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

Anne Frank

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I know that if I were not a movie star, I wouldn’t get asked out much. I don’t pretend that I’m the life of the party. I never kid myself that I got into pictures on my looks either. I was the first of an era of more or less homely guys in the movies. ”
—Gary Cooper

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Chanukah Before Extermination

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Chanukah in the Westerbork Camp, Netherlands
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Westerbork was established by the Dutch government as a camp for Jews fleeing persecution by the Nazis. It was taken over by the Germans in 1942, at which point it became a transit point for shipping Jews to the extermination camps. Approximately 98,000 Jews were deported from Westerbork. Virtually all of them perished. Among the victims who went to their deaths through Westerbork were Anne Frank and her older sister Margo.

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Often a director, in a weepy scene, would ask me to visualize my mother dying so that I might cry easily. I couldn’t do it. The only way I could bring the tears was to think about something horrible happening to me.”
—Norma Shearer

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually agent, actor, director, producer, leading man. And you are a star if you sleep with them in that order. Crude but true.”
—Hedy Lamarr

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Friday Photos: The High Horse Edition

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John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter on their high horses, “The Searchers”, 1956.
John Wayne (right) on his high horse, “The Searchers”, 1956.

At the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, Barack Obama warned that we should not “get on our high horse” over the immolation of Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot 1st Lt. Muadh al-Kasasbeh because Christians used to burn people too.

It shocking and reprehensible that two days after Islamic terrorists burn a man alive, the President of the United States sternly lectures the American people about the 800-year-old Inquisition.

There have been over 25,000 Muslim acts of terror since 9-11. There is a cancer in the house of Islam. If you deny this, you deny reality. And if you deny reality, you are all but surrendering to bloodthirsty Islamic terrorists.

Obama’s depraved moral calculus is that of an adolescent who’s been blowing dope and experiencing, y’know, like, deep thoughts.

Those who draw a moral equivalence between ancient Christianity and contemporary Islamists should be shunned by responsible adults.

Decent people whose moral compass is intact will mount a high horse — and stay there.

A few pictures to alleviate the gathering darkness.

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