REESE WITHERSPOON’S WATER FOR ELEPHANTS GETS A LATER RELEASE DATE
Water for Elephants will have to be quenched one week later than anticipated at the box office.
Fox has changed the release date for the film — starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson — from April 15 to the 22.
I wonder what films are dropping like they’re hot in Hollywood on the 15th then to make Water have it’s new debut date. Interesting stuff.
[Image of Witherspoon and Pattinson via Shockya. Elephants India Image in Black & White via Lay Out Sparks]
Other websites reporting on Water for Elephants news are: Bing.Com, Yahoo.Com, Baidu.Com, Google.Com.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.25.10~
WILL CAMERON SHEPHERD OF THE WALLABIES RISE ABOVE INJURY FOR RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011?
Richard Graham the solid rugby football coach of The Western Force, Australia has backed Cameron Shepherd to return to his blistering best. Graham claims ‘the utility back has finally overcome a litany of injuries that threatened to derail his Super Rugby career.
Shepherd who was born in England but grew up in Sydney hasn’t missed a beat during the Force’s gruelling pre-season campaign, returning strongly from a hamstring complaint that kept him out of the recent Qantas Wallabies tour of Europe.
Graham believed Shepherd, who has suffered numerous setbacks since breaking his left fibula in eight places in 2007, would return to top form next season.
“He’s probably in the best condition he’s been in for a number of years,” Graham said at training on Wednesday.’
Fingers crossed then for Cameron Shepherd’s Rugby World Cup sports gladiatorial hopes for Australia next year. Hopefully Shepherd can stay in the clear from injury to compete at the world’s top sporting level.
Comcast/ Universal the Media conglomerate that broadcasts Keeping Up With The Kardashians and The Chelsea Handler Show here in the USA, will be broadcasting The Wallabies live across America in 2011 as new sporting entertainment via Hollywood, when the action goes down in New Zealand at The Rugby World Cup. To get your tickets this Christmas for you and to organize the mates, zip on over here to secure.
[Image of Cam in training via Zimbio]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
MOSCOW AND KE$HA’S SINGING CHRISTMAS CARD FOR WORLD PEACE
This Christmas message is very sweet from the sixth most interesting entertainer of 2010 in the UK, Ms Ke$ha –as she sings festive greetings from Moscow, Russia this year. Who is that skaterboi clown in the background Ke$ha brought with her from The Valley? Lol!
World Peace!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
A FLORENCE + THE MACHINE CHRISTMAS CAROL, 2010
Here as I blog in West Hollywood this Christmas I am thankful that we have freedom of expression and freedom of speech in America.
Finally, I have recovered from a dirty martini hang over from two nights ago at a Hollywood Hills Christmas party. I like olives, so always get it wrong when I see them in a festive glass. I only had two martinis, but they were good ones! The relief of not having a Bellevedere voddie headache today is awesome, yet the respite is short lived when today I look at the news and I see that people are being persecuted in Iran for being different.
People are not allowed to have a Christmas this year. Those who want to are detained, some are behind bars, some will be martyred for their Christian faith in 2010!!! That’s insanity. (more…)
KELLY OSBOURNE, MILEY CYRUS, EMAIL
Tweets Kelly Osbourne: “Genuinely heart broken that someone hacked and read all my personal info! is nothing sacred? Literally devastated! I’m just being Miley!!!! http://plixi.com/p/64761684“
Although it’s not devastating news, like someone died–it is annoying getting hacked. When you get hacked living in Hollywood, the experience just makes you… write more colorfully… for the next time a hacker comes along.
Let’s hope Kelly’s emailed secrets remain private. Ozzy is all the Osbourne we can handle this Christmas. His interviews with magazines this Christmas are a riot. For example, he jokes that he doesn’t know who Justin Bieber is yet and that Lady Gaga should take a break so “the fans can fall in love with her again.” The Osbournes are FULL THROTTLE this Christmas.
100% Full on!
