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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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“Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
—Michael Caine

Jan Miense Molenaer
Woman playing a virginal
c. 1635
38.5 x 29.5 cm
Oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

 

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson with his wife Rachel, and son Jackie Jr. posing beside their car, Brooklyn, 1949, photo by Nina Leen.

 

1938 Peugeot 402
Darl’Mat Roadster

 

“I am not an adult, that’s my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child … unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.”
—Jean Arthur

 

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Cooling off at Shijō by the Kamo River, 1885
From the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki Hyakushi)
color woodblock print
Dimensions: Sheet approximately 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (39.4 × 26.7 cm)

 

Rick McGinnis
Peter, Sarah & Karen, Earlscourt, June 2020
Rick says: “I hadn’t shot a portrait in months when the lockdown entered its third month. Then I realized that the most appropriate subjects were the people on my street, with whom I had become familiar as we got used to each other’s very abbreviated routines. It took a couple of weeks to set up and shoot the series, posing my neighbours in the front or back doors of the homes where they’d been sheltering in place since March.”
More neighbour portraits here.

 

Robert J. Avrech
“A Wall Grows in Teaneck”
2020

 

“I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.“
—Irene Dunne

 

Pieter de Hooch (1629–after 1684 )
A Boy Bringing Bread
circa 1663
oil on canvas
Height: 74.5 cm (29.3 in); Width: 60 cm (23.6 in)
The Wallace Collection

 

Weegee (B. Asher Felig 1899 – 1968)
Summer Lower East Side, NYC, 1937

 

The elegant Vacheron Constantin Historiques Triple Calendrier 1942 in steel is a tribute to their Art Deco classic and retails for, wait for it: $20,000.

 

Felix Bonfils
Young Jewish Woman, Beirut c.1875

 

With joy and gratitude to Hashem, our sixth grandchild, Charlotte Birdy, (Hebrew: Chaya Braindel) wishes all our friends and relatives the very best Shabbat ever.

 

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  1. I always liked Michael Caine as an actor. And anyone who can portray a German WW2 officer who had honor – with a cockney accent – convincingly – has my vote. (The Eagle Has Landed)

    I was surprised to learn that when Jean Arthur did Shane, she was ready for retirement and was talked into doing the movie. I wonder how many movie stars are painfully shy?

    Can you get the Vacheron Constantin Historiques Triple Calendrier at Costco? 😉

  4. Jean Arthur’s heavy-handed self-analysis means she is clearly someone not to know. As for Irene
    Dunne, she may be the most talented person ever on screen; Beatuy, music, humor and drama. My kind of girl.

  5. I love the watch, Robert. A beautiful design, albeit pricey.

    Can’t you imagine tooling around the country-side of southern France in the Peugeot? It’s not a Morgan, but a worthy substitute maybe.

    Quite the contrast between the two women: Irene Dunne and Jean Arthur. Arthur was painfully shy, to the point of being a recluse, while Dunne spoke before the United Nations and was highly active in her philanthropic pursuits. Honestly, Shane is the only performance I recall of Arthur’s career, although I know I’ve seen several of her other films.

    Again, Charlotte is beautiful. Congratulations to the entire family and have a wonderful weekend celebrating her arrival.

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