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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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“My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.”
—Raquel Welsh (born Jo Raquel Tejada; 1940- )

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
― Frank Capra

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The important thing is to find a role that gives one a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. To know that you have brought a difficult characterization to life is the accomplishment I have longed for over a period of years.”
—Ann Blyth (1928 – )

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Don’t you believe that opportunity knocks but once. It’s not so. If you keep your chin up and your ears pasted to the door, you’ll hear opportunity knocking again and again.”
—Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell; 1923 – 1965)

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Chanukah 2020, The Battle Continues

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Here is a timeless message from Simon the Maccabee:

“We have not taken a foreign land, nor did we take the property of others — for this is the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. But we, having the opportunity, returned to us the inheritance of our fathers.”

— First Book of the Maccabees, 15:33-34.

“לא ארץ נוכריה לקחנו ולא ברכוש זרים משלנו, כי אם נחלת אבותינו, אשר בידי אויבינו בעת מן העיתים בלא משפט נכבשה. ואנחנו כאשר הייתה לנו עת, הושיבונו נחלת אבותינו” (ספר מקבים א, טו’ לג-לד) [Read more…] about Chanukah 2020, The Battle Continues