Kelly is heading back to London for her family Christmas celebrations this year. Sounds fun.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
UK’S TEN MOST POPULAR PEOPLE LIST 2010
- kristian digby
- justin bieber
- nicki minaj
- ellie goulding
- alexander mcqueen
- kesha
- miranda kerr
- kim kardashian
- katy perry
- enrique iglesias
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
FROM HOLLYWOOD – PRIVATE JOHN HOWARD, NEW ZEALAND, RIP
“Keeping secrets on our pillow”–Brandon Flowers lyrics, for those who grieve grief’s unquantifiable language in the dark night of the soul.
“As a family, we have been so fortunate to have a son and a brother who has so enriched our lives. To the young men of this country, Jack would want me to say this: Be your own man, do not be afraid to dream and pursue those dreams with quiet determination. Be sincere in your friendships, and keep those friendships in good repair. Stay true to your beliefs. Love your mother,”–the farewell words of Roger Howard on behalf of his family and friends, Anne Scott and daughters Charlotte and Isabella–as Roger laid his son, Private John Howard (Jack) to rest at Wellington’s Cathedral of St Paul in New Zealand’s capitol.
Private Howard was a Kiwi lad serving in the the 3rd Battalion in The Parachute Regiment of the British military, who was ‘killed by American soldiers piloting an American F-18 Hornet fighter, during a friendly fire incident in Helmand, Afghanistan,’ reports the UK Daily Telegraph.
Two Maori warriors carrying taiaha (traditional Maori wooden weapons of the art of Mau Rakau hand combat martial arts) ‘accompanied Private Howard’s coffin along with seven of his fellow British soldiers.’ In very poignant imagery, his coffin was draped in a Union Jack flag and with a traditional hand woven Maori cloak as he was carried into the cathedral, with his family following behind.’
His family are such big-hearted people to be able to forgive the futility of Private Howard’s loss of life in Afghanistan’s war effort. The cost of war to America and allies has been shared by many in common bonds of brotherhood in the hope of peace in the world.
New Zealand is a small nation. News like this rocks New Zealand culture to the heart, deeply. We don’t have all that many people to lose, our nation is small. One life lost is like 10,000 to us. It feels like as a Kiwi looking at New Zealand from afar in California that I’ve unexpectedly found myself crying about 29 lost miners gone too soon recently and now Private John gone too soon as well.
Such news makes any Kiwi cry. Blokes included. We’re just wired that way to fellow Kiwis in a deep and committed sense of place and Life’s purpose in the world. I’m tired of crying for New Zealand blokes lately in Hollywood, whose lives have been lost too early in the pursuit of the earth’s energy resources or a real sense of Peace too in the world transcending war. Accidents resulting in loss of lives in both cases, where unexpectedly men weren’t safe. Sorry, but I am. It’s just gut wrenching and we all share their loss and contributions to our culture.
RIP Private Howard. Sending kind healing thoughts and prayers for the Howard-Scott families this Christmas. A Kiwi brother of Commonwealth and Am-Kiwi community gone way too soon. What a beautiful send off for this Kiwi lad as these pictures show. John’s grandmother Elizabeth Scott looked very regal at the helm of her family.
Haere ra ou tatou teina–a symbol of a younger brother’s vital potential– to us all. Hollywood salutes your blood father’s spoken symbolic words of Peace in the Spirit of shared bronaaki culture (fellowship) that is Our Protector, stronger than war’s unquenchable grave and the proven Victor over death itself. Mauri ‘Ola Tatou. Ka Tu Te Whare Ka Ora o Te Ao i te taha o Te Awa Ora, Mo Ake Tonu.
In the spirit of global brotherhood that surpasses any difference of race, geographical borders, religious or cultural boundaries too in our shared humanity of melanin fused with spirit on this same shared earth we love, here’s the group Candella singing Brandon Flowers song Crossfire in honor of Private Howard’s life of service for the world. The song is offered from Hollywood today in the hope of Peace’s diverse rule and expressions in hearts and minds universally as an intelligent way forward of all leaders of future generations who wear Wisdom’s timeless glasses to see the best paths forward for children to walk in freely. Children who as global friends, consider each other equally and who build good friendships across all cultures of the world, as their open hearts so choose to as our guides, teachers and leaders without fear. [Thanks Candella & Brandon Flowers]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
ENTERTAINMENT MUSINGS FROM HOLLYWOOD – 12.22.10
Justin Bieber creates a #stacheswaggin! hash tag on Twitter.
