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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.
Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City
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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)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)
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Category Archives: Silent Movies
The Tragedy of Hollywood Star Lupe Velez
The lives of Hollywood stars are too frequently tragic tales of absent fathers, cruelly ambitious mothers, and madly dysfunctional families. Mexican-American actress, Lupe Velez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944) “The Mexican Spitfire” was a beautiful, passionate, emotionally fragile woman best known for a series of 1930’s B movies in which she plays a […]
Also posted in Esther Ralston, Hollywood, Lupe Velez
Tagged Abortion, Douglas Fairbanks, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Hollywood, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, Mexican Spitfire, The Gaucho, Victor Fleming
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Hidden Hollywood: Madge Bellamy’s Acting Workshop
Madge Bellamy was huge Hollywood star in the early 20’s. Unfortunately, most of Bellamy’s silent films have been lost. But you can still see her in starring roles in John Ford’s Iron Horse (1924) and Maurice Tourneur’s Lorna Doon (1922). In the sound era, Madge’s most famous role is as Madeleine Parker, in White Zombie, […]
Also posted in Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Madge Bellamy
Tagged Alan Dwan, Iron Horse, L.B. Mayer, Lorna Doon, Madge Bellamy
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Tearing Down Confederate Monuments
I have no love for the Confederacy. Slavery was evil. The cause of Southern secession was unjust and deserved to be defeated. However, this abrupt cultural paroxysm in which monuments honoring rebel leaders and soldiers are torn down or removed in the dead of night is not a healthy development. Decisions like this should be […]
Also posted in America, Confederate Monuments, Hollywood, Islam Denial, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Jew-hatred, Movies
Tagged Birth of a Nation, Cottage Grove, Gone With the Wind, Mao, Oregon, Scarlett O'Hara, Southern Monuments, The General
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Hidden Hollywood: Mary Nolan
Also posted in Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Mary Nolan, Photography
Tagged Frank Tinney, Mary Nolan, Silent Movies, Ziegfeld Girl
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Hidden Hollywood: Colleen Moore’s Not So Romantic Wedding Night
Flaming Youth was a huge hit and propelled Colleen Moore (1899 – 1988) to international stardom. Colleen was smart about her career, carefully choosing her roles and propelling herself to stardom. However, like so many young, inexperienced Hollywood actresses, she was not wise in her choice of men. Her notions of love were gauzy images based […]
Hitchcock: The Purest Form of Cinema
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking and the noises. But this slight imperfection did not warrant the major changes that sound brought in… In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I […]
Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Great Movies, Hollywood, Quotes, Screenwriting
Tagged Helen G. Scott, Hitchcock, The Lodger, Truffaut
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
Also posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Painting, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions
Tagged Billy Al Bengston, Boris Karloff, Charles Sheeler, Edgar Degas, Fan Ho, Gary Cooper, Gerard Castello Lopes, Gleb Derujinsky, Jean Arthur, Katherine Hepburn, Lillian Gish, Mary Obering, Ori Resheff, Otto Dix, Peter Paul Rubens, Saul Bass
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Hidden Hollywood: Rudolph Valentino and the Rabbi’s Beautiful Daughter
The great pioneering director D.W. Griffith hired Rabbi Isadore Myers as the Jewish technical consultant on his great epic, Intolerance, 1916. Griffith was so happy with Rabbi Myer’s expert advice and attention to detail that he said to the good Rabbi: “How can I ever repay you?” Replied Rabbi Myers: “I have a daughter who would […]
Also posted in Carmel Myers, Hidden Hollywood, History, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaism, Patsy Ruth Miller, Photography, Rudolph Valentino
Tagged Ben Hur, Carmel Myers, Colleen Moore, D.W. Griffith, Dark Lover, Emily W. Leider, Intolerance, Iras, Mary Pickford, Patsy Ruth Miller, Rabbi Isadore Myers, The Shiek, Valentino
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Hidden Hollywood: Broncho Billy, Son of a Jewish Gun
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 Broncho […]
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
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Hidden Hollywood: Latin Lover Ricardo Cortez is Kosher Butcher’s Son
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, Movie Posters, Movies, Photography, Ricardo Cortez
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
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Friday Photos, True Hollywood Secrets: How to be Beautiful
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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
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Self-Portraits, Early Selfies
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Warning: Hollywood’s Coming for Your Home and Children
Jewish Action magazine has just published another of my articles about Hollywood as leftist propaganda machine. This time I focus on Hollywood and the family.
Also posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood: Then and Now, Screenwriting
Tagged Breaking Bad, Coming Home, Duck Dynasty, Easy Rider, Friday Night Lights, Hollywood as Propaganda Machine, House of Cards, Housewives Franchise, Hungry Hearts, Mad Men, Modern Family, Moral Inversions, Postmodern Hollywood, Radical Hollywood, Television, The Americans, Tony Soprano John Wayne, Vikings
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