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

Vivien Leigh

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.”
—Vivien Leigh

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.”
—Joan Collins

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Listen, there is no acting style. Most people just play themselves.”
—Myrna Loy

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Your inner life means an awful lot, too. If you’re unhappy or bitter or jealous, it shows in your face. And I’m sure it’s true, love keeps you pretty.” —Ingrid Bergman
“Your inner life means an awful lot, too. If you’re unhappy or bitter or jealous, it shows in your face. And I’m sure it’s true, love keeps you pretty.”
—Ingrid Bergman

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New Year, Old Hollywood

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Still from “Holiday Inn”
Still from “Holiday Inn” (1942)

Here at Seraphic Secret we try to remain optimistic. However, after six years of Obama, this state of mind becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.

IslamoNazis are on the march all across the globe. Iran edges closer to becoming a nuclear power even as Obama touts what a good friend Iran could be. ObamaCare is, as we knew it would be, a disaster. Perhaps most disturbing of all is the ubiquitous presence of the race baiting, tax cheating Al Sharpton in the White House. Sharpton is no ordinary professional demagogue like Barack Obama. Sharpton is a proven liar, and a toxic Jew-hater who provoked a pogrom in Brooklyn that lead to multiple deaths.

And this is the man who has become Obama’s de facto Minister of Blackishness, or something.

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