Here’s some people who entertain all year round: Movie City News; MTV News; PopBytes; reality blurred; Popeater; Salon: Arts & Entertainment; The Beat; Stereogum; The Movie Critics; Thompson on Hollywood; the programming insider; tuned in; TV Tattle; TV Barn; Velvet Rope; TVFanatic.com; TVNewser.
6 Banks Repay Gov’t $2.66B For Bailouts
A casting call for a Britney Spears music video in Hollywood? Heck yeah!
Comcast-NBC‘s merger will be slower than envisaged.
Darren Criss tweets about Glees Toys 4 Tots charity gigs.
Oh Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay! She’s so Hollywood high school.
Jake Gyllenhaal works it for jewelers this Christmas. Retail love.
Vanessa Paradis turns 38 today. So pretty.
A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning. Heat rising.
Nancy Pelosi asks Steven Spielberg to help rebrand that juiced party image.
Senate Passes Defense Spending Bill
Pauly D of Jersey Shore inks his own TV series deal with MTV. Go fella!
Spiderman: The Musical has “actor crippling” acrobatic brave stars.
President Obama has signed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal bill.
Ryan Gosling calls himself a liar in an interview. Lol!
Abbey Road crossing now a heritage site
Aaron Eckhart does Rabbit Hole press. Woot!
TV Christmas Marathons -Best & Worst This Year
Clinton Yucker‘s no.1 fan speaks out.
9/11 health bill news.
Lady Gaga wishes she’d thought of this hat idea first. [via Mickey K via Break.com]. Who’s Elsa? :)
Josh and Zac Farro of Paramore speak of record label’s manipulation.
Senate Ratifies START Nuclear Arms Treaty
Ali Larter gives birth.
Obama Signs Bill To Fund Gov’t Until March
Iraqi churches cancel Christmas celebrations
Snooki of Jersey Shore earns$17,500 at an events appearance. Nice one!
Apple Drops Wikileaks App From Store.
Huffington Post launches a more visual iPad app.
Sony launches music streaming music-distribution service.
Harrison Ford talks dying on film in an Indiana Jones sequel. Funny!
Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN channel hearts U2‘s Bono to have his own show.
Tony Sparano sports news.
MK‘s Tom Hardy Admirers coverage via Just Jared: gym, cross icons and patriotic tatts.
By the way, check out these hard working entertainment bloggers and web creators who do exactly what I do on Horiwood.Com each day. It’s always good to share a spotlight with one’s peers. Sharing is caring. Let’s pass the love on. Check them out if you have time and want to: Best Week Ever; Coolfer; BuzzSugar; Dark Horizons; Gold Derby; Deadline Hollywood Daily; Hollywood Elsewhere; Digital Music News; Hits Daily Double; Hypebot; Hollywood Wiretap; jaded insider; Idolator; Lost Remote; Pop Candy; Movie List.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.22.10~
A HORIWOOD HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS – TOP TEN NEWS TUES – 12.21.10
No. These two are not discussing the latest funnies on the ICanHasCheeseburger Blog! This is an official ambassador visit photo. Prince Harry shares a smile with German actress Sophia Thomalla at the charity gala ‘Ein Herz fuer Kinder’ in Berlin, Germany. Amongst chatting up hot blondes, Harry was on his first official visit to Germany where The Bernauer Strasse Wall Memorial was a place where the Prince laid a wreath on a restored section of Berlin’s former East-West border, including the Wall and the area behind it known as the ‘death strip’ where many died trying to escape back in the day before U2 sung and the wall came tumbling down. In hot Kiwi news, rugby football stars, Andrew Ellis says he’s heading to Aussie for Christmas holidays; Kieran Reed is looking forward to becoming a new dad real soon, and Stephen Donald says “Mate. The Coromandel is the only place to be this Christmas.”
