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

Friday Photos: Till the Cows Come Home

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Buster Keaton with a cow. Not sure which film this is from, possibly Go West, but for some odd reason we have been coming across scores of pictures of Hollywood stars and cow.
Buster Keaton with a cow in “Go West” For some odd reason we have been coming across scores of pictures of Hollywood stars and cows.

I’ve just finished a long and depressing conversation with a close friend who attends Daf Yomi with yours truly. We were wondering (among other things) what has possessed Barack Hussein Obama to release five more ruthless Gitmo detainees?

All evidence, and common sense, suggests that these IslamoNazis will return to jihad and commit further rampages of murder, torture, rape, and plunder.

I suggested that Obama is a classic narcissist who will do what he wants regardless of the consequences. My friend asked, not unreasonably, if Obama does not heed his national security briefings? We went around and around the matter. But ultimately the question of Obama’s motivations are irrelevant. His actions are the only things that count. And this POTUS is guilty of dereliction of duty.

Okay. Got that out of the way.

Time for some images that, hopefully, will brighten a darkening landscape. And the theme today, believe it or not, is…

… Hollywood cows.

 

Lillian Gish with bovine companion in DW Griffith's “True Heart Susie” (1919). The cow is a major plot point tin this film.
Lillian Gish with bovine companion in D.W. Griffith’s “True Heart Susie” (1919). The cow is a major plot point in this film.

 

Silent star Harry Langdon in “Soldier Man” ('26).
Silent star Harry Langdon in “Soldier Man” (’26).

 

The year is 1937 and the great Carole Lombard feeds her cow. Here's what's odd about this pic: Is Lombard wearing pajamas? Or is that some tartan pantsuit that is a loony precursor to Hillary's tragic butch look?
The year is 1937 and the great Carole Lombard is feeding a cow. Here’s our question about this pic: Is Lombard wearing pajamas? Or is that some tartan pantsuit that is a loony precursor—which Lombard can pull of—to Hillary Clinton’s tragic look?

 

Another cow. This time Harold Lloyd in a still from “Welcome Danger” ('29).
Harold Lloyd in a still from “Welcome Danger” (’29).

 

I'm afraid I can do this cow thing for a long time. Here's a still from one of our favorite movies, Remember the Night ('40) with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray.
I’m afraid I can do this cow thing ’till the cows come home—ouch. Here’s a still from one of our favorite movies, “Remember the Night” (’40) with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. In fact MacMurray, with his wife June Haver, raised Black Angus cows on their ranch in Sonoma County.

 

No cows in Livia Yarden's life. Here, she is getting to know Karen.
No cows in Livia Yarden’s life. Here, she is getting to know Karen.

Karen and I wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and meaningful Shabbat.

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  2. Pajamas. Lombard’s also wearing slippers.

    Obama is sympathetic to the terrorist’s goals and, I suspect, has some romantic notion about their their fight against “oppression” in much the same way little boys root for Robin Hood.

    Of course Robin was a myth….

  3. Well…
    Is it not possible that our President could be considered “muad” and therefore liable?
    Or, to be less cryptic, perhaps Barack Hussein’s mother was actually Jewish and, perhaps the death of his father was only attested to by one witness and after his mother remarried, his father was found to be alive but, it was found that his mother had had a previous marriage before his father which was never properly abrogated and that his mother subsequently went out to the shuk whereupon Barack eventually took it upon himself to act as did Zimri son of Salu as he considered being labeled as a mamzer to be an insult to his Marxist Leninist heritage and that he now seeks his revenge?

    Or, maybe he’s just the center of that place where relations are considered unnatural?

    Have a great Shabbos and a gut vak! 🙂

  5. Lombard & Gable had a ranch with farm animals. While the photo of her predates her marriage to Gable, it wouldn’t surprise me to find that she loved working with those animals. You’re right, of course. That suit of hers is weird.

  6. I very much enjoy your take on things, but what I *really* want to say is that your Olivia Yarden is a *beautiful* baby, kinnahora. Much naches from all your grandchildren.

  7. I have to wonder if he secretly doesn’t sympathize with Muslim terrorists. Look at his embracing of Morsi in Egypt. Although I don’t think you can include the Muslim Brotherhood in with the current batch of terrorists, although many came from that group.

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