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Tweet Hollywood was once the dream capital of the world. Movies peddled glamour and fantasy. This was La-La Land where outrageous plots and larger than life characters allowed audiences to construct alternate realities — entertainment. But La-La Land has relocated. On Wednesday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in […]

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Joan Blondell, Movies, Obama Watch, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, Politics, Progressive Democrats | Also tagged Andy Warhol, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Basil Rathbone, Disney Concert Hall, Don Ameche, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Rothko, Martin Puryear, Photography, Sandra Dee, Steve McQueen, The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 15, 2015

Friday Photos: Here, There, Everywhere

Tweet Chutzpah: George Stephanapoulos says there is no liberal bias in the media. Enjoy the images.

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Anna May Wong, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Marilyn Monroe | Also tagged Anna May Wong, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Elizabeth Taylor, George Stephanopoulos, Glamour, Gun Crazy, Hashomer, Joan Crawford, Martin Puryear, Peggy Cummins, Randy's Donuts, Tiffany | 21 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 26, 2015

Reading Lunch Under the California Sun

Tweet I usually read several few books at a time. I think I have a touch of ADD. Or maybe I’m just intellectually restless. Because we live in Los Angeles where the sun shines almost every day of the week, I often sit in Casa Avrech’s patio eating lunch and reading. Here’s a sample of […]

Posted in Book Reviews, Books | Also tagged Ian Kershaw, Jan Vermeer, Jews in Israel During Talmudic Age, John Kobal, Leningrad, Myrna Loy | 18 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 28, 2014

Friday Photos: Still Scattered

Tweet We hope all our readers had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. Keeping to last week’s theme of eschewing a theme, Seraphic Secret is, once again, indulging in a collection of random photos that we like for various reasons. We hope you do too.

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Seven Samurai | Also tagged Gun Crazy, James Nares, Jan Vermeer, Self Portraits, Self-Portrait, Shabbat, Shachareet, Tefillin | 4 Responses

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 | 12 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

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Robert J. Avrech
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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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