Today we hit 2.8 million on ze blog. Japan and Iran both got hit by massive earthquakes. Let’s be mindful of Iran and Japan today. Sudan could have 2.8 million people displaced real soon. Christmas carols from West Hollywood beat all other news. We are Grinch free on this blog. And I still think these bloggers are all better than this blog, they just need to get a bit more fun, so let’s share the love with them too: Al Jazeera; AOL News; Associated Press; BBC; Bloomberg; Boston Globe; C-SPAN; CBS; Chicago Sun-Times; Chicago Tribune; Forbes; Fortune; Fox News; Financial Times; Globe and Mail; GlobalPost.com; GlobalVoices; NPR; Newsweek; People; Politico; ProPublica; Radar; Reuters; Rolling Stone; The Root; Salon; San Francisco Chronicle; Slate. See what I mean? So much work goes into news websites sharing info daily, yet only Julian Assange makes a Time Magazine cover. Go figure.
Hollywood entertainment and celebrity news posts voted by you the people, statewide, nationwide and worldwide here in Hollywood, California. Here’s the most voted posts to share this festive season. Thanks people. We look like this today:
1. Christmas Carols from West Hollywood -Part 1: Shout to the Lord
2. Christmas Carols from West Hollywood-Part 2: Nesian Ninja Ben Lummis
3. Locklyn Kyla Vaughn survived Jennifer Aniston to be here 12-20-10
4. Retro Joanna Krupa Playboy Christmas issue
5. Security @ Kailua with Obama‘s Hawaii vacation is totz ‘beach blocking-ish’
7. 10 Things about billionaire Christopher Chandler - Momma’s boy to the days
8. Jamie Lynn & Britney never did manage to squeeze in that double wedding
9. Brian Austin Green could be the next Ryan Reynolds
10. Allegedly, Horiwood.Com is read daily in these US States – all of them. As if! Hi America!
Bonus Post: Aussie angel Miranda Kerr for U.K readers
Bonus Post: Wikileaks and that Assange dude news updates -12.20.10
Bonus Post: Will & Kate‘s special coin for Lloyds of London whomp, whomp press.
Bonus Post: Nesian Mystik & Sonny Bill Wiliams for rugby football’s chillest chillness
Bonus Post: Angelina Jolie Humor – like them that market movies like a doll
Bonus Post: Robbie Williams reaches 20 years warbling for the UK
Bonus Post: Rihanna‘s kind words to bloggers are charming
Bonus Post: At 19, Sunny Oglesby gets cast in the Levi Johnston reality show
Bonus Post: Hugh Jackman on wearing Aussie speedos
Bonus Post: Young Hollywood actor & occasional cake maker, Brooke Abbott‘s big night out
Bonus Post: Why doesn’t New Zealand just ask Julie Christie to do Big Brother Fiji?
Bonus Post: Spank You America bank - must be shungting over wikileaks news!
Bonus Post: Retro Gaga: Lady Gaga News still rates – 4.23.09
Bonus Post: Cassie Smith says hi.
Bonus Post: Hori thighs by Luke McAlister for world cup sporting events
Bonus Post: Barbara Streisand & leading democrats on Obama inking tax cuts bill
Bonus Post: Absolutely tongue-tied is how Reese Witherspoon felt in Washington DC
Bonus Post: Armani for Gaga: Fashion sketches 2010
Bonus Post: The WashPo ask can Borat belt it out as Freddie Mercury? Does it get better?
Bonus Post: Barbara Walters ten most fascinating pebbles of 2010
Bonus Post: Maori representation on google books culturomics bogusness is just ugh… dinosauric!
Bonus Post: Bradley James visits Queenstown with family
Bonus Post: Mawhera at Christmas in Hollywood: We remember Joseph Dunbar, 17.
More worthy and harworking bloggers to appreciate: BuzzFeed; Peek (Alternet); Political Animal; Political Capital (CNBC); Political Wire; The Hill; Independent; KCRW’s Left, Right and Center; Los Angeles Times; McClatchy; Oxdown Gazette; Pandagon; ABC; Couragetolovetheblog.com; Youth Radio; Altercation (Media Matters); Americablog; Andrew Sullivan; BAGnewsNotes; Bloggingheads; Boing Boing.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.21.10~
HUGH LAURIE ON THE SHOCK HORRORS OF CONTINUING THE AMERICAN ACCENT AS A TV DOCTOR FOR 7 YEARS
Yabbering on from the magazine pages of GQ France, much awarded British actor, Hugh Laurie is riding the coat tails of his House MD costar, Olivia Wilde‘s new box office success (Tron: Legacy).
