Winner of eight Academy Awards for Costume Design, Edith Head was uniquely positioned to become a brand name, and reach a wide audience with her deep knowledge of fashion. Thus, in 1967, Random House published a handsome volume by Edith Head with Joe Hyams, How to Dress For Success. With its lilac linen cover and [...]
- About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
- 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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2011
video wmv [499MB]:
audio-only mp3 [18MB]: Eighth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
2010
video wmv [540MB]:
audio-only mp3 [80MB]: Seventh Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
2009
video wmv [332MB]:
audio-only mp3 [64MB]: Sixth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
2008
video wmv [359MB]:
audio-only mp3 [70MB]: Fifth Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
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