads would be some favorites.
Ten posts being shared via Social Media from Horiwood.Com right now here in Hollywood are:
1. Horiwood’s Nicole Kidman news as shared via Huffington Post
2. A Helensville rugby umbrella
3. Folk girls duo, Gaia harmonies should be heard performed live
4. Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie filmmaking together
5. Vintage Hollywood: Joan Fontaine & Olivia D
7. Bloomberg’s NZ economic news forecast 2011
8. Shooting Star – Levi Johnston – 1 year ago this week
9. A cappella – Duwende & Rock with You
10. Action by Alex Meraz
Ozzy Osbourne on Lady Gaga: “I do think Lady Gaga should take a break for a little while. She’s getting to be too much, and she doesn’t watch the exposure of her clothes. She’s just too overexposed. She could be the next Madonna if she played her cards right. I like her, but I’m getting a bit sick of her. When I turn on the TV, I see her wearing another lamp shade or whatever. She needs to take a break, I think, for an hour or so. I love her, I think she’s really, really entertaining, but she’s doing a bit too much. Every day it is something else. The specialness of her is gonna get killed if she doesn’t calm it down. Who manages her? Someone should whisper in her ear and say back off for a couple of months — let people gain interest back. Let people want you, you know?”
What a hoot.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL CONDUCTS THE BOSTON POPS
Festive fun with Shaquille O’Neil & The Boston Pops. This is so cool. Enjoy.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
REFORMED HEROIN ADDICT HELEN BAYLOR, SINGS ALL OF ME, FOR CHRISTMAS 2010
“Mould me in your hands, into a vessel you can use”–song lyrics, the incomparable Helen Baylor
At this minute in Hollywood, a certain malpracticing ‘doctor’ has been accusing a certain A-Listed actress of being a non-reformed and current heroin addict, for his own try hard publicity. This woman has children. And he’s doing this at Christmas time. What a raping grinch!
This is what a real reformed heroin addict does look like. Drug addiction is a disease like any other that is nothing to be proud of or ashamed of either. It’s just something that some good people are or have been afflicted by. Many people in Hollywood, New York and Australia are afflicted by heroine addiction.
This real reformed heroine addict (above) is so beautiful on the inside. Her name is Helen Baylor and for our West Hollywood Christmas Special, Helen sings All of Me live, because in her life, she credits overcoming heroin dependancy on her faith in God. In this song she offers up her life as a broken gift, full of the good, the bad and the plain ugly facts of her life. So powerful! Ms. Baylor makes me bawl my face off when she sings. If you hear her life story, you’ll bawl your face off too. Yet Helen ‘aint ever graced a cover of a tabloid or a visible-to-all magazine. Why is that I wonder? She’s a total winner.
I love her. Stars don’t get more real than Helen Baylor this Christmas. Her story belongs in a future Hollywood film. Helen Baylor’s life is the freaking Christmas story. No one can deny Helen her Christmas story. If you tried, she’d sing you out of the ball park. Go lady! Sing the Christmas blues. Merry Christmas people, especially ya’ll in West Hollywood. This year we are celebrating grinch-freeness in our lives at Christmas.
We are celebrating living lives beyond lies and falsity too. 2011′s hot American goal. It’s actually a miracle many of us are even having a Christmas this year and that we are choosing to. Truly, it is. We overcame a lot this year in two years of the most hideous economy ever, where we still watched the greedy get greedier and act like spoiled children, more uglier to me than heroine addicts are, wanting more so blatantly. That stuff was sick! Average people perhaps like ourselves all got a bit thinner and came out on top this year, still smiling. Wow! How cool are all you people? You’re the best! Let’s keep at it then. Grinch-kicking has become my new sport. Join me in it, in making the world a sweeter place in 2011. Meanness, stingyness (the flipside of greed), let’s kick it to the curb when we see it, to win. Up!
Click on Helen’s picture above to see a winner shine drug free. Her gratitude is medicine. Can’t get enough of her spirit to celebrate living life to the fullest with healthy respect for the gift of life. Wow!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
IAN SOMERHALDERS MUSIC PLAYLIST
Taylor Blue of Canada alerted me to the fact that Ian Somerhalder has compiled a top music playlist for Blackbook. As we are all proudly a little black on this Hollywood blog, I thought I’d run the whole article as guest commentary today. Thanks Taylor.