In Hollywood it always pays to back younger stars, because they become your insurance plan later in life. Seriously though, the very talented Hugh talks about the unexpected events in his California life at getting to talk in an American accent in a hospital fake setting–for six years longer than he thought would happen. He’s fun, as ever.
On House MD‘s ongoing success: When I auditioned, I thought that within two weeks it would all be over. I had not imagined that seven years later, we would still be here. At the same time, it was a good script with a complex role. I appreciated the series in its entirety– clever, funny, with the ability to express different tones. Sometimes witty, dramatic, funny, other times clownish. I found that original, I understood the character.
On the art of acting with an American accent: Frankly, I have no technique. It takes practice. There are words that I cannot say such as “murder” or “girlfriend.” Too many “r”s. I used a coach for like, 20 minutes! Terribly useless. I should not say that, it will annoy people in Hollywood. Seriously, I’m not convinced by the method. I’ve never had any acting training. Sometimes I feel guilty: Sometimes I feel fragile and I would love to posses the knowhow. But I’m not sure you can teach actors how to speak.
Isn’t he the funniest? He’s like the Jon Hamm of hospital sets drama. He keeps getting quirkier with time.
[News source: Canada's Taylor Blue]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.21.10~
SILENT NIGHT IS THE no.1 CHRISTMAS CAROL OF THE UK
“With the dawn of redeeming grace. Glories stream from heaven afar”–Christmas, Hollywood 2010.
Silent Night tops the U.K’s Christmas carol poll this year.
Music licensing company PPL, have registered 1800 songs with a Christmas theme but the Austrian song, Silent Night is viewed as the best. ”Everyone from punk band The Dickies right through to Sinead O’Connor has recorded it, which exemplifies just how much it resonates with all different types of artists,” a PPL spokesperson said.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.21.10~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – MON 12.20.10
Husband. What husband, says the UK when selecting their most favorite wedding pic of Nicole Richie‘s big wedding day with Benji Madden. UK media prefer a picture of American interracial and intergenerational family-star power with Nicole and her dad Lionel Richie for this magazine cover and an image of modern family.
A very sweet picture of Michael Jackson‘s god-daughter and her dad. What a beautiful bride, Richie was. Weddings, marriage romance, commitment in love from two people to each other rising above (through and past) current economic times and anything that politicians may (or may not) say– is the new trend of the 2010′s. Long live true love.
In our news today: it freaks me out being a blogger in Hollywood some days. For example these blogs: Congressional Quarterly; Daily Telegraph; Democracy Now!; Drudge Report; E! Online; Entertainment Weekly; Forbes; Fortune; Fox News; Financial Times; Globe and Mail; GlobalPost.com; GlobalVoices; Google News; Guardian; The Hill; Independent; KCRW’s Left, Right and Center; Los Angeles Times; McClatchy; Mediaite; Mosaic; Mother Jones; MSNBC; New York Daily News; New York Observer; BuzzMachine; The Corner (National Review); Crooks and Liars; Cursor; Daily Kos; Democracy Arsenal; Firedoglake; FrumForum; Jonathan Alter; Eric Alterman; Sidney Blumenthal; Eric Boehlert; Ron Brownstein; Joe Conason; David Corn; Stanley Crouch all have worthy opinions online. Often far more worthy than my own quickly-whisked-together humble ones. Yet, daily you follow me. Thank you!
