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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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James Stewart, early 1940′s
“The great thing about the movies is you’re giving people little, tiny pieces of time that they never forget.”

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Doris Day RIP

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“It was the only ambition I ever had — not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.”
—Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, 1922-2019)

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The Poway Attack and President Trump as Jew

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein at the Chabad of Poway synagogue near San Diego on April 28, 2019. (Photo: Denis Poroy/AP)

Though the surgery on my arm was a month ago, it’s still weak and typing for too long causes it to ache, so I have to keep this brief.

A few scattered thoughts about the Poway atrocity.

The congregants displayed amazing courage under fire. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the Chabad leader of the shul, lost two fingers to gunfire as he herded the children to safety. Bleeding and in pain, he continued to put the safety of the children first.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“You cannot play naive if you’re not. I never had any childhood.”
— Ida Lupino

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I did my best. God did the rest.”
—Hattie McDaniel

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