Seraphic Secret

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

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
—James Stewart

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Acting is like sex: you either do it and don’t talk about it, or you talk about it and don’t do it. That’s why I’m always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.“
—Humphrey Bogart

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since… I was sometimes greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don’t think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.“
—Joan Bennett

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Friday Photos: True Passover

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Eleanor Parker (’22 – ’13) was a brilliant actress who played comedy as deftly as she played drama. Her voice was film noir husky, and she used it like a musical instrument. Raised a Protestant, she converted to Judaism. “I think we’re all Jews at heart,” she told columnist Kay Gardella. “I wanted to convert for a long time.” Her daughter spent a summer working on a kibbutz, married an Israeli, and settled in Israel permanently. Parker’s best films are: Caged (’50) Detective Story (’51) Scaramouche (’52) Interrupted Melody (’55), and The King and Four Queens (’56).
Eleanor Parker (1922–2013) was a brilliant actress who performed in comedy as deftly as she played drama. Her voice was film noir husky, and she used it like a musical instrument. Raised a Protestant, she converted to Judaism. “I think we’re all Jews at heart,” she told columnist Kay Gardella. “I wanted to convert for a long time.” Her daughter spent a summer working on a kibbutz, married an Israeli, and settled in Israel permanently. Parker’s best films are: Caged (’50) Detective Story (’51) Scaramouche (’52) Interrupted Melody (’55), and The King and Four Queens (’56).

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Seraphic Secret In the Land of Israel, Part II

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Jews with guns. Karen's brother David (right) is a rabbi, a lawyer, and a fine marksman. His son, our nephew, Jeremy, is an IDF veteran and now works in one of those high-tech Israeli firms that are remaking the cyber landscape. Both are licensed to carry in the land of Israel. In case you haven't heard, the IslamoNazis who call themselves Palestinians, are just like Iran at war with the Jewish state. Anyhoo, David and Jeremy both favor the Glock handgun.
Jews with guns. Karen’s brother David (right) is a rabbi, a lawyer, and a spectacularly wonderful and generous man. His son, our nephew Jeremy, is an IDF veteran who now works in one of those high-tech Israeli firms that are remaking the cyber landscape. Both father and son are licensed to carry in the land of Israel. In case you haven’t heard, the IslamoNazis who call themselves Palestinians are, just like Iran, at war with the Jewish state. Anyhoo, David and Jeremy both favor the Glock handgun for self-defense against Islamist terrorists.

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