Hollywood entertainment and celebrity news posts you voted worldwide as reflected in our democratically voted news window each day. Here’s our top ten and your news. Much love:
1. One pic: Ryan Seacrest & Julian Hough
2. Allegedly, Horiwood.Com is seen daily in these nations of the World. Kia ora!
3. New girl alert: Sunny Oglesby is Levi Johnston‘s new love
4. Melbourne’s Daniel Assange talks dad’s “audacious awesomeness”
5. Angelina Jolie humor – movie publicity – The Elise doll on E-bay
6. Michelle Obama and Obama girls are on scheduled family vacations, Hawaii
7. Olivia Wilde is kind of hot
8. SNL turn to teen Miley Cyrus to save their no-no’s in the TV ratings game
9. Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg both get wikileaks mentions
10. TIE A: New Music (USA) – Something in the Water – Brooke Fraser
10. Tie B: Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green - Hawaii romance is hot
Bonus Post: A blast from the past: Early Lady Gaga news
Bonus Post: Shooting Star – Levi Johnston – a year ago this week
Bonus Post: Water Royalties – 2010′s new star system standard
Also shouting out too, to these bloggers who also have good daily opinions, they share -though not as much fun as the topics you vote for on this blog: The Young Turks; Roger E. Hernández; Christopher Hitchens; Rich Lowry; Dick Meyer; John Nichols; Jack Shafer; Robert Scheer; Lynn Sweet; Brian Till; George Will; Michael Wolff; PBS NewsHour. USA Today; Vanity Fair; Wall Street Journal; Washington Independent; Washington Times; Washington Post; Yahoo! News; Youth Radio; Altercation (Media Matters); Americablog; Andrew Sullivan; BAGnewsNotes; Bloggingheads; Boing Boing; Brave New Films; BuzzFeed; Peek (Alternet); Political Animal; Political Capital (CNBC); Political Wire; Raw Story; Redstate.org; Seeing The Forest. Times Of London; TMZ.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
WILL AND KATE’S ROYAL ENGAGEMENT COMMEMORATIVE COIN
“We are delighted to showcase this new coin,” the Royal Mint told US of The Royal Engagement Alderney coin, celebrating the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The special betrothal design has been approved by Prince William and Her Majesty The Queen.
It’s all on in the UK heading into the wedding of the decade next year! It’s hard to believe this young couple have been together for the better part of a decade. Big Commonwealth romance is up next year!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
SMURFS IN 3D MOVIE POSTER
Before there was Avatar there were The Smurfs. Now these blue characters are in The Big Apple in 3D.
Katy Perry is the voice of Smurfette. Poster looking good.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – MON 12.20.10 AM
Prince Harry found this kid totally amusing whose just like totally yawning in his face.
Here in Hollywood though, entertainment and celebrity news is all about a new Wisilla romance so far. Let’s go Oregon in Alaska. This romance is steamy. Definitely check out no. 1.
Enjoy!
1. Instant Heat: Sunny Oglesby is Levi Johnston‘s new love
2. Water royalties this Christmas
3. Nicole Kidman spotlights grief in debut producing effort Rabbit Hole
4. Angelina Jolie movie marketing humor – The Elise doll on E-bay
5. Entertainment Wrap Up News – Sun 12.19.10
6. Wikileaks & Julian Assange updates – 12.20.10
7. Taylor Swift gets her Rachel Hunter on
8. Mel Gibson did not make Simon Wiesenthal Center list 2010
9. She Conquered with Elegance – The Miss Elliette story
10. It’s a wrap – Larry King & family
Bonus Post: Taylor Blue of Canada‘s Music Playlist 2010
Bonus Post: 12 Other Bloggers Voices – 12.13.10
[Photo courtesy of Wenn.Com]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.20.10~
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~
JULIAN ASSANGE NEWS UPDATES AND WIKILEAKS NEWS UPDATES – 12.16.10
“It’s great to smell fresh air of London again,” Assange, 39, illuminated by a blizzard of photographers’ flashes, said after being released on $312,000 bail. “I continue on with our work. Clearing my name is not the highest task I have. The highest task I have is to continue with my work,” Assange added. Christine Assange, Julian’s mother (pictured below) had flown in from Australia to London to be with her son to “hold him close.” Aussie moms–How sweet.
Julian Assange has had quite a month. He proves that in a month, a dark horse outsider can: take the cover of Time Magazine; be listed as Time‘s no.2 most influential person of the year after a Facebook founder; can have Swedish girls fling themselves at him claiming rape, broken condom rumors–all after consensual sex with a man (go figure); have fame seekers like Michael Moore appear on camera to bail Julian out of jail.
