I think it is her, maybe you should consider an intervention? Is she on drugs?

LucaM won't shut up on ugossip

I love keanu Reeves but I love Jesus Christ more the matrix was a movie people Jesus is the son of God in the highest. The matrix was just a movie nothing more then the neo was made up Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords.

You people watch too many movies its not real

Please wake he's called the one because he's a number in Hollywood he's called the wall because he use to be a brick house. He's called keanu because Makarareo was too long a name to use.

Correction re. painting of Keanu's grandmother (my mom's friend):

Since posting earlier I've remembered Momilani was wearing a traditional pareo in the painting (cloth wrapped around hips worn by Polynesian women which has different names in different places... I don't know the Hawaiian word) - not a grass skirt. Sorry for the mistake. It's becoming clearer the more I try to remember it.

Also the painter was a white woman (though a friend of Momilani) ; so it had a bit of the colonialist 'white gaze' to it - by painting her naked except for the pareo & w/ long black middle parted hair & medium/dark brown skin. It was 1956 & she (Momilani) travelled in this radio & television/theatre (?) circle in Honolulu; so I don't know how long her hair really was or how much time she spent in the sun to have dark skin & I doubt she walked around in only a pareo. So some or a lot of that was probably artistic license. I don't have a photo of her from then - so I don't know.

Thanks again for reading. xx

*were

*'dreamers & telephone schemers' - I think we're the lyrics in the song about Geffen. Sorry for the off topic - but I had to correct what I wrote earlier!

Our comments crossed again. Lol. It should be good luck - like speaking at the same time.

I'm sure you're right about the funeral. I never even thought of that. Thanks for bringing me back to planet Earth. Lol. The real world where horrid people mob total strangers grieving at family funerals...

I think on one of the big ancestry sites it gives a family tree on the paternal Hawaiian side. And that's where I initially saw the connection. Because as I said I was not looking up 'Keanu Reeves'. I just typed in 'Momilani' + 'Hawaii' & probably even misspelled her name. (Anyway it is spelled a few different ways online). And she had recently passed & from the age & bio & cv of where she had worked etc. I knew it was my mom's friend. I guess that's not a common name either.

Thanks for all your interesting insights. I'm off to search for an older photo of David Geffen to see if Keanu is being far too self deprecating by saying he couldn't pull him. I've forgotten what he looked like years ago. I suspect I'll find flared trousers & longer hair...

I posted my last PS about his father before I was able to read your lightening fast reply. I hate when that happens as it comes off as rude; as if I've ignored what the person wrote!

Thanks for your condolences about the painting. I grew up in the music industry & am pretty jaded; so it is not the Keanu connection - which I only knew of in the last couple years - that makes me ill thinking about it. It's the fact that it was so beautiful. And I grew up w/ it from childhood. She only wore a grass skirt in it. This was still the colonialist settler fifties; so there was obviously a different standard for who could be painted w/ their breasts showing. (See the recent National Geographic where they attempt to make amends for all the naked photos taken only of indigenous girls & women). My mom is German & from Berlin where they had nude beaches etc. so did not get the American memo about nudity.

I remember asking who it was & she would tell me over & over about her friend Momilani sitting for this portrait by another female friend. She (Momilani) was still pretty young at the time the portrait was done. We're referring to her as "grandmother" here - but this was long before Keanu was born!

My mom had some contact w/ still very traditional indigenous Hawaiians there - because she told me how they put fish oil in their hair. And they would surf & swim w/ that in their hair & it protected their hair & skin.

The painting was also really important to me because in it she had chocolate brown skin & my dad is Arab American (& was sometimes taken as "a black man" by white people in certain parts of America & suffered a bit of the consequences of that) & I take after him. We grew up an hour from NYC where there was nobody who looked like me - aside from my father & Black Native pediatrician - & that beautiful painting of Momilani. This was in the 1960s/70s when blonde & pale brunette models ruled & the same was true for film & television; so her painting really helped me have a healthy view of myself as a girl of colour.

When I was looking for her (per explanation above re. my mom's letters) I read something online where Keanu spoke very fondly of living w/ his grandmother. To refer to your point though: I can understand when people have to go no contact w/ certain people; not because of their behaviour specifically - but due to behaviour of others around them. This happens to so many people. A friend of mine had AIDS & his sociopathic boyfriend basically bullied all his friends out of their life. So I know what you mean. None of us could associate w/ this monster boyfriend without being torn to bits. So we were not able to be around him when he passed.

That quote you just wrote about David Geffen : LOL!

Supposedly Joni Mitchell's 'Free Man in Paris' was about him. In which she sings (in his voice) "I deal in losers & telephone schmoozers" (are those the exact lyrics?). I believe it. My father spent hours & hours on the phone w/ those people.

Anyway... that painting let me know I wasn't an alien from another planet of brown people. My siblings were really pale & Euro looking & my sister told me I was adopted - Lol! So thank God Momilani sat for that portrait & the painter gave it to my mom! God knows how I would have felt about myself if I hadn't had her beautiful portrait in front of me everyday from infancy.

Thank you so much for letting me write about it here!