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By Robert J. Avrech | April 5, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Akira Kurosawa, Buster Keaton, Cathy O'Donnell, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Kim Novak, Passover, Photography, Rick McGinnis, Screenwriting | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, Cathy O'Donnell, Charles Sheeler, Double Indemnity, Dovima, George Ault, Gerald Murphy, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak, Marvin E. Newman, Matisse, Richard Avedon, Rick McGinnis, Thomas Hoepker, Walker Evans, Walter Sickert, Yvonne De Carlo | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 1, 2018

New Year, Old Hollywood: 2018

Tweet After one year of the Trump presidency we are hopeful and optimistic. Obama’s JV team, ISIS, has been nearly wiped out. Neil Gorsuch sits on the Supreme Court. The Keystone pipeline is, at last, open. The individual mandate is gone. Which spells the beginning off the end for Obamacare. More and more federal lands […]

Posted in Donald Trump, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lizabeth Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Movies, Myrna Loy, New Years | Also tagged Betty Grable, Greta Herwig, Holiday Inn, Janet Leigh, Joan Crawford, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lizabeth Scott, Loretta Young, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Myrna Loy, Saoirse Ronan, Shirley Temple | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 11, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Tweet Once again Friday Photos appears on Wednesday due to the last days of Sukkot which begin tonight and then run into Shabbat. Enjoy!

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Grable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allan Grant, Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Picart, Betty Grable, Edward Hopper, Efrat, Eileen Gray, Eugene Robert Richee, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Gerrit Dou, Hendrick Terbrugghen, Hoshana Rabbah, Louise Brooks, Morgan Auto, Picasso, Preston Sturges, Richard Avedon, Richard Burton, Rick McGinnis, Robert Doisneau, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, To Catch a Thief | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 7, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movies, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Ann Sothern, Ava Gardner, Bela Lugosi, Colt Dragoon Revolver, Dura Europos fresco, Ezra Stoller, Gerard ter Borch, Harpo Marx, Hilma af Klint, His Girl Friday, Mel Brooks, Princess Margaret, Randall Knives, Rembrandt, Rick McGinnis, Studebaker, Vivian Maier | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 21, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Ava Gardner, Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jerusalem, Livia Yarden, Movie Posters, Movie Star Ads, Movies, Painting, Photography, Rita Hayworth, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Albrecht Durer, Bates House, Clyfford Still, Edward Hopper, Ginger Rogers, Janet Leigh, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Michelangelo, Milton Avery, Psycho, Rolled Stockings, Star Ads, Tony Curtis | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 25, 2014

Flashback: Hollywood Celebrates Christmas

Tweet During Hollywood’s Golden Age, the studios, through newspapers,fan magazines, and trade publications, published photos of their stars celebrating Christmas. In this way, Hollywood — though founded by poor immigrant Jews — informed the public that the motion picture industry was in harmony with Christian America. Seraphic Secret — Karen and I — are Orthodox Jews. […]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Christmas, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Also tagged Clara Bow, Cyd Charisse, Harold Lloyd, Hollywood Celebrates Christmas, Jayne Mansfield, Jobyna Ralston, Louise Brooks, Marceline Day, Mary Pickford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Priscilla Lane, Rita Hayworth, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Conservative Republican, The Cameraman | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 31, 2014

Hollywood — Play Ball!

Tweet Ever since Hollywood invented itself as a universal dream factory, movies about baseball were viewed as the perfect landscape in which to explore themes of loyalty, ambition, competition, and of course, love. More than any other sports genre, baseball movies have dominated the silver screen. And of course, Hollywood publicity departments frequently used baseball […]

Posted in Buster Keaton, Carole Lombard, Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Hollywood, Hollywood Baseball, Hollywood Play Ball, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Rita Hayworth | Also tagged A League of Their Own, Actor's Studio, Carole Lombard, Colleen Moore, Hollywood and Baseball, John Wayne, Madonna, Marlon Brando, Painted People, Pride of the Yankees, Rita Hayworth, Tom Hanks | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | April 27, 2012

Hollywood: A Dog’s Life

Tweet During Hollywood’s golden era studio photographers churned out thousands of photographs that created the iconography of glamour by which Hollywood stars were defined. There was a library of poses and props that photographers used in order to create and refine particular images. Who can forget Hurrell’s shimmering portrait of Jean Harlow in a skin-tight […]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Corinne Griffith, Doris Day, Hollywood Glamour, Mae Clarke, Margaret Sullavan, Margaret Sullivan, Marilyn Monroe, Pola Negri, Stars and their pets | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 24, 2011

The Greatest Thanksgiving Movie

Tweet Seraphic Secret usually recommends classic Hollywood movies to help celebrate our national holidays. But this year we’re going to switch gears and recommend one of our favorite Thanksgiving movies, Plains, Trains and Automobiles, 1987. Not only is this one of the finest, most touching Thanksgiving movie ever made, but it’s also the best film […]

Posted in Great Movies, Hollywood, Thanksgiving | Also tagged Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, John Candy, John Hughes, Planes, Steve Martin, Thanksgiving Movies, Trains and Automobiles | 8 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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Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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