Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.
Sigmund Freud famously asked: “What do women want?”
A new survey by ShoeBuy.com confirms what Seraphic Secret knows: Women want shoes.
Women dream of nose-bleed stilettos, ballet flats, boots, Oxfords, sandals — whatever! If it clothes the foot, women lust for it.
Okay, a few statistics.
Several days ago Seraphic Secret received this email from a loyal but unhappy reader:
Dear Robert:
It’s been ages since you posted a Friday Footwear blog. I get it. You like to write about Israel. Awesome. I’m a Christian Zionist who loves the Jewish people. You like to cut Obama down to size. Double awesome. I’m a Conservative. You like to write these amazing tales of Hollywood moral corruption. Again awesome because who doesn’t love fallen stars. But Robert, let me confess that I have a physical yearning for Friday Footwear.
What gives?
Has Karen stopped buying cute shoes?
Have Offspring #2 & 3 gone on shoe strike?
You’re a Hollywood playwriter, right? Aren’t you supposed to give the audience what it wants?
Well I’m a gal who wants shoes, shoes, shoes!
In Despair
My response:
Dear In Despair:
Thanks so much for your kind if desperate note. My bad. You are right, it’s been far too long since I posted a Friday Footwear edition. I have no excuse.
And yes, I am a screenwriter whose first duty is to my audience.
Lucky for you, Karen’s been hunting and gathering at Loehmann’s and Target the past few days and the love of my life has nabbed some choice new footwear.
Warning: Karen’s latest haul is anything but cute. In fact, the new shoes are positively… well, you’ll see.