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~
JOHN KEY SINGS: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO — LONDON AND HAWAII
New Zealand’s Prime Minister appeared on The Edge radio station to warble a Christmas ditty before he jets out with family for the holiday season. Topics of conversation were: What to get Will & Kate for their wedding present next year, a niece’s wedding in London and enjoying mohitos and corn-fed beef in Hawaii where The Keys plans to vacation this year.
Go here to see the flattest rendition of this song in any Kiwi pub’s history, but hey, 200% effort for leaping in and being a sport. What a hoot. Happy Holidays New Zealand. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.15.10~
KIERA KNIGHTLY TALKS HOLLYWOOD FILM FRANCHISING FILMING SCHEDULES
“I think I intended not to work again,” Kiera Knightly, 25 tells The UK’s Telegraph in a recent interview, describing filming back-to-back filming schedules for Pirates of the Carribean when she was 22.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons Kiera prefers to film outside of Hollywood where she can.
Really though most 25 year-old actors can’t relate to a comment like this right now–they’re all looking for a break, but good on ya Kiera for speaking your mind.
Emma Watson declared the same thing after wrapping Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows back-to-back filming schedule too. At the moment Watson has been recalled to reshoot scenes for Harry Potter 8, so these words from Kiera will be amusing Watson and getting her through, no doubt.
British starlets do appear to have decency standards they expect from their film franchise bosses to consider, by the looks. Good on them!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.13.10~
JAMIROQUAI SINGS OF VIRTUAL INSANITY
An empty chair for Liu Xiaobo led to this performance of Virtual Insanity by angsty kid of the dance-lounge world Jamiroquai at the Nobel Peace Prize Awards this year.
Of course, one nation’s vision of heaven or a paradise could be another nation’s version of a complete nightmare, perhaps indicating that more cross-cultural dialogue on deeper and profound levels (other than lip service revealed in leaked cables to be just that) is needed in the world to find a medium of peace from each nation to another. The greatest virtual insanity of all–is to not find a meeting place or a bridge to talk equally on–one to another.
Where is that bridge? There is a lot of work to be done in finding that concerning the human rights of all people in all nations of the world. Not one nation has a squeaky clean human rights record, if we all are honest–so we can’t be children and just project all of our own self-righteousness of ‘status’? in the world, on one nation like China. It requires more work to be done in finding the center for all people on human rights issues. We also must remember that if China was not humane on many issues–this nation would not have loaned so much money to the USA over the years, to assist the American government to be able to be more humane to fellow Americans with that loaned money. In addition, the American government would not have accepted the loans either if they did not think China was okay. Every issue has a perspective from many different angles to consider before we throw stones.
Back to Jamiroquai–this group was always one of my favs growing up in college. They were just off the wall quircke. Enjoy.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.12.10~
ROYAL ROMANCE IN 3D – UK TV – REGINA AND PRINCE PHILLIP BECOME THE FUTURE
Reports Urmee Khan for the UK Telegraph:
Channel 4 will light up the U.K’s television with footage of The Queen in 3D. Urmee says that the footage of her Majesty will look like a regular television picture until viewers, reach across the coffee table over the ruby, for their special glasses where the images will strangely appear to emerge from the screen. Right in your own living room.
It’s perhaps a way of Her Majesty saying, she has a unique perspective? A very cool idea.
Director Bob Angell and cameraman Arthur Wooster shot the colour newsreel as part of a package called Royal Review. The special 3D effect was achieved by using two cameras simultaneously at different angles before blending the archived footage into one single picture. It’s about blending two views of the same existing facts pre-recorder to reflect a more relevant view today, no one has ever seen from that unique perspective.
3D Royal filmic content: The 3D footage features Queen Elizabeth II at events she attended in the lead up to and after her Coronation in 1953. A visit to the Epsom Derby features and a wee trip on the Royal Barge on the Thames. How posh! Sailing along down the river then.
Angell and Wooster, are in their 80s, and have come out of retirement to make the documentary and get behind the camera one more time and create contemporary footage of the Queen. Grey Power are seriously rocking out a show to inspire the world. Very cool.