Guest Commentary (in the mode of what Ariana Huffington does on her blog all the time, cut and paste other peoples words. That’s all she does. Lol!): “There’s no way, dude. I don’t even have time to breathe with my current schedule. How am I supposed to make up a fucking story about a Deerhunter song that I’ve listened to 10 times since it came out 30 days ago?” That’s Ian Somerhalder, the 32-year-old star of the CW’s hit soap, The Vampire Diaries, which he insists he “eats, works, breathes, sleeps, and shits.” Still, Somerhalder found time to jot down a list of eight songs, which he created to help Damon, the character he plays, seduce—from flirtation to climax—his eternal-but-unrequited love, Katherine (Nina Dobrev). “If I were taming that lioness, then this is exactly what each song would be.” Below, Somerhalder breaks down his choices in the frenzied manner of someone who is about to be called back to set—which he was. (more…)
A SHANIA TWAIN FESTIVE GREETING SPEAKS OF LOVE
Shania Twain who is an occasional resident of Queenstown, New Zealand (pictured below) and who has may-jah fans in Australia writes an email that’s uploaded to her blog for fans.
Seasons greetings to all!
I’ve spent much time over the course of this past year, learning about others who have suffered loss in their lives and taken inspiration from how they’ve managed to overcome it. I’m learning that grief and the suffering of loss, challenges me to be more sensitive and understanding of other’s and also more accepting of my own struggles. Challenge reminds me how important it is to let those who love me, care for me when I need it. The support of others has helped me to move forward less fearful of change, allowing me to embrace the beauty of life today and remain more open to whatever it brings tomorrow.
The people who make my life the most joyful are the ones I am able to lean on because of my own humanness. (more…)
AND WHY EXACTLY IS THAT HAND THERE?
Born on the 4th July/ Lady Gaga News:
Stars go through moments of enduring ‘people with no space-zone’ boundary guides. This picture of Lady Gaga with a well meaning fan putting a gloved hand on her boob, says it all. Okay, it was quality brown leather, but even still! Step away from the junk. It’s like Heather Mills has leapt on her. Parlaying from this pic, via The Superficial to current Gaga news then, here’s what Stefani Germanotta has to say when blowing her own trumpet about her own amazingness on her upcoming album, Fried this way? Says Gaga:
“A marriage of electronic music with major, epic, dare I even say, metal or rock ‘n’ roll, pop, anthemic style melodies with really sledge-hammering dance beats. It’s finished and all, it’s just fine-tuning everything. I think that lyrically this album is more poetic. It’s really written by the fans, they really wrote it for me because every night they’re funnelling so much into me.”
It’s nice to hear how Funneled This Way is coming along. It does seem like this girl has been harping on about this album for a while now. Seriously though, the prolific and productive Manhattan raised Gaga–really should tell fans to get their hands off her junk, because this photo is insane.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.21.10~
A BEN LUMMIS CHRISTMAS – THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY – HOLLYWOOD 2010
Christmas is about possessing a spirit of compassion–to give away richly. Got spirit?
It’s Christmas time in the City of Angels, California USA. I’m so excited I’m here for that. It’s a Christmas miracle that I am (long story!).
The moment I most associate with a Christmas feeling in the Entertainment Capitol of the World this year is perhaps Ben Lummis singing They Can’t Take That Away live in 2006. Lummis has vocal quality few American male stars that have been manufactured in the last five years show. He’s the real deal singing star. He’s more like Usher in terms of true vocal quality as a live performer than someone like T-Pain for example.
Ben’s winning performance of when he got discovered is a Hollywood-worthy moment to me as it reflects how trends created in California can and do cross cultures, effortlessly across the world too, (more…)
MUSIC AS SANCTUARY – SUSAN BOYLE OF SCOTLAND SPEAKS
“The studio is my sanctuary. To return to it, well it feels like home away from home. The studio is like being inside a bubble and a place I can step away from the worry of life. As soon as I put the cans (headphones) on I know that I am safe.
