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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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“When I die, my epitaph should be: I died a thousand deaths. That was the story of my film career. Most of the time I played in mystery and intrigue stories. They didn’t know what to do with me at the end, so they killed me off.” — Anna May Wong

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Myrna Loy & William Powell in The Thin Man, 1934
She grinned at me. “You got types?”
“Only you, darling — lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.”
—Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (1929)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I never thought of myself as a movie star. I’m just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top – and never fell off.”
—Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; 1917 – 1975)

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New Torah Scroll Dedicated To The Memory of Ariel Chaim, Z’L

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It took the scribe a year to write this Torah scroll.

This year, instead of the Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, my wife Karen and I dedicated a new Torah in our son’s blessed memory.

The ceremony took place last week. The video should be up here at Seraphic Secret in a few weeks.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I like courage. I hope I have it. I want and I try to be honest. Perhaps I don’t always succeed. But I try… I am like that.”
—Jean Harlow

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