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By Robert J. Avrech | February 10, 2012

Friday Footwear: Hollywood Steps Out

Tweet Classic photos of Hollywood stars usually reinforce a particular image. Lighting, composition, body language, wardrobe and the singular architecture of the face are the ingredients that create a glamorous narrative for audiences to internalize. Clark Gable is the man’s man who doesn’t give a damn; Carole Lombard, the girl next door who will drive […]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Clark Gable, Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood | Also tagged Carole Lombard, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Pablo Picasso, Pola Negri | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 26, 2011

Friday Fotos: Mirror, Mirror

Tweet The business of creating glamour was hard work. And the Hollywood still photographers employed by the studios did a great deal of the heavy lifting. Thorugh their craft they helped manufacture stars by producing shimmering, glamorous images that hinted at beings who were human gods. Who has not seen the stunning George Hurrell photo […]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood Mirror | Also tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Classic Hollywood, Glamour, Helen Twelvetrees, Hurrell, Lillian Gish, Myrna Loy | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 12, 2011

Friday Fashion: Hollywood The Old is New

Tweet Every once in a while Seraphic Secret come across a Hollywood photo that isn’t a burnished glamour shot but a portrait of the star caught in a more casual, more intimate moment. Quite often, the resulting look transcends both time and place in terms of fashion and style. Above, in the early 1950′s, is—who […]

Posted in Friday Fashion, Hollywood | Also tagged Edith Falk, Glamour, Jean Harlow, Jimmy Stewart, Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich, Retro-Fashion, Rudy Sieber | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 22, 2011

Hollywood: I Drive Therefore I am

Tweet America has long had a love affair with the automobile. Cars are the ultimate expression of form, function, fashion—and speed. But most of all the car represents freedom. Try and remember when you were a teenager yearning for your driver’s license so you could hop into daddy’s car and go, go, go. It didn’t […]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood | Also tagged Clark Gable, Classic Cars, Esther Ralston, Mabel Normand, Rudolph Valentino | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 15, 2011

In Search of Hollywood’s Sole

Tweet Hollywood glamour is most often, and correctly, associated with picture perfect faces, figures, magical charisma, and the stunning costumes worn by stars of the silver screen during Hollywood’s Golden Age. But then, as now, footwear was a vital component of the machinery of glamour.

Posted in Friday Footwear, Hollywood | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Classic Hollywood, Glamour, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Pickford, Paulette Goddard, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tony Curtis | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 1, 2011

Friday Fotos

Tweet Readers of Seraphic Secret know that yours truly likes to take long walks around my Los Angeles neighborhood and take pictures of stuff. Shlepping my Canon SLR is a pain in the neck—literally. Thus, for the past few years, I’ve been carrying the fine and compact Canon PowerShot . But recently, I switched the […]

Posted in Friday Fotos | Also tagged Apple, Ava Gardner, Ballet Flats, Chanel, Footwear, iPhone, Karen, Los Angeles, Ma'ayan Ariel, One Touch of Venus, Photography, Twitter | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 24, 2011

New Home, Same Seraphic Secret

Tweet Over the past few weeks Seraphic Secret has been changing over to Word Press. We have also moved to a new and faster server. In the next few days you will notice other updates. Our comments section now utilizes the excellent Intense Debate which allows readers to reply directly to one another. Seraphic Secret […]

Posted in Seraphic Secret | Also tagged Housekeeping, Word Press | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 20, 2011

Economic Smackdown: Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama

Tweet Hey, did you know that there’s a statue of Brigitte Bardot in Buzios, Brazil? And what does this have to do with economic theory? It’s just that yesterday Karen and I took a walk in Beverly Hills and we were totally grossed out by a hunk of public sculpture in a bank plaza on […]

Posted in Obamacare | Also tagged Ariel, Economic Freedom, Hollywood, Paul Ryan, Socialism, Yossi Klein Halevi | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 17, 2011

Hollywood For Sale

Tweet Tweet Debbie Reynolds The Auction tomorrow, June 18, 2011, is your chance to own a slice of Hollywood history. Hollywood’s Golden Age is over. The great stars exist only as silvery shadows on the screen. But some of the most important movie costumes and props, collected and preserved by actress Debbie Reynolds, […]

Posted in Debbie Reynolds | Also tagged Auction, Audrey Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Classic Movies, Costume Design, Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Plunkett | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 16, 2011

Elvis Meets Bardot

Tweet Tweet Last night night I dreamed about Elvis Presley. I don’t remember the dream except that it’s logic went something like this: I’m a kid in Brooklyn, cutting Yeshiva, going to the movies in Manhattan—which looks suspiciously like Beverly Hills—and I’m sitting in a theater watching an Elvis movie that does not […]

Posted in Elvis Presley | Also tagged Hollywood, Rock & Roll | 21 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 15, 2011

Michele Bachmann: The Next Jew

Tweet Sarah Palin wore a Magen David to celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem. Naturally, liberals accuse her of Jew-hatred. Tweet The Selective Investigative Instincts of the Liberal Media When Sarah Palin burst upon the national scene and the liberal media attempted to destroy her Seraphic Secret observed that Governor Palin was being transformed […]

Posted in Michele Bachmann | Also tagged Abortion, Adoption, Blood Libel, Glamour, Islam, Israel, Jeremiah Wright, Jerusalem, Liberal Media, Michele Bachmann Jew, Sarah Palin, Socialism | 32 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 14, 2011

Israel: Petro Power

Tweet Tweet Islamic jihad is based on Koranic ideology, a poisonous brew of theological Jew-hatred and global imperialism. The ultimate goal of jihad is to kill every Jew and Christian on the face of the earth and establish a world-wide 7th century caliphate oppressing non-Muslims as dhimmis and enslaving Muslim women as well, Muslim […]

Posted in Oil | Also tagged Brig, Jew-hatred, Jihad, Petro Dollars, Socialism | 15 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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Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
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