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June 22, 2008
Best of the Jewish Blogosphere #170
Louise Brooks says: "Read Haveil Havalim or else!"
Haveil Havalim #170 is up and hosted by none other than Soccer Dad AKA Our National Treasure.
We'd like to thank Soccer Dad for including Seraphic Secret's series How I Married Karen, presented on our 31st Wedding anniversary. I've rewritten quite a few of the original posts. You Tube videos and photos now enliven numerous entries.
I'm a screenwriter so for me writing is rewriting and the How I Married Karen series is under constant revision.
A new chapter is percolating in my so-called brain, and famous last words: should be up this week. Stay tuned.
Last Sunday, Karen and I and our girlses hosted the Fifth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture at our shul The Young Israel of Century City here in Los Angeles. Our speaker was Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl. His topic: What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading, Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.
Making her first appearance in Haveil Havalim is our blogmother and dear friend Jackie Danicki who flew in from the Bay Area to attend the lecture and writes about it on her blog.
Shameless plug: Jackie is Director of Marketing for a very cool new internet service, Qik. Do check it out.
Other friends who attended the lecture, and wrote about it on his fine blog, was Dirty Harry and his lovely wife—also their first time in a shul. As many of you know Dirty Harry has been blogging at Libertas for a few years. His religious convictions and Conservative take on Hollywood have added a breath of fresh air to the tediously conformist arch-liberal business of film reviews and Hollywood reporting.
Well, now Dirty Harry has moved his blog to Dirty Harry's Place. Make sure to bookmark his new home.
The lecture was videotaped and we were going to post it here on Seraphic Secret but discovered that our bandwith would get clobbered. So we're going to post the lecture at the Young Israel of Century City website and link to it.
Famous last words: The video should be up tomorrow.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at June 22, 2008 10:18 AM
Comments
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so Louise can tote a gun, or couple of guns...but can she bake a babke?
Posted by: cruisin-mom at June 22, 2008 11:38 AM
Why did I not discover your blog until now?
What wonderful loving words about your wife; she is one lucky woman. . .
Have you written any good Jewish screenplays lately?
Posted by: Lady-Light at June 22, 2008 01:14 PM
Cruisin' Mom:
I don't think Brooks could fry an egg. But she didn't have to, she was always calling room service.
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at June 22, 2008 04:14 PM
Lady Light:
I guess you haven't discovered us because we're y'know a secret.
Karen read your comment and smiled mysteriously. I think that's a healthy sign.
Yes, I have.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 22, 2008 04:18 PM
Thanks for the plug, Robert!
Posted by: Jackie at June 23, 2008 05:00 AM
Lady Light wrote:
'Have you written any good Jewish screenplays lately?'
Robert answered:
'Yes, I have."
now the rest of us want to know,
so,
about what, who do you plan to cast for it,
when will it be in film? etc. ;-)
btw,
anyone hear anything about Yaakov Kirschen
of Dry Bones?
he hasn't posted anything since June 11th,
which is very uncharacteristic of him
Posted by: exdemexlib at June 23, 2008 06:47 AM
Jackie:
You're very welcome.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 23, 2008 09:37 AM
Exdem:
The divide between writing a script and getting a green-light is vast.
It took me 8 years to get The Devil's Arithmetic produced, and then I won an Emmy for my script. But gee, 8 years of rejection.
Imagine.
That's par for the course.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 23, 2008 09:41 AM
Hello. Can you tell me to which movie this beautiful picture of Louise Brooks is related to ? Many thanks.
Posted by: Anne-Laure at June 23, 2008 11:42 AM
Anne-Laure:
As far as I know this is a studio portrait, not related to any Brooks film. The photographer probably had the dueling pistols lying around with dozens of other props and somebody had the idea of LB posing with them. There are thousands of portraits of various stars that have nothing to do with specific films.
In the old days every Hollywood studio had in-house photographers. The most famous are Hurrell and Clarence Bull at MGM.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 23, 2008 12:59 PM
anyone hear anything about Yaakov Kirschen
of Dry Bones?
Here is your answer:
I'm off to LA for the week of June 15th, I'm getting ready to leave, and yesterday was a holiday, so I'm pretty much in a state of confusion.
So here's the deal: I'm posting a new cartoon today (Tuesday) and then another new cartoon tomorrow (Wednesday) and then the next cartoon posting will be on Tuesday June 24th.
You'll have to do without a Dry Bones fix for the week of June 16th (unless you're in LA and want to attend an "Evening with Yaakov Kirschen" on behalf of CAMERA at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino CA. If you'd like to attend, the suggested donation is $5, the date is Tuesday June 17 (7:30 PM), and way to book a place is to call Isabel at 818 762 4473 or send an email to isabel@camera.org ...
Posted by: Jack at June 23, 2008 06:25 PM
Jack:
Thanks so much for providing the information. I assume you'll be attending, that's your shul, right?
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 23, 2008 06:30 PM
Robert,
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it. Lately life has been far busier than I like it to be.
Posted by: Jack at June 23, 2008 11:34 PM
Jack:
Oh, too bad, I was hoping to link to your report.
Don't you just hate it when busy happens—you have to step away from the vital world of blogging to things like, oh, you know, real life?
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 23, 2008 11:40 PM
Real life can be a real bother sometimes. ;)
Posted by: Jack at June 24, 2008 02:03 PM