Marriage

From Ben Casey to ObamaToilet

May 17, 2016 by Robert J. Avrech 11 Comments

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The opening credits to the Ben Casey TV series (1961-1966) were the only opening credits that my friends and I noticed and talked about. We were tweener Yeshiva students, enthusiastically devouring the fruits of popular culture even as were were steeped in Torah. We didn’t analyze our response to the Ben Casey credits. Our reaction was visceral. But the lifecycle so elegantly laid out on a classroom chalk board carried a powerful message that was simple but not simplistic. We understood that man, woman, birth, death, infinity, reflected the truth of the world.

The Ben Casey credits would never make it to network or cable TV now. It would be labeled hate speech.

Indeed, we have come to a point in American culture where the Democrat party self-righteously propagandizes against normative behavior in favor of tragic sexual deviancies.

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

July 10, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 7 Comments

“There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.” —Greta Garbo, 1931 — “There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.”
—Greta Garbo, 1931

How Not To Marry in Hollywood — Or Anywhere

July 9, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 3 Comments

In June 1948, the day after that she divorced her first husband, actress Gloria Grahame wed director Nicholas Ray.

But the marriage was troubled and ended when Ray walked in on Grahame while she was in bed with another man.

Actually, a boy.

He was 13-year-old Anthony Ray, Nick’s son from a previous marriage.

How Important Are Shared Memories?

March 23, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 24 Comments

Both Karen and I attended Yeshiva Flatbush elementary school.

More than anything, I look forward to Friday night Shabbat dinner.

Frequently, Karen and I are invited to friend’s homes where we and other guests talk, eat, and sing sweet Shabbat songs. But when I’m alone with Karen on Friday night, there is a certain magic that happens — and I never know what form that magic is going to take.

This past Friday night, Karen and I discussed the book covers our teachers in Yeshiva Flatbush elementary school insisted we use.

Homo Fascism and the Mozilla Moment

April 7, 2014 by Robert J. Avrech 20 Comments

A few weeks ago, Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson was mugged by Homo Fascists and their media lapdogs for stating what has been a truth for every civilization since the beginning of time.

Last week, Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned under pressure, also for supporting traditional marriage.

Eich, a Silicon Valley techie, invented JavaScript, and helped start Mozilla which makes the Firefox Web browser.

Eich donated $1,000 to support Prop 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. At no point in Eich’s career has he been accused of bias against homosexuals. In addition he stated that he would not change Mozilla’s policy of of providing the same health benefits to homosexual couples as to heterosexual couples.

Thus, Eich was purged by the fascist left for thought crimes.