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By Robert J. Avrech | June 30, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Design, Dovima, Family, Friday Fotos, Ginger Rogers, Great Dialogue, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ingrid Bergman, Judaica, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Reagan, Screenwriting | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ben Hecht, Betty Grable, Bugatti, Celia, D Day Synagogue Services, Dovima, Erwin Blumenfeld, Ginger Rogers, Giuseppe Cesari, Groucho Marx, Hispano-Suiza, Jacob Riis, Joan Blondell, July 4th Hollywood, Karen Singer Avrech, László Moholy-Nagy, Lee Miller, Lielle, Movie Posters from Poland, Myrna Loy, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lifshitz, Rena, Renaissance, Rick McGinnis, Ronald Reagan, Sofonisba Anguissola, Theodore Chassériau, Truth About Youth | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 22, 2015

Friday Photos: Welcome to the New La-La Land

Tweet Hollywood was once the dream capital of the world. Movies peddled glamour and fantasy. This was La-La Land where outrageous plots and larger than life characters allowed audiences to construct alternate realities — entertainment. But La-La Land has relocated. On Wednesday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in […]

Also posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Movies, Obama Watch, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, Politics, Progressive Democrats | Tagged Andy Warhol, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Basil Rathbone, Brigitte Bardot, Disney Concert Hall, Don Ameche, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Rothko, Martin Puryear, Photography, Sandra Dee, Steve McQueen, The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 13, 2014

Hollywood in Stitches, Part II

Tweet Part I is here. “Hurry up and wait!” Anyone who has worked on a major Hollywood production is familiar with this ironic command. There is a tremendous amount of down time on a Hollywood film. It takes hours to set up lights, rig camera and sound, and make sure the sets and props are […]

Also posted in Doris Day, Feminism, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Glamour, Gloria Stuart, Hollywood, Hollywood in Stitches, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Astor, Movies, Vivien Leigh | Tagged Gloria Stuart, Katherine Hepburn, Knitting on Hollywood Sets, Let's Make Love, Shall We Dance, There's Always a Woman, Titanic, Vivien Leigh, Waterloo | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 3, 2014

Hollywood Mothers

Tweet On screen, they are larger than life. Hollywood stars seduce us with their glamor. They become the vehicles of our dreams and desires. We rarely imagine them as ordinary people. And so, when we see a Hollywood star posing with family members—mortals like you and me—it comes as something of a shock. But after […]

Also posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Moms, Hollywood Stars | Tagged Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, Doris Day, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Linda Darnell, Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 6, 2012

Union Depot: Yearning For Zion In A Hollywood Classic

Tweet The camera swoops majestically through an enormous train station picking out individuals in the crush of humanity: soldiers, sailors, hookers, pickpockets, cops, Pullman porters, immigrants in peasant garb. This exhilarating opening is a tour de force of vignettes with characters delivering rapid fire dialogue perfectly timed to the swirling, unfettered movement of the G-d […]

Also posted in Hollywood, Israel, Jean Harlow, Kubec Glasmon, Screenwriting, Zionism | Tagged Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hollywood History, Hollywood Screenwriters, John Bright, Pale of Settlement, Union Depot, Warner Brothers | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 12, 2010

Joan Blondell: Fast and Furious

Tweet Joan Blondell Joan Blondell (1906-1979) was one of the most versatile and durable stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Never reaching the stratospheric heights of a Bette Davis, Joan Crawford or Katherine Hepburn, Blondell, in a career spanning over fifty years, eighty films, and dozens of TV shows, was a hugely appealing actress who gracefully […]

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How I Married Karen

The new book
by Robert J. Avrech

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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