Category Archives: Movie Posters

Tweet Mike Nichols, on casting the role of Benjamin Braddock: “I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands, of men. Robert [Redford] wanted the part. I said, ‘You can’t play it. You can never play a loser.’ And Redford said, ‘What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser.’ And I said, ‘O.K., have you ever […]

Also posted in Great Movies, Hollywood, Movies, Quotes | Tagged Benjamin Braddock, Casting, Dustin Hoffman, Mike Nichols, Robert Redford | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 20, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Barbara Stanwyck, Donald Trump, Elvis Presley, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jennifer Jones, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe, Melania Trump, Movies, Painting, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions, Winston Churchill | Tagged Antoon Van Welie, David Gelernter, Dovima, Edgar Degas, Elvis Presley, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fei Fei Sun, George Krause, Grace Kelly, Jennifer Jones, Norton Simon, Omega, Petersen Automotive Museum, Rick McGinnis, Samuel Rothbort, Simeon Solomon, The Lady Eve, Tim Walker, Twilight Zone, Xiao Wen Ju | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 13, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Cary Grant, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Signs, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alvar Aalto, Blood Money, David Selznick, Edouard Boubat, Erwin Blumenfeld, Ferdinand Bol, Frances Dee, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Fred Stein, Harold Feinstein, Helen Lundeberg, Herbert Ponting, Jan Steen, Janet Leigh, Jennifer Jones, Joel Meyerowitz, Lauren Bacall, Moshe Zabari, Nicolas De Stael, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rick McGinnis, Roman Vishniac, Steve Cohn, Vilhelm Hammershøi | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 9, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Actors, Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Cary Grant, Edward Hopper, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Judaica, Judaism, Lucille Ball, Marlene Dietrich, Movies, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Brassaï, Cary Grant, Diane Arbus, Edward Hopper, Erwin Olaf, Gabriel Metsu, Joanne Woodward, Lucille Ball, Maksim Dondyuk, Munya Upin, Rebecca Hall, Rick McGinnis, Thomas Hoepker, Vilhelm Hammershøi | 16 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 2, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Anna May Wong, Art, Friday Fotos, Gene Tierney, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Movies, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Galsworthy, Angelica Kauffmann, Bernard Herrmann, Calli McCaw, Gene Tierney, Joanne Woodward, Marnie, Massimo Stanzione, Matteo Roselli, Nina Leen, Paul Himmel, Paul Newman, Roman Vishniac, The Graduate, Vivian Maier | 1 Response

By Robert J. Avrech | October 23, 2016

Movie Poster Art by Saul Bass

Also posted in Design, Hollywood, Judaism, Movies, Photography, Saul Bass, Spartacus, Succos | Tagged Advise & Consent, Anatomy of a Murder, Bonjour Tristesse, Grand Prix, Magnificent Seven, movie posters, Saul Bass, Spartacus, The Shining | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 21, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Family, Friday Fotos, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Screenwriting, Shabbos, Succos, True Hollywood Confessions, William Powell | Tagged Alex Katz, André Kertész, Carl Gustav Carus, Clara Peeters, David Wilkie, Diane Arbus, Federico Patellani, George Hurrell, Gina Lollobrigida, Godfather, Horst B. Horst, Jean-Baptise-Camille Corot, Jim Dine, Lolita, Marc Riboud, Mario Puzo, Merle Oberon, Munya Upin, Myrna Loy, Paul Revere, Paul-Jean Flandrin, Sir David Wilkie, Stanley Kubrick, Sue Lyon, Tarzan, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Vivien Maier, William Powell | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 25, 2016

Hidden Hollywood: Broncho Billy, Son of a Jewish Gun

Tweet In 1965, a frail old man in a wheelchair appeared in the no-budget western, The Bounty Killer. For those of us who love movies, especially westerns, this is a bittersweet moment. Because the man who invented the western movie hero makes his last appearance on the silver screen. That man was Broncho Billy Anderson. But […]

Also posted in Broncho Billy, Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Hollywood, John Wayne, Movies, Silent Movies | Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Essany, Francis X. Bushman, Marguerite Clayton, Max Aaronson, Mollie Louise Schabbleman, Westerns | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Actors, Art, Edith Head, Errol Flynn, Family, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Lielle Meital, Maayan Ariel, Marlon Brando, Movies, Olivia De Havilland, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Silent Movies, They Died With Their Boots On, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charlie Chaplin, Deborah Kerr, Dinner at Eight, Edith Head, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Joan Fontaine, Lenore Coffee, Leon Berkowitz, Marie Dressler, Marlon Brando, Noel Neill, Olivia de Havilland, Sabine Weiss, Sari Srulovitch, Smith & Wesson, They Died, Tiffany and Co., To Each His Own, W. Eugene Smith, Wally Kline, Æneas MacKenzie | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 6, 2016

Hidden Hollywood: Latin Lover Ricardo Cortez is Kosher Butcher’s Son

Tweet Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977) was a handsome and talented leading man whose image, in the silent era, was that of a hot-blooded Latin lover. In truth, his name was Jacob Krantz, the son of a kosher butcher, born and raised in the mean streets of New York’s Lower East Side.

Also posted in Alma Rubens, Glamour, Greta Garbo, Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Irene Dunne, Jewish Hollywood, Judaism, Movies, Photography, Ricardo Cortez, Silent Movies | Tagged Alma Rubens, Bebe Daniels, D.W. Griffith, Greta Garbo, Irene Dunne, L.B. Mayer, Mae Clarke, Maltese Falcon, Pidyon Ha-Ben, Ricardo Cortez, Stanley Cortez, Symphony of Six Million, The Torrent, This Bright World Again | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 24, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Audrey Hepburn, Automobiles, Elizabeth Taylor, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movies, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Argyle Chair, Buster Crabbe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edward Harrison May, John Frederick Peto, Maarten van Heemskerck, Pinchas Tzvi, Robert Motherwell, Saul Leiter, Thomas Eakins, Thurston Hopkins, Utamaro | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 16, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Actors, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna May Wong, Art, Design, Family, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Madge Bellamy, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ann Dvorak, Arthur Dove, Canada Dry Spur Cola, Casablanca, Edward H, Georgiana Houghton, Horst B. Horst, Josef Hoffmann, Madge Bellamy, Marilyn Monroe, Spur Soda, William Harnett, Winslow Homer | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 25, 2016

Friday Photos, True Hollywood Secrets: How to be Beautiful

Also posted in Audrey Hepburn, Colleen Moore, Family, Friday Fotos, Grace Kelly, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ingrid Bergman, Silent Movies, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alice White, Audrey Hepburn, Bert Stern, Betty Blythe, Florence Vandamm, Frederick Hammersley, Gary Cooper, Gerrit Dou, Grace Kelly, Harald Slott-Moller, Henry Clarke, Hollywood Beauty Tips, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Penn, Katherine Hepburn, Lisa Fonssagrives, She, Spitfire | 6 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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