Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Quotes

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

October 8, 2021 by Robert J. Avrech 11 Comments

“I tend to be a glass-half-full person most of the time. We don’t get to choose the outcome of our endeavors, but any challenge is ultimately a learning experience whether it’s successful or not.”
—Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1935 – )

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

October 1, 2021 by Robert J. Avrech 12 Comments

“It will be fun to be the first Jewish queen of Egypt.”
—Elizabeth Taylor on playing Cleopatra. Her comment caused outrage in Egypt.

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

September 17, 2021 by Robert J. Avrech 4 Comments

“I’ve probably understood men too well. I realize they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.”
—Jacqueline Bisset (b. Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset, England, 1944)

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

August 20, 2021 by Robert J. Avrech 10 Comments

“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 – )

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

August 6, 2021 by Robert J. Avrech 12 Comments

“Love is a publicity stunt, and making love – after the first curious raptures – is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.”
—Louise Brooks

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.

Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

NOTE: Click on video titles inside the thumbnail images, below, to open that video in YouTube

Sixteenth: August 25, 2019
“Torah Dedication in Memory of Ariel Chaim Avrech Z’L”

Blog Post | Audio: TBD

Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)

Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (64MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (70MB)