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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: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Movies were much better in the days I was doing them.”
—Rita Hayworth

Edward Hopper
Self Portrait
1925–1930
Oil on canvas
25 3/8 × 20 3/8in. (64.5 × 51.8 cm)

 

Yemenite Jewish Woman, 1983, by photographer, Frederic Brenner, from his series “Diaspora.” There are now only a handful of Jews remaining in Yemen.

 

Blancpain, one of the oldest—founded in 1735—and most respected Swiss watch companies has just released an elegant dress watch, the Villeret Ultraplate, that has an amazing 100 hour power reserve. More here.

 

“To the French film community I was neither fish nor fowl—not really American nor believably French; how could I be French, since my name, Leslie, was American and since I had made a successful career in Hollywood? I am very much appreciated by the French only so long as I appear in American films—preferably musicals—but my star is tarnished immediately if i try to join the French scene.”
—Leslie Caron

 

Jan Toorop (Dutch; 1858–1928)
Portrait of Marie Jeanette de Lange
1900
oil on canvas
Height: 70.5 cm (27.7″); Width: 77.4 cm (30.4″)
Rijksmuseum

 

Frédéric Brenner
The Tzabaris and Zendanis, Jewish Families from Wadi Amlah, Habban, Yemen, 1985

 

French movie poster for Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959

 

“Acting is such a weird profession. It’s such a futile thing. Even when it’s there on film, there’s nothing really to it. It is not like making a piece of furniture or writing a book.”
—Max von Sydow (1929-2020) RIP

 

Tobi Kahn
RHYVA
from the AKHV series 2016
acrylic on wood, 9 x 12 x 2 in.

 

Frédéric Brenner
Levi Faez Studying Torah in His Grandfather’s Jewelry Workshop
El Hajar, Haidan, Yemen, 1983

 

1935 Jaguar SS90

 

Fred Lyon
The Fox Theater, Market Street, San Francisco 1956

 

Photo (staged) by Qiu Yan, 2004

 

Fred Lyon
Four Boys Playing on a School Yard Fence, San Francisco, 1945

 

Bat Mitzvah girl Maayan Ariel wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and virus-free Shabbat.

 

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  1. I read Leslie Caron’s biography. She has had an interesting life and it is not over. I would love to stay in her Auberge but she sold it. It is still going but European travel is over for us. I do like the Jaguar and it does resemble the Morgans. I was in a gas station near La Jolla one time and a guy pulled in behind me in a 1926 Bentley roadster. We had a great time talking about his car.

    When I was in college, a friend and I sat through a double feature of Carousel and Oklahoma in an old LA downtown theater. Probably the same one where we saw “A Place in the Sun” 20 times. That double feature was about 5 hours. Great times.

    Have a lovely weekend and avoid crowds. I notice all the stores that usually have hand sanitizer at the front doors do not have them anymore. I assume someone was taking them.

  2. That watch is simply beautiful. I love the deep blue color and the gold tones. I love the classic Roman numerals (note the “4”). I love the thin design — I’m not a big fan of the thick watches which are currently in vogue. Then I went to the Blancpain web site and discovered the Complete Calendar model. Wow.

    I love that Jaguar. Robert, it might be a substitute for that Morgan… 🙂

    I like the North By Northwest poster. I assume “Death Chasing After” was the French name of the release… I wonder what other names it was called.

    Look at the elaborate marquee on the Fox Theater… that’s a masterpiece in itself. I haven’t been to San Francisco since the late 60’s. I wonder if the theater/marquee is still there

    I vaguely remember Leslie Caron when I was young. I’m going to have to read up on her.

    Have a wonderful weekend!

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