“For me, it’s not about album sales or chart positions. It is that the people buying my music are enjoying it. They are the ones who will hopefully keep me in this business for years to come. I don’t want it to end and I want them to keep enjoying my music.”–Susan Boyle describes her music, her art, her passion (via Digital Spy & Music Fi).
Boyle was America’s fastest falling celebrity name this year. Who cares, she’s alright by me. SuBo has sold 12 million albums worldwide and is reportedly worth $11 million. Perhaps indicating that Simon Cowell is taking a little too much of a cut as her manager? It’s not like Susan Boyle is spending all of her dosh on plastic surgery for example–so clearly Boyle hasn’t received enough of her own earnings to date.
In any event, Go SuBo!
[Image of Susan Boyle and Oprah via Gale Chester Whittington Blog]
EMINEM AND LIL’ WAYNE’S SNL PERFORMANCE
These bros just tore it up. Watch.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
TAYLOR BLUE OF CANADA LISTS HER TOP TEN SONGS FOR 2010
Canadians can have whacky tastes at times when it comes to music. I mean, their range goes from Drake to Celine Dion (both strong artists in their genres of music). Sometimes Canadians’ music choices I’ve observed all hinges on what music is good to drink to in cold weather–just kidding. Not everyone’s like the Winter Olympics girls hockey team after the winning match. Lol!
I do like Taylor Blue‘s Canouk tastes though. I’ve been following her for a year now. She’s not bad at all. She blogs her heart out night and day and tweets a lot too on twitter.
Here’s her top ten music list of her favorite songs this year:
1. Love The Way You Lie -Eminem ft. Rihanna:
2. Hot Mess-Cobra Starship
3. Like A G6-Far East Movement
4. Teenage Dream-Katy Perry
5. The Wave-Dion Roy
6.Airplanes-B.o.B. ft Hayley Williams
7.Maybe-Sick Puppies
8.Congratulations-MGMT
9. Your Love Is My Drug=Ke$ha
10.Your Man-Down With Webster
What do you think of Taylor Blue’s list. And if you’re from Canada feel free to comment with your top ten songs too, on this post if you’d like to share. Thanks Maple Staples and thanks Taylor Blue for being a groovy blogger, enjoyed in Hollywood too.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
GRENADE – BRUNO MARS SONG GETS COVERED BY JAKE COCO
“I’d catch a grenade for ya”–Bruno Mars, songwriter.
Heard Grenade yet, the song by Bruno Mars. It’s not bad. Have a listen to a dude named Jake Coco doing an okay cover of it.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
HOT 97 HUMOR – LIL KIM IMITATES NICKI MINAJ ON THE RADIO
Nicki Minaj started a fun feud with Lil Kim as she wants Kim’s spot in American peoples hearts. Lil Kim has been very cool about the feud. She appears to enjoy it–as she realizes that people need to get started at some place. It just happened to be on her name, when it came to Nicki wanting a piece of her audience share and market.
Here’s Lil Kim being a sport on the radio imitating Nicki. Hip hop music’s most famous widow shows she’s well humored. Cute.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.18.10~
KATY PERRY IS ON TOP OF THE US SINGLES CHARTS TWO WEEKS RUNNING
“Come on, let your colors burn. Even brighter than the moon”–Katy Perry, songwriter.
There is no stopping Katy Perry-Brand. First up she had the whole wedding in a Tiger sanctuary in Rajastan, India to Brit comedic lad Russell, after the two had met backstage at an entertainment awards show.
Perry went on to become Google’s (worldwide) in the Western World (according to Bill Gates company) most searched for woman in the entire world, this year. Wow! That’s quite some celebrity heat for this California Gurl.
This week Katy is on top for the second week in a row leading the US singles charts. Reuters (not E! Entertainment, or, People Magazine, or UK Daily Telegraph but REUTERS worldwide!!!) is reporting: “NEW YORK (Billboard) – The spinning wheel atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart came to a halt for the first time in almost two months on Thursday, as Katy Perry’s Firework logged a second consecutive week at No. 1.”
Rihanna is not too far behind her main buddy in pop music. “What’s My Name? by Rihanna featuring Drake, was also angling for a second shot at glory by rising one place to No. 2 on the heels of strong radio airplay. The R&B starlet held at No. 6 with Only Girl (In the World).
