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By Robert J. Avrech | February 7, 2013

Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s: Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin’ in the Rain

Tweet We continue our survey of the twenty greatest movies of the 1950s. For a complete listing of the greatest movies of the 20, 30s and 40s, click here. 4. Ace in the Hole, 1951 A hand-embroidered motto, “Tell the Truth” sits as a dusty epitaph on the newsroom wall of an inconsequential Albuquerque newspaper [...]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1950s, Hollywood, Kirk Douglas | Also tagged Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, Jan Sterling, Lana Turner, Singin in the Rain, The Bad and the Beautiful | 35 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 26, 2012

The Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters

Tweet From where do we draw wisdom? First and foremost, Seraphic Secret relies on the Torah—written and oral—on the lessons of 3,000 years of Jewish history, and on the common sense advice of my wife Karen. And then there are the movies, a moral landscape of immeasurable power where searing images and razor-sharp dialogue deliver [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Also tagged Beast of the City, Ben Hecht, Billy Wilder, China Seas, Clark Gable, Dalton Trumbo, Gone With the Wind, Gun Crazy, James Kevin McGuiness, Jan Sterling, Jean Harlow, Jo Swerling, John Lee Mahin, John Van Druten, Jules Furthman, Kirk Douglas, Lesser Samuels, MacKinlay Kantor, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Sidney Howard, Victor Desny, Vivien Leigh, W.R. Burnett, Walter Newman | 7 Responses

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I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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audio-only mp3 [18MB]: Eighth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [80MB]: Seventh Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [64MB]: Sixth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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audio-only mp3 [70MB]: Fifth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture

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