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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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Mia Farrow on the set of Rosemary’s Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)

“I appeared in every single scene of the film [Rosemary’s Baby], except when, during [the impregnated with Satan’s spawn sequence] a body double was used in my place. But I didn’t entirely miss out on the scene—one day I found myself—me from convent school, who prayed with outstretched arms in the predawn light – tied to the four corners of a bed, ringed by elderly, chanting witches, while a perfect stranger with bad skin and vertical pupils was grinding away on top of me. I didn’t dare think. After finishing that scene the actor climbed off me and said politely, in all seriousness, ‘Miss Farrow, I just want to say, it’s a real pleasure to have worked with you.’“
—excerpted from Mia Farrow’s What Falls Away

Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian artist, 1593–1652) Jael and Sisera, 1620

 

Annie Haden by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1860

 

Rick McGinnis
Route 110 outside Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, Nov. 2016

 

Anna May Wong, 1920s

 

Joseph Cornell
Histoire Naturelle
1960
Mixed media box construction
8 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 5 in.
21.6 x 32.4 x 12.7 cm

 

Maksim Dondyuk
Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Ukraine, Young Hasid sits on the shoulders of his father in prayer, 2014

 

“I often think our glamorization of Hollywood stars – the perpetual photographing us in ermine and bouffant tulle, in French bathing suits or sleek satin – throws the public off. They don’t recognize us as human beings subject to the same discomforts of climate and working conditions as they are. They expect to see that goddess leading a couple of wolfhounds come striding onto the set. I am a farm girl, born and raised near Canton, Ohio. I like the frank, honest approach.”
—Jean Peters, 1951

 

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maid Servant with the Head of Holofernes, 1613-14

 

John McLaughlin
#18–1961, 1961
Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in. Private Collection

 

Reading by Lamplight by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1858

 

Rick McGinnis
Downtown L.A. from the Loew’s Hollywood helipad, Nov. 2016

 

Fei Fei Sun and Xiao Wen Ju photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue China, December 2014.

 

Bruce Davidson
Subway series
New York City, 1980

 

Grace Kelly & Raymond Burr in Rear Window 1954, screenplay by John Michael Hayes, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

“After all, a girl is…well, a girl. It’s nice to be told you’re successful at it.”
—Rita Hayworth

 

Artemisia Gentileschi, Lot and his Daughters, 1635-38

 

Raymond Burr in Please Murder Me, 1956
Screenplay by Donald Hyde, Al C. Ward
Story by David T. Chantler, Ewald André Dupont

 

Photo by Harry Callahan

 

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Weary, 1863

 

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945, oil on canvas
91.8-x-122. 2 cm.

 

Rick McGinnis
Cuna di Terra Vineyard, outside Dolores Hidalgo, Nov. 2016

 

Wayne Thiebaud
1/2 Lemon Meringue Pie
1977
Pastel and watercolor on paper mounted to paperboard
14 7/8 x 18 1/2 in.

 

Photo by Hendrik Kerstens
2012

 

Robert J. Avrech
’57 Chevy, Los Angeles, 2016

 

Hanukkah Lamp
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert, American, b. Germany, 1900-1981
New York, New York, United States, 1958
Copper alloy: hand-worked
11 1/8 × 11 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (28.3 × 28.3 × 8.9 cm)

 

Maayan, Livia, and Lielle wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

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  1. I drove home today after picking up a painting of my grandchildren that is a gift for Christmas to their parents. Ahead of me most of the way was a 1956 Chevy station wagon. It was in perfect condition, it appeared.

    Have a happy Sabbath.

  4. When I was a kid, I collected all the Perry Mason books and read them cover to cover, looking for hard evidence that he and Della were really an item. The mysteries were incidental. Once, she was described as [as I remember], “an attractive brunette, a svelte size 12.” Those were the days.
    Ok, that faux-Elizabethan picture, it’s the art of found objects: she’s wearing a fleishige dishtowel on her head and a dryer exhaust pipe around her neck?
    I love that Whistler style of illustration.
    Very cool bisection of the street in the Callahan picture.

    A very peaceful happy Shabbos to all.

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