These two girls have the golden touch when it comes to no.1 hits on the US charts. Congrats. What they both have in common is that they choose to live in California when not on tour; they both have strong links to the U.K and Commonwealth nations and they LOVE AMERICA. A winning mix, combined with beauty, talent and ambassadorialship traits like few others. Hot!
[Pics via Pop Suga]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.18.10~
JUSTIN BIEBER AND SELENA GOMEZ ARE FRIENDS
Two of the world’s most popular teens this year Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were snapped sharing a laugh in Miami. Along with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Lautner these teens ranked in Google’s top ten names in the world of people most searched for on a search engine in 2010. Bieber and Gomez in the top three.
Both Gomez and Cyrus were spun into stars from Disney perhaps indicating the strength of the Mouse House to generate global stars. Singing teens is a key of the world’s brightest stars today.
[Pic via Splash]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.18.10~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – WED 12.15.10
Caribbean pop princess Rihanna‘s racy performance on X-Factor U.K got 2000 complaints for her Pebbles bikini beach attire. Shocking! She asks “What’s my name?” As if everyone’s forgotten. And can you handle it Downtown? For Riri, downtown is a testing ground of hip and cool Cosmopolitan fusion.
Top entertainment and celebrity news posts you voted worldwide in Hollywood for the Wednesday 15th December 2010 on Horiwood.Com are:
1. High tech babe rising movie star alert: Olivia Wilde
2. Music: Nesian Mystik. Rugby mug: Sonny Bill Williams
3. Rick Stengel on why Mark Zuckerberg is Time Magazine’s no.1 person
4. Melbourne’s Daniel Assange talks dad’s “Audacious Awesomeness”
7. Christine O’Donnell on tax cuts & Hollywood world news
8. Wikileaks news – did New Zealand do a sly espionage number on Fiji?
9. Glenn Beck talks Julian Assange‘s alleged rape case details
10. no. 937 – Jeffrey Lurie‘s billionaire profile, no. 2
“Let it go. Continue life in a state of contentment. Long live life,” are the key phrases the people of Barbados live by according to this Commonwealth Island nation’s main website. Not a bad message. Click on pic to see what the good people of Barbados are talking about. Sounds plenty okay to me.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.16.10~
CIARA PLANNING TO REVISIT HER SCHOOLING AMBITIONS
CIARA is planning to go back to school. The 25-year-old singer, started music at 16, is focused on her career but still longs to learn other subjects too she feels are essential to get on in life.
“I did get some years where I was still able to go to school and see my friends, so I don’t feel like I missed out on my youth. I didn’t go to college or anything,” she said. “I would like to go back to school one day and learn more because knowledge is power, so the more the better.
“I’m happy that I stopped my education when I did, in terms of seeing my career take off in the way that it did, but I wouldn’t rule out going back to school one day. If something caught my interest and inspired me to go back, then I may think about going back into education, but for now I’m focused on my career.”
“After music I would love to raise a family, have kids, because that’s one of the most important things you can do, it would really be a blessing. You have to make sacrifices. I don’t know if I would quit music completely when I had children, but it would be a big responsibility so I would have to see how things go and consider making a decision then.”
School, motherhood, music–all sound choices from a women who is so talented in so many ways already. Go kid. Nice conceptual planning.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.13.10~
AR RAHMAN WOWS AT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CONCERT 2010
The sitar is always so pretty, exotic, otherworldly-twangy. Here’s AR Rahman’s performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2010.
Indian dance choreography compliments his visual performance in a mode that only Bollywood fully knows and presents all year round to the world. Very cool.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.12.10~
BEAUTIFUL – REBECCA FERGUSON AND CHRISTINA ARGUILERA
Beautiful!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.11.10~
KOREA POP MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS by MASA
Perhaps, no one loves their pop music stars quite like the Koreans. Here’s highlights of pop musics biggest K-Pop stars via Masa.
Thanks babe!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
December 21, 2010 | Categories: K-Pop, Music Industry News, Music Videos, North Korea, South Korea, World Peace | Tags: K-Pop, Music Industry News, Music Videos, North Korea, Pop Cultural Commentary, South Korea, World Peace | 1 Comment »