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Shavuot

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

Shavuot

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I married Nicholas Ray, the director. People yawned. Later on I married his son, and from the press’s reaction you’d have thought I was committing incest or robbing the cradle!”
—Gloria Grahame

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“It wasn’t the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.”
—Gloria Grahame

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Ann Miller, c.1944
“There’s definitely a place for real glamour – and a real woman must be in her late 30’s or early 40’s because the young ones haven’t the foggiest idea what it’s all about.”
—Ann Miller in 1971

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The Story of Ruth Reenacted 100 Years Ago in Israel

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Photo portrait of "Ruth the Moabitess" (Library of Congress)
Ruth, as enacted by a member of the American Colony in Israel 100 years ago.

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot,  Pentecost, begins this coming Saturday night.  The holiday has several traditional names: Shavuot, the festival of weeks, marking seven weeks after Passover; Chag HaKatzir, the festival of reaping grains, and Chag HaBikkurim, the festival of first fruits.  Shavuot, according to Jewish tradition, is the day the Children of Israel accepted the Torah at Mt. Sinai.  It is also believed to be the day of King David’s birth and death.

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Obama’s Lack of Leadership and Moral Accountability

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Here’s Barack Hussein Obama reacting to the three scandals that are poised to engulf the balance of his second term:

1. Benghazi is a “sideshow.”

2. Political repression of Conservatives by the IRS  was committed by “low-level staffers.”

3. Regarding government wiretaps on the AP: “I’m shocked.”

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