David Glover, whose rather grand job description defines him as ‘a specialist factual commissioning editor,’ says, “When I was told that there was unseen footage of the Queen’s coronation in 3D I didn’t really believe it at first. Watching it didn’t disappoint – it was like turning the TV set into a window – you draw back the curtains and look straight back into 1953.”
David Glover adds, “Watching period 3D documentary footage is about as close to time travel as one can get. You watch as the crowds wave at the coronation and you see the young Queen Elizabeth walking right past you,” he added. Sainsburys will distribute the special red and blue glasses for free in collaboration with Channel 4. It’s like Christmas.
The two, hour-long programmes, are made by Renegade Picture Ltd/Can Communicate, in association with the British Film Institute (BFI) and will be shown later in the year.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.8.10~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – SUNDAY 11.5.10
In shock news Dr. Conrad Murray gets pardoned and can keep his medical license. Good news for this very lucky doctor. And in the UK, the kids of Glee bow and wow on The X Factor Show with a live performance of Don’t Stop Believing.
Hollywood Entertainment and celebrity news we all love and voted worldwide today, right here in Hollywood on Horiwood.Com in a fast moving political celebrity game–where I swear both arenas have merged into one if you read between all of the lines. Here’s our top ten. Fierce voting. Thanks.
1. If Smokey The Bear had to have a word in Chelsea Handler‘s ear it would be:
2. The Art of Sataying with sexy Padma Lakshmi & Caroline Artiss
3. Suzanne Hinn once filed for divorce–we still love her regardless
4. Melbourne’s Daniel Assange talks dad’s “audacious awesomeness”
5. Gylne Tider‘s weird Let it Be Beatles song art is poignant in Cali
6. Aussie Sun Capitol Angel Miranda Kerr on her global race track is red hot
7. Time Magazine holds up Julian Assange as a cover boy of the modern world
8. Olivia Wilde does all the stuff Megan Fox won’t do
9. Rihanna‘s red dress spikey couture is rather fierce
10. Instant heat: Pray for Samuel Koch of Germany’s I Bet That Game Show
Bonus Post: Someone is a big fan of Muhammad Ali‘s silky boxing robe for burns victims.
Bonus Post: Perfect Hollywood Summer Music – Nesian Mystik 101
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.5.10~
THE TOP TEN FASTEST RISING NAMES OF ENTERTAINMENT, OUTSIDE OF ASIA 2010?
If you haven’t heard these names good on ya! I don’t know how you found this blog. Anyway, according to Google Zeitgeist’s result’s that have been okay-ed for distribution, these are the top ten fastest rising names of the Entertainment world, outside of Asian nations. A youthful burst of (mainly) American faces. They are:
1. Justin Bieber. 2. Katy Perry. 3. Selena Gomez. 4. Kim Kardashian. 5. Eminem 6. Lady Gaga. 7. Miley Cyrus. 8. Taylor Lautner. 9. Megan Fox. 10. Robert Pattinson.
Other trending names: Shakira, Netflix. Youtube Videos. Ke$ha. Nicki Minaj. Grooveshark. Transformers 3.
All I can say is: There is no Bollywood stars here (a weakness Google needs to improve on to grow market share, still this year) and thank goodness for Robert Pattinson and Shakira, otherwise there would be nobody who wasn’t American in this list other than Bieber.
Come on Google! Be more sharing and reflective.
Zero grade for cross-cultural spirit from an American-owned IT company! You’d think the world was American looking at these results. What a false and deluded bubble that is, to present such a vision to the world. Let’s hope next year Google USA isn’t so insecure. I have a blog, I too know who trends each day.
It’s a pity the Wikileaks scandal didn’t involve the real Google Zeitgiest results. Just saying. This list conveys a vision of ‘cultural imperialism’ that is skewed America’s way. Ideological brainwashing on display, a tad here to be remotely feasible.
I even ask whether Google was censored this year? Unreal. With the exception of Eminem, Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha’s inclusion and Selena Gomez being bumped onto the list at no.3 to reflect the latest US census results proving more Hispanic-American than envisaged–this reads like last year’s list of entertainers. This list feels stale.
[Image via WTF]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.16.10~
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